Real vs Reactive Power

Explanation of the difference between Real Power, Apparent Power, and Reactive Power. My Patreon page is at / eugenek

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Unfortunately, the music is annoying sometimes. For me, it's too much, I always have to mute his videos. Great work though!

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This is the best visual of the “Power Triangle” I have ever seen!

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Whoa! Never in my life i have visualised it this way . Thanks for the new perspective man !

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Literally no one can explain this as good as you did. Keep it up 👍. I never miss a single video of yours as they are so good 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Thanks for the compliment and I am glad that you like my videos. Thanks for watching all of them.

[@TheInevitableHulk]

1:30 If you're having some trouble visualizing it, the energy is flowing to the right of the screen when a given wire's voltage is higher, not flowing solely from the right wire. I was mixed up a little by my misinterpretation.

[@martinsolorzano9071]

Yup this helped a lot, thabks

[@classictutor]

Yeah, at first that's how I was interpreting it at first--front and back--and that doesn't make sense. No it's net energy moving to the right of the screen like you say.

[@sumertuncay]

thank you

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Thanks for the great animation once again, Eugene. I've been watching your videos since 2011 when I was just a teen boy, and last month I finally got my master's degree in space physics. What a decade it has been! I wish you success in the future and hope to see many more interesting and informative animations of different topics in physics.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@hexium_]

Thank you so much for this amazing explanation! You’ve probably heard it dozens of times, but this visualization coupled with the narration is what allowed my understanding of this concept to “click” in my head. Albeit I studied for hours and sought out many resources to help me understand this concept, none has been able to both demonstrate this concept and explain it with such brilliant clarity. Thank you!

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@gabedarrett1301]

This was the one concept I could not wrap my head around in circuits. I finally understand! You have a rare gift for simplifying complicated ideas!

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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waiting for this topic from your side since many days ,your effort is excillent making every concept so easy and understandable

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This video is great and almost perfect. My one suggestion: make the 6-E groups each a different color, then viewers will be able to follow a group as it moves (or doesn't move, for 90deg case)

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This would really really help

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[@a-learnerforever]

The last animation is what I needed for so long. In earlier stages, it wasn't clear where the energy goes, but in the last one, you clearly stated that the energy that is carried out by atoms is lost because of the heating in the wire and the light that is emitting from the lightbulb. Thank you so much.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Another amazing video, great work, keep it up guys!!

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Do not have words to explain how beautiful the explanation was....i wish I could have seen them when I was studying...it would have made me the subject sooooooo easier...but I will recommend all my students to watch these videos...they just make the subject so easy to understand n remember...good job sir.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@t13fox67]

This is quite cool on what the meaning of power factor. Thank you so much. Very enjoyable. Love the analogy.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Thank you... These animations make every concept more interesting 🥰

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@gregorymccoy6797]

Great visualization. I knew this already but I have a new way of internalizing it now. Glad I watched.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Absolutely beautiful videos as always

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Brilliant ,Thank you Eugene Khutoryansky!!!

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Great explanation. You spread the knowledge to all over the world. Thank you.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@andrewflare1361]

Thank you for the time and effort.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@ryannygard3661]

I never knew electricity worked in such an insane way. How the hell did anyone figure that out on their own.

[@Shenron557]

Your comment took me back to when I started studying electrical engineering 😃. I had the same question that you commented. But if you do the maths it becomes obvious. The current through a capacitor is I(t) = C dV(t)/dt where C is the capacitance of the capacitor and V is the voltage applied across it in time t. If V(t) is a sine function (i.e., AC voltage), I(t) will be cosine. Thus we get 90° phase difference. Similar relationship also exists for an inductor. If you are curious to know more, you can read Wikipedia's capacitor page under "theory of operation".

[@carmenosorio1315]

It is because Tesla, he realized it was necesary to make electric rotator motors to work out

[@justanotherguy46]

@@kirkhamandy I love your comment. Adding to that, if you want to go Even Further then you should recall that Maxwell equations were the collection and complete understanding / unification of prior scientists equations like Faradays equation , or even Biot Sevart's law. Or even Amperes Law! All within maxwells equations. Though maxwells change from integral form to differential form was very a very profound change at the time since it was such a different way to view E&M at the time. Instead of being the sum of parts it is viewed as the differentials of hidden Fields as they change. Quite a mathematical way to change how Physics was being done in that time period.

[@lanog40]

@@justanotherguy46 thank god someone mentioned faraday

[@sdott9751]

Not on their own it took a lot of guys who had nothing better to do

[@nicos1097]

I was working with a technician today installing a 50 horsepower 3 phase induction motor into a very large HVAC unit (the motor weighed 500 pounds!). On the motor nameplate, there was a bit of information that stated: PF(cos Φ)=0.84. I was trying to explain the meaning of that to him. I drew the power triangle for ac circuits but it was not as intuitive as this. I will send him this video . Thanks again!

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[@azhankhan9218]

This is a state of the art method. I always use to search why does the power depends on the phase, now I believe that my hunt is over. Thanks again.

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[@atlasxatlas]

This is fantastic! What a powerful (pun intended) representation! It feels so intuitive when seeing it represented this way!

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Thanks. I am glad you liked my explanation.

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I was a film major and did sound design and animation as well, but was always fascinated and excelled at math, science, physics etc. I wish I would have gone that route, but by watching your videos I get to pretend that I did, while also appreciating your incredible animations! :).

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I think it would be really cool if this team created a sort of "Interactive Widget Museum" type of video game that let you interact with these visualizations with dials and buttons and so forth, so you could learn through exploration and experimentation similar to the Tensorflow's "A Neural Network Playground"

[@user-sl6gn1ss8p]

its notquite the same, but in case you don't know them yet, you may be interested in Phet's simulations: phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?subjects=physics&type=html&sort=alpha&view=grid

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Best video ever in my life. Magnificent!

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@CrazyMineCuber]

Wonderful explanation! It was just what i needed to have several concepts in ac-power to click together in my brain!

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@carmenosorio1315]

Thankyou!!!!!! I was not able to imagine that!!!! 😃🤩

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

I am glad you liked my visualization and that it was helpful. Thanks.

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One of the best channels for Physics! Kudos sir for your efforts!💗

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@JohannY2]

The best visualisation I've ever seen to understand reactive power. I like that you don't just explain the maths like so many other channels.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Your videos on electrical concepts really helps me in my studies a lot , I saw your Fourier and Laplace videos recently which brings me theoretical bookish world to dimensions of imagination . Love from india ❤️❤️❤️

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Superb as always. Quite nifty.

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Bravo! Standing ovation!

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thanks for another awesome video. I would be ecstatic if one day we got a video about frequency combs

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

I will add frequency combs to my list of topics for future videos. Thanks.

[@warmpianist]

Nice video! Though I still can't visualize in the end on what happens if the voltage and current is 90 degrees out of phase. Will the energy just move back and forth without transferring to the light bulb? And given that the energy has to be lost by the resistor, how will the energy source compensate with that? Thank you for your response!

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

The voltage and current can be 90 degrees out of phase only if the load has no resistance, as in the case of an ideal capacitor or an ideal inductor. Therefore, if the load is a light bulb, the voltage and current can't be 90 degrees out of phase, because the light bulb has at least some resistance to it, and it is this resistance which dissipates power. For an ideal capacitor or an ideal inductor, they can't dissipate power, they can only absorb energy and then release it back again. And yes, the energy source will keep adding energy to the system to compensate for the energy lost in the resistance of the wires.

[@warmpianist]

@@EugeneKhutoryansky thank you so much for answering, much clearer now!

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[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Thanks for the compliment. I make my 3D animations with "Poser."

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@@EugeneKhutoryansky Thanks a lot. I wish I could work with you for some time.

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Thanks Eugene, this is amazing!

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@youssefdirani]

Thanks. 1:15 I still have a hard time realizing whether the net flow of energy boxes goes from left to right. Doesn't it go from right to left ? And I guess they get consumed in the load. Was this shown in the simulation?

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Brilliant, well done!

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Спасибо, Евгений!

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I recognize a couple of those electrons from my childhood. Just for a moment they helped with lighting my flashlight, then I never saw them again cause they were only DC trained but then. It looks like their parents were finally able to send them to AC university. It's good to see they did well for themselves!

[@classictutor]

The best picture explanation of reactive power. When I first learned it decades ago, it was just a part of equation and I had no clue what the heck this really was verging on something magicky like imaginary power/dimension especially when you deal with imaginary numbers.

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Thankyou for making my knowledge more clear..

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[@atmsphrn]

Showing the resistance in the circuit with energy boxes drop from the wire is brilliant and excellent.

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Especially where he shows the input of energy to the alternator from an external source.

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thank you! maybe you'll consider a video on TM transmission sometime, with modulation and carrier frequency.😋

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Thanks a lot for explaining your sharp & astonishing point of views about engineering phenomenons. You are a great physicist who share her/his ( i don't know exactly who you are! You are some body like Satoshi Nakamoto) brilliant ideas with folk. Sincerely Yours

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Thank you Eugene! I've got an exam about this next week

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I am glad I finished my video just in time for your exam.

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I'll not say: as usual .. you are great. I'll say: your greatness is unusual. Thanks.

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Plz don't let our curiosity die!!😄😄😁 ...great way of explanation 🤝

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Thanks. I am glad you liked my explanation.

[@user-vr7pm5rx2f]

voltage is the energy per charge, current is flow of charge . very good . you are awesome.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Thanks a lot! Video is great

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Thank you everything is a extension Of Ourselves. Everything works in unison.

[@profdc9501]

One question: So the "E" blocks are supposed to represent the energy stored in the system? If so, the energy is stored in the magnetic and electric fields around the wires. The loop formed by the two conductors has a magnetic field inside it, and the energy in this field increases and decreases twice per cycle, once for each time the electric current reverses. Likewise, the electric field in the gap between the wires stores energy and increases and decreases twice per cycle, once for each time the voltage reverses. The net power delivered in either case is no power, but an electric current is present in the wire which does dissipate resistive power, as a wire allows a current to flow ideally instantaneously whenever a voltage is applied across it (and not with a lead or a lag).

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Modern students don't know how lucky they are to have all of the videos on your channel to help them visualize what they are studying. This is 1000x more effective than a lecture and some drawings.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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This would be super helpful at the start of a physics/electrical engineering program.

[@grahamhenry9368]

Do you have any videos on how AC units or heat pumps work at the particle level? All the descriptions I find are all very high level

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

I cover this in my original video on Thermodynamics at kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYDViKyVrrN1rLs

[@tanvirfarhan5585]

can you pls explain what is the meaning of differentiation of any vector field like [F(x,y) = 4xi + 7j ] what does dF/dx mean geometrically ? btw great content

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

I will add that to my list of topics for future videos. Thanks for the compliment.

[@JivanPal]

@Tanvir Farhan, you understand regular (univariate) calculus? Then to see what ∂F/∂x means, visualise the x-y plane with the value of F(x,y) plotted on the z-axis, and take a slice/cross-section of that graph for some particular value of y. Then ∂F/∂x for that value of y tells you the slope of that cross-section in terms of x. Eugene actually already has a video on this topic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZylZamNZpuEfqs

[@tanvirfarhan5585]

@@JivanPal that's PARTIAL DIFFERENTIATION i was thinking in terms of vector field.and it's derivative is also a vector field which confuses me.

[@mpamphsmenippos9651]

1:16 How is there a net flow of energy boxes from the left to the right? I don't see it...

[@tnekkc]

In 1985 I signed a contract with Teledyne to deliver a power supply with 80% power factor for the general aviation computer for the F-16. They told me a $2,000 [lot of money back then] Valhalla power meter needed to be giving the right answer for me to know it is working right. I hope things got better since then.

[@billabongjimmy56]

If anyone like me had a hard time seeing why in-phase had net flow of energy vs out-of-phase not having it: Blocks are being carried away from us down the circuit, and they’re *not* being brought back towards us when it’s in phase. If you could follow one specific block you’d see it working its way down the line. (At first I thought they meant net flow of blocks from the left “lane” of the circuit to the right lane…silly me.)

[@lampofthestreet]

Amazing visualisation

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I am glad you liked my visualizations. Thanks.

[@PixelSergey]

I have seen that the energy transferred by a circuit does not actually flow through the wire, but through the space around it as given by the Poynting vector. How can this be visualised?

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I'm waiting so long for this vídeo 😭😭😭

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

I am glad you liked my video and that this was the topic you were waiting for.

[@martinsolorzano9071]

This video was amazing 😭

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Thanks. I am glad you liked my video.

[@Eletronicafg]

Nice video! Although defining Real and Reactive power by the phase difference between current and voltage is only valid in the case sinusoidal signals. A more general way to define real power and apparent power is: Real = avg(current(t) * voltage(t)), Apparent = rms(current(t)) * rms(voltage(t)).

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Soon this guy will revolutionize Physics and Mathematics . The amount of subscribers is just a silence before that Storm.

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[@oscarmichel684]

One suggestion for a topic: differential forms. I’ve always had a hard time visualizing them

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

I will add that to my list of topics for future videos. Thanks.

[@jamesdean1654]

Hi thanks for the video. I understand the concept of energy boxes of charges and why they increase or decrease depending on their "height", but why and how are they transfered from the "higher" charges to the "lower" charges ? Also I don't really understand what can make the current and voltage more or less in-phase.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

They are transferred through the energy stored in the electromagnetic fields between the wires. The extent to which the voltage and current are out of phase is determined by the amount of inductance and capacitance in the circuit, as described in my video at kzbin.info/www/bejne/sICag42QjJWqibM

[@jamesdean1654]

@@EugeneKhutoryansky I see, thank you for your help and amazing content

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Master class minimals.

[@hussiendaeeh]

Thank you

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

You are welcome and thanks.

[@AliRaza-cj5dn]

Is there any video on maximum power transfer dear @Eugene

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

That is on my list of topics for future videos. Thanks.

[@AliRaza-cj5dn]

@@EugeneKhutoryansky i am waiting

[@DDvargas123]

i understand apparent vs real power a lot better now but i feel like i dont get what reactive power is useful for is it simply a measure of losses to being out of phase or is it some form of useable power we can get out of the system if we design circuits in a special way?

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

No, reactive power can't be made into usable power, unless we make the voltage and current more in phase, in which case we are reducing the reactive power and increasing the real power.

[@tarcisiolima2226]

Brasil na área...

[@shwappler]

Ok so the energy of the particle represents the voltage and the number of particles that travel in a unit of time is current. Am i right?

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Yes.

[@hamedmahammadi4864]

Hi,What program do you use to make these educational videos?

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

I make my 3D animations with "Poser."

[@gluonic]

@@EugeneKhutoryansky Oh, do you also use blender?

[@user-sl6gn1ss8p]

If I want to make a heater, would having current and voltage out of phase be a good idea?

[@shankswrc3509]

No

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Having the voltage and current out of phase would just mean that we would lose more energy in the wires on the way to the heater.

[@user-sl6gn1ss8p]

@@EugeneKhutoryansky that makes sense, but I was kind of imagining a "heater" that's pretty much just wires loosing energy : p

[@harshjais369]

Keep making such videos on about electricity...

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

More videos are on their way. Thanks.

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Amazing

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I want to learn how to think like this guy.

[@sdott9751]

Just play around

That simulation at the end is spectacular

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Thanks.

[@martinhirsch94]

What determines whether the voltage and current are in phase or out of phase, and by how much?

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

I cover this in my video "AC Current Impedance" at kzbin.info/www/bejne/sICag42QjJWqibM

[@oguzcangoz3471]

Thank you. Can you make video that explains subatomic particles?

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

I already have several videos on this. Links to two of them are below. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKC1ZJunasdor6c kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3q6hYWtf9GlfdE

[@cat-.-]

Question. How do you justify that higher voltage particles carry higher energy, give that it was an arbitrary designation that electrons have negative charge? Say if in an alternative timeline the electron was designated to have positive charge, then then energy flows backwards by the logic in this video, but it shouldn’t matter in reality?

[@Owen_loves_Butters]

Power=Voltage*Current Current=Voltage/Resistance If the direction of the voltage changed, the direction of the current would also have to change, and negative * negative = positive

[@ALXandroATS]

Why don’t the sine waves appear to be out of phase by 90 degrees at 3:50? Looks more like 45 degrees.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

That is what 90 degrees phase difference looks like. Keep in mind, if it was 180 degrees, the two waveforms would be the opposite of each other (multiplied by negative one). Therefore 90 degrees is halfway to this point.