Sunday, January 19, 2014

Understanding 'Leading' and 'Lagging' voltage and current : EEE-1213



1.      A normal sine wave can be represented as,






2.      If the waveform is shifted to the right or left of 0°, the expression becomes



          where theta  is the angle in degrees or radians that the waveform has been shifted.



3.      If the waveform passes through the horizontal axis with a positive going (increasing with time) slope before 0°, as shown in Figure 2, the expression is: