Sunday, March 13, 2016

3/1 KCL and KVL

My group makes a prediction on what will happen to a hot dog if hooked up in a DC circuit. We say that the hot dog will slow cook over time.
We hook up the hotdog into the circuit and it turns out that the hot dog does slowly cook rather than instantly crisp.
We were then given a situation where LEDs are inserted into the hot dog and asked to predict whether the LEDs placed parallel to the circuit or perpendicular to the circuit will light up. We said that the parallel ones will light and the perpendicular ones won't because there is no voltage difference in the LEDs placed perpendicularly.

Mason places the LEDs into the hotdog.


After the LEDs have been inserted into the hot dog, we found that our predictions were correct. The parallel LEDs lit up because those LEDs had a voltage difference and the perpendicular LEDs didn't.


We are given a problem of this circuit and asked to find Io and Va from the givens. We said that once the current from both current sources reached the middle resistor, The sum of the currents would be equal to the current going through the middle resistor. Once we found the current, we can use V = IR to find the voltage across the middle resistor.

We are given another circuit problem except this time, we have multiple loops with a lot of different currents. We used Kirchoff's Current Law to find equations for each junction in the circuit. We used the 3 equations we had to solve for the 3 unknowns.
We are given a circuit except no information is given and we are only asked to derive the equations for the voltage out and the voltage in.
We use the derived equations previously and use it for the conditions that the voltage going out has to be less than 3.3V and the Voltage going in has to be 12V and the current has to be less than 10 mA. From that information, we are asked to find the largest and smallest resistor 1 and resistor 2 can be in order to satisfy the condition.
This is the same problem except our conditions are different and we use the same equations we derived to find the minimum and maximum resistance of each resistor.

We are given a circuit where we use Kirchoff's Voltage Law to solve for the unknown current and unknown resistance.

We are given another circuit problem and asked to solve for the unknowns again. We use KCL and KVL to make equations for each loop and solve for each unknown.
We created the circuit previously on the breadboard with an LED that would light up when the diode was covered.

We are given a circuit with a bunch of resistors and asked to simplify the circuit down to the equivalent resistor where we only have 1 resistor that represents all the resistors in the circuit.



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