Benghazi University

Faculty of Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department

Basic Electric Circuit Laboratory II EE282

Experiment 4
Phase and power measurements

Prepared by:
‫إسماعيل هشام رجب الخازم‬
(Student No. 27694)

Instructor:
Dr. Imadeddin Abdallah

19/6/2021
 EE282: Basic Electric Circuit Laboratory II
Experiment 4
Phase and power measurements

Introduction
The experiment aim is to learn how to measure the phase shift between two
sinusoidal waves by using an oscilloscope and how to measure the power in an AC
circuit. There are two methods to calculate the phase shift: sweep method and
X-Y method.

Theory
The voltage and current in a resistance are in phase, in a pure inductive circuit
voltage and current are not in phase, current lags voltage by 90°, in circuits
containing only capacitance the current leads voltage by 90°. In this experiment
two techniques of phase shift measurement will be used, also power
measurement in Ac circuits will be implemented.

Objectives
 Measuring the phase difference between two sinusoidal signal.
 The power dissipated in a load at high frequencies.

Materials
• Oscilloscope.
• Function generator.
• Capacitor 47nF.
• 1kΩ and10kΩ resistors.
• Circuit board.

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Preparatory problem

Multisim Simulation

Td=48.146µs θ = 52° Figure 1: sweep mode phase shift

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 Figure 2: X-Y mode phase shift

A= 1.5 B=2 θ = 48.59°

Discuss the results. Which technique is the most accurate compared

to the calculated value?
X-Y mode was more accurate because the accuracy of the sweep mode depends
on the observation of the sinusoidal waves thus resulting in slight errors.

Figure 3: X-Y mode phase shift

a= 0.11 b=1
Average power dissipated in the load =3000*(47 x 10^-9)*π*1*0.115
= 4.873* 10^-5 W

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Comments / Discussion
 In both methods we had a small error percentage compared to the pre-lab
results.
 to measure the phase angle between two signals they must have the same
frequency or else, phase difference can’t be calculated.

Conclusions
We learned in this experiment how to measure the phase shift between two
sinusoidal signals using an oscilloscope in sweep mode and in X-Y mode, and we
also learned how to calculate the power dissipated using X-Y mode on an
oscilloscope.