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22-Elec-A1 Circuits: May 2018

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  1. Question 1 Equivalent resistance and branch current
  2. Question 2 Node-voltage analysis with a dependent source
  3. Question 3 First-order RC transient
  4. Question 4 AC mesh analysis in the phasor domain
  5. Question 5 Thévenin equivalent and maximum power transfer
  6. Question 6 Laplace (s-domain) analysis of an RLC circuit

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Reference texts: C. K. Alexander & M. N. O. Sadiku, Fundamentals of Electric Circuits (7th ed., McGraw-Hill) — series/parallel reduction, node/mesh analysis with dependent sources, first-order RC transients, AC phasor analysis, Thévenin equivalents, maximum-power transfer and Laplace (s-domain) analysis; W. H. Hayt, J. E. Kemmerly & S. M. Durbin, Engineering Circuit Analysis (9th ed.) — companion treatment of super-node bookkeeping and the initial-condition source models used in Q6.

Closed-book national examination, 3 hours, six questions of equal value; any five constitute a complete paper. All six are solved here as a study resource. A Laplace-transform table and a star–delta conversion table are supplied on the last two pages of the exam. Phasor magnitudes are written as magnitude $\angle$ angle with angles in degrees; the cosine time reference is used throughout Q4 and Q5 (so $10\sin(377t+90^\circ)=10\cos 377t$ becomes $10\angle 0^\circ$), and the sources marked rms in Q5 are treated as rms.