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"Estimate a compensating reactance or infer an equivalent inductance or capacitance within a stated validity range.", "Flag cases where uncertainty, parasitics, nonlinear response or distributed behaviour invalidates a simple reactance interpretation." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "definition-and-conventions", "name": "Definition and conventions", "description": "Establishes precisely which impedance component is being represented and how its sign is interpreted.", "rationale": "Reactance is easily confused with impedance magnitude, resistance or an unsigned opposition to alternating current.", "layers": [ { "id": "impedance-component", "name": "Impedance component", "description": "Locates reactance within the complex voltage-to-current relationship.", "findings": [ { "id": "imaginary-part-of-impedance", "name": "Imaginary part of impedance", "description": "For a defined phasor impedance Z = V/I = R + jX, reactance is X and has units of ohms.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the reported quantity Im(Z), |Im(Z)|, |Z| or another quantity labelled reactance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "imaginary-part-of-impedance-q01" }, { "text": "Which voltage polarity, current direction and electrical port define V/I?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "imaginary-part-of-impedance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sign-and-neighbouring-quantities", "name": "Sign and neighbouring quantities", "description": "Separates reactive character from notation and from the imaginary part of admittance.", "findings": [ { "id": "convention-dependent-sign", "name": "Convention-dependent sign", "description": "Under exp(jωt), positive reactance is inductive and negative reactance is capacitive; susceptance is instead Im(1/Z).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which time convention establishes the mapping between reactance sign and inductive or capacitive character?", "kind": "definition", "id": "convention-dependent-sign-q01" }, { "text": "Has the value been converted from admittance using 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"kind": "measurement", "id": "inductive-and-capacitive-laws-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence justify treating the element as an ideal inductor or capacitor over the intended frequency range?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "inductive-and-capacitive-laws-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "nonideal-frequency-response", "name": "Nonideal frequency response", "description": "Captures departures from ideal laws caused by device construction and operating conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "parasitics-and-character-changes", "name": "Parasitics and character changes", "description": "Parasitic inductance, capacitance and other frequency-dependent effects can change a device's reactance magnitude or sign, including around self-resonance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which measured or calculated frequency sweep establishes the usable range and any reactive sign changes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "parasitics-and-character-changes-q01" }, { "text": "At what excitation, bias and temperature does the 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asserted this about the kind of a electric reactance, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a electric reactance is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a electric reactance from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a electric reactance, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a electric reactance, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a electric reactance is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a electric reactance passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", 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"How is electric reactance operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of electric reactance and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of electric reactance?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as electric reactance?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a electric reactance came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that 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claim about a electric reactance is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a electric reactance is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a electric reactance, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a electric reactance, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a electric reactance is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }