ALTERNATING CURRENT WORKSHEET
1. A high-voltage powerline operates at 500 000 V-rms and carries an rms
current of 500 A. If the resistance of the cable is 0.050Ω/km, what is the resistive
power loss in 200 km of the powerline?
a. 250 kW
b. 500 kW
c. 1 Megawatt
d. 2.5 Megawatts
e. 250 Megawatts
2. A 10-µF capacitor is plugged into a 110 V-rms 60-Hz voltage source, with an
ammeter in series. What is the rms value of the current through the capacitor?
a. 0.202 A (rms)
b. 0.415 A (rms)
c. 0.626 A (rms)
d. 0.838 A (rms)
e. 0.066 A (rms)
3. A 0.5-H inductor is connected into a 110 V-rms 60-Hz voltage source, with an
ammeter in series. What is the rms value of the current through the inductor?
a. 0.189 A (rms)
b. 0.292 A (rms)
c. 0.584 A (rms)
d. 1.19 A (rms)
e. 0.093 A (rms)
4. The inductance of a tuning circuit of an AM radio is 4 mH. Find the capacitance
of the circuit required for reception at 1200 kHz.
a. 2.1 pF
b. 4.4 pF
c. 21.2 pF
d. 43.4 pF
e. 27.6 pF
5. If an R = 1-kΩ resistor, a C = 1-µF capacitor, and an L = 0.2-H inductor are
connected in series with a V = 150 sin (377t) volts source, what is the maximum
current delivered by the source?
a. 0.007 A
b. 27 mA
c. 54 mA
d. 0.308 A
e. 0.34 A
6. An RLC series circuit has R = 100 ohms, C = 25 µF, and L = 0.16 H. For what
angular frequency of an ac voltage is the current flow maximum?
a. 251 rad/s
b. 500 rad/s
c. 757 rad/s
d. 884 rad/s
e. 79.6 rad/s
7. Determine the impedance for the circuit. a. 600 Ω b. 1200 Ω c. 1800 Ω d.
2300 Ω e. 1100 Ω 23. Determine the rms current for the circuit.
a. 55 mA
b. 77 mA
c. 99 mA
d. 0.190 A
e. 61 mA
8. What is the average power dissipation in an RLC series circuit with R = 10Ω, L
= 0.1 H, C = 10 µF when driven at resonance by a 100 V-rms source?
a. 100 W
b. 500 W
c. 1000 W
d. 2 kW
e. 700 W
9 . A transformer is to be designed to increase the 30 kV-rms output of a
generator to the transmission-line voltage of 345 kV-rms. If the primary winding
has 80 turns, how many turns must the secondary have?
a. 6
b. 70
c. 920
d. 9200
e. 12
10. The primary winding of an electric train transformer has 400 turns and the
secondary has 50. If the input voltage is 120V(rms) what is the output voltage?
a. 15 V (rms)
b. 30 V (rms)
c. 60 V (rms)
d. 2.4 V (rms)
e. 960 V (rms)
11. Calculate Vout /Vin for the circuit if R = 2 kΩ, C = 0.02 µF and V = 140V
sin(50 000t)
a. 0.02
b. 0.45
c. 0.80
d. 0.98
e. 2.23
. A sinusoidal voltage of peak vale 283V and frequency 50Hz is applied
to a series LCR circuit in
which R = 3 Ω , L = 25.48 m H and C = 786 μ F .
The power factor.
13. A 100 × 10−6 capacitor is series with a 40 Ω resistance is
connected to a 110 V, 60 Hz supply.
What is the time lag between current maximum and the voltage
maximum?
14. Obtain the resonant frequency ωr of a series LCR circuit with L =
2.0 H. C = 32 μ F , and R = 10 Ω . What is the Q - value of this
circuit?
15A 60μF capacitor is connected to a 110V, 60Hz, ac supply. Determine
the r.m.s value of a current in the circuit.
16. A sinusoidal current is represented by the
equation I = 2sin100 π t . Calculate
Current at t = 116 s .
17. Obtain the resonant frequency ωr of a series LCR circuit with L=2.0H,
C=32μF and R=10Ω . What is the Q-value of this current?
18. A 44mH inductor is connected to 220V,50Hz ac supply. Determine the
rms value of the current in the circuit.
19. Obtain the resonant frequency ωr of a series LCR circuit with
L=2.0H, C=32μF and R=10Ω . What is the ϕ-value of this current?
20. How does the self induction of a coil change when
a. The number of turns in a coil is decreased?
b. An iron rod is introduced into it? Justify.
