ECE 20001 Spring 2021 HW #3

Due: Monday, February 8th

Sharing HWs, solutions, or contents in online services, like Chegg, will result in class fail-
ure and report to Dean of Students

Instructions: You must do this HW with your group and upload full work with all steps on
Gradescope to get full credits for this HW. Only one pdf submission (scanned/annotated) per
group and the uploader of your team must connect the correct page to the correct problem
and select all team members during submission

Question #1 Answer (with explanations) the following:

a) Does absolute voltage exist at a single point? For example, when we ask to find node voltage at a point
A (VA ), what do we mean?
b) What is Kirchhoff’s Current Law and why does it work?
c) What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law and why does it work?

Question #2 :

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Question #3 Find the unknown voltage, x.
2V

+
−
+

−
2Ω 3A xV

+
−
–5 V
1V

+
−
Question #4 Find all mesh currents.

2Ω 3Ω 18Ω

9Ω

+ 12Ω +
− 50V i1 i2 i3 − 75V

+
− 25V

Question #5 Find the voltages at nodes V1 and V2 ?

V1 V2
−
+

2Ω
5V

2A 8Ω 0.5A

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Question #6 What are the voltages at nodes V1 and V2 ?

15Ω
+ −
Vo

V1 V2

−
+
3Ω 30Ω
0.5Vo
15A 5Ω 10A

Question #7 Find all mesh currents.

20Ω

i3
40Ω I 80Ω

20Ω

3I +
i1 i2 − 40V

+
− 60V

Remember: Mesh can most aptly be summarized as a set of equations that describe the entire
circuit.

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Question #8 Find all mesh currents.

1kΩ

40
k
i2

Ω
A
4m
4kΩ
+
− 50V

i1
i3

2k

Ω
5k
Ω
Question #9 Find the equivalent resistance, Req .

5V

+
−

2A 5Ω 5Ω

Req

Reflection questions :
a) Write about how each member of your team contributed to this HW?
(Talk about what you learned, what you helped solve in this HW, where you sought help to learn the
material needed to solve this HW, or if you did any admin work like compile/schedule meetings/did extra
reading/uploaded the HW etc)
b) What is one thing you all can improve as a team to perform more efficiently?