Turning Waves into Circles with Imaginary Numbers

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Alternating current is kind of wild. Electric charge drifting back and forth, governed by wave mechanics. But what if I told you there's a better way using imaginary numbers and the complex plane? It's called a phasor diagram.

00:00 Cold Open
00:36 Why Rotation?
01:12 Types of Current
02:34 Root Mean Square (RMS)
04:02 Current is a Response
05:05 Complex Plane
06:22 Phasors
07:37 Phase Angle
08:23 Summary
09:09 Sponsor Message
10:15 Outro
10:39 Featured Comment

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