What is What is the difference between conductor and inductor?

Answer 1

A conductor is that one which allows the flow of electric current through it. An inductor is also a conductor but in the form of a coil used in varying current circuits. An inductor's role is not to conduct electricity; it is used in alternating current circuits and control it without much power loss. it is based on self induction.

Answer 2

The difference between inductive reactance and capacitive reactance is that the former is a characteristic of inductors, and the latter a characteristic of capacitors. Also, the former is a function of the buildup and collapse of a magnetic field, while the latter is a function of the buildup of electric charge, and its discharge. Both phenomenon talk about the storage of energy taken from a circuit, and about giving it back -- and at different times during the operation of the circuit. Links are provided below to check facts and learn more.

Answer 3

Inductor stores the energy in the form magnetic flux, but the capacitor stores the energy in the form of electric charges.
In the inductor voltage leads the current, where as in the capacitor current leads the voltage.

Answer 4

an inductor is a single coil used for its inductive reactance

a transformer is one or more coils coupled by mutual inductance used for several purposes. some are.

• autotransformer or variac uses a single coil and provides stepup/stepdown without isolation
• isolation transformer uses two coils does not change voltage but provides isolation
• Transformers using many coils can provide a variety of different voltages usually with isolation
• some transformers provide electrostatic shielding between their coils
• current transformers use two coils to convert a current to a voltage to simplify measurement
• etc.

Answer 5

Because they work completely differently. It's like asking why you can't use a hammer in place of a wrench; there are a FEW places it might sort of work, but not usually and even if it did work it wouldn't work very well.

Both capacitors and inductors introduce impedance in AC circuits (in DC circuits, inductors are basically very low value resistors), but (and this is a bit technical, so don't worry about it too much if it doesn't make sense to you) they have opposite effects in phase space (that is: the imaginary part of their complex impedance has opposite sign).

Answer 6

inductor is stores the energy in magnetic feild,

Capacitor is also stores the enery but it is in electri feild

Answer 7

A capacitive circuit will more readily pass an AC current, while an inductive circuit will pass a DC current.

Answer 8

Reactor and inductor are two terms for the same thing, a device that presents reactive inductance to the circuit.