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1. What is phase angle between the voltage and current of an inductor?

90 degrees

2. How does the inductive reactance of a circuit relate to its frequency?

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The first objective of the lab was to examine the properties of an inductor in an ac circuit. This was accomplished by building
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resistor, two inductors in series with each other, and inductors in parallel, respectively; a function generator was used to supply
voltage in each case. For each of these circuits, a digital multimeter was used to measure the current through the circuit - or in
some cases through each circuit element - and this value along with the already known voltage and frequency were used to
calculate the reactance and inductance of the circuit, thus demonstrating the characteristics of an inductor in an ac circuit.

The second objective was to determine the phase angle between an inductor's voltage and current, which the team met by
building a circuit on the breadboard consisting of a 100 mH inductor
 in series with a 100 ohm resistor, with a function generator
acting as an ac voltage source with a 10 V peak and a 4kHz frequency. The voltage across the function generator and the
voltage across the resistor were each measured by an oscilloscope and the appropriate steps were followed to determine the
phase angle, which proved to be 90 degrees. This was then compared to the hypothetical phase angle and found to be correct.
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