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Ee101 Exam Questions With Answer
Ee101 Exam Questions With Answer
Ee101 Exam Questions With Answer
CO 1 2. (2 pts) A type of element in an electric circuit that dissipates energy is called the
_resistor____.
CO 1 4. (2 pts) A law of Kirchhoff’s which states that “the sum of the currents entering and leaving
a node is zero” is called _KCL.
CO 2, 3 1. (20 pts) An electrician wants to connect a 100 Ω incandescent bulb from a 100 V DC
source 2000 ft. away using multiple copper wires (𝝆 = 𝟏. 𝟕𝟐𝟑 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟖 Ω −
𝒎 @ 𝟐𝟎𝒐 𝐂, 𝑻𝒐 = −𝟐𝟑𝟒. 𝟓𝒐 𝐂) connected in parallel, with each wire having a diameter of
2.0 mm. (Fig. 1) Assuming a working temperature of 50ºC, find;
Fig. 1
a) (5 pts) The total resistance of the copper wires so that the voltage at the load side
(the bulb) will be at least 98 V DC.
𝐿𝑒𝑡,
𝑅𝑊50 = 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛ce of wire at 50𝑜 𝐂
100
98 = 100 𝑉 ( )
100 + 𝑅𝑊50
b) (10 pts)The minimum number of copper wires required in a). Round-up final
answer to nearest ones.
Let,
𝑅𝑊20 = 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛ce of wire at 20𝑜 𝐂
𝑛 = 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠
𝑅𝑊20 2.040816
=
20 + 234.5 50 + 234.5
−8 4000
𝜌20 𝐿 1.723 × 10 (3.28084)
𝑅𝑊20 = = = 1.8256
𝐴 𝜋(0.002)2
𝑛× 4
𝑛 = 3.66
𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝒏 = 𝟒 𝒘𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔
c) (5 pts) The power lost on the stranded copper wire in watts referred in a).
𝑽𝟐 𝟐𝟐
𝑷𝑳𝑶𝑺𝑻 = = = 𝟏. 𝟗𝟔 𝑾
𝑹 𝟐. 𝟎𝟒𝟎𝟖𝟏𝟔
By inspection,
𝟓𝑹 × 𝟎. 𝟓𝑹 𝟓
𝑹𝑬𝑸 = = 𝑹 = 𝟒𝟓. 𝟒𝟓 𝒐𝒉𝒎
𝟓𝑹 + 𝟎. 𝟓𝑹 𝟏𝟏
b) If a DC voltage of 10 V is applied at
terminals a & b and an ammeter
inserted on the path of the 2R
resistors, what would be the
ammeter reading?
𝟏𝟎
𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 = = 𝟎. 𝟎𝟐 𝑨 = 𝟐𝟎𝒎𝑨
𝟓𝑹
Course Question PROBLEM SOLVING (continuation)
Outcome #
Codes
Fig. 3
At high position,
5(𝑅3 + 0.02) = 6
𝑹𝟑 = 𝟏. 𝟏𝟖 𝒐𝒉𝒎𝒔
At medium position,
3(𝑅2 + 𝑅3 + 0.02) = 6
𝑹𝟐 = 𝟎. 𝟖 𝒐𝒉𝒎𝒔
At low position,
1(𝑅1 + 𝑅2 + 𝑅3 + 0.02) = 6
𝑹𝟏 = 𝟒 𝒐𝒉𝒎𝒔
CO 4 4. (20 pts) Find node voltages v1, v2, v3 and current io of the network shown in Fig. 4.
Fig. 4
4(𝑣1 − 𝑣3 )
4𝑖𝑜 = = 0.4(𝑣1 − 𝑣3 )
10
At node v1;
𝑣1 − 15 𝑣1 − 𝑣2 𝑣1 − 𝑣3
+ + +3=0
20 5 10
At node v2;
𝑣1 − 𝑣2 𝑣2 − 0.4(𝑣1 − 𝑣3 ) 𝑣2 − 𝑣3
− − =0
5 5 5
At node v3;
𝑣2 − 𝑣3 𝑣1 − 𝑣3 𝑣3 + 10
+ − +3 = 0
5 10 15
𝒗𝟏 = −𝟕. 𝟏𝟗𝟐 𝑽
𝒗𝟐 = −𝟐. 𝟕𝟕𝟗 𝑽
𝒗𝟑 = 𝟐. 𝟖𝟖𝟔𝟓 𝑽
𝒊𝒐 = −𝟏. 𝟎 𝑨