Adamson University

Electrical Engineering Department

Problem Set #1
Special Topics 2 for EE

Name:_____________________________________________________
Direction: Solve the following problems completely. Use separate sheet of paper to show your
solutions and box your final answers. Due on Saturday, 13 May 2023, 6:00 P.M.

1) What is the equivalent area in in2 for a conductor 336,400 circular mil?

2) Give the color code for a resistor having a resistance value of 150kΩ ±10%.

3) An electric stove with four burners and an oven is used in preparing a meal as follows:
Burner 1: 20 minutes Burner 2: 40 minutes
Burner 3: 15 minutes Burner 4: 45 minutes
Oven: 30 minutes
If each burner is rated at 1.2 kW and the oven at 1.8 kW, and electricity costs P9.50 per kWh,
calculate the cost of electricity used in preparing the meal.

4) A piece of silver wire has a resistance of 1 Ω. What will be the resistance of manganin
wire of one-third the length and one-third the diameter, if the specific resistance of
manganin is 30 times that of silver.

5) A wire made of platinum has a resistance of 3.146 Ω at 40°C and 3.767 Ω at 100°C. Find
the resistance at 0°C and the temperature-coefficient of resistance at 40°C.

6) The field windings of a series motor has a resistance of 120 ohms at 15°C. After running
for two hours, the resistance increases to 140 ohms. If the temperature coefficient of
the windings at 0°C is 0.004, find the new temperature of the windings.

7) Find the current flow through a light bulb from a steady movement of:
a. 60 C in 4 s
b. 15 C in 2 min
c. 1 x 1022 electrons in an hour

8) An electric heater consumes 3.6 MJ when connected to a 250 V supply for 40 minutes.
Find the power rating of the heater and the current taken from the supply.

9) A certain capacitor stores 50 μC with 10 V across its plates. What is its capacitance in
units of microfarads?

10) Determine the equivalent capacitance of the circuit shown below.

11) Determine the voltage drop across each capacitor in the circuit shown below.

12) Determine the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor having a plate area of 0.01 m 2
and a plate separation of 0.5 mil. The dielectric is mica, which has a dielectric constant
of 5.0.

13) Obtain v and i in the circuit shown below.

14) Obtain the equivalent resistance at terminals a-b in the circuit of figure below.

15) Determine the equivalent inductance of the circuit shown below.

16) The current in an 80-mH inductor increases from 0 to 60 mA. How much energy is
stored in the inductor?
17) A magnet, which generates 900 maxwells of flux, is inserted through a coil of 500 turns.
It is then within 0.05 sec. what is the voltage that appears across the coil?

18) Determine Io in the circuit shown below.

19) Find the mesh currents and current i in the circuit below.

20) Find the nodal voltages and voltage vo in the circuit below.

21) Determine vx in the circuit using source transformation.

22) Using Millman’s theorem, determine the current through and voltage across the load
resistor RL = 8 Ω.

23) The capacitance of a capacitor formed by two parallel metal plates, each having an
effective surface area of 50 cm2 and separated by a dielectric 1 mm thick, is 0.0001 μF.
The plates are charged to a p.d. of 200 V. Calculate (a) the charge stored (b) the electric
flux density (c) the relative permittivity of the dielectric.

24) A cell supplies a load current of 0.5 A for a period of 20 hours until its terminal voltage
falls to an unacceptable level. How long it could be expected to supply a current of 100
mA?

25) A parallel plate capacitor has 3 dielectrics with relative permittivities of 5.5, 2.2 and 1.5
respectively. The area of each plate is 100 cm2 and thickness of each dielectric 1 mm.
Calculate the stored charge in the capacitor when a potential difference of 5,000 V is
applied across the composite capacitor so formed.

26) A magnetic core in the form of a closed circular ring has a mean length of 30 cm and a
cross-sectional area of 1 cm2. The relative permeability of iron is 2400. What direct-
current will be needed in the coil of 2000 turns uniformly wound around the ring to
create a flux of 0.20 mWb in iron? If an air-gap of 1 mm is cut through the core
perpendicular to the direction of this flux, what current will now be needed to maintain
the same flux in the air gap?

27) An AC voltage of 50 Hz has a maximum value of 50 V. What is its value after 1/600
second after the instant the instant the current is zero?

28) How much time does it take for 60 Hz alternating current to travel through 180°?

29) Twelve ampere effective alternating current will have the same heating effect as _____
ampere direct current.

30) A magnetic coil in a transformer has 1,000 turns and carries 5 A. What is the ampere-
turns rating of this transformer?

31) The reactance offered by a capacitor to alternating current of frequency 50 Hz is 20

ohms. If the frequency is increased to 100 Hz, what will be new the reactance?

32) A coil is connected across a 200 V, 50 Hz supply and takes a current of 10 A, the power
loss in the coil is 1000 W. What is the impedance and resistance of the coil?

33) A series circuit consists of a 30 µF capacitance and a resistance of 50 Ω connected across

a 110 V, 60 Hz supply. Calculate the voltage drop across the capacitor.
34) A resistance R and inductive reactance X are connected in parallel across 2.4 kV rms,
absorbs 288 kW at 0.8 pf. Find the value of X in ohms.

35) What is the power factor of a fluorescent lighting fixture that produces 160 W of light
and has a ballast rated for 200 volt-ampere?

36) What is the apparent power of a 250 W fixture that has a power factor of 80%?

37) The apparent power drawn by an AC circuit is 10 kVA and active power is 8 kW. What is
the reactive power in the circuit?

38) What is the current flow for three 5 kW, 230 volt, single-phase loads that have a power
factor of 90%?

39) What is true power of a 30 ampere, 240 volt (single-phase) resistive load that has unity
power factor?

40) If the input of a load is 800 W and the output is 640 W, what is the efficiency of the
equipment?

41) A 2 x 4 recessed fixture contains four 34-watt lamps, and the ballast is rated 1.5
amperes at 120 volts. What is the power factor of the ballast assuming 100 percent
efficiency?

42) An alternating voltage is given by v = 282.8 sin 314t volts. Find the instantaneous value
of voltage when t = 4 ms.

43) A coil has a resistance of 4 Ω and an inductance of 9.55 mH. Determine also the phase
angle between the supply voltage and current.

44) A series circuit of resistance 60 Ω and inductance 75 mH is connected to a 110 V, 60 Hz

supply. Calculate the power dissipated.

45) The power taken by an inductive circuit when connected to a 120 V, 50 Hz supply is 400
W and the current is 8 A. Calculate the power factor of the circuit.

46) What is the peak value of voltage for a 200 V rms triangular wave?

47) The input of an AC circuit having a power factor of 0.8 lagging is 40 kVA. Solve for the
power drawn by the circuit.

48) What is the frequency of sine wave, if the period 0.02 sec?

49) Three 8 kW electric discharge lighting bank circuits, which have a 92 percent power
factor, are connected to a 230 volt, 3 phase source. Find the current flow of these lights.

50) A coil of 40 Ω has an inductance of 100 mH is connected in parallel with a 30 µF

capacitor. What is the resonant frequency of the circuit?

51) The rms value of a sine wave is 100 A. What is its peak value?

52) What is the inductive reactance of a conductor in a transformer that has an inductance
of 0.001 henrys? Calculate at 180 Hz.
53) A coil has an inductance of 40 mH and negligible resistance. Calculate its inductive
reactance if connected to a 240 V, 50 Hz supply.

54) Determine the efficiency ratio of a 4,000 VA transformer with a secondary VA of 3,600
VA.

55) A coil takes a current of 2 A from a 12 V D.C. supply. When connected to a 240 V, 50 Hz
supply, the current is 20 A. Calculate the inductance of the coil.

56) A series circuit of resistance 60 Ω and inductance 75 mH is connected to a 110 V, 60 Hz

supply. Calculate the power dissipated.

57) A coil has a resistance of 4 Ω and an inductance of 9.55 mH. Calculate the impedance.

58) A resistor of 25 Ω is connected in series with a capacitor of 45 μF. Calculate the

impedance.

59) What size transformer is required for a 30 kW load that has a power factor of 85
percent?

60) Two wattmeters are connected to a balanced 3 – phase load by the two wattmeter
method. If the instrument readings are 7.5 kW and 4.5 kW, determine the load power
factor.

61) Three unbalanced delta connected loads are connected across a balanced source of 230
V line to line. If Zab = 14 ∠ 30° Ω, Zbc = 22 ∠ - 35° Ω, and Zca = 23 Ω, calculate the line
currents.

62) Three similar coils, each having a resistance of 8 Ω and an inductive reactance of 8 Ω are
connected across a 415 V, 3 – phase supply. Calculate the reading on each of two
wattmeters connected to measure the power by the two – wattmeter method if the
coils are wye – connected.

63) A 418 V, 3 – phase, 4 wire, wye connected system supplies three resistive loads of 25
kW, 19 kW and 13 kW, respectively. Determine the current flowing in each line.

64) A balanced delta connected load draws a line current of 17 A and 3.5 kW at 230 V. What
is the reactance of each phase of the load if the power factor is lagging?

65) A 420 V, 3 – phase star connected alternator supplies a delta – connected load, each
phase of which has a resistance of 35 Ω and inductive reactance 42 Ω. Calculate the
current supplied by the alternator.

66) A 430 V, 3 – phase, A.C. motor has a power output of 15.75 kW and operates at a power
factor of 0.85 lagging and with an efficiency of 88%. If the motor is wye – connected,
determine the line current.

67) Three identical coils, each of resistance 15 Ω and inductance 48 mH are connected to a
420 V, 60 Hz, 3 – phase supply. Determine the total power dissipated if the coils are
connected in wye.

68) Three 15 Ω resistors are connected in wye to a 420 V, 3 – phase supply. Determine the
total power dissipated by the resistors.
69) The input power to a 3 – phase A.C. motor is measured as 7.8 kW. If the voltage and
current to the motor are 415 V and 9.4 A respectively, determine the power factor of
the system.

70) Three identical coils each of resistance 40 Ω and inductance 135.4 mH are connected in
delta to a 430 V, 60 Hz, 3 – phase supply. Determine the line current.

71) Two wattmeters connected to a 3 – phase motor indicate the total power input to be 15
kW. The power factor is 0.8. Determine the readings of each wattmeter.

72) Three similar coils, each having a resistance of 8 Ω and an inductive reactance of 8 Ω are
connected across a 415 V, 3 – phase supply. Calculate the reading on each of two
wattmeters connected to measure the power by the two – wattmeter method if the
coils are delta – connected.

73) Three identical capacitors are connected in delta to a 415 V, 60 Hz, 3 – phase supply. If
the line current is 18 A, determine the capacitance of each of the capacitors.

74) Three identical coils, each of resistance 10 Ω and inductance 42 mH are connected to a
415 V, 50 Hz, 3 – phase supply. Determine the total power dissipated if the coils are
connected in delta.

75) Three loads, each of resistance 30 Ω, are connected in delta to a 415 V, 3 – phase
supply. Determine the line current.