Timeline for Does an ideal capacitor dissipate power?
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| May 14, 2014 at 14:07 | comment | added | endolith | @rahulb: Yes, an ideal LC filter does not consume any energy, this is why they're used on the output of class D amplifiers, for instance. Real inductors have some resistance, though. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 10:31 | comment | added | rahulb | What about filter circuits then ? | |
| May 14, 2014 at 10:31 | comment | added | rahulb | So do you mean If we make circuit using Ideal Capacitors and Inductors there wont be any power consumed at all ? | |
| Oct 19, 2010 at 15:34 | comment | added | endolith | amasci.com/miscon/energ1.html | |
| Oct 19, 2010 at 15:31 | history | edited | endolith | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 19, 2010 at 14:55 | comment | added | endolith | That's a resistive load. The electrical energy is being converted into heat energy. Energy flows, power doesn't. Power is the rate at which energy flows. | |
| Oct 19, 2010 at 14:54 | comment | added | Thomas O | In the image you posted, the average power seems to be non-zero... so where is all this power going? | |
| Oct 19, 2010 at 14:53 | vote | accept | Thomas O | ||
| Oct 19, 2010 at 14:53 | history | edited | endolith | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 19, 2010 at 12:22 | history | edited | endolith | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 19, 2010 at 12:15 | history | answered | endolith | CC BY-SA 2.5 |