IIT Palakkad

First Semester, 2020-21

EE 2030 Electrical and Magnetic Circuits
Tutorial-3 on Tuesday, 08/09/2019
Topics(L10-L15): AC circuit analysis (sinusoidal steady-state analysis), AC circuit power analysis

Note: Students are required to attempt solving these problems before coming to the tutorial session. Any difficulties
in understanding the stated topics or the given examples and the related discussions would be entertained. If you find
some mistake in the answer, please notify me the corrected answer. All the best.

[1] For the circuit shown below, vs (t) = 750cos(5000t + 30◦ )V . Find the steady state current i(t) by phasor method.

[Ans: 5cos(5000t − 23.13◦ )A]

[2] For the circuit shown below, find the phasor voltage V0

[Ans: 36.12 − j18.84 V ]

[3] For the circuit shown below, find the Thevenin’s equivalent across a-b if the frequency of operation is 25
π kHz.

[Ans: ZT h = 6000 − j8000 Ω]

[4] For the circuit shown below, given vi (t) = cos(100t) + cos(10000t), R1 = 1kΩ, C1 = 20µF and C2 = 20µF , then
determine the sinusoidal steady state output v0 (t).

1
 [Ans: 2√1
2
cos(100t − 45◦ ) + 1
200.1 cos(10000t − 89.4◦ )]
[5] For the circuit shown below, find the average power supplied by the dependent source.

[Ans: 26.22W]
[6] For the circuit shown below, find the maximum average power delivered to the load impedance. What is the value of
load impedance in such case.

[Ans: 8W, 5.76 + j1.68Ω]

[7] A frequency domain Thevenin equivalent circuit consists of a sinusoidal source v̄th in series with an impedance
Zth = Rth + jXth . Specify the conditions on the load ZL = RL + jXL if it is to receive a maximum average power
subject to constraint (a) Xth = 0 (b) RL and XL may be selected independently (c) RL is fixed (not equal to Rth ) (d)
XL is fixed (independent of Xth ) (e) XL = 0 p p
[Ans: (a) Rth (b) Rth − jXth (c) RL − jXth (d) Rth2 + (X + X )2 (e) 2 + X2 ]
Rth
th L th

[8] For the circuit shown below, determine the complex power absorbed by each of the five circuit elements.

[Ans: −823.5 + j294.1 VA, 588.2 VA, 235.3 VA, j470.6 VA, −j764.7 VA]
[9] A 250 V rms system is supplying three parallel loads. One draws 20kW at unity power factor, a second uses 25 kVA
at 0.8 power factor lagging, and the third requires a power of 30 kW at a lagging power factor of 0.75. Find (a) total
power supplied by the source (b) the total apparent power supplied by the source (c) At what power factor does the
source operate
[Ans: 62.5 kW, 81.35 kVA, 0.768 lagging]