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What happens when an inductor is operated above its self-resonant frequency?

  1. AIts reactance increases
  2. BHarmonics are generated
  3. CIt becomes capacitive
  4. DCatastrophic failure is likely
Why Every real inductor has distributed capacitance between its turns, so it behaves like an inductance in parallel with a small capacitor. At the self-resonant frequency the two reactances cancel and the impedance peaks; above that frequency the winding capacitance dominates and the part acts like a capacitor, with impedance falling as frequency rises. This is why RF chokes and coils are only usable well below their self-resonant frequency.
Watch out The choice saying reactance increases describes the inductor below self-resonance, where XL = 2*pi*f*L keeps climbing with frequency; above self-resonance the net impedance drops instead.
Past self-resonance, the stray turn-to-turn capacitance wins: the coil stops acting like a coil and acts like a cap.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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The rest of G6A

  1. G6A01 What is the minimum allowable discharge voltage for maximum life of a standard 12-volt lead-acid battery?
  2. G6A02 What is an advantage of batteries with low internal resistance?
  3. G6A03 What is the approximate forward threshold voltage of a germanium diode?
  4. G6A04 Which of the following is characteristic of an electrolytic capacitor?
  5. G6A05 What is the approximate forward threshold voltage of a silicon junction diode?
  6. G6A06 Why should wire-wound resistors not be used in RF circuits?
  7. G6A07 What are the operating points for a bipolar transistor used as a switch?
  8. G6A08 Which of the following is characteristic of low voltage ceramic capacitors?
  9. G6A09 Which of the following describes MOSFET construction?
  10. G6A10 Which element of a vacuum tube regulates the flow of electrons between cathode and plate?
  11. G6A11 What happens when an inductor is operated above its self-resonant frequency?
  12. G6A12 What is the primary purpose of a screen grid in a vacuum tube?
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