NETWORK THEORY PRACTICE SHEET

CHAPTER-1
BASICS OF NETWORK THEORY

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1. A triangular pyramid, built up of six wires 4. In a network made up of linear resistors

whose resistances are shown in the figure, is and ideal voltage sources, values of all
fed from a 1V battery at the terminals A and resistors are doubled. Then the voltage across
B. The current through the branch DB is each resistor is
(a) Doubled
(b) Halved
(c) Decreases four times
(d) Not changed

5. Consider the following circuit:

(a) 1/7 A (b) 2/7 A

(c) 3/7 A (d) 4/7 A

2. A network has 12 branches and 8

independent loops. How many nodes are
there in the network?
(a) 19 (b) 17 (c) 5 (d) 4 What is the value of the current I in the above
circuit?
(a) 1 A (b) 2 A (c) 3 A (d) 4 A
3. In the circuit below, a decrease in R3 leads
to a decrease of:
6. For the circuit shown below, what is the
voltage across the current source Is?

(a) current through R3

(b) voltage across R3
(c) voltage across R1 (a) 0 (b) 2 V
(d) power dissipated in R2 (c) 3 V (d) 6 V
(e) none of the above

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7. The voltage and current waveforms for an 10. The mesh-current method
element are shown in the figure.
1. works with both planar and non-planar
circuit.
2. uses Kirchhoff’s voltage law.
Which one of the above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
The circuit element and its value are
(a) Capacitor, 2 F
11. As shown in the figure, a 1Ω resistance is
(b) Inductor, 2 H
connected across a source that has a load line
(c) Capacitor, 0.5 F v + i =100. The current through the resistance
is
(d) Inductor, 0.5 H

8. In nodal analysis, the preferred reference

node is a node that is connected to
1. ground
(a) 25 A (b) 50 A
2. many parts of the network
(c) 100 A (d) 200 A
3. the highest voltage source
Which of the above is/are correct?
12. The current through the 2kΩ resistance in
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
the circuit shown is
(c) 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3

9. A conductor of diameter d, length l

consumes a power of W when a current I
flow through it. What will be the power
consumed if d is doubled, l is halved and
current is tripled?
(a) 18 W (b) 36 W (a) 0 mA (b) 1 mA
(c) 48 W (d) 72 W (c) 2 mA (d) 6 mA

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13. A segment of a circuit is shown in the 16. The power delivered by the current
figure below. VR = 5V, VC = 4 sin2t. The source, in the figure, is ________.
voltage VL is given by

17. The current i (in Ampere) in the 2Ω

resistor of the given network is ________.
(a) 3 – 8 cost (b) 32 sin2t
(c) 16 sin2t (d) 16 cos2t

14. In the figure, the value of resistor R is (25

+ I/2) ohms, where I is the current in amperes.
The current I is _______

18. In the circuit shown below, the node

voltage VA is _______ V.

15. The three circuit elements shown in the

figure are part of an electric circuit. The total
power absorbed by the three circuit elements
in watts is ________.

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19. Consider the configuration shown in the

figure which is a portion of a larger electrical
network

(a) 22 + j2 V (b) 2 + j22 V

(c) 22 – j2 V (d) 2 – j22 V

22. If VA – VB = 6 V, then VC – VD is

For R = 1Ω and currents i1 = 2A, i4 = -1A, i5

= -4A, which one of the following is TRUE?
(a) i6 = 5A
(b) i3 = -4A
(c) Data is sufficient to conclude that the
supposed currents are impossible
(d) Data is sufficient to identify the currents
(a) -5 V (b) 2 V (c) 3 V (d) 6 V
i2, i3 and i6

23. The equivalent resistance between

20. A Y-network has resistance of 10Ω each
terminals a and b is ________ Ω
in two of its arms, while the third arm has a
resistance of 11Ω. In the equivalent ∆-
network, the lowest value (in Ω) among the
three resistances is _________.

21. In the circuit shown in the figure, the

value of node voltage V2 is

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24. RA and RB are the input resistances of

circuits as shown below. The circuits extend
infinitely in the direction shown.

Which one of the following statements is

TRUE?
(a) RA = RB
(b) RA = RB = 0
(c) RA < RB
(d) RB = RA/(1 + RA)

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