ECE 262 - Test : Final Exam

Spring 2006


Problems common to both regular and honors sections


1. The voltage across an inductive load is 120 0° (rms) The average power being absorbed by the load is 100 watts. The apparent power absorbed by the load is 240 VA. Determine the following. Be sure to give units where appropriate.

a) The power factor.

b) The reactive factor.

c) The complex power. (rectangular form)

d) The reactive power.

e) The impedance of the load (rectangular form)

f) The current through the load. (polar form)

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2. Write a transfer function H(s) that can be represented by the pole-zero plot shown below. Your final answer should not have any imaginary numbers in the terms. (ā€œjā€ should not appear in the final form.)

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5. Determine the Laplace transforms for the functions shown.

a) f(t) = [5 sin(100t) - 30e-200t] u(t)

b)

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6. The following circuit is a high pass filter with a cutoff frequency of 1000 radians per second. Determine the parameter a. Be sure to indicate the units, if any, of a.

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7. Determine the impulse response h(t) for a circuit with a transfer function given by

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8. Sketch a Bode amplitude plot for the transfer function

for 0.01 < w < 10,000.

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9. For the two-port network shown, determine the g parameters.

I1 = g11V1 + g12I2
V2 = g21V1 + g22I2

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10. The y parameters for a two port network are given below. Determine the h parameters for this network.

y11 = 1; y12 = 2
y21 = 3; y2 2 = 4

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11. A filter circuit has a transfer function given by H(s) = 0.4 / (s + 5000)
a) Is this a band-pass, band reject, low-pass, or high-pass filter?

b) What is the cutoff frequency (if LP or HP) or the center frequency (if BP or BR)? Give your answer in Hertz.

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12. Use the unit step function to write a mathematical expression to describe the function shown on the graph below. Note that f(t) = 3 for t < 0 and f(t) = - 4 for t > 4.

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13. What is the magnitude of f(t) = 75 e-3+j7?

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14. A sinusoidal source is operating at 60 Hertz. The Thevenin equivalent impedance of the source can be modeled as a 20 ohm resistor in series with a 3 henry inductor. If it is desired to have this source deliver the maximum possible power to a load, what two series components (types and values) would model such a load?

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15. A series RLC bandpass filter is to be designed using a 200 mH inductor that has a center frequency of 2 kHz and a bandwidth of 500 Hz. Determine the following.

The quality factor, Q.

The lower cutoff frequency, fc1, in Hertz.

The upper cutoff frequency, fc2, in Hertz.

The resistance, R.

The Capacitance, C.

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Problems on regular section exam only


3. A circuit has an impulse response defined by h(t) = 0.5t [u(t) - u(t-5)] (see graph).
The input to the circuit is a rectangular pulses defined by y(t) = 4[u(t-8) - u(t-10)] (see graph).
Determine the output of the circuit, v(t). Be sure to specify the output function for all t.
Sketch the output function on the graph provided.

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4. Draw an s-domain equivalent circuit for the time-domain circuit shown. Use series equivalent circuits for both the capacitor and the inductor.

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16. a) Determine the transfer function H(s) = Vo / Vi for the circuit shown. Simplify the function to a ratio of polynomials in s.

b) Is this a low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, or band reject filter?

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Problems on honors section exam only


3. A circuit has an impulse response defined by h(t) = 0.5t [u(t) - u(t-5)] (see graph).
The input to the circuit consists of two rectangular pulses defined by
y(t) = [u(t) - u(t-2)] + 2[u(t-10) - u(t-12)] (see graph).
Determine the output of the circuit, v(t). Be sure to specify the output function for all t.
Sketch the output function on the graph provided.

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4. Draw an s-domain equivalent circuit for the time-domain circuit shown. Use series equivalent circuits for both the capacitor and the inductor.

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16. a) Determine the transfer function H(s) = Vo / Vi for the circuit shown. The two resistors have the same value. Simplify the function to a ratio of polynomials in s.

b) Is this a band-pass or band reject filter? (You should be able to answer this even if you cannot analyze the circuit!)

c) What is the center frequency of the filter (Hertz)?

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