KNJ 2122 – Tutorial Ch 1

Voltage, Current and Resistance

1. How many coulombs of charge do 50 x 1031 electrons possess?

2. How many electrons does it take to make 80 µC of charge?

3. Determine the voltage in each of the following cases:

(a) 10 J/C (b) 5 J/2 C (c) 100 J/25 C

4. Five hundred joules of energy are used to move 100 C of charge through a resistor. What is the voltage
across the resistor?

5. Assume that a solar battery charger delivers 2.5 J of energy when 0.2 C of charge has been moved.
What is the voltage?

6. If the solar cell in Problem 5 has moved the charge in 10 s, what is the current?

7. Determine the current in each of the following cases:

(a) 75 C in 1 s (b) 10 C in 0.5 s (c) 5 C in 2 s

8. How long does it take 10 C to flow past a point if the current is 5 A?

Ohm’s Law

9. The current in a circuit is 1 A. Determine what the current will be when

(a) the voltage is tripled
(b) the voltage is reduced by 80%
(c) the voltage is increased by 50%

10. Determine the current in each case;

a) V = 5V, R = 1.0 Ω
b) V = 15V, R = 10 Ω
c) V = 50V, R = 100 Ω
d) V = 30V, R = 15 kΩ
e) V = 250V, R = 4.7 MΩ

11. Calculate the voltage for each value if I and R.

a) I = 2A, R = 18 Ω
b) I = 5A, R = 47 Ω
c) I = 2.5A, R = 620 Ω
d) I = 0.6A, R = 47 Ω
e) I = 0.1A, R = 470 Ω
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12. Assign a voltage value to each source in the circuits of Figure Q12 to obtain the indicated amounts of
current.

Figure Q12

13. Calculate the resistance for each value of V and I.

a) V = 10 V, I = 2A
b) V = 90 V, I = 45A
c) V = 50 V, I = 5A
d) V = 5.5 V, I = 10A
e) V = 150 V, I = 0.5A

14. Choose the correct value of resistance to get the current values indicated in each circuit of Figure Q14.

Figure Q14
Energy and Power

15. What is the power when energy is used at the rate of 350 J/s?

16. What is the power in watts when 7500 J of energy are used in 5 h?

17. If a resistor has 5.5 V across it and 3 mA through it, what is the power dissipation?

18. An electric heater works on 115 V and draws 3 A of current. How much power does it use?

19. What is the power when there are 500 mA of current through a 4.7 kΩ resistor?
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20. If a resistor is to carry 2 A of current and handle 100 W of power, how many ohms must it be? Assume
that the voltage can be adjusted to any required value.

21. Assume that an alkaline D-cell battery can maintain an average voltage of 1.25 V for 90 h in a 10 Ω
load before becoming unusable. What average power is delivered to the load during the life of the
battery?