What are active and passive components?

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / guest

the components which produces the energy in the form of
current or voltage are called active components. example:
transistors ,,.
the components which stores the energy in the form of
voltage or current are called passive components. example:
resistors, inductors, capacitors ,,,

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / nvnv pavan

In terms of gain in signal ::

active element can create some gain to the signal passing thru it on its own


passive cant introduce gain

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / abhijit

in simple words
An acitve element which reqires external electric supply
for its operation. e.g. transistor, diode.


An passive element is the element which do not reqired any
power supply for its operation like
resistor,capacitor,inductor

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / lokesh bansal

active component are those components which are capable to
add some thing into the input in the form of gain or
attenuation.like tansistors,diodes etc.
but the passive component can't capable to change the input
means no gain no attenuation but have some energy loss in
the form of heat like resistor ,capacitors etc.

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / t.t.suganya

Active elements are capable of delivering average power
greater than zero to some external devices..
Passive elements are capable of receiving power .

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / harsha5

Active elements are which capable of producing energy in infinite interval of time.passive elements are which can not produce energy and these can store energy

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / nvnv pavan

active component is an element capable of furnishing avg.power
greater than zero to some external device, where the avg. is
taken over a infinite time interval

passive cant deliver extrnl power

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / muhammad waqar

in active compunent produced energy is control able while
in passive compunent produced energy is nt control able.

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / anu

active components are those which produces energy of there own...... while passive stores the energy in it.....

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What are active and passive components?..

Answer / kiran

passive components leads to energy dissipation where as
active components wont

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