Non Linear loads

"... but when a turn key answer like this is solicited, how can it be for anything but the desire to avoid the cost of hiring an expert?"

I'm not so sure the OP is trying to avoid the cost of hiring an expert. Rather, I suspect the OP is a junior engineer who is trying to avoid being fired by his boss who sees the degree but doesn't suspect the OP is actually incapable of doing the job. Consider the naivete and scope of his query. It's ludicrous.

I suspect he did in engineering school exactly what he is doing here: trying to get someone else to do his work for him. He got the grades by the sweat of someone else's brow and graduated without actually getting an education. His degree is probably a sham but his boss hasn't yet realized this and the OP is trying to keep it that way. His question strongly suggests (to me, at any rate) that he is responsible for solving these problems, but hasn't one clue how to go about doing it. Whoever gave him that responsibility evidently believes he is capable of solving them. Conclusion: Somebody's fooling somebody.

I know this post sounds harsh and it probably is, but there are many precedents right here on CR4, people asking these same sorts of questions. I'm astonished at this, quite honestly, and it is definitely on the rise. I'm astonished at the sheer numbers of people who come here and ask others to fully shoulder their loads. It certainly doesn't smack of integrity. I'd hang my head in shame if that were my post.

While I still like my idea for a professor culling a class, it just came to my mind another benign scenario with both this much detail and the OP having so little of a clue what the details mean. This might be somebody (accounting, HR, etc.) who was CC'd on a memo between engineers. They posted what they thought was pertinent from the memo for us to translate. (Can I really be naive, when it's by choice. )

In any case the real answers to this belch of questions can only be found with many years of schooling, followed by real field experience. Neither of these can be obtained solely from this forum.

Both you and Redfred post some believable scenarios, but after reviewing some of this OPs posts, I believe you have hit the nail on the head!