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T5C03

ELECTRICAL PRINCIPLES · Capacitance and inductance terminology and units; Radio frequency definition and units; Impedance definition and units; Calculating power

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What describes the ability to store energy in a magnetic field?

  1. AAdmittance
  2. BCapacitance
  3. CResistance
  4. DInductance
Why Inductance is the property of a coil or any conductor that lets it store energy in a magnetic field created by current flowing through it. It is measured in henries (H), with practical radio values often in microhenries or millihenries. An inductor opposes changes in current because the collapsing or building magnetic field induces a counter voltage.
Watch out Capacitance is the tempting opposite: it stores energy too, but in an electric field between plates, and it is measured in farads. Resistance dissipates energy as heat rather than storing it.
Magnetic field = coil = inductance (henries); electric field = plates = capacitance (farads).
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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The rest of T5C

  1. T5C01 What describes the ability to store energy in an electric field?
  2. T5C02 What is the unit of capacitance?
  3. T5C03 What describes the ability to store energy in a magnetic field?
  4. T5C04 What is the unit of inductance?
  5. T5C05 What is the unit of impedance?
  6. T5C06 What is the abbreviation for kilohertz?
  7. T5C07 What is the abbreviation for megahertz?
  8. T5C08 What formula is used to calculate electrical power (P) in a DC circuit?
  9. T5C09 How much power is delivered by a voltage of 13.8 volts DC and a current of 10 amperes?
  10. T5C10 How much power is delivered by a voltage of 12 volts DC and a current of 2.5 amperes?
  11. T5C11 How much current is required to deliver 120 watts at a voltage of 12 volts DC?
  12. T5C12 What is impedance?
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