Which of the following statements are TRUE?
- Phasors are an efficient method of analyzing AC circuits when the frequencies are the same. Thus on a single phasor diagram, all the plotted phasors represent sinusoids of the same frequency. All phasors on the same phasor diagram are considered to rotate at the same angular frequency in a counterclockwise direction.
- In the phasor diagram, everything is plotted on a coordinate system and phasors can be treated in a similar fashion to vectors. Thus phasor diagram must be drawn to scale and their resultants can be found by simply applying vector algebra.
- Vectors have magnitude and direction and thus the phasors on a phasor diagram are normally defined by their length and also by their angles with respect to a specific reference phasor.
- The "reference phasor" is one of the circuit phasors that chosen to lie on the x axis of the phasor diagram, pointing to the right. The angle between two phasors is the same as the phase angle between the two sinusoids.
- According to standard, the length of a phasor is equal to the rms value of the equivalent sinusoid (unless it is specifically stated otherwise).
- In the diagram below, the purple phasor is equal to Vx + Vy.
- In the diagram below, Vx lags Vy by angle θ.
- The scale in the diagram below does NOT apply to the resultant vector.
