ELECTRICAL DIAGRAMS PART – 01 - DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VECTOR AND PHASOR DIAGRAM

VECTOR - A quantity having direction as well as magnitude, especially as determining the position of one point in space relative to another.

VECTOR DIAGRAM - Vector diagram shows the direction and relative magnitude of a vector quantity by a vector arrow. Vector diagrams can be used to describe the velocity of a moving object during its motion. Vector diagrams can be used to represent any vector quantity. For example, acceleration, force, and momentum.

PHASOR - A phasor is a line whose direction represents the phase angle in electrical degrees and whose length represents, the magnitude and of the electrical quantity.

PHASOR DIAGRAM - The graphic representation of the phasors of sinusoidal quantities taken all at the same frequency and with proper phase relationships with respect to each other is called a phasor diagrams. The relative position of the phasors or phase difference which is important in a.c. calculations.