College of Engineering, Architecture and Fine Arts

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

PROBLEM SET NO. 3

Direction: Solve the following problems until you derive what is/are asked in the problem. Show the complete
solution. Box your final answer/s. Use short bond paper (with visible margin 1x1in) and engineering lettering for
writing. Provide a cover page for your final paper.
1. An alternating current varying sinusoidally with a frequency of 5o Hz has an RMS value of 20 A. Write
down the equation for the instantaneous value and find this value (a) 0.0025 second (b) 0.0125 second
after passing through a positive maximum value. At what time, measure from a positive maximum value,
will the instantaneous current be 14.14 A?

2. An alternating current of frequency 50 Hz has a maximum value of 100 A. Calculate (a) its value 1/600
second after the instant the current is zero and its value decreasing thereafter (b) how many seconds
after the instant the current is zero (increasing thereafter wards) will the current attain the value of 86.6A?

3. Plot the sinusoidal wave of the following equations of voltages:

(a) v = 400 sin(2πft + 600)
(b) v = 50 sin(2πft - 900)
(c) v = 190 cos(2πft + 1200)
(d) v = 270 sin(2πft + π/4)
(e) v = 350 cos(2πft - π/8)
(f) v = 90 cos(2πft - 550)

4. Plot the sinusoidal wave of the following equations of current:

(a) i = 90 sin(2πft + 700)
(b) i = 150 cos(2πft - 15000)
(c) i = 160 sin(2πft + 200)
(d) i = 370 cos(2πft - π/2)
(e) i = 20 cos(2πft + 3π/2)
(f) i = 30 cos(2πft + 350)

5. The impedance of the parallel RLC circuit shown is given by

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 6. Determine the impedance for the circuit.

7. A circuit consists of a current source, i=0.030sin500t, in parallel with L=20mH, C = 50 mF, and R = 25
ohms. a. Determine the voltage V across the circuit. b. Solve for the power factor of the circuit. c. Calculate
the average power dissipated by the circuit and verify that this is equal to the power delivered by the
source. d. Use Ohm’s law to find the phasor quantities, IR, IL, and IC.

8. Find the total impedance for the network shown:

9. Find the equivalent impedance of the network:

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 10. Consider the circuit:

a. Find Zt.
b. Determine the voltages VR and VL using the voltage divider rule.
c. Verify Kirchhoff’s voltage law around the closed loop.

11. Determine the impedance Z which must be within the indicated block of figure if the total impedance of
the network is 13 ∠22.62° ohms.

12. Consider the network of figure

a. Find Zt.
b. Use Ohm’s law to determine I,VR, and VC

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 13. Find the equivalent impedance of the network of Figure

14. Calculate the current in each of the branches in the network of figure:

15. Determine the total impedance of the network of figure. Express the impedance in both polar form and
rectangular form.

16. Consider the circuit of figure

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 a. Find Zt.
b. Determine the currents I1, I2, and I3.
c. Calculate the total power provided by the voltage source.
d. Determine the average powers P1, P2, and P3 dissipated by each of the impedances. Verify that the
average power delivered to the circuit is the same as the power dissipated by the impedances

17. Given the circuit of figure

a. Determine the current I and the voltage V R.

18. Two impedances Z1 = 15 + j20 and Z2 = 5 – jXc are connected in parallel. Solve for the value of X c so
that the total current drawn by the combination will be in phase with any supply voltage.

19. A non-inductive resistor R is connected in parallel with an inductive reactance of 10 ohms. The
combination is then connected in series with a capacitive reactance of 5 ohms. Solve for R at which the
power factor of the given circuit would be unity.

20. A 300-ohm inductive reactance is connected across a series combination of a resistor R and a capacitive
reactance Xc. Solve for R if the equivalent impedance of the combination is a pure resistance of 100
ohms.

21. A 10-ohms resistor is connected in parallel with an inductive reactance of 10 ohms. The combination is
then connected in series with a capacitive reactance of 5 ohms. Solve for R at which the power factor of
the given circuit would be unity.

22. A resistance R is connected in parallel in parallel with a variable inductive reactance XL. The combination
is connected in series with impedance of 5 – j2 ohms. Solve for R, such so there is only one condition of
resonance as XL as varied.

23. Given the circuit of figure determine the current I and the voltage V R.

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 24. A wye connected load has a 5<200 ohm impedance per phase and is connected across a 120 V three
phase source. Calculate the line current.

25. A balanced delta connected load having impedance per phase of 20<36.87 0 ohms is supplied from a
balanced 3-phase, 240 V source. Determine the real power.

26. A system consisting of three equal resistors connected in star is fed from a three-phase supply. By how
much is the power reduced if one of the three resistors is disconnected?

27. A balanced three phase load is wye connected and has an impedance Z p = 4 – j3 ohms per phase. Find
the line current if this load is connected across a 220 V three phase source.

28. Three resistors 10, 15, and 30 ohmic values are connected in wye configuration to a balanced 208 volt
three phase supply. Calculate the total power of the system.

29. Two parallel connected loads A and B are supplied by a 440 V, 3 phase, 60 Hz generator. Load A draws
an apparent power of 100 kVA at 0.80 lagging and load B draws an apparent power of 70 kVA at unity
pf. Determine the feeder current.

30. A three phase motor takes 10 kVA at 0.6 pf lagging from a source of 230 V. It is in parallel with a balanced
delta load having 16 ohms resistance and 12 ohms capacitive reactance in series in each phase.
Determine the total power factor.

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