National college of Engineering

Basic Electrical Engineering

Assignment on Mesh Analysis
Solve the following using mesh analysis:
Determine the mesh currents I1, I2 and I3 in figure 1. Also determine power supplied by each all voltage sources
[Ans: I1=-5.037A, I2=-2.0522A, I3=-9.701A]

6Ω 2Ω

I1 I2
4Ω
2Ω
10Ω
20V 10V
5Ω
I1
I2 I3
2Ω 4Ω
50V
I3 I4
3Ω
25V
6Ω 4Ω
Figure 1 Figure 2

1. Determine the mesh currents I1, I2, I3 and I4 in figure 2. [Ans: I1=1.181A, I2=-0.454A, I3=-2.037A, I4=0.555A]
2. Determine the mesh currents in figure 3. [Ans: I1= -0.238A, I2= -0.857A and I3=1.143A]

10V
6Ω

I1
12Ω 8V
6V 20Ω 3Ω

2Ω 2Ω
I2 I3 10Ω
10V 2A

5Ω
12V
Figure 3 Figure 4

3. Determine current in 5 Ω resistor in figure 4. [Ans: 3.353 A]

4. Use loop current method to find the currents through each of the resistance for the network given in
figure 5 . [Ans: 7.726A, 1.0816A, 3.7086A, 2.6270A, 6.0651A, 1.1921A]
5. Obtain the current in 1 ohm resistor in the following circuit in figure 7. [Ans: 2.79A]
6. Apply loop current method to find loop currents in the circuit shown in figure 8. [Ans: 3.75A, 0 and 1.25A]
 7.
10Ω 5Ω
I1

5Ω 1Ω 10Ω 10V
5A
10A

Figure 7

10Ω

1Ω 2Ω

10Ω 10Ω 10Ω 3Ω

7A
7V

100V 50V
10Ω 1Ω

2Ω

Figure 8 Figure 10

8. Calculate the current in 3 Ω resistor for the circuit shown in figure 10. [Ans: 0.5A]
9. Obtain the branch currents in the unbalanced bridge circuit shown in figure 11. Also determine the voltage
drop across AC and the equivalent resistance between terminals A and C in the bridge. [Ans: 2.4518V;
3.1673Ω]
10. Determine the node voltage and the current through the resistors using mesh method for the network
shown in figure 12. [Ans: 0V, 3.05V, 3.36V and 12V]
11. Determine the current through Galvanometer with resistance 1 ohm in between B and D as shown in
figure 13. Also calculate power delivered by the source.
B
3A
2Ω 4Ω
A
6Ω G 5Ω 6Ω
A C
3Ω 1Ω
4Ω 3Ω
12V 2Ω
6V
9A 1Ω
D D B
1Ω
Rint=2Ω
1Ω 1Ω
Figure 12
E=4V
Figure 11 C
Figure 13