ELEC 226, Spring 2010
Prof. Rich Kozick

Homework 5


Date Assigned: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Date Due: Thursday, February 25, 2010

  1. Reading: In the Nilsson/Riedel text, please continue to study Chapter 10 for the week of Feb. 22.
    You may also find it interesting to read Chapter 11 on three-phase circuits. We will not discuss much (if any) of Chapter 11 in class, but EE majors will study this topic in a senior course, ELEC 491.

  2. Please solve the following problems in Chapter 10 and submit solutions in class on Feb. 25:
    Problems 10.4 and 10.6: For these problems, find the relevant voltage and current phasors, then apply equations (10.2), (10.3), and (10.10) to compute the average power, P.
    Problem 10.13.

  3. Explain the steps that you used to estimate the resistance and inductance values for the transformer in Lab 3. That is, show how you used measured data to estimate R1, R2, L1, L2, and M. Also, briefly summarize how closely your transformer in lab is approximated as an ideal transformer. Please submit your explanation in class on Feb. 25.

  4. We will continue to work with transformers in Lab 3 on Thursday, February 18. All students will attend lab on Feb. 18, and please bring your breadboards and results from Lab 2.

  5. We will have a short quiz on the topic of ideal transformers in class on Tuesday, Feb. 23. The quiz will use the "step-up" and "step-down" transformer model that we discussed in class on Feb. 18.

  6. Exam 1 will be on Tuesday, March 2. See Homework 6 for details about the topics for the exam. I will try to get back to homework being due on Tuesdays after the exam.
Thank you.