ABSTRACT
In practice, circuit elements are not perfect and the energy initially contained within this circuit would be lost by the circuit and the oscillations would decrease in amplitude as the energy diminished. Energy loss in a circuit is represented by that in a resistor which can be included in one of two ways. The first way is shown in Figure 16.2(a), where the resistor is in series with the capacitor and inductor. A second representation is a parallel resistor as shown in Figure 16.2(b).
