Solution Set
Week 9

Chapter 22:

Discusssion Questions:

13. A coil in a motor turning through a magnetic field will experience an induced emf and an induced current that will send energy back to the source, which is driving the motor. With no load, the motor produces almost as much current as it draws and so costs very little to run. A free-turning motor must have its speed limited by the back-current it generates -- with no losses th ecurrent and it can no longer accelerate. With a load, the motor does work and draws energy in excess of what it returns via the back-current. In real life, a motor also produces a good deal of thermal energy via friction and if it is to operaate continuously for any long period of time it must be cooled. A jammed motor will not turn and not generate a back-current. The driving current now undiminished by back-current is too great. The wiring will heat up and the insulation will fry and the motor will destroy itself.

Problems:

32. emf = 2 x pi x frequency x N x B x Area x sine(theta) and so,

The coil should spin at 2 x pi x 50 Hz = 310 Radians/sec

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Chapter 23:

Discussion Questions:

3. Reasons:

4. The input to a transformer can be DC. All that you need is for the amplitude of the current to change. The current does not have to change direction

Problems:

1. At 1/4 cycle, V(max) = + 120 V ===> V(t) = 120 V x sine(omega x time) -- Note that at time = 1/4 cycle, omega x time = pi/2 since omega = 2 x pi x frequency = 2 x pi / [period for variation] ===> sine(omega x time) = sine(pi/2) = 1

5. maximum voltage = rms voltage x sqrt(2) = 100 V x 1.4 = 140 V

7. For 120 V driving a 100-W light bulb, we have

12. X = 1/[omega x C] = 1/[2 x pi x 60 Hz x 8 x 10^(-5) F] = 33 ohms

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23. The Voltmeter reads the correct voltage, so the source is fine. The problem must lie in the resistors. If all resistors are okay, then the effective resistance is

To make the current larger ===> a resistor has to be bad, but which one?

26. P = V^2/R ===> R = V^2/P = (120 V)^2 / 1,200 W = 12 ohms
It draws a current, P = I^2 R ===> I = sqrt(P/R) = sqrt(1,200 W/12 ohms) = 10 A

30. The capacitve reactance is 1/[omega x C] = 29 ohms. The current through the circuit is then V = I X ===> I = V/X = 120 V/29 ohms = 4.1 A