EE 4753/5243 Analysis of Power Systems

Homework 1
Due Thursday, August 31, in class

Reading Assignment: Read the chapter on sinusoidal steady

state from your Circuits textbook.
1. Consult the website of the Energy Information Administration (www.eia.gov)
and find answers to the following questions. For each question, provide
the specific link from which you took the information, and state the
year the information refers to. (5 points)
(a) How much energy does a person use in a year? State your answer
in Btu and KWh.
(b) What percentage of the world energy consumption is by the
United States?
(c) Did the U.S. energy consumption decline or rise in 2016 with re-
spect to 2015? How did the energy production from coal, nuclear,
petroleum, renewables, and natural gas change from to 2016 to
2015?
2. Given two complex numbers A1 = 5 60 and A2 = 3 j4, (a) con-
vert A1 to rectangular form; (b) convert A2 to exponential form; (c)
calculate the sum A1 + A2 , and express it in exponential form; (d)
Calculate the product A1 A2 and express it in rectangular form, and
(e) calculate the ratio A1 /A2 and express it in rectangular form. For
all the computations above, show your work and how you make the
conversions from one form to another. (15 points)
3. Suppose we have two sinusoidal voltages of the same frequency with
rms values of 12 V and 7 V, respectively. The phase angles of the two
voltages are unknown. What is the smallest rms value that the sum
of the two voltages could have? The largest? (Justify your answer.)
(10 points)