ELEX: ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS

1. If you wish to increase the amount of current in a resistor from 120 mA to 160 mA by changing the 24 V source,
what should the new voltage setting be?
A. 8 V
B. 320 V
C. 3.2 V
D. 32 V

2. What is the approximate resistance of a rheostat if the voltage source is 18 V and the current is 220 mA?
A. 8.2 kohms
B. 820 ohms
C. 8.2ohms
D. 82ohms

3. The minimum resistance value for a blue, gray, red, silver resistor is
A. 612 ohms
B. 6,120 ohms
C. 6,800 ohms
D. 6,460 ohms

4. The maximum resistance value for a brown, red, yellow, gold resistor is
A. 126,000 ohms
B. 126,600 ohms
C. 114,000 ohms
D. 132,000 ohms

5. A 33 ohms half-watt resistor and a 330 ohns half-watt resistor are connected across a 12 V source. Which one(s)
will overheat?
A. 33ohms
B. 330ohms
C. both resistors
D. neither resistor

6. A 15 V source is connected across a 12ohm resistor. How much energy is used in three minutes?
A. 938 Wh
B. 0.938Wh
C. 56.25 Wh
D. 5.6 Wh

7. A series circuit consists of a 4.7 kohms, a 12 kohms, and a 2.2 kohms resistor. The resistor that has the most
voltage drop is
A. the 12 kohms
B. the 2.2 kohms
C. the 4.7 kohms
D. impossible to determine from the given information

8. All the voltage drops and the source voltage added together in a series circuit is equal to
A. the total of the voltage drops
B. the source voltage
C. zero
D. the total of the source voltage and the voltage drops
9. When an additional resistor is connected across an existing parallel circuit, the total resistance
A. remains the same
B. decreases by the value of the added resistor
C. increases by the value of the added resistor
D. decreases

10. The total resistance of a parallel circuit is 50 ohms. If the total current is 120 mA, the current through the 270
ohm resistor that makes up part of the parallel circuit is approximately
A. 22 mA
B. 120 mA
C. 220 mA
D. 50 mA

11. Three resistors are in parallel. If the 3rd one shorted out, find the current that will flow through the first resistor.
a. 0 A
b. 0.5 A
c. 0.333 A
d. The values of the resistors are needed in order to solve the problem.

12. Three 10 kohms resistors are connected in series. A 20 kohms resistor is connected in parallel across one of the
10 kohms resistors. The voltage source is 24 V. The total current in the circuit is
A. 900 uA
B. 9 mA
C. 90 mA
D. 800 uA

13. The parallel combination of a 470ohms resistor and a 1.5 kohm resistor is in series with the parallel combination
of five 1 kohms resistors. The source voltage is 50 V. The percentage of the load current through any single 1 kohm
resistor is
A. 25%
B. 20%
C. 100%
D. 50%

14. Transform into wye and solve for the largest resistance
a. 18
b. 24
c. 36
d. 48

15. Transform into delta and find the smallest resistance

16. In the circuit below, find the current flowing across R1 using Mesh Analysis.
a. 0.6132A
b. 0.0155A
c. 0.1362A
d. 0.5683A
17. In problem number 16, find the voltage drop across R2 using nodal analysis.
a. 8.643V
b. 6.827V
c. 4.654V
d. 6.348V

18. Find the equivalent Thevenin circuit of the figure below.

19. Find the equivalent Norton current of the figure below.

20. Find the total capacitance of the given circuit.

21. Two series capacitors (one 2 uF, the other of unknown value) are charged from a 24 V source. The 2 uF capacitor
is charged to 16 V and the other to 8 V. The value of the unknown capacitor is
A. 1 uF
B. 2 uF
C. 4 uF
D. 8 uF

22. A 330 pF capacitor and a 220 pF capacitor are each connected across a 6 V dc source. The voltage across the 330
pF capacitor is
A. 3 V
B. 6 V
C. 4 V
D. 0

23. If the circuit in problem 20 is replaced with inductors of value 1mH, find the total inductance of the circuit
neglecting mutual inductances.
a. 250 nH
b. 2.5 mH
c. 0.25 mH
d. 25.0 mH

24. A transformer
A. changes ac to dc
B. changes dc to ac
C. steps up or down dc voltages
D. steps up or down ac voltages
25. If 25 W of power are applied to the primary of an ideal transformer with a turns ratio of 10, the power delivered
to the secondary load is
A. 25 W
B. 0 W
C. 250 W
D. 2.5 W

26. The turns ratio required to match an 80ohms source to a 320 ohm load is
a. 80
b. 20
c. 4
d. 2

27. A 47 ohms resistor and a capacitor with a capacitive reactance of 120 ohms are in series across an ac source.
What 15-the circuit impedance, Z?
A. 129 ohms
B. 12.9 ohms
C. 167 ohms
D. 73 ohms

28. A 2 kohm resistor is in series with a 0.015 uF capacitor across a 15 kHz ac source. What is the magnitude of the
total impedance and the phase angle?
A. 73.4 ohms and θ = -19.5°
B. 707 ohms and θ = -19.5°
C. 2121 ohms and θ = -19.5°
D. 734 ohms and θ = -38.9°

29. A 470 ohms resistor and a 0.2 uF capacitor are in parallel across a 2.5 kHz ac source. The admittance, Y, in
rectangular form, is
A. 212 ohms
B. 2.12 mS + j3.14 mS
C. 3.14 mS + j2.12 mS
D. 318.3 ohms

30. A 1.2 k ohms resistor is in series with a 15 mH coil across a 10 kHz ac source. The magnitude of the total
impedance is
A. 152.6 ohms
B. 1,526 ohms
C. 1,200 ohms
D. 942 ohms

31. A 140 ohms resistor is in parallel with an inductor having 60 ohms inductive reactance. Both components are
across a 12 V ac source. The magnitude of the total impedance is
A. 5.51 ohms
B. 55.15 ohms
C. 90 ohms
D. 200 ohms
32. A resistor of 3 k ohms, a 0.05 uF capacitor, and a 120 mH coil are in series across a 5 kHz, 20 V ac source. What is
the impedance, expressed in polar form?
A. 636 ohms
B. 3,769 ohms
C. 433 ohms
D. 4,337 ohms

33. A 15 ohms resistor, an inductor with 8 ohms inductive reactance, and a capacitor with 12 ohms capacitive
reactance are in parallel across an ac voltage source. The circuit impedance is
A. 12.7 ohms
B. 127 ohms
C. 4,436 ohms
D. 6,174 ohms

34. A 12 ohms resistor, a 40 uF capacitor, and an 8 mH coil are in series across an ac source. The resonant frequency
is
A. 28.1 Hz
B. 281 Hz
C. 2,810 Hz
D. 10 kHz

35. If the reactive power of a circuit is 50 VAR while the apparent power is 64 VA, then what is the true power of the
circuit?
A. 14 W
B. 36 W
C. 40 W
D. 114W

36. For a certain load, the true power I is 150 W and the reactive power is 125 VAR. The apparent power is
A. 19.52 W
B. 195.2 W
C. 275 W
D. 25 W