Autumn Semester 2022-2023

Department of Electrical Engineering

EEN-101 Introduction to Electrical Engineering

Tutorial sheet – 03
Draw the phasor diagrams on graph paper.

1. a) The maximum value of an alternating voltage is 145 volts. What is the instantaneous voltage at 45°
of its cycle? (Ans: 102 V)
b) The maximum value of an ac is to be found. The instantaneous value at 165° is 7.25 amps. Find
Im. (Ans: 28.0 amperes)
c) The maximum value of an ac is 15.5 amps. At what points in the cycle will the current be -11.0
amps? (Ans: 2250 or 3150)
d) Draw the rotating phasor diagram for the figure below (assume maximum amplitude is 1).

2. a) In a resistive a-c circuit, a voltmeter across a 250 Ω resistor reads 120 volts. Find rms current (with
mathematical derivation), maximum and average current (with mathematical derivation), maximum
and average voltage.
(Ans: 0.48 amp, 0.676 amp, 0 amp, 169 volts, 0 volts.)
b) Draw the phasor diagram for 2.a.

3. Three impedances are connected in series across a 100 V, 2 kHz supply. The impedances comprise:
(i) an inductance of 0.45 mH and 2 Ω resistance, (ii) an inductance of 570 µH and 5 Ω resistance, and
(iii) a capacitor of capacitance 10 µF and resistance 3 Ω. Assuming no mutual inductive effects
between the two inductances calculate (a) the circuit impedance, (b) the circuit current, (c) the circuit
phase angle and (d) the voltage across each impedance. Draw the phasor diagram. (Ans: (a) 11.12
Ω (b) 8.99 A (c) 25055 lagging (d) 53.92 V, 78.53 V, 76.46 V)

4. For the circuit shown below, determine the voltages V1 and V2 if the supply frequency is 1 kHz. Draw
the phasor diagram and hence determine the supply voltage V, the circuit phase angle. (Ans: V1 =
26.0 V, V2 = 67.05 V, V = 50 V, 53°8 leading)
5. Find impedance with respect to voltage source, current I, draw the phasor diagram for input voltage
verses input current, draw sinusoidal waveform of input voltage and input current by mentioning
amplitude for every 300 (assume input frequency is 50 Hz) (Ans: Amplitude = 3.66, angle = - 4.2040)

6. A resistor of 50 Ω in parallel with an inductor of 30 mH, is connected in series with a capacitor, C. A

the value of C to give unity power factor,(b) total current, (c) current in the inductor
draw the current phasor
Ans: (a) 153.8 µF (b) 5.64 A (c) 1.24-j2.335 A

7. Find R, L, C values for the circuit such that IR = 2 A, IL = 0.8 A, IS = 2.5 A, VS = 160 V, fS = 250 Hz.
Draw the phasor diagram. (Ans: 80 Ω, 0.13H, 0.92µF)

8. Using nodal analysis, find 𝑣1 (𝑡) and 𝑣2 (𝑡) in the circuit .

Ans: 𝑣1 (𝑡) = 33.96 𝑠𝑖𝑛(2𝑡 + 60.01°) 𝑉and 𝑣2 (𝑡) = 99.06 𝑠𝑖𝑛(2𝑡 + 57.12°) 𝑉
9. Calculate 𝑽𝟏 and 𝑽𝟐 in the circuit.
 Ans: 𝑽𝟏 = 38.72∠69.67°𝑉 and 𝑽𝟐 = 6.752∠165.7°𝑉
10. Find 𝑰𝟎 in circuit using mesh analysis.

Ans: 𝑰𝟎 = 3.582∠65.45°𝐴
11. Determine the current 𝑰𝟎 in the circuit of Fig. 4 using mesh analysis

Ans: 𝑰𝟎 = 6.12∠144.78°𝐴
12. Find the total ZT using Star-Delta transformation for the circuits shown below:
Ans: ,