Boston University Physics Applets: Alternating Current

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written by Andrew Duffy

This web page is an interactive physics simulation on alternating current. The user can see how the voltage and current are in phase for a resistor, and offset for capacitors and inductors. The page explains how to calculate root mean square (RMS) values, as well as finding the capacitive and inductive reactance.

This item is part of a collection of similar simulation-based student activities.

http://buphy.bu.edu/~duffy/semester2/c20_AC.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - AC Circuits = Impedance	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation = Tutorial - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2003 Andrew Duffy, Boston University
Keywords:: capacitive reactance, impedence, inductive reactance, phase difference
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created June 16, 2008 by Christopher Allen
Record Updated:: July 31, 2008 by Taha Mzoughi
Last Update when Cataloged:: March 28, 2008

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