12.AlternatingCurrentCircuits-MIT.PDF

Chapter 12 Alternating-Current Circuits 12.1 AC Sources 12-2 12.2 Simple AC circuits 12-3 12.2.1 Purely Resistive load 12-3 12.2.2 Purely Inductive Load 12-5 12.2.3 Purely Capacitive Load 12-7 12.3 The RLC Series Circuit 12-9 12.3.1 Impedance 12-12 12.3.2 Resonance 12-13 12.4 Power in an AC circuit 12-14 12.4.1 Width of the Peak 12-16 12.5 Transformer 12-17 12.6 Parallel RLC Circuit 12-19 12.7 Summary 12-22 12.8 Problem-Solving Tips 12-24 12.9 Solved Problems 12-26 12.9.1 RLC Series Circuit 12-26 12.9.2 RLC Series Circuit 12-27 12.9.3 Resonance 12-28 12.9.4 RL High-Pass Filter 12-29 12.9.5 RLC Circuit 12-30 12.9.6 RL Filter 12-33 12.10 Conceptual Questions 12-35 12.11 Additional Problems 12-36 12.11.1 Reactance of a Capacitor and an Inductor 12-36 12.11.2 Driven RLC Circuit Near Resonance 12-36 12.11.3 RC Circuit 12-37 12.11.4 Black Box 12-37 12.11.5 Parallel RL Circuit 12-38 12.11.6 LC Circuit 12-39 12.11.7 Parallel RC Circuit 12-39 12.11.8 Power Dissipation 12-40 12.11.9 FM Antenna 12-40 12.11.10 Driven RLC Circuit 12-41 12-1 Alternating-Current Circuits 12.1 AC Sources In Chapter 10 we learned that changing magnetic flux can induce an emf according to Faraday’s law of induction. In particular, if a coil rotates in the presence of a magnetic field, the induced emf varies sinusoidally with time and leads to an alternating current (AC), and provides a source of AC power. The symbol for an AC voltage source is An example of an AC source is V(t) V sin ωt