Youre Chief Financial Officer for a power company, and you consult your engineering department in an effort

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You’re Chief Financial Officer for a power company, and you consult your engineering department in an effort to minimize powerline losses. Your power plant produces 60-Hz power at 365 kV rms and 200 A rms, and delivers it via transmission lines with total resistance 100 Ω. You ask the engineers for the percentage of power that’s lost. They reply that it depends on the power factor. What’s the percentage loss for power factors of
(a) 1.0  
(b) 0.60

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Essential University Physics

ISBN: 978-0321976420

3rd Edition Volume 2

Authors: Richard Wolfsonby

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