Main Table of Contents

  0: Introduction
  1: Inductor-capacitor (LC) circuits
  2: LC oscillations quantified
  3: Sample problem: LC angular frequency
  4: Energy in an LC circuit
  5: Derivation: the LC equations
  6: Interactive checkpoint: LC circuit
  7: RLC circuit: damped oscillations
  8: Sample problem: RLC capacitor discharge
  9: Interactive checkpoint: RLC oscillations
10: Derivation: damping in an RLC circuit
11: An AC generator, its emf, and AC current
12: Interactive problem: alternating current
13: Phasors
14: Phasors and phase differences
15: Alternating current and a resistor
16: Sample problem: interpreting a sinusoidal function
17: AC capacitor circuit: phase differences
18: Capacitive reactance
19: Derivation: capacitor circuit equations
20: Interactive checkpoint: AC capacitor circuit
21: AC inductor circuit: phase differences
22: Inductive reactance
23: Derivation: inductor circuit equations
24: Interactive problem: angular frequency and reactance
25: Interactive problem: phase differences of components
26: A generator and an RLC circuit: impedance
27: Sample problem: RLC maximum current
28: Sample problem: RLC phase difference and angular frequency
29: Derivation: RLC impedance and phase constant
30: Resonance frequency in a series AC RLC circuit
31: Rms power in AC resistor circuits
32: Derivation: mean square and rms averages of the sine
33: Power in AC RLC circuits
34: Derivation: power equations in AC circuits
35: Interactive problem: RLC radio tuner
36: Gotchas
37: Summary

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