What the calculation of the mean and effective current (voltage) values of complex waveforms amounts to is dealing with integrals, and that poses some difficulties to most engineers. In today’s practice the problem makes itself manifest in a series of different waveforms, which makes the process of its solving all the more complicated. However, if the mean and effective values of typical forms are known, the process can be greatly simplified, and that’s what the present article is about.
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