UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS 2021/2022

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENVIROMENTAL AND BIOSYSTEMS

ENGINEERING

FEB223: ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS THEORY

TUTORIAL QUESTIONS SET I

INSTRUCTIONS: DATE: 29/10/2021

ANSWER

ANY ALL QUESTIONS

1. What is the voltage between two points if 1.2 J of energy are required to move 0.4 mC
between the two points?
2. If the potential difference between two points is 60 V, how much energy is expended
to bring 8 mC from one point to the other?
3. Find the charge Q that requires 96 J of energy to be moved through a potential
difference of 16 V.
4. How much charge passes through a radio battery of 9 V if the energy expended is 72
J?
5. If 312 C of charge pass through a wire in 2 min, find the current in amperes.
6. If a current of 40 mA exists for 0.8 min, how many coulombs of charge have passed
through the wire?
7. How many coulombs of charge pass through a lamp in 1.2 min if the current is
constant at 250 mA?
8. If the current in a conductor is constant at 2 mA, how much time is required for 6 mC
to pass through the conductor?
9. If a conductor with a current of 200 mA passing through it converts 40 J of electrical
energy into heat in 30 s, what is
10. the potential drop across the conductor?
11. Charge is flowing through a conductor at the rate of 420 C/min. If 742 J of electrical
energy are converted to heat in 30 s, what is the potential drop across the conductor?
12. The potential difference between two points in an electric circuit is 24 V. If 0.4 J of
energy were dissipated in a period of 5 ms, what would the current be between the
two points?
13. What is the maximum permissible current in a 120 Ω, 2 W resistor? What is the
maximum voltage that can be applied across the resistor?
14. The voltage drop across a transistor network is 12 V. If the total resistance is 5.6 k Ω,
what is the current level? What is the power delivered? How much energy is
dissipated in 1 h?
 15. If the power applied to a system is 324 W, what is the voltage across the line if the
current is 2.7 A?
16. A 1 W resistor has a resistance of 4.7 M Ω. What is the maximum current level for the
resistor? If the wattage rating is increased to 2 W, will the current rating double?
17. A 2.2 k Ω resistor in a stereo system dissipates 42 mW of power. What is the voltage
across the resistor?
18. A dc battery can deliver 45 mA at 9 V. What is the power rating?
19. For the circuit in Fig. below, constructed of standard value resistors:
i. Find the total resistance, current, and voltage across each element.
ii. Find the power delivered to each resistor.
iii. Calculate the total power delivered to all the resistors.
iv. Find the power delivered by the source.
v. How does the power delivered by the source compare to that delivered to all the
resistors?
vi. Which resistor received the most power? Why?
vii. What happened to all the power delivered to the resistors?
viii. If the resistors are available with wattage ratings of 1/2 W, 1 W, 2 W, and 5 W, what
minimum wattage rating can be used for each resistor?

20. Using the voltage divider rule or Kirchhoff’s voltage law, determine the unknown
voltages for the circuit configurations shown below.