ECE488 Homework

Welcome! Notes for Spring 2022 Electronic Machines & Transformers course. Will make this more pretty as things evolve.

My goal is to make Electronic Circuits so easily digestible, you could teach a middle schooler. We'll see if this works.

Homework 1

Average hourly load data for Southwest Power Pool (SPP) on April 8 is given in this document.

• a. Calculate the total energy supplied by SPP on this date.
• b. Calculate the peak load for SPP on this date.
• c. Why is the peak load significantly lower than in the class example (posted above)?

Breakdown

We'll take this Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x_{3}=\frac{9}{3}} and plug it into Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2x_{2}+x_{3}=5} to find x₂:

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \begin{align} 2x_{2}+x_{3}=5 \\ x_{3}=\frac{9}{3} \\ \text{Plug in } x_{3}=\frac{9}{3} \text{ into } 2x_{2}+x_{3}=5 \text{:} \\ 2x_{2}+\frac{9}{3}=5 \\ 2x_{2}=2 \\ x_{2}=1 \end{align} }