--- id: 2025-12-02T10:40:00-0500 title: 2025-12-02 10:40:?? tags: - topic/construction/electrical - exclude-from-word-count daily: "[[2025-12-02]]" --- # 2025-12-02 10:40:?? > [!cite] [Hysteresis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis) > **Hysteresis** is the dependence of the state of a system on its history. > For example, a [magnet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet "Magnet") > may have more than one possible > [magnetic moment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_moment "Magnetic moment") > in a given [magnetic field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field "Magnetic field"), > depending on how the field changed in the past. > Such a system is called **hysteretic**. ![[alternating-current#Ferroelectric Hysteresis]]