The product of the instantaneous voltage and the instantaneous current for a circuit or component.
Instantaneous velocity is a vector quantity representing the velocity Vi at any point.It is the time rate of change in displacement.
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Speed, instantaneous or not, is a term used for how fast an object travels. Velocity, instantaneous or not, is a term used for how fast an object travels in a particular direction.
most computer software will give an instantaneous response
Instantaneous power doesn't have a frequency; it's instantaneous!
The product of the instantaneous voltage and the instantaneous current for a circuit or component.
average power is the average of all the instantaneous values during one alternation..
A device used to indicate instantaneous power usage.
Instantaneous speed is the speed of a body at any one instant. There is really no such thing as the instantaneous speed, it is merely the average speed over a very short space of time.
Instantaneous velocity is a vector quantity representing the velocity Vi at any point.It is the time rate of change in displacement.
You mean instantaneous - means happening or completed in a moment, with no delay, immediate
This is because reactive power concept is completely different from active(real) power,That is when we talk about active (real) power, we deal with two terms :The average value, and the instantaneous value.Both has significant values; let's say the average value is 5kw, where the instantaneous value maybe 2kw or 6kw, etc...On the otherhand, reactive power has always a Zero average value, and a different significant instantaneous values, but since the instantaneous value is difficult to measure, we always take the maximum instantaneous value of reactive power and deal with it as a textbook terminology (Reactive power) which is symbolized as Q and equals V I sintheta.And for the same reason (difficult to measure instantaneous value ) we easily deal with the average value of the active power other than the instantaneous value.As a brief:(Active power) symbolized P or known sometimes as real power equals V I cos thetarepresents the average value.(Reactive power) symbolized Q equals V I sin theta represents maximum instantaneous value.Someone can ask!Why not to take the maximum instantaneous value of average power such as reactive power as a terminology?Easily , why not to unites the two concepts ?!This is the answer of our main question (Why reactive power is so confusing for engineers?)This is easily because ,there is no useful meaning of using the instantaneous value for the active power, because it is a real produced power goes in one direction from source to load, where the average reactive power is always zero valued, since it goes back and forth in the network, and we are forced to deal with it in some way as an indication value and give it a unique terminology to express it as a fact that we cannot skip.In other words, you cannot compare two different things; apple and banana! Each one has a different taste.I hope that I answered the question, and dislodged some dust about this confusing concept, even I didn't take the boring mathematical path.
Same as for instantaneous power or any other kind of power:Watt(same as joule per second)
Reactive power is the electrical power that oscillate between the magnetic field of an inductor and the electric filed of the capacitor. Reactive Power Cannot Converts to non-electrical power e.g. heat, light & torque. Instantaneous reactive power equal to the multiplication instantaneous current, instantaneous voltage and the sinusoidal of phase difference of current & voltage. It only present in ac power if there is any phase difference between instantaneous current and instantaneous voltage. During complete cycle average reactive power is zero. Active power is the energy supplied to run a motor, heat a home, or illuminate an electric light bulb.Reactive power provides the important function of regulating voltage. If voltage on the system is not high enough, active power cannot be supplied. Reactive power is used to provide the voltage levels necessary for active power to do useful work. Reactive power is essential to move active power through the transmission and distribution system to the customer .Reactive power is required to maintain the voltage to deliver active power (watts) through transmision lines. When there is not enough reactive power, the voltage sags down and it is not possible to push the power demanded by loads through the lines.
An energy meter measures power and time; a wattmeter measures an instantaneous value of power. Energy = Watt/seconds.
Nothing is instantaneous.