Complex Electrical Circuits. Complex numbers using polar form unlike rectangular form which plots points in the complex plane the polar form of a complex number is written in terms of its magnitude and angle. This is where kirchhoff s circuit law comes in handy which allows you to calculate both the current and voltage for complex circuits with a system of linear equations.
In electrical engineering electrical impedance is the measure of the opposition that a circuit presents to a current when a voltage is applied. Such complex circuits may be made up of one or more branches in combinations of series and series parallel arrangements. Current voltage power opens a modal resistors in series opens a modal resistors in parallel opens a modal example.
The conjugate of a complex number is an important element used in electrical engineering to determine the apparent power of an ac circuit using rectangular form.
A complex circuit configuration is one that contains components that neither a parallel nor series with each other. The network of transistors transformers capacitors connecting wires and other electronic components within a single device such as a radio is also an electric circuit. Analyzing a more complex resistor circuit opens a modal analyzing a resistor circuit with two batteries opens a modal resistivity and conductivity opens a modal. Complex circuits contain more than one source of electromotive force or pure voltage source.