Question
How do I calculate average power in a circuit?
Answer
however the time average of a function of the form cos(ωt + k) is zero provided that ω is nonzero. Therefore the only product terms that have a nonzero average are those where the frequency of voltage and current match. In other words it is possible to calculate real (average) power by simply treating each frequency separately and adding up the answers.
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