A series circuit comprising electrical resistance and inductance , placed in a parallel circuit with capacitance , has electrical admittance . Vanishing imaginary part at nonzero angular frequency gives the displayed condition, requiring . It defines zero voltage-current phase difference, which need not coincide exactly with the maximum of impedance magnitude when loss is present. At this frequency the electrical impedance is real and equals .
For electric potential difference and electric current varying as sinusoids, choose the phasor convention
The electrical impedance is
Its modulus gives the voltage-to-current amplitude ratio, and its complex argument gives the voltage-minus-current phase difference. For ideal components,
These follow from Ohm's law , the capacitor law , and the inductor law . In phasor notation a time derivative becomes multiplication by , turning the linear ordinary differential equations of the electrical circuit into algebraic equations. Electrical impedances add in a series circuit; their reciprocals, the electrical admittances, add in a parallel circuit. This computes both amplitudes and phase differences in the steady response to sinusoids.
Let be the total parallel capacitance, since capacitors in a parallel circuit have additive capacitances. Put into the lossy parallel coil resonance condition:
The additional capacitance is therefore
This is the added capacitance, rather than the new total, and the conversion from frequency to angular frequency is essential.