Understanding AC Circuits

Index

A

Active power 71

Activities, experimental 34–35

Admittance 52

triangle 66

Air-core transformer 105

Alternating current (ac) 1–3

generating 6–7

single-phase 7–8

three-phase 8–9

voltage 3–4

Alternator 7–8

three-phase 8–9

Amplification 116

Amplifier circuit 3

Angle of lead or lag 52

Antilogarithms 126–127

Apparent power 52, 66

Attenuation 16, 18, 116, 127

Automobile alternator 9

AUTO mode 24, 31

Autotransformer 106

Average voltage 2, 4

Axis 16

B

Band-pass filter 116, 117, 118, 133

experiment 145–146

Bandwidth (BW) 116, 120, 121, 122

Basics, ac 

examination 12–14

self-examination 10–11

Beam finder 27

Bipolar transistors 24, 25

C

Capacitance (C) 1, 51–54

examination 98–101

experiment 81–83

self-examination 73–74

shunting 25

Capacitive 

circuit 58–60

reactance 52, 59, 117

experiment  ...