Practice Assignment

1. State Ohm’s law. Verify it with the help of circuit diagram.

2. Explain the concept of drift velocity. What do you mean by valence or free electrons?
3. What do you mean by resistance? State and define its S.I. units. What are the factors which
affect resistance? What do you mean by temperature coefficient of resistance, explain with
equations and diagram. What are different types of temperature coefficient of resistance?
4. The resistance of a bulb filament is 100Ω at a temperature of 100°C. If its temperature
coefficient of resistance be 0.005 per °C, its resistance will become 200Ω at a temperature of?
5. Calculate the terminal voltage of the battery in the circuit below?

6. What do you mean by internal resistance.

7. Differentiate between internal resistance, e.m.f and potential difference with the help of
diagram.
8. When an electric lamp is connected to 12V battery, it draws a current 0.5A. Find the power of
the lamp.
9. A current of 5 A flows in the winding of an electric motor, the resistance of the winding being
100Ω. Determine (a) the p.d. across the winding, and (b) the power dissipated by the coil.
10. A business uses two 3 kW fires for an average of 20 hours each per week, and six 150 W
lights for 30 hours each per week. If the cost of electricity is 7p per unit, determine the weekly
cost of electricity to the business.
11. Explain Lenz’s law. Give its applications. Explain whether it follows law of conservation of
energy or not.
12. With the help of diagram, explain formation of magnetic field lines around a solenoid.
13. With the help of diagram, explain formation of magnetic field lines around a toroid.
14. State Faraday’s laws.
15. State and Kirchhoff’s current law and voltage law with equations and diagram.
16. From the given circuit find the value of I.

17. The following figure shows a complex network of conductors which can be divided into two
closed loops like ACE and ABC. Apply Kirchhoff’s voltage rule.

18. Find the value of voltage source V using KVL from the given figure
19. What do you mean by electrical network? Explain different components of electrical network
with diagram or symbolic representation.
20. Explain charging and discharging of capacitor with circuit diagram. What do you mean by
time constant? Explain graphically.
21. Differentiate between emf and mmf.
22. Differentiate between permittivity and permeability.
23. Explain the working of composite parallel plate capacitor with the help of circuit diagram.
24. Explain star delta and delta star transformations, with the help of circuit and equations.
25. Convert the rectangular form to its polar form:
(i) 6.4 + j4
(ii) 3.3 + j2
(iii) 7.2 + j4
26. Convert the polar equation into rectangular form:
(i) r2 = 4 sin (2)
(ii) r = 9 sec
(iii) r = 1.2 Sin 
27. Can we draw same phasor diagram for sinusoids of different frequencies? Explain.
28. What do you mean by sinusoidal waveform? What produces a sinusoidal waveform? Explain
with diagram. Why is Sinusoidal Wave Signal so Important?
29. The active and reactive power of an inductive circuit are 60 W and 80 VAR, respectively.
Calculate the power factor of the circuit.
30. An alternating current has an instantaneous value of 20A after 0.0008 s passing the zero and
a frequency of 120 Hz. Calculate the maximum value of this alternating current. Assume, the
time counting from zero and it starts moving towards the positive side.
31. Verify the energy unit equivalence that 1 kWh = 3.6 x 106 J
32. Explain the concept of instantaneous current and voltage for an ac circuit for
(i) pure resistive circuit
(ii) pure conductive circuit
(iii) pure inductive circuit.
Draw the relevant phasor diagram and V-I waveform.
33. Explain the concept of true power, reactive power and apparent power for ac inductive and
capacitive circuit, using power triangle.
34. Explain susceptance at resonance in RLC circuit.
35. Why a balanced three-phase circuit can be analyzed by an equivalent one-phase circuit?
36. Explain impedance in parallel resonance circuit.
37. In delta connection, by how many degrees line current lags behind phase current?
38. Explain the working of three-phase balanced star and delta systems using voltage-current
phasor diagram.
39. A load has an effective power of P = 50 KW at 400 V and the power factor is to be
compensated from cos  = 0.75 to cos  = 0.95. Determine the required capacitive power.
40 A circular loop of radius 0.3cm lies parallel to a much bigger circular loop of radius 20cm. The centre
of the small loop is on the axis of the bigger loop. The distance between their centers is 15cm. If a current
of 2.0A flows through the smaller loop, then what will be the flux linked with bigger loop?
41. A solenoid has a cross sectional area of 6.0×10−4m2, consists of 400 turns per meter, and carries a
current 0.4 A and are connected to a circumference of the solenoid. The ends of the coil are connected to
a 1.5 Ω resistor. Suddenly, a switch is opened, and the current in the solenoid dies to zero in a time 0.050
s. Find the average current passing through the coil during this time.
42. When a current of 4A between two coils changes to 12A in 0.5s in primary and induces an emf
of 50mV in the secondary. Calculate the mutual inductance between the two coils.
43. Explain, how to convert a delta network to an equivalent star network and derive a
transformation formula for equating the various resistors to each other between the various
terminals.
44. A resistance of 10.5 ohm and a coil of inductance 42.6 x 10-2H and negligible resistance are
connected in parallel across 220V, 50 Hz supply. Calculate line current and power consumed by
the circuit.
45. With circuit and phasor diagrams, explain:
(i) Parallel R-L circuit
(ii) Parallel R-C circuit
(iii) Parallel RLC circuit.
Derive all the equations.
46. The r.m.s. value of potential difference V shown in the figure

47. A pure resistance is connected as shown in the figure. The phase difference between the voltage
applied and the current flowing in it will be:
48. Calculate the voltage of a battery connected to a parallel plate capacitor with a plate area of
2.0 cm2 and a plate separation of 2 mm if the charge stored on the plates is 4.0 pC.
49. Find the equivalent capacitance between points a and b in the combination of capacitors
shown in Figure:

50. n the diagram below, R1 = 5 Ω, R2 = 10 Ω, and R3 = 15 Ω. The battery supplies an emf of ε

= 0.30 V. What is the equivalent resistance, RP? What is the voltage drop across each resistor?
What is the current through each resistor? What is the power expended in each resistor?

51. Find the equivalent resistance of the circuit shown below. Find the voltage drop over, current
through, and power dissipated by each resistor:
52. Find the equivalent resistance of the circuit shown below. Find the voltage drop over, current
through, and power dissipated by each resistor.

53. State the effects an inductor has on a change in current and a capacitor has on a change in
voltage. 54. State the phase relationships between current and voltage in an inductor and in a
capacitor.
55. State the terms for the opposition an inductor and a capacitor offer to ac
56. Write the formulas for inductive and capacitive reactance.
57. State the effects of a change in frequency on X L and XC.
58. State the effects of a change in inductance on X L and a change in capacitance on XC.
59. Write the formula for determining total reactance (X); compute total reactance (X) in a series
circuit; and indicate whether the total reactance is capacitive or inductive.
60. Explain:
(i) Impedance
(ii) Admittance
(iii) Conductance
(iv) Susceptance
(v) Resistance
(vi) Resistivity and conductivity
(vii) capacitance
(viii) Peak factor and foam factor
61. Why the total instantaneous power of a balanced three-phase circuit is a constant?
62. Derive the expression for current in parallel RLC resonance circuit.
63. Explain the concept of current, voltage and impedance triangle in series RLC circuit.
64. What do you mean by selectivity or Quality (Q) factor?
65. A square parallel plate capacitor (length of each side = x) with plate separation d and a
circular parallel plate capacitor (diameter = x and separation d) are both filled with the same
dielectric material (k = 3.8). Which of the capacitors have a larger capacitance? Explain your
answer. Given that the length of the square plates is 1.65 m, determine the k for the dielectric
that must be inserted into the circular capacitor so that equal capacitance results for each
capacitor.
66. A series RLC circuit with L = 160 mH, C = 100F and R = 40.0  is connected to a
sinusoidal voltage V (t) = 40 V Sint, where  = 200 rad/s. Find Io assumed that the current at
any instant in the circuit is given by I(t) = Iosin (t − ).
67. What is the power of a 1.00 × 102 MV lightning bolt having a current of 2.00 × 104 A?
68. What power is supplied to the starter motor of a large truck that draws 250 A of current from
a 24.0-V battery hookup?
69. A rectangular coil of single turn, having area A, rotates in a uniform magnetic field B with an angular
velocity ω about an axis perpendicular to the field. If initially the plane of the coil is perpendicular to the
field, then what will be the average induced emf when it has been rotated through 90.
70. Consider the magnetic circuit of with the dimensions of Problem 1.1. Assuming infinite core
permeability, calculate (a) the number of turns required to achieve an inductance of 12 mH and
(b) the inductor current which will result in a core flux density of 1 T.