what is active power and rective power and power factor



what is active power and rective power and power factor..

Answer / vinodhini

Active power is the useful power which is spent to do work..It is the amount of actual power what we are using to run our application.
Reactive power is used to produce magnetic field......in case of any electromagnetic application.....
Power factor is the cosine of the angle difference between voltage and current.....

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