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Ashish Devnani (आशीष दे वनानी), Electrical Engineer by Qualification.
Answered Feb 6, 2017 What is inductive reactance?
Inductive reactance is the opposition to the flow of Alternating Current (AC) which
What is the difference between the Inductance
occurs due to the presence of inductive components in an AC circuit. To understand and capacitance?
inductive reactance we must understand the working of an inductor when AC is
passed through it. What's the difference between resistance and
impedance?
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when AC passes through an inductor, during the positive half cycle of an AC wave,
the inductor stores energy and in the negative half cycle of the AC wave, the inductor
will dissipate energy in the form of a magnetic field.

The inductive reactance is given by Xl= 2*pi*f*L

L is the inductance of an inductor measured in Henry

In an inductive AC circuit current(I) lags applied voltage(V) .

V=IZ

Impedance,Z= R+ j( Xl )

R may have a finite value as a property of the material used to make an inductor

As frequency increases, creation and destroy magnetic fields is more rapid. This
requires energy. Hence the inductor will exhibit higher and higher impedance as the
frequency increases.

and the voltage across L is given by E=L(di/dt)

from the above equations it is clear that for DC circuits, an inductor acts like a short
circuit as Xl=0 as f=0 and di/dt =0;

Xl has a finite value for AC circuits having a fixed frequency and inductance.

Whereas resistance is concerned, it opposes flow of AC as well as DC current equally.

Resistors are linear in nature. For a given resistance, voltage drops across it in
proportion to the amount of current flowing through them.

V= IR for DC Circuits

V=IZ and Z=R for AC Circuits

Since in a purely resistive AC circuit, inductor is absent, V and I are in phase and there
is no reactive part in Z.
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Jim Good, B.S. Electrical Engineering, Washington State University

Answered Feb 12, 2018

While an ideal inductor has no resistance, only inductance, no such device exists and
as a result of “real world” inductor material there will be resistance. Both résistance
and inductive reactance are measured in ohms and both inhibit the current flowing
through the inductor. The effect of the pure resistive portion on current is given by
Ohm’s law, V/R, and it is not a function of frequency. On the other hand, inductive
reactance is given by (2)(pi)(f)(L) where f is frequency in Hz and L is inductance in
henrys. Note that for DC, f equals zero and the reactance becomes zero or a short
circuit: as f approaches infinity, the reactance approaches an open circuit.

The power consumption of the inductor is due to its resistive portion and is given by
the familiar (I^2)(R). The pure reactive portion doesn’t consume power.

For AC currents, the inductor will generate another current in opposition to the
original current in accord with Lenz’s law. This will cause the circuit voltage and
current to be out of phase and for a pure inductor (no resistance) the current will lag
the voltage by 90 degrees. When the inductor has resistance, the lag will be less than
90 degrees and the tangent of the angle is determined by the ratio of inductive
reactance to resistance.
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Prakash W Dandekar, M.Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of

Technology, Bombay (1975)
Answered Feb 11, 2018

Originally Answered: What is the difference between resistance and reactance in an inductor?
An inductor should ideally have only inductance and zero resistance. But due to finite
wire size and long length, it invariably has a small non-zero resistance. To make an
inductor we need say N number of turns and the diameter of coil depends upon size
of conductor. So to keep coil diameter small, designers take smallest possible
diameter of conductor which further adds to resistance.

The inductance value when multiplied by 2 x pi x frequency gives reactance. This is an

indication of capability of storing magnetic energy.

Resistance on the other hand wastes energy by converting into heat. So...(more)

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Why is it that in choke Coil, the inductive reactance XL is much higher than the resistance
R?

Amrideep Baksi, b.tech from B.P. Poddar Institute of Management and

Technology (2020)
Answered Feb 4, 2017

Well in practical definition they dont have any. Both of them have same units(Ohm)
and they resist the passage of current through a circuit.

Now theoretical, let us suppose we have a wire (a long one) and its resistance is 5
ohm and another resistance of 5 ohm. They will provide the same resistance in a
circuit(Ac or Dc). Now you convert that long wire into a coil and boom. We all know
coil produces back emf or a self emf which does not let the current pass through
it(Lenz law) so here comes the part of inductive reactance and thus for the coil its
ability to resist current increases which i...(more)

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Bob Hinds, Spent 45 years working in the human service industries.

Answered May 13, 2017

Originally Answered: What's the difference between resistance and reactance?

Resistance is related to the decrease in electrical current flow in a circuit through a

resistor. The value of the resistance does not depend on any characteristic of the
current i.e. the resistance of a resistor is the same at AC or DC.

Reactance is a similar concept relating to the decrease in current flow as current

passes through a capacitance or an inductance.

The reactance of a capacitor is inversely proportional to the frequency of the voltage

across it (i.e. the lower the frequency, the higher the capacitive reactance), and is
given by the formula Xc = 1/2 pi f C. In a DC circuit, consisting of a DC voltage source
and a capacitor the reactance would be virtually infinite.

The reactance of an inductor is directly proportional to the frequency of the voltage

across it (i.e. the higher the frequency, the higher the inductive reactance). It is given
by the formula Xl = 2 pi f C.
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Gonzalo Perez
Answered May 13, 2017
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current with respect to voltage. It is expressed as a complex value in ohms, either in
polar or rectangular form.

In the rectangular form, the real part is called Resistance, and the Imaginary is called
reactance.

Resistances dissipate power as heat. Reactances push/pull power to/from the circuit
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Satyadeo Vyas, M.Tech,MBA,AMIE,C.Eng,CEM. General Manager (E&I) at Birla

Corporation Limited (1992-present)
Answered Jan 15

The inductive reactance is frequency dependent.

XL=2π*f*L

If an inductor is fed with DC supply The XL=0

Resistance does not vary with the frequency.

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John Eremic, M.S.E.E. Electrical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School (1991)

Answered May 14, 2017

A simple way to think of this is that resistance the the opposition to current flow in a
circuit, where as reactance is the reluctance to change in current or voltage in a
circuit. So resistance relates to the flow of electrons and reactance is related a change
in that current.
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Sachin Tiwari, studied at University of Lucknow

Answered Mar 10, 2017

Inductors store their energy in the form of a magnetic field that is created when a
voltage is applied across the terminals of an inductor. The growth of the current
flowing through the inductor is not instant but is determined by the inductors own
self-induced or back emf value. Then for an inductor coil, this back emf voltage V

is proportional to the rate of change of the current flowing through it.

This current will continue to rise until it reaches its maximum steady state condition
which is around five time constants when this self-induced back emf has decayed to
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