Sine Waves and Vectors

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Sine Waves and Vectors

• Math Session for Basic ElectricityA Fairfield
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Basic Electricity

• Two Sections
• Electron Flow and Resistance
• 5 on-line sessions
• Lab
• Inductance and Capacitance
• 5 on-line sessions
• Lab
• Mastery Test, Part 1

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Basic Electricity(Continued)

• Text Electricity One-Seven, Harry
  Mileaf, Prentice-Hall, 1996, ISBN 0-13-889585-6
  (Covers several Modules and more)
• References
• Digital Mini Test Principles of Electricity
  Lessons One and Two, SNET Home Study
  Coordinator, [phone]
• Electronics Tutorial (Thanks to Alex Pounds)
• Electronics Tutorial (Thanks to Mark Sokos)
• Basic Math Tutorial (Thanks to George Mason
  University)
• Vector Math Tutorial (Thanks to California
  Polytec at atom.physics.calpoly.edu )

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Section 2 AC, Inductors and Capacitors

• 0BJECTIVES This section introduces AC voltage /
  current and additional circuit components
  (inductors, transformers and capacitors).

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Section 2 Schedule
Text 3.1 3.41Text 4.1 4.24 Text 3.42
3.75Text 3.76 3.100Text 3.101
3.135Text 3.135 3.148
Alternating Current Sine WavesSine Waves,
Magnitude, Phase and VectorsInductors and
CircuitsTransformersCapacitorsMore
CapacitorsReview (Discuss Quiz_2)
Session 2a 03/27Vector Math 04/01
Session 2b 04/03Session 2c
04/08Session 2d 04/10 (lab - 04/13, Sat.)
Session 2e 04/15Session 2f 04/22
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Session 2a Review

• AC vs. DC
• Transformers
• Ohms Law
• AC Generators
• Sine Waves sin(2?ft?)
• Frequency, Period, Wavelength and Magnitude
• Phase Angle
• Averages
• Mean (DC)
• RMS (Effective Value)

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Angle Degrees and Radians

• Degrees, minutes and seconds
• 360? gets you around a circle
• Invented by map makers in the middle ages
• Reused for Time measurements
• Radians (in calculators)
• 2 ? or 2 3.14159 gets you around a circle
• The real angle measure
• The distance traveled around the perimeter of a
  unit circle (r 1)

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Sine Waves and Angle

• V 3sine (angle)
• Sine often shortened to sin V 3sin(angle)
• 3 is the Amplitude
• Starts at zero
• Peak (3) at 90(?/2)
• Zero again at 180(?)
• Negative Peak (-3) at 270(3?/2)
• Zero to Finish the Cycle at 360(2?)

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Phase Difference

• Waveforms can be out of phase
• Note
• sin(2?ft - ?/2) cos(2?ft)
• Cosine is the full name
• Starts at 1 at t 0
• Looks just like sine but at a different phase

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Adding Two Sine Waves

• Adding two sine waves at the same frequency but
  different phases results in a sine wave with the
  same frequency, new amplitude, and new phase

Each point in the graph adds separatelyHere
the two sine waves are 90 apart.with equal
amplitude
The result is a sine wave at 45 (?/4)with an
amplitude of 1.414 (the square root of 2)
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The Vector Analogy

• We can make the task of adding sine waves with
  the same frequency easier using vectors
• Treat a sine wave with Amplitude A and phase ?
  as a vector of length A at an angle of ? (the
  frequency is implicit)note by convention
  cos(2?ft) has a zero angle

Acos(2?ft ?)
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Adding Sine and CosineUsing Vectors

• Angle arctan(3/3) ?/4 (45)
• Length sqrt(32 32) (Pythagorus)
• Length sqrt(9 9)
• Length sqrt(92)
• Length sqrt(9)sqrt(2)
• Length 3sqrt(2)
• Length 31.414 4.243

3sin(x)
45
3cos(x)
Sum 4.243 cos(x 45)
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Adding VectorsHead-to-Tail, Parallelogram

• Head-to-Tail Method
• Redraw vectors so that one starts where the other
  ends
• Draw the sum vector from the free tail to the
  free head.
• Good for multiple vectors
• Parallelogram Method
• Complete the parallelogram
• The sum is the diagonal of the Parallelogram

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Vectors and TrigThe Unit Circle

• sin(?) opposite/hypotenuse
• cos(?) adjacent/hypotenuse
• tan(?) opposite/adjacent
• ? arcsin(opposite/hypotenuse)
• ? arccos(adjacent/hypotenuse)
• ? arctan(opposite/adjacent)
• Remember, if your calculator is in degree mode
  - ? is in degrees radian mode - ? is in radians

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Vector Components(Cartesian)

• Acos(x ?)
• Acos(?)cos(x)Asin(?)sin(x)

y
x - component
y - component
A
Asin(?)
?
Acos(x ?)
Asin(?)sin(x)y component
x
Acos(?)
Acos(?)cos(x) x component
You can add vectors by adding their components (
x1 x2, y1 y2)
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Adding Vectors by Componentsp. 4-16

• V14?75, V22?45, V33?30
• X components
• V1x 4cos(75) 40.2588 1.035 error in book
• V2x 2cos(45) 20.7071 1.414 sqrt(2)
• V3x 3cos(30) 30.866 2.6
• Vtx 1.035 1.414 2.6 5.05
• Y components
• V1y 4sin(75) 40.966 3.86
• V2y 2sin(45) 20.7071 1.414 sqrt(2)
• V3y 3sin(30) 30.500 1.5
• Vty 3.86 1.414 1.5 6.77
• Vt 5.05i 6.77j where i and j are the
  Cartesian unit vectorsVt 8.5 ? 53

• Changing Component Form into Sign-Magnitude Form
• Find the Magnitude
• A ?(5.05)2 (6.77)2
• A ?72.3 8.5
• Find the Angle
• arctan(6.77/5.05)
• arctan(1.34)
• 0.93 radians
• 0.93180/? 53.3

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Section 2 Schedule
Text 3.1 3.41Text 4.1 4.24 Text 3.42
3.75Text 3.76 3.100Text 3.101
3.135Text 3.135 3.148
Alternating Current Sine WavesSine Waves,
Magnitude, Phase and VectorsInductors and
CircuitsTransformersCapacitorsMore
CapacitorsReview (Discuss Quiz_2)
Session 2a 03/27Vector Math 04/01
Session 2b 04/03Session 2c
04/08Session 2d 04/10 (lab - 04/13, Sat.)
Session 2e 04/15Session 2f 04/22