Electrical Engineering 42/100 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Summer 2012 University of California, Berkeley

Homework 1
Due outside 125 Cory at 18:00 on Wednesday, June 27

1. Suppose we turn on a device rated at 60 W with a 9 V battery. After an hour, we turn it off by discon-
necting the battery. (a) How much energy has been dissipated? (b) How much net charge (give both
Coulombs and Amp-hours) and how many net electrons is this? (c) During this cycle, out of which
terminal do the electrons exit the battery?
2. Suppose that we connect a time-varying voltage source to a resistor with a value of R = 2 k. The voltage
is given by 120e5t V. (a) At any given time, what is the power being dissipated through the resistor?
(b) What is the total energy dissipated after a long, long time?
3. Consider the following circuit. Note the presence of the common ground node.

ia
A
2 V + +
+
4V B ib 2A C vc

id
D
+ 1V
+
+ v
ve E F f
1A
3A

(a) How many different nodes are present in the circuit? (b) Name all pairs of elements that are in
parallel. (c) Name all pairs of elements that are in series. (d) Given the known currents and voltages in
the circuit, solve for the remaining unknowns using KCL and KVL. (e) What is the power of element C?
Is element C supplying or dissipating energy?
4. Consider the following circuit.

35
40 40
+ 10 V 100 30

0.1 A 15

(a) How many different nodes are present in the circuit as given? (b) Now simplify the circuit by combining
all possible resistances in series or in parallel. Your final result should only have two resistors left. (c)
How many nodes are there now? Which pairs of elements are in series, and which pairs are in parallel?
(d) Calculate the power of each of the circuit elements in your new circuit and specify whether energy is
supplied or dissipated by each one. Explain how energy is conserved in the circuit.

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5. In the following circuit, the multiplier of the dependent current source is unknown. However, we were
able to measure that the power of the rightmost 24- resistor is 6 W. Use this information to solve for
the multiplier a.

+
18 V + 8 vx av x 16 24

6. Use nodal analysis to solve for the powers of each of the sources in the circuit. Are they supplying or
dissipating energy?

5V 15

+
ix 8 20 40i x

7. Consider the following circuit, which contains a floating voltage source. (a) Where can we move the
ground node to remove this characteristic? (b) Suppose we leave the ground node where we found it.
Solve for the mesh currents using mesh analysis.

3A

30 V + 10i x + 20 14
ix

20

8. Consider the following circuit. (a) Solve for vx using nodal analysis. Note that there is a floating voltage
source in the circuit! (b) It may be easier to solve this circuit using a supermesh instead. Apply a source
transformation to the current source to reduce the number of meshes to two, and then solve for vx using
mesh analysis. (Make sure your answers agree.)

6 12 V 8
+

1A 4 vx 1A + 4vx

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 9. Consider the following circuit. Apply superposition on the two independent sources to solve for vx (note
that you cannot zero out the dependent sources) in terms of the given quantities.

av x bvx

+
+
Is R1 vx + Vs

R2 R3

10. Find the Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits for the circuit below. If you can do it by inspection
(and I highly recommend that you try to do so before writing down equations), an explanation will suffice
in lieu of algebraic work.

69 A 131 16

+ vx
34i x + +
62 13 ix 7V

81vx