alternating currents & electromagnetic waves PHY232 Remco Zegers Room W109 – cyclotron building

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 2 Alternating current circuits  previously, we look at DC circuits (the voltage delivered by the source was constant).  Now, we look at AC circuits, in which case the source is sinusoidal. A is used in circuits to denote the difference I R V I V R

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 3 A circuit with a resistor  The voltage over the resistor is the same as the voltage delivered by the source: V R (t)=V 0 sin  t=V 0 sin(2  ft)  The current through the resistor is: I R (t)= V 0 /R sin  t  Since V(t) and I(t) have the same behavior as a function of time, they are said to be ‘in phase’.  V 0 is the maximum voltage  V(t) is the instantaneous voltage   is the angular frequency;  =2  f f: frequency (Hz)  SET YOUR CALCULATOR TO RADIANS WHERE NECESSARY I V(t)=V 0 sin  t R I R (A) V 0 =10 V R=2 Ohm  =1 rad/s

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 4 lon-capa  you should now do problem 1 from set 7.

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 5 rms currents/voltages  To understand energy consumption by the circuit, it doesn’t matter what the sign of the current/voltage is. We need the absolute average currents and voltages (root-mean-square values) :  V rms =V max /  2  I rms =I max /  2  The following hold:  V rms =I rms R  V max =I max R I R (A) |I R| (A) |V R |(V) V rms I rms

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 6 power consumption by an AC circuit  We already saw (DC):  P=VI=V 2 /R=I 2 R  For AC circuits with a single resistor:  P(t)=V(t)*I(t)=V 0 I 0 sin 2  t  The average power consumption:  P ave =V rms *I rms =V 2 rms /R=I 2 rms R  P ave =(V max /  2)( I max /  2)= I max V max /2 |I R| (A) |V R |(V) V rms I rms P(W)

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 7 vector representation time (s) V0V0 -V 0 V The voltage or current as a function of time can be described by the projection of a vector rotating with constant angular velocity on one of the axes (x or y). =t=t

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 8 phasors I R (A) I(t) V(t)t =t=t The instantaneous current and voltage over R are the projections on the t-axis (horizontal axis) of vectors rotating with ang. frequency . The length of the vectors indicate the maximum current or voltage. I(t)=V(t)=0 t I(t)=5A V(t)=10 V t V(t)=-10V I(t)=-5At I(t), V(t) are in phase, so point in the same direction

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 9 question V(t) I(t) t Given a phasor diagram for a single resistor in circuit. If the voltage scale is V and current scale Ampere, then the resistor has a resistance a)< 1 Ohm b)> 1 Ohm c)1 Ohm

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 10 A circuit with a single capacitor I V(t)=V 0 sin  t C V c = V 0 sin  t Q c =CV c =CV 0 sin  t I c =  Q c /  t=  CV 0 cos  t=  CV 0 sin(  t+  /2) So, the current peaks ahead in time (earlier) of the voltage There is a difference in phase of  /2 (90 0 ) I C (A) why? When there is not much charge on the capacitor it readily accepts more and current easily flows. However, the E-field and potential between the plates increase and consequently it becomes more difficult for current to flow and the current decreases. If the potential over C is maximum, the current is zero.

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 11 phasor diagram for capacitive circuit I(t) V(t)t =t=t I C (A) Note: I max =  CV 0 For a resistor we have I=V 0 /R so ‘1/  C’ is similar to ‘R’ And we write: I=V/X c with X c = 1/  C the capacitive reactance Units of X c are Ohms. The capacitive reactance acts as a resistance in this circuit.

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 12 power consumption in a capacitive circuit There is no power consumption in a purely capacitive circuit: Energy (1/2CV 2 ) gets stored when the (absolute) voltage over the capacitor is increasing, and released when it is decreasing. P ave = 0 for a purely capacitive circuit

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 13 question I(t) V(t)t =t=t  The angle  between the current vector and voltage vector in a phasor diagram for a capacitive circuit is a)0 0 b)45 0 c)90 0 d)180 0

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 14 A circuit with a single inductor I V(t)=V 0 sin  t L V L = V 0 sin  t=L  I/  t I L =-V 0 /(  L)cos  t= V 0 /(  L )sin(  t-  /2) (no proof here: you need calculus…) So, the current peaks later in time than the voltage There is a difference in phase of  /2 (90 0 ) I L (A) why? As the potential over the inductor rises, the magnetic flux produces a current that opposes the original current. The voltage across the inductor peaks when the current is just beginning to rise, due to this tug of war.

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 15 phasor diagram for inductive circuit I(t) V(t) t =t=t I L (A) Note: I max = V 0 /(  L) For a resistor we have I=V 0 /R so ‘  L’ is similar to ‘R’ And we write: I=V/X L with X L =  L the inductive reactance Units of X L are Ohms. The inductive reactance acts as a resistance in this circuit.

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 16 power consumption in an inductive circuit There is no power consumption in a purely inductive circuit: Energy (1/2LI 2 ) gets stored when the (absolute) current through the inductor is increasing, and released when it is decreasing. P ave = 0 for a purely inductive circuit

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 17 question  The inductive reactance (and capacitive reactance) are just like the resistance of a normal resistor, I.e. if I know the inductive reactance, I can calculate the current at any time given the voltage using I=V/X L.  a) True  b) False

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 18 Combining the three: the LRC circuit  Things to keep in mind when analyzing this system:  1) The current in the system has the same value everywhere I=I 0 sin(  t-  )  2) The voltage over all three components is equal to the source voltage at any point in time: V(t)=V 0 sin(  t) I V(t)=V 0 sin  t LCR

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 19 An LRC circuit  For the resistor: V R =I R R and V R and I R =I are in phase  For the capacitor: V c =IX c and V c lags I c =I by 90 0  For the inductor: V L =IX L and V L leads I L =I by 90 0  at any instant: V L +V c +V R =V 0 sin(  t), that is the total voltage V tot is the vector addition of the three individual components VRVR I VCVC VLVL t VCVC I VRVR VLVL V tot =t=t 

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 20 impedance  V tot = V L +V c +V R (vectors)  V tot =  [V R 2 +(|V L |-|V C |) 2 ]=  [ (IR) 2 +(IX L -IX C ) 2 ]=I  [R 2 +(X L -X c ) 2 ]  define X=X L -X c : reactance of an RLC circuit  define Z=  [R 2 +(X L -X c ) 2 ]=  [R 2 +X 2 ] : impedance of RLC circ.  V tot =IZ & I=V tot /Z looks like Ohms law t VCVC VRVR VLVL t VCVC VRVR VLVL V tot vector sum V L +V C

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 21 phase angle  The current I and the voltage V tot are out of phase by an angle . This angle can be calculated with:  tan  =opposite/adjacent=(|V L | -|V c | )/V R =X/R t VCVC I VRVR VLVL V tot =t=t  t VCVC VRVR VLVL vector sum V L +V C 

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 22 question  If the maximum voltage over the capacitor equals the maximum voltage over the inductor, the difference in phase between the voltage over the whole circuit and the voltage over the resistor is:  a) 0 0  b)45 0  c)90 0  d)180 0

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 23 power consumption by an LRC circuit  Even though the capacitor and inductor do not consume energy on the average, they affect the power consumption since the phase between current and voltage is modified.  P=I 2 rms R=I rms V R  V R =V rms cos  (since cos  =V R /V tot )  So: P=V rms I rms cos   cos  : power factor of a circuit t VCVC VRVR VLVL V tot V L +V C 

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 24 lon-capa  you should now do problem 4 from LON-CAPA 7

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 25 example  questions:  a) what is the angular frequency of the system?  b) what are the inductive and capacitive reactances?  c) what is the impedance, what is the phase angle   d) what is the maximum current and peak voltages over each element  Compare the algebraic sum of peak voltages with V 0. Does this make sense?  e) make the phasor diagram. Include I,V L,V C,V R,V tot, . Assume V R is in the first quadrant.  f) what are the instantaneous voltages and rms voltages over each element. Consider V tot to have zero phase.  g) power consumed by each element and total power consumption I V(t)=V 0 sin  t LCR Given: R=250 Ohm L=0.6 H C=3.5  F f=60 Hz V 0 =150 V

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 26 lon-capa  you should now try problem 6 of lon-capa set 7, except for the last part

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 27 LRC circuits: an overview  Reactance of capacitor: X c = 1/  C  Reactance of inductor: X L =  L  Current through circuit: same for all components  ‘Ohms’ law for LRC circuit: V tot =IZ  Impedance: Z=  [R 2 +(X L -X c ) 2 ]  phase angle between current and source voltage: tan  =(|V L | -|V c | )/V R =(X L -X c )/R  Power consumed (by resistor only): P=I 2 rms R=I rms V R P=V rms I rms cos   V R =I max R in phase with current I, out of phase by  with V tot  V C =I max X C behind by 90 0 relative to I (and V R )  V L =I max X L ahead of 90 0 relative to I (and V R ) t VCVC I VRVR VLVL V tot =t=t  vector sum V L +V C

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 28 Resonances in an RLC circuit  If we chance the (angular) frequency the reactances will change since:  Reactance of capacitor: X c = 1/  C  Reactance of inductor: X L =  L  Consequently, the impedance Z=  [R 2 +(X L -X c ) 2 ] changes  Since I=V tot /Z, the current through the circuit changes  If X L =X C (I.e. 1/  C=  L or  2 =1/LC), Z is minimal, I is maximum)   =  (1/LC) is the resonance angular frequency  At the resonance frequency  =0 (see question on slide 23) Z  I 0 

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 29 example Given: R=250 Ohm L=0.6 H C=3.5  F f=60 Hz V 0 =150 V Using the same given parameters as the earlier problem, what is the resonance frequency?

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 30 question  An LRC circuit has R=50 Ohm, L=0.5 H and C=5x10 -3 F. An AC source with V max =50V is used. If the resistance is replaced with one that has R=100 Ohm and the V max of the source is increased to 100V, the resonance frequency will:  a) increase  b)decrease  c) remain the same

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 31 loncapa  You should now try question 6, part 7 and question 5 of lon-capa set 7.

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 32 transformers transformers are used to convert voltages to lower/higher levels

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 33 transformers VpVp VsVs primary circuit with N p loops in coil secondary circuit with N s loops in coil iron core If an AC current is applied to the primary circuit: V p =-N p  B /  t The magnetic flux is contained in the iron and the changing flux acts in the secondary coil also: V s =-N s  B /  t Therefore: V s =(N s /N p )V p if N s <N p then V s <V p A perfect transformer is a pure inductor (no resistance), so no power loss: P p =P S and V p I p =V s I s ; if N s I p

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 34 question a transformer is used to bring down the high-voltage delivered by a powerline (10 kV) to 120 V. If the primary coil has windings, a) how many are there in the secondary coil? b) If the current in the powerline is 0.1 A, what is the maximum current at 120 V?

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 35 question  Is it more economical to transmit power from the power station to homes at high voltage or low voltage?  a) high voltage  b) low voltage

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 36 electromagnetic waves  James Maxwell formalized the basic equations governing electricity and magnetism ~1870:  Coulomb’s law  Magnetic force  Ampere’s Law (electric currents make magnetic fields)  Faraday’s law (magnetic fields make electric currents)  Since changing fields electric fields produce magnetic fields and vice versa, he concluded:  electricity and magnetism are two aspects of the same phenomenon. They are unified under one set of laws: the laws of electromagnetism

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 37 electromagnetic waves Maxwell found that electric and magnetic waves travel together through space with a velocity of 1/  (  0  0 ) v=1/  (  0  0 )=1/  (4  x10 -7 x 8.85x )=2.998x10 8 m/s which is just the speed of light (c)

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 38 electromagnetic waves can be used to broadcast…  Consider the experiment performed by Herz (1888) I Herz made an RLC circuit with L=2.5 nH, C=1.0nF The resonance frequency is  =  (1/LC)=6.32x10 8 rad/s f=  /2  =100 MHz. Recall that the wavelength of waves =v/f=c/f=3x10 8 /100x10 6 =3.0 m wavelength: =v/f

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 39 He then constructed an antenna  charges and currents vary sinusoidally in the primary and secondary circuits. The charges in the two branches also oscillate at the same frequency f I dipole antenna

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 40 producing the electric field wave antenna

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 41 producing the magnetic field wave antenna I I I I E and B are in phase and E=cB with c: speed of light The power/m 2 =0.5E max B max /  0 The energy in the wave is shared between the E-field and the B-field

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 42 question Can a single wire connected to the + and – poles of a DC battery act as a transmitter of electromagnetic waves? a)yes b)no

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 43 c=f

PHY232 - Remco Zegers - alternating currents and electromagnetic waves 44 lon-capa  now try questions 2 and 7 from set 7.