NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Electrical Engineering Department

Basic Electrical Engineering EE-101

Tutorial + Assignment -4
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1. A resistance of 60Ω is connected in series with a 120µF
capacitor across a 230V, 50Hz supply. Determine the
current through the circuit, phase difference between
voltage and current, voltage across resistor, voltage
across the capacitor?
2. A voltage of 250∟0 ̊ V is applied to an inductive circuit
of impedance (5+j10)Ω. Calculate the circuit current, the
power factor, the power consumption, the apparent
power, and the reactive power?
3. An alternating voltage of (80+j60)V is applied to a
circuit and the current flowing is (-4+j10)amps. Find the
impedance of the circuit, the power consumed and phase
angle?
Topic: - AC
one circuit is 0.8 and the other 0.6. What is the power
factor of the combination?
10. A resistor and a capacitor are connected in series with a
variable inductor. When the circuit is connected to a
240V, 50Hz supply, the maximum current given by
varying the inductance is 0.5 A. at the current the
voltage across the capacitor is 250V, hence calculate the
value of the resistor, the capacitor and the inductor?
11. A coil of resistance 50Ω and inductance 0.5H is
connected in parallel with a capacitor of 100µF.
calculate the frequency at which the circuit acts as a non-
inductive resistance. Calculate the value of this non-
inductive resistance?

4. When a supply voltage of 𝒱 = 400 𝑠𝑖𝑛(𝜔𝑡 + п/4)V is
applied to three impedances Z1, Z2 and Z3 in series, the
voltages across Z1 and Z2 are 100 𝑠𝑖𝑛(𝜔𝑡) V and 50
𝑠𝑖𝑛(𝜔𝑡 − п/4) V respectively. Determine the voltage
across Z3. If the current is 𝒾 = 100 𝑠𝑖𝑛(𝜔𝑡) amps.
Calculate circuit impedance?
12. An alternating supply at 200V is connected to a circuit
having a conductance G=0.03 S and a capacitive
susceptance at frequency of the supply, B=0.04 S.
Calculate the current, power factor and the power
consumed in the circuit?

5. An inductive circuit takes 5amps from a 200V supply at

power factor of 0.8 lagging. Calculate the impedance,
the resistance, the reactance, the phase angle, the volt-
amps, the reactive volt-amps and the active power?

6. A voltage 𝒱 = 100 𝑠𝑖𝑛(314𝑡 + 5 ̊) V is applied to a

circuit. The resulting current is 𝒾 = 100 𝑠𝑖𝑛(314𝑡 −
40 ̊) amps. Determine power factor and average power
delivered to the circuit?

7. Two coils A and B are connected in series to a supply of

230V, 50Hz. Coil A has an inductance of 0.2H and a
resistance of 20Ω and coil B has an inductance of 0.05H
and a resistance of 60Ω. Calculate the current and its
phase angle relative to the supply voltage. Also
determine the voltage across each coil?

8. Two inductive coils A and B are in parallel across a

100V, 50Hz supply. Coil A takes 12 A at 0.9 power
factor and the total current for both the coils is 20 A at
0.8 power factor. Determine the equivalent resistance
and equivalent reactances, the individual resistances and
reactances of both the coils, the power factor of coil B?

9. Two circuits having the same numerical ohmic

impedance are joined in parallel. The power factor of