See, Joa Allen A.

Experiment no. 2

Circuits II Lab

PROBLEMS:
1. The peak current that will flow in a 100-ohm soldering iron with an average power of 200 watts is 1.414 amperes. 2.
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The reading of a 15-ohm a-c ammeter when it is connected in series with a 200-ohm load, which has a peak power of 275 watts, is 0.274 amps. By ratio and proportion:

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3. The wattage rating of a lamp which has a hot resistance of 75-ohms, if the lamp is to

be used on a 115-volt 50-cycle line, is 3.527 watts.

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ANALYSIS: It is evident from our experiment that when we use pure resistors in an AC circuits without inductance or capacitance, the same principles of Ohms law, circuit rules for power, current and voltage apply as they do for DC resistive circuits, the only difference is the use of the instantaneous peak to peak or rms values. When we turn on the supply, I notice the resistors become hotter and hotter and acts like a dissipative element which converts electrical energy into heat. Based also from our experiment, which is a purely resistive circuit (no reactance), the current is in phase with the voltage and calculations look similar to that in an equivalent DC circuit. The power in a purely resistive circuit is never returned to the source as compare with reactive loads. This means that the power is always being dissipated by the resistive load/s. One of the things that I had hard time in understanding is the root-mean-square values for current and voltage, for example Irms would just be the RMS value of the function i(t) with which the constant current will yield the same power dissipation as the time-averaged power dissipation of the current.