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B.Tech I Year (RR) Supplementary Examinations, May 2011

NETWORK THEORY
(Common to Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computer
Science & Engineering, Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Information
Technology, Electronics & Control Engineering, Computer Science & Systems Engineering, Electronics &
Computer Engineering, Instrumentation & Control Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) Write a note on source transformation.

(b) Using KCL and KVL, find the currents in all the sources of the circuit of the following figure1

Figure 1:

2. (a) Distinguish between electrical and magnetic circuits.

(b) The magnetic circuit of a certain electro magnet can be regarded as consisting of 3 parts in series, each
being of uniform C.S. area.
Part I: Length = 10cm, µr = 500, C.S. area = 0.5 cm2
Part II: Airgap length 0.5m C.S. area = 0.5cm2
Part III: Length = 12cms, µr = 800 C.S. area = 1 cm2
Determine the current required in a coil of 1000 turns to produce a flux density of 0.4 Wb/m2 in the air
gap. Neglect leakage.
(c) Explain what you understand by Leakage factor. What is its effect?
3. (a) Explain how a sinusoidal quantity can be represented by a phasor.
(b) Find the form factor of the following (figure2).

Figure 2:
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4. (a) For a series RL circuit obtain the locus of current as inductance is changed form 0 to ∞ when the applied
voltage is constant
(b) Show that for a series resonant circuit f1 f2 = f2r where f1 and f2 are half power frequencies and fr is the
resonance frequency.
(c) Obtain the z-parameters of the following figure3 Two port network.

Figure 3:

5. (a) Show that two watt meters are sufficient to measure power in a 3 phase circuit. Derive the expressions for
wattmeter readings for a balanced 3phase load.
(b) A 3 phase, 400v, 4wire system has a star connected load with ZA =(10+j0)ohms, ZB =(15+j10) ohms,
ZC =(0+j5) ohms. Find the line currents and current through neutral conductor. Draw the phasor diagram.
6. (a) Design band pass T-filter with cutoff frequencies of 5KHz and 10KHz operating into a load of 500ohms.
(b) Determine the voltage V for the coupled circuit shown in figure4. Use loop current method. The coefficient
of coupling K is 0.8.

Figure 4:

(c) Explain clearly what you understand by Duality and Dual networks.
7. (a) State and explain the superposition theorem.
(b) Using super position theorem find the current in 2 ohms resistor from the following network shown in
figure5.

Figure 5:

8. (a) Application of Laplace Transforms to Electric circuits only to be considered.

(b) Laplace transform mathematical background should have been studied in Mathematics course.

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