Nodal Analysis

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Chupa

Joined Mar 27, 2008
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Hey I'm back! A quick thanks to veritas for all his help last time!

Now I'm doing my Nodal Analysis lectures.

So far I've managed to answer everything on the problem sheet but one.

Interestingly, I can attain the correct answer for this problem using superposition (so I suppose the circuit is correct). However, nodal analysis (involving by-inspection followed by Gaussian Elimination) isn't working or I'm doing something wrong.

The question I'm stuck on is #8.

Thanks in advance! ^_^
 

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VVS

Joined Jul 22, 2007
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@ chupa

hey r u also studying ISE or EEE in Imperial College this year??
I have got exactly the same problem and worked it out.
 

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Chupa

Joined Mar 27, 2008
7
@ VVS: Yes indeed I am! I got stuck on this (and other questions) during revision and this forum came in superbly useful! I was very ill for the past week so I missed on a lot of revision :(

@hgmjr: I'm actually gonna sit down to this sometime today and see if I can solve it. If not, I know where to ask hehe.
 

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Chupa

Joined Mar 27, 2008
7
I did it! Thanks to guitarguy's advice on utilising the floating Vsource as a supernode, I was able to attain the correct answer.

It seems that the lecture notes' method of removing the voltage source and then reapplying it is quite clunky.

In the text book, it also performs the same operations by considering the floating Vsource(s) as a supernode. When you remove and re-add the source, the objective is to combine or add the matrix -rows corresponding to either end of the Vsource. This effect is realised instantaneously with the supernode method it seems.
 
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