Solution

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With phasors proportional to , the resistor, inductor, and capacitor have complex impedances , , and . In a series circuit they carry the same electric current, so their voltage drops add:
The real part describes Joule heating; the imaginary part changes sign between capacitive and inductive response, passing through zero at .

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