Question: The average power in a single-phase ac circuit with a purely capacitive load, for sinusoidal-steady-state excitation, is (a) Zero (b) (mathrm{V}_{max }^{2} / X_{mathrm{C}}) (c)

The average power in a single-phase ac circuit with a purely capacitive load, for sinusoidal-steady-state excitation, is

(a) Zero

(b) \(\mathrm{V}_{\max }^{2} / X_{\mathrm{C}}\)

(c) \(\mathrm{I}_{\mathrm{rms}}^{2} X_{\mathrm{C}}\) \(X_{\mathrm{C}}=1 /(\omega \mathrm{C})\) is the capacitive reactance

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