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because a coil is an inductor,for current leads voltage in an inductor

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It doesn't! Current lags voltage in a coil. In a purely-inductive circuit, the current lags the supply voltage by 90 degrees. The reason for this is 'self inductance'. Whenever a current changes, a voltage is induced into the coil which opposes that change in current. The maximum self-induced voltage occurs when the rate of change in current is greatest. The greatest positive rate of change of a.c. current occurs when that current is passing through the zero axis of its waveform, so the greatest (negative) induced voltage occurs at thatsame point, which is one-quarter of the wavelength, or 90 degrees. In accordance with Kirchhoff's Voltage Law, the supply voltage must be in antiphase with the induced voltage. So when the peak induced voltage is negative, the peak applied voltage must be positive. Or, to put it another way, the peak value of the applied voltage must occur 90 degrees before the peak value of the current -so the current lags the applied voltage by 90 degrees.

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