BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ASSIGNMENT I QUESTIONS

1. a) State and explain Kirchoff's laws? b) Three resistances of 5 ohm ,10 ohm & 15 ohms are connected in parallel. If the current 10 ohm is 3 Amps, what is the current in other resistors and total current and determine the voltage applied to the circuit 2. a) Explain basic circuit components.? b) A cable of length 'l' having a resistance of 12 ohm. If the length of the cable is increased by times and area of cross section is decreased by half then what will be the value of new resistance? 3. a) Derive the expressions for star to delta and delta to star transformations? b) Find the equivalent resistance between the terminals X and Y in the circuit shown in fig 1.?

4. a) Describe in detail the steps to apply Thevenins theorem. b) Using Thevenins theorem, find the current through 7 ohm resistor as shown in fig 2.?

5. a) State and explain superposition theorem? b) Using superposition theorem, determine the current through 12 ohm resistor as shown in fig1?.

6. Define the following a) Cycle b) Instantaneous value c) Alternating quantity d) Time period e) Frequency f) Peak factor g )Average value h) RMS value i) Form factor j) Peak value 7 a) Derive the expression for the effective resistance of three resistors connected in parallel.? b) Find the effective resistance of the following combination of resistances and the voltage drop across each resistance when applied voltage is 70 V across A & B AS shown in fig 1.? 8. Explain the behavior of AC through a) Pure R b) Pure L c) Pure C circuits and for each case derive the instantaneous values of voltage, current, average power and instantaneous power? By SURENDER CH