AC and DC Circuits Practice Problems

Electrical Engineering Fundamentals Assessment

I.
1. Design a circuit that will provide a sinusoidal voltage output of 120V RMS with a frequency of
60Hz using a transformer with a turns ratio of 10:1 and a source voltage of 12V RMS.

2. Calculate the current and voltage values in a circuit consisting of a 50-ohm resistor, a 5
microfarad capacitor, and a sinusoidal voltage source with a peak amplitude of 50V and a
frequency of 1kHz.

3. Develop a system to monitor and regulate the power factor of a three-phase AC circuit to
maintain a power factor of 0.95 using capacitors and inductors.

4. Determine the resonant frequency of an AC circuit that contains a 10 mH inductor and a 100 nF
capacitor, and calculate the maximum current that will flow through the circuit at resonance.

5. Design an AC circuit that will convert a 12V DC input to a 120V AC output with a frequency of
60Hz using an H-bridge inverter and a step-up transformer.
II.

1. Calculate the voltage, current, and power dissipated by a 10 ohm resistor when a 5V DC
voltage is applied across it.

2. Design a voltage divider circuit using two resistors that will provide an output voltage of
2.5V from a 5V DC input voltage.

3. Determine the equivalent resistance of a parallel circuit consisting of three resistors with
values of 5 ohms, 10 ohms, and 20 ohms, respectively, and calculate the total current flowing
through the circuit when a 12V DC voltage is applied across it.

4. Design a circuit that will maintain a constant voltage output of 12V DC from a variable DC
input voltage ranging from 9V to 15V using a voltage regulator IC and a feedback control
loop.

5. Determine the capacitance required for a RC low-pass filter circuit with a cutoff frequency of
100Hz and a source voltage of 10V DC to attenuate the input signal by 20dB.