ELECTRICAL
CIRUIT THEORY
& TECHNOLOGY
6th Edition
JOHN BIRD
WORKED SOLUTIONS TO
EXERCISES
© John Bird Published by Taylor and Francis
INTRODUCTION
In ‘Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology 6th Edition’ are nearly 1250 further problems arranged
regularly throughout the text within 202 Exercises. The solutions for all 1250 of these further
problems have been prepared in this document.
CONTENTS
Page
Chapter 1 Some mathematics revision (Exercises 1-12) 1
Chapter 2 Further mathematics revision (Exercises 13-25) 52
Chapter 3 Units associated with basic electrical quantities (Exercises 26-27) 90
Chapter 4 An introduction to electric circuits (Exercises 28-31) 95
Chapter 5 Resistance variation (Exercises 32-34) 102
Chapter 6 Batteries and alternative sources of energy (Exercise 35) 110
Chapter 7 Series and parallel networks (Exercise 36-40) 114
Chapter 8 Capacitors and capacitance (Exercise 41-45) 134
Chapter 9 Magnetic circuits (Exercise 46-48) 147
Chapter 10 Electromagnetism (Exercise 49-50) 155
Chapter 11 Electromagnetic induction (Exercise 51-56) 158
Chapter 12 Electrical measuring instruments and measurements (Exercise 57-62) 169
Chapter 13 Semiconductor diodes (Exercise 63-64) 183
Chapter 14 Transistors (Exercise 65-66) 185
Chapter 15 D.c. circuit theory (Exercise 67-72) 194
Chapter 16 Alternating voltages and currents (Exercise 73-76) 235
Chapter 17 Single-phase series a.c. circuits (Exercise 77-82) 254
Chapter 18 Single-phase parallel a.c. circuits (Exercise 83-88) 275
Chapter 19 D.c. transients (Exercise 89-90) 297
Chapter 20 Operational amplifiers (Exercise 91-92) 308
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Chapter 22 Three phase systems (Exercise 93-94) 314
Chapter 23 Transformers (Exercise 95-105) 327
Chapter 24 D.c machines (Exercise 106-112) 350
Chapter 25 Three-phase induction motors (Exercise 113-117) 370
Chapter 26 Revision of complex numbers (Exercise 118-121) 379
Chapter 27 Application of complex numbers to series a.c. circuits (Exercise 122-123) 399
Chapter 28 Application of complex numbers to parallel a.c. circuits (Exercise 124-126) 411
Chapter 29 Power in a.c. circuits (Exercise 127-128) 430
Chapter 30 A.c. bridges (Exercise 129) 445
Chapter 31 Series resonance and Q-factor (Exercise 130-132) 462
Chapter 32 Parallel resonance and Q-factor (Exercise 133-134) 473
Chapter 33 Introduction to network analysis (Exercise 135) 484
Chapter 34 Mesh-current and nodal analysis (Exercise 136-137) 499
Chapter 35 The superposition theorem (Exercise 138-139) 532
Chapter 36 Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems (Exercise 140-143) 558
Chapter 37 Delta-star and star-delta transformations (Exercise 144-145) 596
Chapter 38 Max power transfer theorems and impedance matching (Exercise 146-147) 612
Chapter 39 Complex waveforms (Exercise 148-156) 625
Chapter 40 A numerical method of harmonic analysis (Exercise 157-158) 675
Chapter 41 Magnetic materials (Exercise 159-161) 681
Chapter 42 Dielectrics and dielectric loss (Exercise 162) 695
Chapter 43 Field theory (Exercise 163-169) 699
Chapter 44 Attenuators (Exercise 170-178) 723
Chapter 45 Filter networks (Exercise 179-183) 766
Chapter 46 Magnetically coupled circuits (Exercise 184-188) 788
Chapter 47 Transmission lines (Exercise 189-194) 806
Chapter 48 Transients and Laplace transforms (Exercise 195-202) 823
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