Lesson Worksheet: Alternating Current Circuits
Physics • Third Year of Secondary School
PRACTICE
In this worksheet, we will practice determining the values of electrical quantities in circuits powered
by alternating voltages.
Question 1
An alternating current has a peak value of 1.35 A. What is the root-mean-square value of the
current? Give your answer in three decimal places.
Question 2
An ac generator has a frequency of 50 Hz. The coil of the generator is initially parallel to the
generator’s magnetic field and its loops are coplanar. At what time after the coil starts rotating is
the instantaneous potential difference across the coil equal to the root-mean-square potential
difference produced by the generator?
Question 3
An alternating current generator contains 25 rectangular loops of conducting wire with side
lengths of 45 cm and 35 cm, the ends of which form terminals. The sides of the loops with the
same lengths as each other are parallel to each other. The loops rotate within a uniform
magnetic field at 22 revolutions per second. The peak potential difference across the terminals is
105 V. What is the strength of the magnetic field? Give your answer to two decimal places.
Question 4
An alternating current generator contains 10 rectangular loops of conducting wire with side
lengths of 25 cm and 23 cm, the ends of which form terminals. The sides of the loops with the
same lengths as each other are parallel to each other. The loops rotate within a 560 mT uniform
magnetic field. The peak potential difference across the terminals is 85 V. How many
revolutions per second do the loops turn through? Give your answer to the nearest
revolutions per second.
Question 5
An alternating current has a peak value of 1.75 A through a 148 Ω resistor. What is the energy
dissipated by the current in a time of 365 s? Give your answer in kilojoules to one decimal place.
Question 6
An alternating current generator contains 5 rectangular loops of conducting wire with side
lengths 15 cm and 25 cm, the ends of which form terminals. The sides of the loops with the
same lengths as each other are parallel to each other. The loops rotate at
15 revolutions per second within a 620 mT uniform magnetic field. What is the peak potential
difference across the terminals? Give your answer to two decimal places.
Question 7
An alternating current generator contains 50 rectangular loops of conducting wire with side
lengths of 55 cm and 35 cm, the ends of which form terminals. The sides of the loops with the
same lengths as each other are parallel to each other. The loops rotate within a uniform
magnetic field at 18 revolutions per second within a 360 mT uniform magnetic field. What is the
root-mean-square voltage across the terminals? Give your answer to the nearest volt.
Question 8
The red line represents the change in the instantaneous value of the alternating current carried
by a conductor. Which of the lines correctly represents the root–mean–square value of the
current?
A The black line
B The green line
C The purple line
D The orange line
E The blue line
Question 9
The graph contains a black line representing the changes of the voltage with time in a circuit
connected to an alternating-current source. The three colored lines represent the changes of the
current with time in the circuit depending on the properties of the circuit.
Which color line corresponds to the circuit being only resistive?
A The red line
B The blue line
C The orange line
Which color line corresponds to the circuit being capacitive?
A The blue line
B The orange line
C The red line
Which color line corresponds to the circuit being inductive?
A The blue line
B The red line
C The orange line
Question 10
For an ac generator, the following graph represents the relation between the maximum value of
the induced current and the effective value of the induced current. What is the value of the slope
of the line in the graph?
A 1
1
B
√2
1
C
2
D √2
