CIRCUITS I – Take Home Quiz

INSTRUCTION: Read and analyze the given problems carefully. Show your solution
and box the final answer. Avoid erasure or superimposition in your final solution and
answer. Write your output on any size of bond paper.

1.The current in an electric lamp is 5 amperes. What quantity of electricity flows towards
the filament in 6 minutes?

2. A constant current of 4 A charges a capacitor. How long will it take to accumulate a

total charge of 8 coulombs on the plates?

3. A Circuit has a resistance of 5 ohms. If a voltmeter connected across its terminals

reads 10 volts, how much current is flowing through the circuits?

4. The hot resistance of an incandescent carbon lamp is 220 ohms. It requires ½

ampere to cause it to glow. What voltage must be impressed across it?

5. A Circuit has a resistance of 8 ohms. If a voltmeter connected across its terminals

reads 10 V, how much current is flowing through the circuit?

6. A 200 V lamp has a hot resistance of 400 ohms. The power rating in watts of the
lamps is ____

7. A battery can deliver 10 joules of energy to move 5 coulombs of charge. What is the
potential difference between the terminals of the battery?

8. A Carbon resistor dissipates 60W of power from a 120 V source at 20 ᴼ C. How much
power will be dissipated in the resistor at 120 ᴼ C if connected across the same source?
Assume the temperature coefficient of carbon at 20 ᴼ C is – 0.0005 per ᴼ C.
9. An electric water heater has a rating of 1 kW, 230 V. The coil is used as the heating
element is 10 m long and has a resistivity of 1.724 x 10-6 ohm-cm. Determine the
required diameter of the wire in mils?

10. A 6-volt lead-acid battery has an internal resistance of 0.01 ohm. How much current
will flow if the battery has a short circuit?

11. A wire has a diameter of 0.125 inch. What is its cross-sectional area in circular mils?

12. A secondary cell is charged with a constant current of 10 A for 10 hours. How much
charge is accumulated?

13. A voltage source of 20 V is applied across the terminals of a 2.5-ohm rheostat.

Calculate the power dissipated in the rheostat?

14. A battery is charged at 15 A for 10 hours. If the charging voltage is 120 V, what is
the charging cost at 1.00 peso per kW-hr?

15. What is the diameter in the millimeter of a copper wire having a cross-sectional area
of 3,969 CM?

16. A small light bulb with a resistance of 1000 ohms is connected across a 120-V line.
What is the current through the bulb?

17. A 200-V lamp has a hot resistance of 400 ohms. What is its power rating in watts?

18. A 25-W incandescent bulb rated at 120 V and operated on a 120 V line has burnt
out and has to be replaced as soon as possible. There are several lamps available but
not of the same rating. Which of the bulbs below should be used to approximate the
power consumption of the busted bulb?
a. 20 watts, 110 volts
b. 100 watts, 240 volts
c. 50 watts, 240 volts
d. 75 watts, 220 volts

19. A 0.4 µF capacitor has a charge of 20 µC. How much is the voltage across it?

20. How much current is produced by a 60-V source connected across a 12 kΩ

resistance?

21. A water heater takes 2.5 A at 230 V. What is its hot resistance?

22. One foot of a certain size of nichrome wire has a resistance of 1.63 ohms. To make
a heating element for a toaster that will use 5 A at 110 V, the number of feet of wire
needed is approximately ________?

23. The rating of a storage battery that delivers 15 amps for 12 hours is _____.

24. A cloud of 2.5 x 10¹⁹ electrons move past a given point every 2 seconds. How much
is the intensity of the electron flow?

25. The resistance of a cylindrical brass conductor, 0.5 cm diameter, and 3.0 m long is
0.0108 ohms. Determine the resistance of a cylindrical conductor of the same material
at the same temperature, and having a diameter of 0.25 cm and a length of 8.0 m.

26.The resistivity of a standard copper at 20 ᴼ C is 0.6788 µ Ω − 𝑖𝑛. Determine the

resistance at the same temperature of 500 ft of No. 8 AWG solid copper conductor
which has a diameter of 0.128 in.

27. The density of copper is 8.89 per cu. cm and the resistivity is 1.724 µ Ω − 𝑐𝑚 .
Determine length in meters and resistance of 12 kg of copper if the cross-sectional area
is 2.09 sq. mm.
28. The Diameter of No. 17 AWG solid Conductor is 0.045 in. Determine its cross-
section in (a) square mils; (b) Circular mils.

29. The diameter of the No. 00 AWG solid conductor is 0.365 in. Determine its cross-
section in (c) square mils; (d) circular mils.

30. The cross-section of No. 0000 AWG solid conductor is 211 600 CM. Determine (a)
its diameter in inches, (b) its cross-section in square inches. Determine diameter in mils
of solid cylindrical wires having a cross-section of (e) 41700 CM, (f) 5180 CM, (g) 509
CM.

31. A telephone cable is made up of 303 pairs of No. 22 AWG copper conductors.
Determine the resistance of a 30-mile loop (consisting of a pair), using 10.37 as the
circular-mil / foot resistivity of the copper. The diameter of No. 22 wire is 25.3 mils.

32. The temperature coefficient of resistance of copper at 0 ᴼ C is 0.00427. The

resistance of a coil of copper wire is 8.820 ohms at 24 ᴼ C. Determine resistance (a) at
0ᴼ C, (b) at 42 ᴼ C.

33. Determine the temperature coefficient of resistance for copper at a reference

temperature of 17 ᴼ C, of 37 ᴼ C, of 48 ᴼ C.

34. The cross-section of No. 6 AWG wire is 0.02062 sq. in, and the resistivity at 25 ᴼ C
of the copper is 0.6794 micro ohms – in. Determine the conductance of 850 ft. of such
wire.

kinetic energy of 8 𝑥 10 −15 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠?

35. Determine the magnitude of the voltage required to accelerate an electron to the

36. A car battery supplies a current of 50A to the starter motor. How much charge
passes through the starter in ½ minute?
37. A one-meter rod of 2-cm diameter is drawn until its resistance is 100 times the initial
resistance. Its length afterward is?

38. A kilometer of wire having a diameter of 11.7 mm and resistance of 0.031 ohms is
drawn down so that its diameter is 5.0 mm. What does its resistance become?

39. A coil consists of 200 turns of copper wire having a cross-sectional area of 0.8 mm 2.
The mean length per turn is 80 cm and the resistivity of copper is 0.02 µΩ- m. Find the
resistance of the coil.

40. (a) A rectangular carbon block ha a dimension 1.0 cm x 1.0 cm x 50 cm. (i) what is

rectangular faces. The Resistivity of carbon at 20 ᴼ 𝐶 𝑖𝑠 3.5 𝑥 10𝑥⁻⁵Ω − 𝑚.

the resistance measured between the two square ends? (ii) between two opposing

(b) A current of 5 A exists in a 10 Ω resistance for 4 minutes (i) how many coulombs
pass through any section of the resistor at this time?