LUMANLAN, JOHN RAYMOND Q. ENGR.VILMA C.

PEREZ
BSEE 5-1 04/10/18

PREBOARD QUESTIONS IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

1) A 240 V, 25 Hz sinosoidal generator is connected to a 20 ohms resistor. Determine the

instantaneous current when elapsed time is 0.01 second.
a) 15043 A b) 16.30 A c) 16.97 A d) 12.00 A

2) Two current sources deliver to a common load. The first source delivers current whose equation
is 25sin 100πt A while the second delivers a current whose equation is 15 cos 100πt A. What is
the rms values of the current in the load?
a) 29.15 A b) 40 A c) 20.6 A d) 10 A

3) Calculate the period of an alternating current having a equation of I=20sin 120πt.

a) 4.167ms b) 8.33ms c) 16.67ms d) 33.33ms

4) If an AC signal has a peak voltage of 55V, what is the average value?

a) 35 V b) 61.05 V c) 86.34 V d) 38.89V

5) The substances which have a large number of free electrons and offer a low resistance are
called*
a) Insulators b) inductors c) semi-conductors d) conductors

6) The electrical energy required to heat a bucket of water to a certain temperature is 4 kWh. If the
heat losses are 20 percent, the energy input is
a) 2kWh b) 5kWh c) 3.2kWh d) 6kWh

7) The maximum current rating for a 10kΩ, 0.5 W resistor is

a) 0.707mA b) 7.07mA c) 14.14mA d) 28.28mA

8) The resistance of a conductor varies inversely as*

a) Increases c) decreases
b) First increases then decreases d) remains constant

*Objective-type question
 9) Three resistances of 10 ohms, 15 ohms and 30 ohms are connected in parallel. The total
resistance of the combination is
a) 5 ohms b) 10 ohms c) 15 ohms d) 20 ohms

10) The resistance of two wires is 25 Ω when connected in series and 6 Ω when joined in parallel.
The resistance of each wire is
a) 10 Ω, 15 Ω c) 20 Ω, 30 Ω
b) 5 Ω, 10 Ω d) 10 Ω, 20 Ω

11) A coil has 6,000 turns of wire and a resistance of 380 ohms. The coil is rewound with the same
quantity (weight) of wire, but has 13,400 turns. How many ohms will the new coil have?
a) 1895 ohms c) 1792 ohms
b) 1825 ohms d) 1905 ohms

12) A copper wire of unknown length has a resistance of 0.80 ohm. By successive passes through
drawing dies, the length of the wire is increased by 2 ½ times its original value. Assuming that
resistivity remains unchanged during the drawing process, determine the new value of its
resistance.
a) 4 ohms c) 5 ohms
b) 3 ohms d) 6 ohms

13) A one-meter rod of 2-cm diameter is drawn until its resistance is 100 times the initial resistance.
Its length afterwards is?
a) 10 m c)12.5 m
b) 100 m d) 5 m

14) A kilometer of wire having a diameter of 11.7 mm and a resistance of 0.031 ohm is drawn down
so that its diameter is 5.0 mm. What does its resistance become?
a) 0.85 ohm c) 0.93 ohm
b) 0.78 ohm d) 0.81 ohm

15) A certain wire has a resistance R. The resistance of another wire identical with the first except
for having twice its diameter is
a) 4R c) 2R
b) R/2 d) R/4

16) What is the size in square millimeter (mm2) is the cable of 250 MCM size?
a) 118.656 mm sq c) 112.565 mm sq
b) 126.675 mm sq d) 132.348 mm sq

17) An instrument which detects electric current is known as*

a) Voltmeter c) rheostat
b) Wattmeter d) galvanometer

*Objective-type question
 18) Which of the following materials has a negative temperature co-efficient of resistance?*
a) Copper b) Carbon c) Aluminum d) Brass

19) Which of the following statement is true?*

a) A galvanometer with low resistance in parallel is a voltmeter
b) A galvanometer with high resistance in parallel is a voltmeter
c) A galvanometer with low resistance in series is an ammeter
d) A galvanometer with high resistance in series is an ammeter

20) The thickness of insulation provided on the conductor depends on*

a) The magnitude of voltage on the conductor
b) The magnitude of current flowing through it
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above

21) A room 20 m x 10 m is to be illuminated by eight lamps and the average illumination is to be 50

lumens per meter. If the utilization factor is 0.48 and depreciation factor 1.2, calculate the mean
spherical power per lamp.
a) 249 cp b) 255 cp c) 235 cp d) 224 cp

22) It is required to provide illumination of 150 meter-candle in a factory hall 45 m x 15 m. Assume

that the depreciation factor is 0.80, coefficient of utilization is 0.40 and efficiency of the lamp is
20 lumens per watt. Calculate the number of 250 W lamps.
a) 60 b) 62 c) 63 d) 61

23) The illumination of a room is being designed. The data are as follows:
Room length = 30 ft Required foot-candle = 50
Room width = 20 ft Lumens per lamp = 3300
Coefficient of utilization = 0.6 Watts per lamp = 53
Maintenance factor = 70% Voltage = 220
Power factor = 75%

What is the total current of the lamp required to satisfy the requirements?
a) 21A b) 15A c) 7A d) 25A

24) The floor area of a room is 10 meters by 10 meters. The desired illumination level is 150 lux.
Assume the coefficient of utilization is 0.51, the maintenance factor is 0.95 and in the market a
fluorescent luminaire provides 1200 lumens output of light. Determine the number of
luminaires needed for the room.
a) 24 lamps b) 28 lamps c) 25 lamps d) 26 lamps

25) Bulbs in street lighting are all connected in*

a) Parallel c) series
b) series-parallel d) end-to-end

*Objective-type question
 26) A 220-V, 60Hz is driving a series RL circuit. Determine the current if R=100 ohms and 20 mH
inductance.
a) 2.2A lagging c) 2.2A leading
b) 2.0A lagging d) 2.0A leading

27) Ignoring any inductive effects, what is the impedance of RC series capacitor made up of a 56K
ohm resistor and a 0.33uF capacitor at a signal frequency of 4650 Hz.
a) 66730 0hms c) 45270 ohms
b) 57019 ohms d) 10730 ohms

28) What is the time constant of a 500mH coil and a 3300 ohm resistor in series?
a) 0.00015s b) 6.6s c) 0.0015s d) 0.0000015s

29) A current of 10 A and a pf of 0.8 lagging is taken from a single phase 250 V supply. The reactive
power of the system is
a) 1500 b) 2000 c) 250 d) none

30) An R-L series ac circuit has 15V across the resistor and 20V across the inductor. The supply
voltage is
a) 35V b) 5V c) 25V d) 175V

31) The material used for fuse must have*

a) Low melting point and low specific resistance
b) Low melting point and high specific resistance
c) High melting point and low specific resistance
d) Either A or B

32) Air blast cooling is provided for transformers of capacity exceeding*

a) 500 kVA b) 1000 kVA c) 3000 kVA d) 10000 kVA

33) Regulation of a good transformer should be near*

a) 1% b) 10% c) 20% d) 30%

34) A 220/115 V, 25 Hz, 1-phase transformer has eddy current loss of 100 watt which is half of the
no-load at rated applied voltage. If this transformer is used with primary connected to a 440 V,
50 V, 50 Hz mains, the total no-load loss would be
a) 300W b) 600W c) 1000W d) 400W

35) A 40 kVA transformer has a core loss of 400 W and a full-load copper loss of 800W. The
proportion of full-load at maximum efficiency is
a) 50% b) 62.3% c) 70.7% d) 100%
36) The no-load speed of a 3-phase, 4-pole induction motor connected to a 3-phase, 50 Hz supply is
expected to be –rpm.
a) 1400 b) 1480 c) 1450 d) 1498

*Objective-type question
 37) A 400-kW, 3-phase, 440-V, 50HZ induction motor has a speed of 950 rpm on full-load. The
machine has 6 poles. The slip of the machine will be
a) 0.06 b) 0.10 c) 0.04 d) 0.05

38) In a 3-𝛟, 4-pole, 50-Hz induction motor running with 1455 rpm, the speed of rotor field with
respect to the rotor structure is –rpm.
a) Zero b) 45 c) 1455 d) 1500

39) A simple power system composed of a generator, an ideal transformer(T1) 1:10, transmission
line of impedance 30 + j210 ohms, transformer(T2) 20:1 three phase load of impedance 7.07 +
j7.07 ohm per phase at line voltage of 460V. Bases are 10 MVA, 460V. What is the per unit
current?
a) 0.02116 pu b) 0.2216 pu c) 0.002116pu d) 2.116 pu

40) The total load of parallel generator is 17.5kVA at 0.76 power factor lagging. The first machine
has rating of 12kW at 0.8pf is operating at rated condition. What is the real power delivered by
the second machine?
a) 1300W b) 1200W c) 13,300W d) 10,000W

41) A 100kVA transformer is connected to the supply line 24 hours a day. In 6 hours it delivers
90kW at 0.9pf; 4 hours it supplies 25kW at 0.5pf and for the rest of the day it operates without
load. Its core loss at rated voltage is 1000W and its copper loss with full-load current is 1,680W.
What is the all-day efficiency of this transformer?
a) 96.7% b) 90.7% c) 92.7% d) 94.7%

42) A 3-phase induction motor is rated 2300V, 111 A and 0.75 pf. What is the size of the capacitor in
kVAR which must be placed in parallel with the circuit to improve the power factor to 0.9
lagging?
a) 141.9 b) 243.6 c) 131.7 d) 126.9

43) A Hermetic motor-compressor has 80 A full load current. What is the rating of disconnecting
means?
a) 92A b) 100A c) 80A d) 200A

44) What is the resonant frequency of a circuit when an inductance of 1uH and capacitance of 10
picofarad are in series?
a) 15.9MHz b) 50.3MHz c) 15.9kHz d) 50.3kHz

45) Two copper conductors have equal length. The cross-sectional area of one conductor is three
times that of the other. If the resistance of the conductor having smaller cross-sectional area is
20 Ω, what is the resistance of the other?
a) 20/3 ohms c) 180 ohms
b) 60 ohms d) 20/9 ohms

*Objective-type question
 46) Which method is the least used for 3-phase motor starting?*
a) Y-Δ c) auto transformer
b) across the line d) primary resistors

47) An induction motor is*

a) Self-starting with zero torque c) self-starting with high torque
b) self-starting with low torque d) non-self starting

48) The most important use of soft magnetic materials is in*

a) Meters c) transducers
b) transformers and machine cores d) transformer winding wire

49) High ac voltages are usually measured with*

a) Electrostatic voltmeters c) voltmeter and current transformer
b) potential transformer and voltmeter d) voltmeter and multiplier

50) A current transformer*

a) Should have its secondary open while the primary is carrying current
b) Should never have its secondary open while the primary is carrying current
c) Is never used with the secondary circuit closed through ammeters, wattmeters, current coils
or relay coils
d) May keep the secondary circuit closed without any serious trouble

*Objective-type question