LAGOS CITY POLYTECHNIC, IKEJA

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF ELECT/ELECT AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
2016/2017 SEMESTER EXAMINATION

COURSE TITLE: ELECT CIRCUIT THEORY II NO OF QUESTION : 6

COURSE CODE: EEC 242/249 TIME ALLOWED: 2 HRS
FOR WHOM: ND YR III CE PT INSTRUCTIONS:
ANSWER ANY
4
QUESTIONS

1. (a) A 10W Resistor, a 100mF capacitor and an inductor of 0.15H are connected in
series to a
supply at 230v, 50Hz. Calculate the power consumed by the circuit.
(b) A transfomer has a rated out put of 200KVA with a power factor of 0.6. Calculate
the
following.
(i) Real Power (ii) Reactive Power

2. (a) Two wattemeter Wi = 8kw and W2 = 4kw are connected to measure power in a
system. Determine.
(i) The Total Input power (ii) Load power factor
(b) With the aid of a diagram, explain the reaction of power in the following circuit.
(i) Resistance Circuit (ii) Inductive cct (iii) Capacitance
circuit

3. (a) An unbalanced star-connected load has balanced phase voltage of 120v and the
a.b.c. sequence. The line currents are given as Ja = 10<0oA, Jb = 20< -40o Jc >=
30 <-155A.
Find the power consumed by the circuit
(b) An 20mF capacitor is charged to a p.d of 400v and then discharged through a
100,000W resistor.
Determine
(i) Time constant (ii) initial value of discharged current

4. (a) A machine is connected to a 240v a.c supply and draws a current of 18A at a
power factor of 0.7. Calculate the power consumed.

(b) Explain power measurement in a 3o system

(i) Sketch Two out of THREE diagram above.

5. (a) A coil having 10W resistance and 14H inductane is connected across a d.c voltage
of 140v,
after the current has reached its final value, how much time would it take for the
current to
reach a value of 8A after switching off the supply.
(b) Sketch the growth curve and the decay curve for the
(i) RC circuit (ii) RL circuit
6. (a) The impedance per phase of a delta connected load is 10W perphase, the line