Alternating Current Calculator

This is the series alternating current circuit worked out in full: a resistor, an inductor and a capacitor across one sinusoidal supply. Enter the supply voltage and frequency with R in ohms, L in millihenries and C in microfarads, and it returns the inductive and capacitive reactances, the impedance, the current, the phase angle, the power factor and the real, reactive and apparent power, along with the voltage sitting across each component. A second action takes only L, C and the series resistance and gives the resonant frequency, the quality factor, the bandwidth and the two half-power points. Everything assumes ideal parts at a single frequency, so a real coil's own winding resistance belongs in the R box.

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A resistor, an inductor and a capacitor in one loop across a sinusoidal supply. Leave the inductance or the capacitance at zero to take that component out of the circuit.

The RMS value, which is what a meter and a nameplate both quote.
Zero means no inductor in the loop.
Zero means no capacitor in the loop.
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The frequency at which an inductor and a capacitor cancel, and how sharp that peak is.

Include the winding resistance of the coil. It is what sets how sharp the peak is.
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A resistor, an inductor and a capacitor all across the same supply. Leave the inductance or the capacitance at zero to take that branch out. The reactances can be entered directly instead of the component values.

The same voltage sits across all three branches, which is what makes this the parallel case.
Either way round. Reactances entered directly are turned back into L and C at the frequency above, so the resonance figures still come out.
Zero means no inductor branch at all.
Zero means no capacitor branch at all.
Used only when the entry above is set to reactances.
Used only when the entry above is set to reactances.
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