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So if we have an AC circuit with a resistor only, such as a bulb as you said, in that circuit there will be no reactive power? Also I keep hearing about reactive power that causes heat losses? Doesn't active power also cause any heat loss? And what about a DC current, wouldn't that also have...

I think this is what was confusing me. I thought the the real power always got used up by the load, such as a lamp where it given off as heat and light, but what came back to the source was the reactive power. So this must be incorrect interpretation? Both the real and reactive power go back and...

I think I am confusing reactive power with the fact that in an AC current, electrons are flowing back and forth. So I am thinking with the electrons, the reactive power is also going back and forth with the electrons and never gets used up. Only the Real Power gets used up. Maybe this thinking...

But aren't heat losses theoretically 'Active/True Power' because they are getting used up in some sense, by the environment? The environment acting like a load such as a lamp. Because my understanding of reactive power is that it keeps bouncing back and forth between source and load and never...

I had the same question regarding reactive power as the OP. This is what I have understood so far, so please correct me if I am wrong or confirm (and also answer the remaining questions) what I have posted below is all correct: There are three types of power in an AC current: Apparent Power...

So according to de Broglie, or my interpretation of it, every particle in the Standard Model is a wave. And this waves frequency is determined by adding its kinetic and rest energy. A photon has only kinetic energy and no rest energy(because no rest mass), but can it still be described by the...

Another question, based on what a poster above brought up: A photon has no rest mass and it exhibits a "frequency" based on its wavelength. Does this frequency have a specific name? I'll just assume for this post that it doesn't (if there is let me know): An electron has rest mass and it...

So this means a gamma photon, when we observe it crudely, will look more like a particle and when we look at a radio photon it looks more like a wave. But both particles exhibit wave-particle duality, "equally" per se, regardless of their energy, frequency or any other parameters in the...

So wotanub, my original question/interpretation in the first post is not correct? Especially the part about a gamma ray photon behaving more like a particle than a wave (but still both) and a radio photon behaving more like a wave than a particle (but still both)?

Oh rereading the thread, I think I got confused with the Mass-Energy Spectrum. What I meant was the Particle-Wave Spectrum of all the particles in the Standard Model. So do all the particles lie on a Particle-Wave Spectrum, where high frequency means more like a particle and low frequency more...

So wotanub, are you implying that E=mc^2 is an extremely extremely accurate equation for most uses but not 100% accurate (Since mass is actually just Energy, and mass doesn't really exist). IS Einstein's other equation E=hc the most accurate depiction of reality? Is this equation 100% accurate...

Thank You guys for your answers. So this means that photons do indeed have mass but that mass is behaving more like pure energy. So for photons we have the Electromagnetic SPECTRUM, where the higher the frequency the more energy it has. Therefore we can say that the electron has a frequency that...

I posted this question in an another forum but I didn't receive any answers, so I'll post it here again: Do all the fundamental particles in the Standard Model (61 fundamental particles) exhibit wave-particle duality? From my understanding, a photon acts more like a wave than it does a...

So there is no mathematics involved in why it is perpendicular, it is just defined that way to help us visualize it?

Can anyone explain why angular velocity is perpendicular (or goes up and down) to the circular motion I know that angular velocity measures the change angle over time, so wouldn't that mean the angular velocity is parallel to the circular motion since the angles are measured parallel to the...