Basic Electrical Engineering Assignment-I

1. Find an equivalent resistance between terminals A and B in the figure bellow.

2. Find the equivalent resistance between terminals A and B in the figure bellow.

3. Determine the current delivered by the 30 V source in the figure bellow.

4. Find currents in all the branches of the network in the figure bellow.

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5. What is the potential difference between points x and y in the network?

6. Find the voltage between points A and B.

7. Find the value of R.

8. Find the value of current flowing through the 4 Ω resistor

9. Find the value of R and current flowing through it when the current is zero in the
branch OA.

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10. Determine the current supplied by each battery.

11. Determine the value of current flowing through the 5 Ω resistor using Mesh analysis.

12. Find the value of current supplied by the battery using Mesh analysis.

13. Find the values of currents I1, I2 and I3 using Nodal Analysis.

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14. Calculate the current through the 5 Ω resistor using Nodal Analysis.

15. Find the voltage across the 5 Ω resistor using Nodal Analysis.

16. Determine the value of current flowing through the 5 Ω resistor using Nodal Analysis.

17. Find the power delivered by the 50 V source in the circuit using source
transformation.

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18. Find the value of current flowing through the 8 Ω resistor using source
transformation.

19. Find an equivalent resistance terminals between A and B using star/delta

transformation.

20. Find an equivalent resistance between terminals A and B using star/delta

transformation.

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21. Determine the current supplied by the battery using star/delta transformation.

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22. Determine current flow through the 20 Ω resistor in the following circuit using
star/delta transformation.

23. a) An alternating voltage is represented by v = 141.4 sin 377t. Find (i) max-value (ii)
frequency (iii) time period.
b) An alternating current is given by i = 14.14 sin 377 t. Find (i) rms value of the
current, (ii) frequency, (iii) instantaneous value of the current when t = 3 ms, and
(iv) time taken by the current to reach 10 A for first time after passing through
zero.
c) An alternating current varying sinusoidally at 50 Hz has its rms value of 10 A. Write
down an equation for the instantaneous value of the current. Find the value of the current
at (i) 0.0025 second after passing through the positive maximum value, and (ii) 0.0075
second after passing through zero value and increasing negatively.
24. Find the average value, rms value, form factor and peak factor of the waveforms
shown in Figure

i)

ii)

iii)

iv)

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 v) Find the effective value of the resultant current which carries simultaneously a direct
current of 10 A and a sinusoidally alternating current with a peak value of 10 A.
25. a) An inductive coil having negligible resistance and 0.1 henry inductance is connected across
a 200 V, 50 Hz supply. Find (i) inductive reactance, (ii) rms value of current, (iii) power, (iv)
power factor, and (v) equations for voltage and current.
b) An alternating voltage of 80 + j60 V is applied to a circuit and the current flowing is 4 – j 2
A. Find the (i) impedance, (ii) phase angle, (iii) power factor, and (iv) power consumed.
26. a) The voltage and current in a circuit are given by V = 150 ˪–30° V and I = 2 ˪ –15° A. If
the circuit works on a 50 Hz supply, determines impedance, resistance, reactance, power factor
and power loss considering the circuit as a simple series circuit.
b) An inductive coil draws 10 A current and consumes 1 kW power from a 200 V, 50 Hz ac
supply. Determine (i) impedance in Cartesian and polar forms, (ii) power factor, and (iii) reactive
and apparent power.
27. a) A resistor R in series with a capacitor C is connected to a 240 V, 50 Hz ac supply. Find the
value of C so that R absorbs 300 W at 100 V. Find also the maximum charge and maximum
stored energy in C.
b) A capacitor of 35 µF is connected in series with a variable resistor. The circuit is connected
across 50 Hz mains. Find the value of the resistor for a condition when the voltage across the
capacitor is half the supply voltage.
28. a) A resistor of 20 Ω, inductor of 0.05 H and a capacitor of 50 µF are connected in series. A
supply voltage 230 V, 50 Hz is connected across the series combination. Calculate the following:
(i) impedance, (ii) current drawn by the circuit, (iii) phase difference and power factor, and (iv)
active and reactive power consumed by the circuit.
b) A circuit consists of a pure inductor, a pure resistor and a capacitor connected in series. When
the circuit is supplied with 100 V, 50 Hz supply, the voltages across inductor and resistor are 240
V and 90 V respectively. If the circuit takes a 10 A leading current, calculate (i) value of
inductance, resistance and capacitance, (ii) power factor of the circuit, and (iii) voltage across the
capacitor.
29. A choke coil is connected in series with a fixed resistor. A 240 V, 50 Hz supply is applied and
a current of 2.5 A flows. If the voltage drops across the coil and fixed resistor are 140 V and 160
V respectively, calculate the value of the fixed resistance, the resistance and inductance of the
coil, and power drawn by the coil.
30. A 100 Ω resistor is connected in series with a choke coil. When a 400 V, 50 Hz supply is
applied to this combination, the voltages across the resistance and the choke coil are 200 V and
300 V respectively. Find the power consumed by the choke coil. Also, calculate the power factor
of the choke coil and the power factor of the circuit.
31. A resistor of 25 Ω is connected in series with a choke coil. The series combination when
connected across a 250 V, 50 Hz supply, draws a current of 4 A which lags behind the voltage by
65°. Calculate (i) resistance and inductance of the coil, (ii) total power, (iii) power consumed by
resistance, and (iv)power consumed by choke coil.
32. A resistor R in series with a capacitor C is connected to a 240 V, 50 Hz ac supply. Find the
value of C so that R absorbs 300 W at 100 V. Find also the maximum charge and maximum
stored energy in C.
33. A voltage of 125 V at 50 Hz is applied across a non-inductive resistor connected in series
with a capacitor. The current is 2.2 A. The power loss in the resistor is 96.8 W. Calculate the
resistance and capacitance.
34. Two impedances Z1 = 40 ∟30° W and Z2 = 30 ∟60° W are connected in series across a
single-phase 230 V, 50 Hz supply. Calculate the (i) current drawn, (ii) pf, and (iii) power
consumed by the circuit.

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35. A coil of 3 Ω resistance and an inductance of 0.22 H is connected in series with an imperfect
capacitor. When such a series circuit is connected across a 200 V, 50 Hz supply, it has been
observed that their combined impedance is (3.8 + j6.4) Ω. Calculate the resistance and
capacitance of the imperfect capacitor.
36. Two circuits, the impedances of which are given by Z 1 = (6 + j8) Ω and Z2 = (8 – j6) Ω, are
connected in parallel. If the applied voltage to the combination is 100 V, find (i) current and pf
of each branch, (ii) overall current and pf of the combination, and (iii) power consumed by each
impedance.
37. An impedance of (7 + j5) Ω is connected in parallel with another impedance of (10 – j8) Ω
across a 230 V, 50 Hz supply. Calculate (i) admittance, conductance and susceptance of the
combined circuit, and (ii) total current and power factor.
38. A voltage of 200 ∟25° V is applied to a circuit composed of two parallel branches. If the
branch currents are 10 ∟40° A and 20 ∟-30° A, determine the kVA, kVAR and kW in each
branch. Also, calculate the pf of the combined load.
39. Two impedances ZA = (4 + j3) Ω and ZB = (10 – j7) Ω are connected in parallel and impedance
ZC = (6 + j5) W is connected in series with parallel combination of Z A and ZB. If the voltage
applied across the circuit is 200 V at 59 Hz, calculate (i) currents flowing in Z A, ZB and ZC, and (ii)
total power factor of the circuit.
40. A circuit consists of a 25 Ω resistor, 64 mH inductor and 80 µF capacitor connected in
parallel across a 110 V, 50 Hz single-phase supply. Calculate the individual currents drawn by
each element, the total current drawn from the supply and the overall power factor of the
circuit. Draw the phasor diagram.

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