PEE101

PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

TUTORIAL 1

CHAPTER 1
1.1. A current of 3 A flows for 5 minutes. What charge is transferred?
1.2. A conductor has a conductance of 50 micro Siemens. What is its resistance?
1.3.The potential difference between two points in an electric circuit is 24 V. If 0.4 J of
energy were dissipated in a period of 5 ms, what would the current be between the two
points?
1.4.Charge is flowing through a conductor at the rate of 420 C/min. If 742 J of electrical
energy are converted to heat in 30 s, what is the potential drop across the conductor?

CHAPTER 2: INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRIC CIRCUITS

2.1. If the current through a 0.02 M resistor is 3.6 µA, what is the voltage drop across the
resistor?

2.2.
a. Plot the curve of I (vertical axis) versus V (horizontal axis) for a 120 Ω resistor. Use a
horizontal scale of 0 to 100 V and a vertical scale of 0 to 1 A.
b. Using the graph of part (a), find the current at a voltage of 20 V and 50 V.

2.3. A 10 Ω resistor is connected across a 12 V battery.

a. How many joules of energy will it dissipate in 1 min?
b. If the resistor is left connected for 2 min instead of 1 min, will the energy used
increase? Will the power dissipation level increase?
c.
2.4. Determine the resistance of a coil connected to a 150 V supply when a current of (a) 75
mA, (b) 300 µA flows through it.
CHAPTER 3: SERIES AND PARALEL NETWORKS

3.1. Find the total resistance for each configuration,

3.2. For the network in Figure 1 determine the voltages:

a. 𝑉𝑎 , 𝑉𝑏 , 𝑉𝑐 , 𝑉𝑑 , 𝑉𝑒
b. 𝑉𝑎𝑏 , 𝑉𝑑𝑐 , 𝑉𝑐𝑏
c. 𝑉𝑎𝑐 , 𝑉𝑑𝑏

Figure 1
3.3. The total resistance of the configurations in Figure 2 is specified. Find the unknown
standard value resistance, 𝑅

Figure 2

3.4. Use the information in Figure 3 to calculate:

a) The source voltage 𝐸.
b) The resistance 𝑅2 .
c) The current 𝐼1 .
d) The source current 𝐼𝑠 .
e) The power supplied by the source.
f) The power supplied to the resistors 𝑅1 and 𝑅2 .
g) Compare the power calculated in part (e) to the sum of the power delivered to all the
resistors

Figure 3
3.5. Using the information provided in Figure 4, find:
a) The resistance 𝑅2 .
b) The resistance 𝑅3 .
c) The current 𝐼𝑠

Figure 4

3.5. Using the circuit in Figure 5

a) Find currents 𝐼5 , 𝐼2 , and 𝐼6 .
b) Find voltages 𝑉1 and 𝑉5.
c) Find the power delivered to the 𝑅3 resistor.

Figure 5
3.6. For the ladder network in Figure 6:
a) Find the current 𝐼.
b) Find the current 𝐼7 .
c) Determine the voltages 𝑉3, 𝑉5, and 𝑉7.
d) Calculate the power delivered to 𝑅7 , and compare it to the power delivered by the 240
V supply.

Figure 6

3.7. For the network in Figure 7, find the resistance 𝑅3 if the current through it is 2 A.

Figure 7
CHAPTER 4: DC CIRCUIT THEORIES

4.1. Using Kirchhoff’s laws, find the magnitude and direction of the current through each
resistor for the network of Figure 8.

Figure 8
4.2. For the network in figure 9, Determine the Thévenin Equivalent circuit for the shaded
area.

Figure 9
4.3. For the network in figure 10, use Norton’s theorem to determine the current flowing
through the 10Ω resistor.

Figure 10

4.4. Determine the value of the load resistance 𝑅𝐿 shown in Figure 11 that gives maximum
power dissipation and find the value of this power.

Figure 11