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DC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS
PROBLEM SET 1 - WORKSHEET
TOPIC: Charge, Current, Resistivity, Resistor Color Coding, Equivalent Resistance
Name:
Show your step by step solution in the space. Box your final answer.
1. (2pts each)
How many coulombs are represented by these amounts of: (a) 6.4821017 electrons

SCORE

(b) 1.241018 protons

2. (2pts each) Find the current owing through an element if the charge ow is given by:
(a) q(t)= (t +2) mC
(b) q(t)= (5t2 +4t 3) C
(c) q(t)= 10e4t pC

3. (10 pts) A silver wire has a resistance of 2.5 ohm. What will be the resistance of a manganin wire having a diameter half of the silver wire
and a length one third of the silver wire? The resistivity of manganin is 30 times that of silver.

4. (10pts) A wire 50 m in length and 2 mm2 in cross section has a resistance of 0.56 ohm. A 100-m length of wire of the same material has a
resistance of 2 ohm at the same temperature. Find the diameter of this wire.

5. (5 pts) Find the resistance corresponding to color bands in the order of red-yellow-black-gold.

6. (5pts each) The voltage v across a device and the current i through it are v(t)= 5cos 2t V, i(t) = 10(1e0.5t) A
Calculate: (a) the total charge in the device at t = 1s (b) the power consumed by the device at t = 1 s.

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7. Find the equivalent resistance at terminals a-b for each of the networks

All R = 5 ohms

5pts

All R = 5 ohms

5pts

All R = 5 ohms

5pts

Note: All resistor = 100

ohms (20 pts)

Note: All resistor = 100 ohms

(20pts)

DC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS
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PROBLEM SET 1 REFLECTION

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