Do we have any electrical engineers here? 

Kinja'd!!! "bob and john" (bobandjohn)
10/06/2015 at 20:29 • Filed to: None

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Need some help with some homework...
morgan for your time

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Kinja'd!!! MM54 > bob and john
10/06/2015 at 20:36

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Yes, what’s the problem?


Kinja'd!!! bob and john > MM54
10/06/2015 at 20:39

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I have a totally moronically worded question, and i have NO idea how to tackle parts 2 3 and 4 of it...

a) Use Nodal Analysis to nd the voltage across the 68-ohm resistor.

b) Find the same voltage if the 68-ohm resistor were replaced by a 2k resistor.

Note, there should be an assumption/approximation you can make so to not

do the exact same approach as in part a).

c) Find the voltage if the 68-ohm resistor were replaced by a 43-ohm resistor,

a 75-ohm resistor, a 100-ohm resistor and a 200 ohm resistor. Note: You

should not have to solve a system of equations for this part either.

d) Which value of resistor in part c) absorbed the most power? How does

this compare to the Thevenin resistance between points A and B?

Figure 1:

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Kinja'd!!! bob and john > MM54
10/06/2015 at 20:49

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also, want to hop on the chat? make it easy to chat about this


Kinja'd!!! MM54 > bob and john
10/06/2015 at 20:53

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Those problems of “Solve this 47,000 times” are the worst.

For part B, I’d assume that with a 2k in there that it would act open (since it’s so much larger than the other values in the circuit), so on the left you just have a 75/200 voltage divider and on the right it’s just 100mA over 22 ohms, there’s Va and Vb.

I think for C and D they want you to find a thevenin or norton equivalent at A and B so you can just plug in whatever resistors you want in part C and solve it simply. As a function of this you’ll answer part D, since you’ll now know voltages and resistance for the values in C

Hopefully this helps some


Kinja'd!!! Big Bubba Ray > bob and john
10/06/2015 at 21:24

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Oh god. Finding the resistance of a single resistor in a series parallel circuit make me want to die. I want to help but can’t cause that shit is the devil.


Kinja'd!!! bob and john > Big Bubba Ray
10/06/2015 at 21:30

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we have all the resistances. he is asking for other, much more convoluted stuff


Kinja'd!!! Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > bob and john
10/06/2015 at 21:51

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V=ir, that’s all I can remember. Good luck, I hate electricity, concrete and steel are my deal.