PEE01

PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

ASSIGNMENT 1

QUESTION 1 (10 Marks)

1.1. A D.C. electric motor consumes 36 MJ when connected to a 250 V supply for 1 hour.
Find the power rating of the motor and the current taken from the supply. (4)
1.2. If 21.847 × 1018 electrons pass through a wire in 12 s, find the current? (4)
1.3. A current of 10 A flows through a conductor and 10 W is dissipated. What p.d. exists
across the ends of the conductor? (2)

QUESTION 2 (14 Marks)

2.1. If the current through a 0.02 M resistor is 3.6 µA, what is the voltage drop across the
resistor? (2)

2.2. Graphs of current against voltage for two resistors P and Q are shown in Fig. 4.9.
Determine the value of each resistor. (4)
2.3. What is the maximum permissible current in a 120 V, 2 W resistor? What is the
maximum voltage that can be applied across the resistor? (4)

2.4.How many joules of energy does a 2 W nightlight dissipate in 8 h? b. How many

kilowatthours does it dissipate? (4)

QUESTION 3 (18 Marks)

3.1. For the circuit in figure 1. Find Total resistance, 𝑅𝑇 (4)

Figure 1

3.2. For the series configuration in Figure 2, constructed of standard values:

a. Find the total resistance 𝑅𝑇 . (2)
b. Calculate the current 𝐼𝑠 . (2)
c. Find the voltage across each resistive element. (6)
d. Calculate the power delivered by the source. (2)
e. Find the power delivered to the 18 resistors. (2)

Figure 2
QUESTION 4 (28 Marks)

4.1. For the network in figure 3, Use Kirchhoff’s laws to determine the currents through
the15 Ω , 20 Ω 𝑎𝑛𝑑 30 Ω 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠. (10)

Figure 3

4.2 Using the superposition theorem, determine the current through the 12 Ω resistor of Fig.
4. (8)

Figure 4
4.3. Use Thévenin’s theorem to find the current flowing in the 14Ω resistor of the network
shown in Fig. 5. Find also the power dissipated in the 14Ω resistor. (10)

Figure 5

TOTAL: 70 Marks