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A series circuit has a resistor , an inductor and a capacitor , driven by a source of rms voltage and angular frequency . The ratio of the average power dissipated when the source frequency is adjusted to resonance (with the rms voltage unchanged) to the average power dissipated at is (give the answer correct to two decimal places)
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Answer: 2.78
At : and . The impedance is , so A and W. At resonance , so , A and W. The ratio is . The same ratio can be obtained directly as . Resonance at lies below the given frequency, which is reasonable since the circuit is inductive at and the reactances do not cancel there, leaving a net reactance of that limits the current and wastes none of the supply as heat, which is why the dissipated power is smaller than at resonance.
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