A Sessional Assignment:
PSpice Computer Simulation (Optional)
There are six simulation tasks related to circuits and concepts
covered in six weeks lectures on ELEC101 subject. You are required
to provide solutions for only five tasks should you wish to take
advantage of the allocated tutorial bonus mark.
Two types of submissions are acceptable:
- Individule submission (one student only), or
- Group (syndicate) of five sutdents submission.
I wish to see more syndicate submissions. A syndicate
comprising local and overseas students
is most desirable.
This optional assignment should be submitted in the format
explained below on a floppy disk on week 13 (Monday, 3.30pm).
Alternatively, you may email your assignment to me at
anytime before the deadline.
You are required to observe the following instructions very
carefully. This explains the naming convention and the
format you need to use in your submission.
Required Structure/Format for Your Submission
- Your Name and Student Number for individual submission
or group participants name and student number for
syndicate submission.
- ---- a seperator (such as a line) ----
- Heading for Simulation Task 1
- Question 1 Statement
- The Schematic representation of the Circuit in Question 1
(node numbering where not indicated should be from
left (node 1) to right, and node 0 for ground)
- PSpice source code (ie net-list)
- PSpice output file(s), including .PLOT and .PRINT
outputs and/or the .PROBE output when needed.
- Your own connents, results interpretations and short
answers to questions.
- ----- a seperator (such as a line) ----
- Heading for Simulation Task 2
- .... and so forth ....
You will be submitting only ONE FILE named 101-assi.???.
The extension (???) could be pdf (portable document file),
doc (word for windows), or htm (hypertext markup language).
If you wish to use your own favarite typesetting or wordprocessing
program, make sure you can export the resulting file in a postscript
format. In this case your assignment should have an extension of
ps (postscript).
Useful Hints...
- The circuits shown in the assignment statements are in
gif format. Feel free to use them in your submission.
- If you choose the htm format, feel free to copy
and use files in ELEC101 Home Page, including this file.
In this case you may
have your image files stored in the same directory as
101-assi.htm.
- If you choose to EMail your submission, make sure you use
utility program such as uuencode for transmitting
binary files (such as gif) via email that handles ASCII code only.
Good Luck and Happy PSpice-ing
Dr Parviz Doulai
( parviz@uow.edu.au )
Spring Session 1996.
Simulation Task No 1:
PSpice calculates values according to many laws of physics including
Ohm's law. Run PSpice simulation for the following circuit and
by browsing the PSpice output file verify Ohm's law for each
resistor in the circuit. Keep the size of the output file to a
minimum. You may also verify the voltage divider rule.
Simulation Task No 2:
Consider the circuit shown below that is a resistor bridge circuit.
Run the PSpice program and by using the information provided in
the output file verify Kirchhof's Voltage Law around any of the
loops in the resistor network and Kirchoof's Current Law for nodes
2 and 3.
Simulation Task No 3:
Write the PSpice input file (source code) for the network
shown below that will print out the voltage across R(3).
Vary R(3) from its original value (18 Ohms) to 180 Ohms
(use an increment of 10 Ohms), and show its voltage
using .PRINT and .PLOT commands.
Simulation Task No 4:
Write the input file required to determine the Thevenin
equivalent circuit for the portions of the network of figure below
external to points a and b. In this circuit, choose a resistor
and by using the .PROBE command demonstrate the maximum
power transfer theorem on this resistor.
Simulation Task No 5:
Write the PSpice input file to obtain the waveforms of
voltage across the capacitor (v(C)) and the current through the
capacitor (i(C)) for the network of figure below if the switch
is moved to position 1 at t=0 s.
Simulation Task No 6:
Write the input file to obtain a plot of the voltage
across the inductor (v(L)) and the current through the
inductor (i(L)) for the network shown below following the closing
of the switch.
