ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT

Laboratory Instruction Sheet

Course Name Electrical Technology

Course Code DAE 11003
Experiment No. 3
Experiment Title Series – Parallel Network & Kirchoff’s Law
Lab Durations 3 Hours

Revision No: 2
Effective Date: 01 September 2018
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About Students:
Section: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Name Matric No. Group: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10
1. Instructor’s Name:
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About Experiment:
Title Venue
MAEE1
Experiment Date

Submission Date

FOR INSTRUCTORS ONLY

Item Marks
Attendance / Discipline /10
Participation /10
3A: /10
Results /40
3B: /30
3A: /6
Calculations /20
3B: /14
Data Analysis
3A: /5
Questions /10
3B: /5
Conclusion /10

TOTAL MARKS Instructor’s Comment Submission Stamp

/100

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Guidelines (Read Carefully)

1. Grouping: Lab group is predetermine and consists with at most three (3) team members.

2. Registration: Students are required to register the course before attending the lab.

3. Lab Activities: All lab activities must be held in the respective lab location and completed
within the given times.

4. Demonstration: Student must demonstrate the complete lab experiments to the respective
instructor. Verification only will be given upon completion of all lab activities and initialized by
the instructor on the respective page.

5. Report Submission: Report must be submitted within one (1) week after the experiment
date. Five (5) marks will be deducted for each passing day.

6. Cover Page: Please fill in ALL the necessary information on the cover page. Two (2) marks
will be deducted for the each incomplete information.

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EXPERIMENT 3: SERIES-PARALLEL NETWORK & KIRCHOFF’S LAW

AIM: To give knowledge and understanding on series-parallel network & Kirchoff’s Law.

1. OBJECTIVES:

 To identify series, parallel and series-parallel networks.

 To become familiar with the application of Kirchoff’s Law.

2. EXPERIMENT OVERVIEW:

From the experiments given so far, it should be easy to identify both series and parallel circuits. But
there is another type of circuit that has branches, like parallel circuits, and series loads or elements,
like series circuit. This is called a series-parallel network since it is a combination of the others.

There are many circuits that are so complex that they cannot solved by Ohm’s Law. These circuits
have many branches or many power sources, and Ohm’s Law would be either impractical or
impossible to use on them. Methods for solving complex circuits have been developed, and are
based on experiments of a German physicist, Gustav Kirchoff. About 1857, Kirchoff developed
two conclusions, known as Kirchoff’s Law, can be stated as follows:

Kirchoff’s voltage law

Kirchoff’s voltage law is also known as his first law. It is stated the sum of the voltage drops around
any closed loop is equal to the sum of the EMF’s in that loop. It gives the relationship between the
voltage drops around any closed loop in a circuit and the voltage sources in that loop. The totals of
these two quantities are always equal. This can be given in equation form as: ∑Es = ∑IR, where the
symbol I, which is the Greek letter sigma, means “the sum of “.

Kirchoff’s current Law

Kirchoff’s current law is called his second law. It is stated that the current arriving at any junction
point in a circuit is equal to the current leaving that point. Current cannot collect or build up at a
point. Thus, if 1A of current arrives at a junction that has two paths leading away from it, the 1A
will divide among the two paths, but the total 1A must leave the junction. This can be given in
equation form as: ∑Iin- ∑Iout = 0 or ∑Iin = ∑Iout. Normally, Kirchoff’s current Law is not used by
itself, but together with the voltage law in solving a circuit problem.

3. EQUIPMENTS:

No. Equipment / Component Quantity

1 Analog / Digital Multimeter 2 units
2 DC Power supply 1 unit
3 Breadboard 1 unit
4 Electronic Devices
 1k Ω (Resistor) 2 pcs
 1k Ω (Variable Resistor) 1 pc

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4. PROCEDURES:
A. Sub-Experiment 3A
1. Adjust R2 (variable) to 1k Ω.
2. Connect a circuit as shown in Figure 1.1.
3. Supply DC voltage 10V from power supply to the circuit.
4. Record the measurement result of IT into the Table 1.1.
5. Change value of R2 (variable) as specified in the Table 1.1 and repeat step 4.
6. Calculate total resistance (RT) and total current (IT). Record the result into the Table
1.1.

IT

Figure 1.1

B. Sub-Experiment 3B

1. Adjust R2 (variable) to 1k Ω.
2. Connect a circuit as shown in Figure 1.2.
3. Supply DC voltage 10V from power supply to the circuit.
4. Record the measurement result of IT and VT into the Table 1.2.
5. Change value of R2 (variable) as specified in the Table 1.2 and repeat step 4.
6. Calculate I1, I2, IT, RT and VT. Record the result into the Table 1.2.

I1 I2
IT
+
VT
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Figure 1.2

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5. RESULTS:
A. Experiment 3A.

Resistor Measured Value Calculated Value

R1 (Ω) R2 (var.) (Ω) IT(mA) RT(Ω) IT(mA)
1k 1k
1k 500
1k 0

Table 1.1 (Results Exp. 3A: 10 Marks)

Verified by:

B. Experiment 3B.

Measured
Resistance Calculated value
Value
R2 (var.)
R1 (Ω) R3 (Ω) IT(mA) VT(V) I1(mA) I2(mA) IT(mA) RT(Ω) VT(V)
(Ω)
1k 1k 1k
1k 1k 500
1k 1k 0

Table 1.2 (Results Exp. 3B: 30 Marks)

Verified by:

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6. DATA ANALYSIS:
A. Experiment 3A.

i. CALCULATION:
Show your calculations for step 4(A.6) in below box.

(Calculations Exp. 3A: 6 Marks)

ii. QUESTION:

What is the circuit of Figure 1.1? (Series or Parallel)

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(Question Exp. 3A: 5 Marks)

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B. Experiment 3B.

i. CALCULATION:
Show your calculations for step 4(B.6) in below box.

(Calculations Exp. 3B: 14 Marks)

ii. QUESTION:

Describe the series-parallel combinations of circuit in Figure 1.2.

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(Question Exp. 3B: 5 Marks)

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7. CONCLUSION (Experiment 3A & 3B):

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(Conclusion Exp. 3: 10 Marks)