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This document provides 10 practice problems for using Kirchhoff's laws to analyze electrical circuits. The problems involve determining unknown currents, voltages, powers and resistances. Answers are provided for each problem. Kirchhoff's laws are circuit analysis tools used to solve networks of electrical components by relating the voltages and currents in the loops and junctions of a circuit.

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This document provides 10 practice problems for using Kirchhoff's laws to analyze electrical circuits. The problems involve determining unknown currents, voltages, powers and resistances. Answers are provided for each problem. Kirchhoff's laws are circuit analysis tools used to solve networks of electrical components by relating the voltages and currents in the loops and junctions of a circuit.

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Tribhuvan University

Institute of Engineering
Pulchowk Campus
Department of Electrical Engineering
Basic Electrical Engineering
Tutorial 3

Use Kirchhoff’s Laws to solve the following problems:

1. In the circuit of Figure 1, find the currents in the resistors R1, R2 and R3. [Ans:
10/11 A, 3/11 A, 13/11 A]

Figure 1 Figure 2

2. Find the currents in resistors R1 and R3 (see Figure 2). [Ans: 6 A, 4 A]


3. In the circuit shown in Figure 3, determine the magnitude and direction of current
in each battery. [Ans: 8A, 4A, 12A]

Figure 3 Figure 4

4. In the unbalanced Wheatstone bridge shown in Figure 4, the galvanometer has


resistance of 4 Ω. Find (i) the current through the galvanometer (ii) currents in the
four branches of the bridge (iii) potential difference across AC and (iv) effective
resistance between A and C. [Ans: 2/67 A, IAD = 46/67 A, IAB = 96/67 A, IBC
=94/67 A, ICD = 48/67 A, VAC = 528/67 V, RAC = 3.72 Ω]

5. In Figure 5, find “V” and the magnitude and direction of the unknown currents in
the branches XN, YN and ZN. [Ans: 8.42 V, 1.684 A, 4.21 A, 2.1 A]
Figure 5 Figure 6

6. Find Vs in Figure 6 using Kirchhoff laws. [Ans: 41 V]

7. Find the current and power delivered by each battery in the circuit shown in
Figure 7. [Ans: 0 A, 0.667 A, 0W, 1.33 W]

RΩ

2Ω 7Ω 3Ω
8Ω

Vs 1A 1A
1Ω

Figure 7 Figure 8

8. Find the values of R and Vs in Figure 8. Also find the power supplied by the
source. [Ans: 2 Ω, 12 V]

9. Compute the value of battery current I in Figure 9. [Ans: 6 A]

10. A battery of unknown e.m.f. is connected across resistances as shown in Figure


10. The voltage drop across the 8 Ω resistor is 20 V. What will be the current
reading in the ammeter? What is the e.m.f. of the battery? [Ans: 0.7 A, 67.3 V]

Figure 9 Figure 10

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