>Therefore I am not an electronics engineer, and memory doesn't serve that well after 16-17 years, Q.E.D. :)
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>BTW, I assume inductance and capacitance are not entirely imaginary, as they should behave differently. Are they actually complex? I assume they'd be at somehow right angles, i.e. not being at max at the same time. Well, I'm probably way out of my field here, but this matter where a purely imaginary mathematical game plays so well in a real situation (the other one is Zhukov's function, as far as complex stuff is considered) has always intrigued me.

This is not electronics, is electricity. I am an electrical engineer, but there are 24 years since I worked in that field, and barely remember the very basics of everything :(

Inductance and capacitance are entirely imaginary, i.e. when you represent the sinusoidal wave of the alternating current in complex. The complex number is the impedance, with the real part the resistance and the imaginary the combined effect of impedance and capacitance.