Electrical Circuit Project Design Package

Prepared For:

XLIX
Engineering Design Firm 9201 University City Blvd Charlotte, NC 28223 Engineering 1201

Prepared By: Jonathan Hilton

Date: 11/17/2013

I have neither given nor received any unauthorized help on this assignment, nor witnessed any violation of the UNC Charlotte Code of Academic Integrity.

Problem Statement: Design an electrical circuit in accordance with the sheet assigned in class. This circuit is to be submitted to and tested by, an instructor. This circuit has an 18 V power source and also has 5 nodes in it. The voltages at each node are as follows: 1) 17.811 V 2) 9.5376 V 3) 7.12 V 4) .455 V 5) 0 V This circuit must be made from resistor with the values of 220 , 330 , 2200 , 3300 , 10000 . Five resistors of each were given to build the circuit from. Each voltage drop assigned can be created from the resistors given (+/- 5%). Research: The pre-class readings are my main source of information for this project. The pre-class readings carefully describe what voltage, current, resistance, Kirchhoffs law, and Ohms law are ("Electrical Theory Pre-class Reading"). The pre-class readings describe voltage as the difference in electrical potential between two points which drives the flow of electrons. Basically what this means is that there are two charges that oppose each other (+/-) and voltage is a measure of how strong the charge is. Batteries and generators are two given examples of power sources that supply voltage. Current is also described in the pre-class readings. This source says current is the movement of electrons, specifically the rate at which electrons flow through a given area per unit of time. Basically current is a measure of how fast electrons move through a circuit. There are two types of current, AC, and DC. DC is direct current and is linear through a circuit. AC stands for alternating current. Alternating current travels in a wave like motion that looks like a sine graph. My third finding is about resistance. Resistance is basically the restriction something gives on the flow of current. Georg Ohm developed a law that deals with the relationship between resistance, voltage, and current. We know this today as Ohms law. Ohms law is used for calculating voltage drop, current, and resistance across on component of a circuit. Kirchhoffs law states that the sum of all voltages in a circuit equals 0. Another explanation of this relates back to Ohms law. Ohms law allows us to find the voltage drop of each resistor. If you take the value of the voltage drop from each resistor, it will add up to the same amount of voltage as the power source. My fifth finding is from a book called Basic Electrical Troubleshooting for Everyone. This source describes the difference between parallel and series circuits. Parallel circuits provide the same amount of voltage to each branch whereas the voltage drops across each branch in a series circuit (Kaiser, Darrel 2007).

Calculations:

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Works Cited Kaiser, Darrel. Basic Electrical Troubleshooting for Everyone. 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=46wspccVFNcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=basic electrical theory&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ug6JUpbXJYqqsQSH1YHwAg&ved=0CEwQ6AEwATgK XLIX Engineering Firm, "Electrical Theory Pre-class Reading." Accessed November 17, 2013. https://moodle2.uncc.edu/pluginfile.php/178330/course/section/37243/Electrical_Theory.pdf.