EEE 2302 CIRCUIT AND NETWORK THEORY II
DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019
THIRD YEAR FIRST SEMESTER FINAL EXAMINATION FOR THE
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHATRONICS
ENGINEERING
EEE 2302: CIRCUIT AND NETWORK THEORY II
DUE DATE: AUGUST, 2018 TIME: 2 HRS
INSTRUCTIONS: This examination paper contains five questions. Answer Question ONE
and any other TWO Questions. Question ONE carries 30 Marks and ALL the other
questions carry 20 Marks each.
QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)
(a) State the frequency response analysis as applied to Circuit Network Theory.
[2 Marks]
(b) What are the advantages of circuit analysis in frequency domain? [2 Marks]
(c) Given the circuit below, find the voltage 𝑣0 (𝑡). (Hint: Use Laplace Transform)
Figure 1.1 [9 Marks]
(d) For the simple low pass filter circuit given in Figure 1.2 below
i. Find the transfer function of the continuous-time lowpass filer. [3 Marks]
ii. Implement this filter as a digital filter using bilinear transform. [3 Marks]
Figure 1.2
(e) Determine the range of frequencies that will be passed by a series RLC bandpass filter
with 𝑅 = 10 Ω, 𝐿 = 25 𝑚𝐻, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶 = 0.4 µ𝐹. Find the quality factor. [6 Marks]
(f) For the circuit given in figure 1.3 (𝑅 = 2 𝑘𝛺, 𝐿 = 2 𝐻, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶 = 2 𝜇𝐹)
i. Determine what type of filter it is [3 Marks]
ii. Calculate the corner or cut-off frequency. [2 Marks]
Figure 1.3
QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)
(a) State the advantages active filters offer over passive RLC filters. [3 Marks]
(b) Design an RL lowpass filter that uses a 40-mH coil and has a cutoff frequency of 5
kHz. [6 Marks]
(c) Solve the ODE below using Laplace Transform given that at 𝑡 = 0, 𝑥 = 5 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥’ = 7
𝑑2 𝑥 𝑑𝑥
2
− 3 + 2𝑥 = 2𝑒3𝑡
𝑑𝑡 𝑑𝑡
[6 Marks]
(d) For the series RL circuit in figure 2.1, the source is 𝑣(𝑡) = 100𝑠𝑖𝑛500𝑡 Volts. Plot
the equivalent circuit in 𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 and determine the current given that 𝑅 = 5𝛺 𝑎nd
𝐿 = 0.01 𝐻 using Laplace transforms. [5 Marks]
Figure 2.1
QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS]
(a) What values of 𝐾 and 𝐾 will scale a 4-mH inductor and a 20-µF capacitor to 1 H
𝑚 𝑓
and 2 F respectively? [6 Marks]
(b) The magnitude plot in Figure 3.1 represents the transfer function of a preamplifier.
Find H(s). [6 Marks]
Figure 3.1
(c) Find 𝑣 𝑡 in the circuit of figure 3.2. Assume 𝑣 0 = 5 [8 Marks]
0 0
Figure 3.2
QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)
(a) With help of appropriate circuit diadgrams and their respective transfer functions,
explain the following types of passive RLC filters:
i. Bandpass filter [2 Marks]
ii. Bandstop filter [2 Marks]
(b) Starting from basics, verify that
𝑑𝑥 (𝑡)
i. 𝑑𝑡
↔ 𝑠𝑋 𝑠 − 𝑥(0−) [4 Marks]
𝑑 2 𝑥(𝑡)
ii. 𝑑𝑡 2
↔ 𝑠 2 𝑋 𝑠 − 𝑠𝑥 0− − 𝑥 ′ (0−) [4 Marks]
(c) For the coupling circuit given below, give the equivalent circuit in s domain.
[4 Marks]
Figure 4.1
(d) Given the following Bode plot, determine the value of the transfer function, H(s),
represented by the Bode plot. (Note that the one break point between ω= 1 and 10 is
estimated to be equal to 3). [4 Marks]
Figure 4.2
QUESTION FIVE (20 MARKS)
(a) Draw the Bode magnitude and phase plots for the transfer function [10 Marks]
5(𝑗𝜔 + 2)
𝐻 𝜔 =
𝑗𝜔 (𝑗𝜔 + 10)
(b) The resonant or tuner circuit of an AM radio is portrayed in Figure 5.1. Given that 𝐿 = 1µ𝐻,
what must be the range of C to have the resonant frequency adjustable from one end of the
AM band to another? (Hint: The frequency range for AM broadcasting is 540 to 1600 𝑘𝐻𝑧).
[10 Marks]
