In: Electrical Engineering
You are testing a new GPS system for general aviation aircraft and have encountered some unexplained heating. Modeling the circuit as three resistors in series, R1 (2 Ω) is known while R2 and R3 are not. We measure voltage drops of V1= 1 V, V2 = 50 V, and V3 = 100 V respectively across the three resistors. Determine the resistance of the unknown resistors.
In addition to the above calculations, explain to a member of upper management why anomalous heating in this circuit is related to determining these values and hence may be beneficial to the future design operations.