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English: Diagram showing a voltage waveform and the corresponding power waveform (dissipated by a resistive load).

The power is zero when the voltage is zero. Otherwise, the power waveform is always positive, as the resistor can only dissipate energy; it cannot supply energy to the circuit. In other words, the resistor outputs power regardless of whether the voltage is positive or negative.

  • The RMS voltage is shown by the blue line.
  • The peak power is shown by the red line.
  • The average power is shown by the green line.
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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from numpy import sin, pi, sqrt, mean, amax, linspace

t = linspace(0, 1.5, 1000)
sig = sin(2*pi*t)
Vrms = 1/sqrt(2)
power = sig**2  # R = 1 ohm
Ppeak = amax(power)
Pavg = mean(power[t < 1])

plt.figure()
plt.subplot(2, 1, 1)
plt.plot(t, sig, color='0.2', lw=1.5)
plt.axhline(Vrms, color='blue', ls='-', lw=1.2, alpha=0.8)
plt.ylabel('Voltage [V]')
plt.margins(0, 0.1)
plt.xticks(linspace(0, 1.5, 7))
plt.yticks([-1, -0.5, 0, 0.5, 1, Vrms])
plt.grid(True, color='0.2', linestyle=':')

plt.subplot(2, 1, 2)
plt.plot(t, power, color='0.2', lw=1.5)
plt.axhline(Ppeak, color='red', ls='-', lw=1.2, alpha=0.8)
plt.axhline(Pavg, color='green', ls='-', lw=1.2, alpha=0.8)
plt.xlabel('Time [s]')
plt.ylabel('Power [W]')
plt.margins(0, 0.1)
plt.ylim(-1.2, 1.2)
plt.xticks(linspace(0, 1.5, 7))
plt.grid(True, color='0.2', linestyle=':')

plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig('RMS voltage vs average power.svg')

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