MOD 3-4 Flashcards
What is a capacitor?
a device used to store an electric charge, consisting of one or more pairs of conductors separated by an insulator
What other device stores electric charge that you can buy at any store?
Battery
In relation to electronics what is Tau?
Time constant
To get the total capacitance you ___ capacitor values when wired in Parallel, and use the formula get the total capacitance when wired in series.
ADD C total ______1__________
_1_ + _1_ + _1_
C1 C2 C3
get the total capacitance when wired in series.
What makes capacitors dangerous?
They store a charge, that can be present even when power to a circuit is turned off
Capacitors Block____ and PASS ____
DC - AC
Capacitors resist a change in voltage while inductors resist a change in
Current
When electricity flows through a wire it creates a ______ field, when you move a wire through a ______ field it creates _______
Magnetic- Magnetic - Electricity
Capacitors are measured in _____ Inductors are measured in _______
farads and henrys
What is the formula for Tau in an inductive circuit?
T=L/R
What is the formula for capacitive reactance?______, this means that as the frequency increases the capacitive reactance will ________.
Xc=1/2πfC - DECREASE
What is the formula for inductive reactance? _______, this means that as the frequency increases the inductive reactance will ________.
XL=2πfL, INCREASE
What is the lowest frequency you can get? ____HZ, or DC. If I plug this in to the above equation’s XC will equal _______ and XL will equal ___. So for DC a capacitor looks like a _____, and an inductor looks like a short (just a piece of wire).
0 HZ - INFINITE 0HZ - OPEN
Reactance is?
Is a form of opposition like resistance in an AC circuit made up of Xc, XL and resistance to form an overall impedance, or total opposition in an AC circuit.
The Inductance is ________ proportional to the length of the coil at a constant number of turns.
inversely
ELI stand for?
The Voltage “E” leads the current “I” in an inductor “L”
ICE stands for?
Current “I” in a capacitor “C” leads the voltage “E”
How do capacitors store energy?
Capacitors store energy in the form of electrostatic fields
Voltage lead current in a ______ circuit.
Inductive
Z or impedance is the vector sum of
Capacitance reactance Xc, Inductive reactance XL, and resistance R.
Resonance is when XC and XL
Equal
Transformer can only be used in a_______ circuit, because a coil of wire is really just a short to DC voltages.
AC
IF the primary side of a transformer (the side I’m putting AC voltage in to) has 2 turns and the secondary side (the side I’m taking voltage out of) has 4 turns, and I put 1 volt AC on the primary I will get ___ Volts AC on the secondary
2
The AC voltage coming out of a plug in the wall is 120VRMS, my phone only needs 5 VDC to charge, so I could use a transformer with a ____: ____, turns ratio to step down the 120 volt to 5 volts so my phone does not blow up when I plug my charger into the wall
24:1
True, actual, or real AC power is measured in_____, and is the Beer in the glass (A2).
Watts
Reactive power is measured in ____, and is the foam in the class of beer (B2)
VAR
Apparent power is measured in __, and is the “C2 “, in the good old formula A2+B2=C2
VA
Power factor is the ratio of _________ power and apparent power. In a purely resistive circuit the power factor would be ___, meaning 100% of the power would be doing work.
TRUE or REAL , 1
In the diagram I’m paying for VL, but only using Vr to do actual or real work. Going back to what we have learned about impedance, what could I install on all my motors, so to the power company it looks like I only have a resistive load, and only pay for Vr saving my company a ton of money?
BIg Capacitors
If I move a conductor in relation to a magnet I make
Electricity
A coil of wire becomes a ______ when I run electricity through it
magnet
he more current I pass through the coils of my electro magnet the greater the magnetic ______becomes.
Field