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mrhingle
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I'm looking at an AC circuit. There is a voltage source, a resistor, an inductor, then another voltage source. One loop. I am supposed to find the power in each element and tell weather it is absorbing or delivering. I think I remember that when a current goes into the negative terminal of a voltage source, the source is delivering, and in an AC circuit the current goes back and forth. I found the current to be 21 ∠93° Amps. The voltage on the left is 240√2∠60°, and the one on the right is 280√2∠30°. Both have negative terminals at the ground. The resistor is 5Ω, and the inductor is J8Ω. Do I need to use superposition. Can I find the power with the total current that I found using mesh? What's happening here?