IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

CO1
1. Six light bulbs are connected in parallel across 110V. Each bulb is rated at 75W. How much
current flows through each bulb?
2. Determine the resistance R2 and R3 in the circuit given below. Given the total current from the
source is 5A.

3. Find the total current supplied by the source.

4. Find the unknown voltages V1 and V2 across the resistors.

5. Determine the voltage between the points A and B.

6. Estimate the resultant resistance produced by the parallel connection of two resistors of 10 ohm
and 30 ohm.
7. Find the equivalent current source for the circuit shown below.

8. State Norton’s theorem.

9. Find the equivalent resistance of the circuit shown below.

10. The equivalent resistance of four resistors joined in parallel in 30Ω. The current flowing
through them are 0.5, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.1A. Find the value of each resistor.
11. Why Superposition theorem is not applicable to directly calculate the power in linear circuits?
12. For the given circuit, find the current through 10Ω using KCL.

13. Find the current through 100 ohm resistor.

14. Define Kirchoff’s Current Law

15. Find the current I through 80 ohm resistor when the switch is (a) opened (b) closed.

16. Write the formula to find the equivalent resistance offered by “N” number of arbitary value of
resistors connected in series.
17. Find the current through 10 ohm resistor using superposition theorem.

18. An electric heater draws 8A from 250V supply. What is its power rating? Also find the
resistance of the heater element.
19. Determine the current through each resistor in the circuit given below.

20 Define Kirchoff’s Voltage Law.

CO2
1. What is the time constant of RL circuit with R = 10 ohms and L = 20mH?
2. What is steady state response?
3. What is transient response?
4. Find the time constant of a series RC circuit where R=10Ω and C=10F.
5. An inductor 10mH in series with 80Ω resistor is suddenly connected to a 10V battery by a
switch. Determine the initial value of current.
6. A relaxed 0.01µF capacitor in series with 100Ω resistor is suddenly connected to a 20 V battery
by a switch. Determine final value of the current.
7. Sketch the source free response of a DC RC circuit.
8. A DC voltage of 100V is applied to a series RL circuit with R=50Ω. What will be the current
in the circuit at twice the time constant?
9. A series RL circuit has R=5Ω, L=2mH and V=10V. Find the initial current.
10. A series RL circuit has R=10Ωand L=0.5mH. Find its time constant.
11. A DC voltage is applied to series RL circuit by closing a switch. The voltage across inductor is
100 volts at t=0 and drops to 13.5V at t=0.02sec. If L=0.1H, find the value of R.
12. What is the time constant for the circuit given below?

13. Define transient time.

14. What is the voltage across capacitor at steady state condition?
15. Draw the step response of a series RLC circuit?
16. In the circuit shown below, the initial charge on the capacitor is 2.5mC, with the polarity as
indicated. The switch is closed at t=0. Determine the current i(t) at time t after the switch is
closed.

17. Determine the value of capacitance which makes the series RLC circuit as critically damped if
R=100Ω and L=0.1 H.
18. In the circuit shown in Figure, determine the energy absorbed by the 4Ω resistor.

19. Draw the step response of a series RL circuit?

20. Draw the step response of a series RC circuit?

CO3
1. Write the impedance expression for series RL, RC and RLC circuit.

2. A series RLC circuit with R=15 Ω, L=10mH, C=0.01 µF is applied with a voltage of 50V.
What is the current at resonance?
3. Define bandwidth.
4. Write the condition for resonance in series RLC circuit.
5. A parallel RLC circuit has R=100 Ω, L=10mH, C=0.01µF. Determine its bandwidth.
6. Write the quality factor expression in terms of capacitance.
7. For the RLC parallel circuit with R=15 Ω, L=10mH and C=100µF, determine the resonant
frequency.
8. What is resonance and resonant frequency?
 9. Draw the variation of impedance of a capacitor and resistor as a function of frequency.
10. What inductance will give the same reactance as a capacitor of 2µF when both are at 50Hz?
For the circuit shown in Figure, determine the value of capacitive reactance and impedance at
resonance.

11.

12. For a series RLC circuit with R=2Ω, L=50H and C=100µF, determine the resonant frequency
of the circuit.
13. What is half power frequency?
14. Determine the source voltage and the phase angle, if voltage across the resistance is 70V and
voltage across the inductive reactance is 20V.
15. Draw the impedance diagram and phasor diagram of series RL circuit.
16. A circuit with a resistor, inductor and capacitor in series is resonant at f o Hz. What will be the
new resonant frequency if the component values are doubled?
17. Determine the source voltage and the phase angle, if voltage across the resistance is 20V and
voltage across the capacitive reactance is 35V.
18. Define phase angle
19. Find the resonant frequency in the ideal parallel LC circuit shown in Fig

20. Determine the resonant frequency for the circuit shown in Fig

CO4
S.No Questions
1. Write down the steps in applying Laplace transform to analyze circuits.
2. How do you define transfer function of an electrical network?
3. Find the voltage transfer function of the network shown in figure
4. Find the transfer function of the network shown in figure

5. Find the transfer function of the system shown in figure

6. List the properties of the transfer function

7. How do you define network function of an electrical network?

8. Calculate the transfer function of the system if the response is c(t)=e-6t for t > 0, Given the
input signal is an impulse signal
9. Represent resistor, capacitor and inductor in ‘s’ domain
10. Define unit impulse response of a circuit.
11. Transform the circuit shown in figure to the s domain and determine the Laplace impedance

12. Why Laplace transform is preferred for circuit analysis?

13. List the areas of applications of Laplace transform.
14. Define poles and zeros for a transfer function
15. State the condition for a stable circuit
16. Determine the value of K for which the given circuit is stable.
17. Explain the use of Laplace transform in circuit analysis
18. The impulse response of the circuit is
𝑡
− 𝑡
h(t) = √2𝑒 √2 sin ( ) ; 𝑡 ≥ 0 . Find H(s)
√2
19. Write the circuit equations for a series RL circuit connected to a DC supply. Using Laplace
transform, obtain the transfer function between Inductor current and supply voltage.
20. Convert the current source in figure to a voltage source in s-domain

CO5
1. What is a two port network?

2. Define transmission parameters.

3. For the single element two port network in figure, the Z11 is

4. Draw the equivalent circuit of Z-parameters.

5. Find the z parameters of the two-port network in Figure

6. Draw the π- equivalent circuit of Y-parameters.

7. Write the terminal characteristics of a two port network, having linear elements and dependent
sources using Z-parameter.
8. Write the open circuit impedance parameters for a two port networks.
9. Write the terminal characteristics of two port network, having linear elements and dependent
sources using Y parameter.
10. Write the short circuit impedance parameter for a two port networks.
 For the single element two port network in figure, the Y11 is

11.

12. For the single element two port network in figure, the B is

13. Find the z parameters of the two-port network in Figure

14. Define reciprocal network.

15. Draw the parallel connection of two two-port networks.
16. Brief about hybrid-parameters.
17. What is the condition for Reciprocity in ABCD parameters?
18. Write the relation between h and Z parameters.
19. Relate voltage and current in a two port network using Z parameters
20. What is the condition for Symmetry in Z and Y parameters?