[Mohan.C]

Originally Posted by baudrunner Davidgow77, I will answer your question, but I am not sure just how it will be received. Every once in a while I make the observation that people are generally more interested in the bizarre and the ununderstandable. So when practical matters are presented, they generally view them with disdain, because they are not interesting enough. Flux is known in the science of physics and especially the field of electronics as Reactance, denoted by the symbol X. Reactance is a form of resistance or impedence to current flow. In the case of a coil, such as a transformer coil or radio frequency coil the phase relationship between current flow and the voltage produced over that coil is such that current flow lags the voltage by a phase angle of 90 degrees. In the capacitor, the opposite is true, current leads the voltage. There is obviously a relationship between Reactance, flux, and hysteresis. I prepared a two page .pdf paper titled Application of Imaginary and Complex Numbers, which I posted in a response to the questions about imaginary numbers and their practical application. This post gives me the opportunity to redress the issue. It describes the calculation of the total voltage and the overall impedence of an electronic circuit containing any number of resistors, capacitors, and inductors by use of the imaginary number by way of a very understandable and simple explanation. A review of the imaginary number and how and why it represents the square root of -1 can be read in my first post in the "Mathematics->branches of mathematics->does imaginary exist?" discussion in the mathematics forum. Here is the link to the paper.

Is flux this complicated. I thought flux was just the spatial densty of a field.