EE 251 PRELAB 1 & 2

Since we are taking an academic holiday on May 27, 2024 our regular lab meeting
on May 28 will be cancelled due to the academic calendar following a Monday
schedule. Unfortunately that means we have to combine our first and second week
of labs into a single lab. I’ve condensed the prelabs and experiments down into one
single week.

Please complete the following prelab. Show all work. All resistances on the
schematics are in Ohms. 3k ⟹ 3 kΩ = 3,000 Ohms. If you haven’t covered the
material in lecture yet and are having trouble completing the assignment, please
come to office hours.

OHM’S LAW

Ohm’s law is one of the fundamental equations of electrical engineering, relating

voltage, current, and resistance.

V=I×R where

V is the voltage, in Volts

I is the current, in Amps
R is the DC resistance in Ohms

1. Use Ohm’s law to solve for the current through the resistor.
2. Find the equivalent series resistance for this circuit seen by the source. Next,
use Ohm’s law to solve for the current denoted by I.

Once you know the current, use Kirchoff’s current law (KCL) and Ohm’s law
again to solve for the voltages across each resistor. Make sure you note the
polarity of the voltage.
3. Take the same circuit from the problem above, but this time pick any of the
four nodes in the circuit as your reference ground. Mark the ground on the
schematic. Next, write the node voltages for all nodes (ie. the voltage at each
node with respect to ground).

Are the node voltages at each node the same as the voltages across each of
the resistors? Explain your answer.
4. Determine the voltage across and the current through each resistor.

5. Solve for I1, I2, and V.

6. Find the equivalent resistances seen accross the terminals A and B in both of
the following circuits. You can use series-parallel combinations or do a nodal
analysis to solve.