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What is XL? |
Inductance Reactance |
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What is F? |
Frequency |
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What is hz? |
Frequency |
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What is L? |
Inductor |
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What is henry? |
L |
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What do you find Epeak when you have Erms? |
Divide it by .707 |
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How do you find Erms when you have Epeak? |
Multiply it by .707 |
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How do you find the Eavg when you have Erms? |
Erms x .9 |
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Define Trig |
SOH CAH TOA Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse Cos=Adjacent/Hypotenuse Tan=Opposite/Adjacent |
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How do you find power Factor? |
PF=True Power / Apparent Power TP/VA |
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What is EMF? |
Potential Difference |
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What is Apparent power? |
VA |
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In a parallel circuit is the voltage across the resistor and the voltage across the inductor in phase? |
Yes |
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In a parallel circuit, will the current flow through the inductor be less than 90 degrees out of phase? |
Yes |
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Whats Magnetic Induction |
When you take a Ferromagnetic material and bring it near a magnet, it will become magnetized. |
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Name three substances that forum natural magnets? |
Iron, Nickel and Cobalt |
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What produces a magnetic field due to a current flow? |
Electromagnet |
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Whats magnetic saturation? |
It occurs when all the molecules are lined up in a magnet |
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Whats a inductor? |
A Coil |
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Whats inductance? |
Opposing a change of current (L)(H) |
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Whats reactance? |
The current-limiting property of a inductor |
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What will you lose in a core of a iron core inductor |
Eddy Current and Hysteresis |
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What is residual magnetism? |
It is the polarized field that remains after current flow has stopped |
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What is Electromagnetic induction? |
When a conductor cuts magnetic lines of force and a voltage is induced into the conductor. |
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In electromagnetic induction, increasing the length of the conductor is normally done by |
Adding more turns to the loop |
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The number of cycles completed in one second is called the |
Frequency |
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Another term used to indicate the same as the RMS value is the _____ Value? |
Effective |
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If an AC waveform is rectified and thereby converted into DC, the voltage value that results is the _____ Value |
Average |
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The power calculated for a pure inductance is a stated in the units of |
Reactive Power |
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Reactive power of a inductor has the symbol of |
VARs |
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In a RL circuit, what is known as apparent power? |
VA |
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Circuits are generally considered to contain ____ when any type of load that contains a coil is used |
Inductance |
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When a voltage is continually being induced in a coil the voltage is called |
Induced voltage |
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The current-limiting property of an inductor is called ____? |
reactance? |
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The symbol for reactance is??? |
X |
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the symbol XL stands for??? |
Inductive reactance |
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The unit of inductance is the ? |
Henry or L |
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Volt-Amperes Reactive (VARs) is used to measure the _____ in a pure inductive circuit |
Reactive power |
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Reactive power of an inductor has the symbol of? |
VARs |
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The amount of resistance compared with the inductive reactance determines the ____ of the coil |
Quality |
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The total current-limiting effect is called |
Impedance |
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What is inductance |
Property of a circuit that tends to oppose any change of current |
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What is the unit of inductance? |
L or Henry |
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What is another name for magnetic lines of force? |
Flux |
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Magnetic shields or screens are made orf material with a ____ reluctance |
Low |
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Magnetism can be explained in terms of ______ spin patterns |
Electron |
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Name three substances that can form natural magnets |
Iron, Nickel and cobalt |
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How is the strength of an electromagnet increased? |
More turns of wire Add a core |
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What is known as wattles power? |
VARs |
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What is known as apparent power? |
VA |
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Whats reluctance |
The resistance to magnetism |
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Whats frequency |
Cycles/Sec = Hz |
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Inductance is measured how? |
Henrys |