Lesson 7 — Reactive and Apparent Power#
Capacitors and inductors, the power triangle, and why power factor costs money.
Objectives covered
1.4 — I can compute the reactive and apparent power values for an AC-powered circuit.
Reading
Reactive and Apparent Power
The course reading for Objective 1.4.
FlashcardsReview deck
Key terms, equations, and ideas from this lesson, in a self-test deck.
SlidesLesson 7 deck
The slides used in class, as a PDF.
Practice ProblemsWork these before the quiz
Ungraded problems with answers, on the downloads page.
Demo ↗Power Demo
Watch phase shift split apparent power into real and reactive.