Faculty of Engineering, Design and Technology

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Electricity for Civil and Environmental Engineers
Take home Assignment 1 (Due 10 November 2023)
1. (a) Find the power that is absorbed or supplied by the circuit element 1 in the network in Fig. 1
(b) Find Ix in Fig. 2

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2. (a) The charge entering the positive terminal of an element is q(t) = −30e−4t mC. If the voltage
across the element is 120e−2t V, determine the energy delivered to the element in the time interval
0 < t < 50 ms.
(b) The charge entering the positive terminal of an element is given by the expression q(t) =
−12e−2t mC. The power delivered to the element is p(t) = 2.4e−3t W. Compute the current in the
element, the voltage across the element, and the energy delivered to the element in the time
interval 0 < t < 100 ms.

3. (a) Find Ix, Iy, and Iz in the network in Fig. 3

(b) Find VBE and VDA in the circuit in Fig. 4
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4. (a) Find RAB in the circuit in Fig.5

(b) Determine the total resistance, RT, in the circuit in Fig.6

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5. Use nodal analysis to find

a) both V1 and Vo in the circuit in Fig. 7
b) find Io in the network in Fig. 8
c) find all the node voltages in Fig. 9

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6. Use loop analysis to find

a) Io in the circuit in Fig. 10
b) Find Vo in the circuit in Fig. 11
c) Find Io in the network in Fig. 12

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7. (a) Find Io in the circuit in Fig. 13 and 14 using superposition

(b) Use Thévenin’s theorem to find Vo in the network in Fig. 15
(c) Use Norton’s theorem to find Io in the network in Fig. 16
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