Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing

Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UPM

ASSIGNMENT 2

Course: Engineering Mathematics 1

Course Code: ECC 3001
Session: Semester 1 (2016/2017)

Title: Complex Numbers

Group Members:
Name Matric No. Signature
1. Loo Kai Xen 188327
2. Heng Kor Jin 187790
3. Muhammad Zulqarnain bin Razali 187398
4. Nur Fatin Adira binti Mohamad Fadzil 188289
5. Hazlan bin Husaing 187542

Lecturer Name: Dr. Siti Azfanizam Ahmad

Justification of choosing this engineering problem:

Mathematics plays an important role in electrical network. We shall illustrate how some of
elementary ideas described are used to make an electrical network can work properly. Then, it
is important to have some material to avoid any of shocks in this circuit.

When an alternating current I = I sin ωt (ω is a constant and t is the time) flows in a circuit the
corresponding voltage depends on ω and on the resistance, capacitance and inductance of the
circuit. For simplicity we shall separate these three elements and consider their effects
individually.

For resistor of resistance R the corresponding voltage is v = IR sin ῳt. this voltage is ‘in
phase’ with the current. It is zero at the same times as i and achieves its maxima at the same
times as I, as shown in Figure A. For a capacitor of capacitance C the corresponding voltage is

−1
v = (I/ωC) sin(ωt π), as shown in Figure B. Here the voltage ‘lags’ behind the current by a
2

1 1
phase of π. For an inductor of inductance L the corresponding voltage v=ωLisin(ωt + π), as
2 2

1
shown in Figure C. Here the voltage ‘leads’ the current by a phase of π.
2

Figure A

Figure B
 Figure C
Engineering Problem:
Calculate the complex impedance of the element shown in Figure 1 when an alternating current
of frequency 100 Hz flows.

15 Ω 41.3 mH

(Figure 1)
References:
1. James, G., (2007). Modern Engineering Mathematics. (4th Edition). Essex: Prentice
Hall.