Electronics
Inductive & capacitive reactance
Calculate the reactance of ideal inductive and capacitive components at the selected frequency.
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The calculation
XL = 2πfL XC = −1 / (2πfC) The result shows the magnitude of XC.
Assumptions & limits
Ideal components. Series resistance, core losses, parasitic capacitance and self-resonance are excluded.
Background: AC circuits · OpenStax University Physics