DC circuits

In the circuit shown in the figure, the node voltage $V_B$ (with node 0 taken as ground) is $7.5\,$V. Find $V_s$.

Hint: Convert $I_s$-$R_4$ to Thevenin form, and use nodal analysis.

from IPython.display import Image
Image(filename =r'dc_circuit_1_fig_1.png', width=320)

# run this cell to view the circuit file.
%pycat dc_circuit_1_orig.in

We now replace the string \$Vs with the value of our choice by running the python script given below. It takes an existing circuit file dc_circuit_1_orig.in and produces a new circuit file dc_circuit_1.in, after replacing \$Vs with the value of our choice.

import gseim_calc as calc
s_Vs = '4' # to be changed by user
l = [
  ('$Vs', s_Vs),
]
calc.replace_strings_1("dc_circuit_1_orig.in", "dc_circuit_1.in", l)
print('dc_circuit_1.in is ready for execution')

dc_circuit_1.in is ready for execution

Execute the following cell to run GSEIM on dc_circuit_1.in.

import os
import dos_unix
# uncomment for windows:
#dos_unix.d2u("dc_circuit_1.in")
os.system('run_gseim dc_circuit_1.in')

Circuit: filename = dc_circuit_1.in
main: i_solve = 0
GSEIM: Program completed.

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The circuit file (dc_circuit_1.in) is created in the same directory as that used for launching Jupyter notebook. The last step (i.e., running GSEIM on dc_circuit_1.in) creates the data file dc_circuit_1.dat in the same directory. We can now use the python code below to compute and display the quantities of interest.

import numpy as np
import gseim_calc as calc

slv = calc.slv("dc_circuit_1.in")

i_slv = 0
i_out = 0
filename = slv.l_filename_all[i_slv][i_out]
print('filename:', filename)
u = np.loadtxt(filename)
VA = slv.get_scalar_double(i_slv, i_out, "VA", u)
VB = slv.get_scalar_double(i_slv, i_out, "VB", u)
VC = slv.get_scalar_double(i_slv, i_out, "VC", u)

s_format = "%7.2f"

calc.print_double_1('VA', VA, s_format)
calc.print_double_1('VB', VB, s_format)
calc.print_double_1('VC', VC, s_format)

filename: dc_circuit_1.dat
VA:    4.00
VB:    4.50
VC:    7.25

This notebook was contributed by Prof. M. B. Patil, IIT Bombay. He may be contacted at mbpatil@ee.iitb.ac.in.