Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
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Author: Charles K Alexander, Matthew Sadiku
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12, Problem 50P
A balanced three-phase source with VL = 240 V rms is supplying 8 kVA at 0.6 power factor lagging to two wye-connected parallel loads. If one load draws 3 kW at unity power factor, calculate the impedance per phase of the second load.
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