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A) 9V
B) 10 V
C) 8.5 V
D) None of these
ANSWER: C
2. While solving the circuit using superposition theorem, when we consider one source, the
other current sources in circuit are______
A) Short circuited
B) Open circuited
C) Depends on voltage
D) None of the above
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
4. In cables, the charging current ________
A) Leads the voltage by 90o
B) Lags the voltage by 90o
C) In phase with voltage
D) Out of phase with voltage
ANSWER: A
5. Calculate the voltage across 2Ω resistor due to 20V source in the circuit shown below.
A) 2
B) 2.5
C) 1
D) 1.5
ANSWER: D
6. In the circuit shown in figure, calculate the voltage across 2Ω resistor using 10 V source.
A) 2
B) 2.5
C) 1.5
D) 1
ANSWER: C
7. What is the total voltage across 2Ω resistor in the circuit shown in figure using
superposition theorem.
A) 2.75
B) 3.00
C) 3.25
D) 3.5
ANSWER: B
8. Which of the following is the main advantage of an auto-transformer over conventional
two winding transformer?
A) Hysteresis losses are reduced
B) Saving in winding material
C) Eddy current losses are totally eliminated
D) Copper losses are negligible
ANSWER: B
9. An 8 pole wave connected DC generator has 1000 armature conductors and flux/pole is
0.035 Wb. At what speed must it be driven to generate 500V?
A. 214 RPM
B. 280 RPM
C. 260 RPM
D. 230 RPM
ANSWER: A
10. A series LCR circuit is resonant at 150 kHz and has a Q of 50. The lower half power
frequency is ___________
A) 153 kHz
B) 148.5 kHz
C) 147.5 kHz
D) 200 kHz
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: A
13. In a series RL circuit supplied with 50 V, the circuit current is measured as 100 mA with
a phase angle of 25o. What is the reactive power supplied to the circuit?
A) 4 VAR
B) 2.1 VAR
C) 3.2 VAR
D) 7.8 VAR
ANSWER: B
14. An RLC series circuit has R= 2.5 Ω, C = 100µF and a variable inductance. The applied
voltage is 50 V at 800 rad/sec. The inductance is varied till voltage across resistance is
maximum. The value of inductance is________________
A) 0.012 H
B) 0.1 H
C) 0.0156 H
D) 0.1348 H
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
16. A coil of 1000 turns is wound on a core. A current of 1A flowing through the coil creates
a core flux of 1mWb. The energy stored in the magnetic field is _________
A) 0.25 J
B) 0.5 J
C) 1 J
D) 2 J
ANSWER: B
17. For electromechanical energy conversion, a magnetic field is employed as the medium
rather than electric field because
A) The stored energy density for practicable field strength is low in the electric field.
B) The electric field present insulation problem
C) The specific magnetic loss is more than the specific dielectric loss.
D) None of the above.
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: B
20. The voltage and current in an AC circuit is represented by v =Vm sin (ωt + 30°) and i =
Im sin (ωt − 45°). The power factor angle of the circuit is
A) 75o
B) 45o
C) 30o
D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
21. An 8 pole DC generator has a simple wave wound armature containing 32 coils of 6 turns
each. Its flux per pole is 0.06 Wb. The machine is running at 250 rpm. The induced
armature voltage is
A) 96 V
B) 192 V
C) 384 V
D) 768 V
ANSWER: C
22. Internal resistance of ideal voltage source and ideal current source are respectively
A) Zero Ω and infinite Ω
B) Infinite Ω and Zero Ω
C) Zero Ω and Zero Ω
D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
23. A 100 KVA, 1100/230 V, 50 Hz 1-ϕ T/F has 200 W core loss and 300 W full load copper
loss of 200 W and 300 W full load copper loss. Find the fraction of load at which
maximum efficiency occurs.
A) 0.816
B) 0.736
C) 0.992
D) 0.884
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: A
25. DC series motors are considered for most suitable for the applications in________
A) Fans
B) Water pumps
C) Traction
D) None of these
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
27. If the bandwidth of series resonating circuit is 10 kHz and the lower half power
frequency is 120 kHz. Find out the value of upper half power frequency.
A) 130 kHz
B) 125 kHz
C) 120 kHz
D) 135 kHz
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: D
29. The rotor slots are slightly skewed in squirrel cage induction motor to
A) Increase the strength of rotor bars
B) Reduce the magnetic hum and locking tendency of rotor
C) Economise on the copper to be used
D) Provide ease of fabrication
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
32. The bandwidth of a series resonant circuit in which the half power points occurs at 150
kHz and 180 kHz is
A) 30 kHz
B) 115 kHz
C) 330 kHz
D) 15 kHz
ANSWER: A
33. A resonance curve for a series circuit is a plot of frequency versus ___________
A) Voltage
B) Impedance
C) Admittance
D) Current
ANSWER: D
35. A 3-ϕ voltage source has a phase voltage of 120 V and supplies star connected load
having impedance (36+48j) Ω per phase. What is the line current?
A) 2 A
B) 3.5 A
C) 1.67 A
D) 2.33 A
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: A
37. For transformer given, turns ratio is equal to k, what will be the impedance of primary
with respect to secondary?
A) k2 times the secondary impedance
B) k times secondary impedance
C) secondary impedance/k
D) secondary impedance/k2
ANSWER: D
38. The RMS value of full wave rectified sine wave is 200 V. Then its maximum value will
be equal to _________
A) 400 V
B) 232.2 V
C) 282.8 V
D) 141.4 V
ANSWER: C
39. A lagging power factor observed in a circuit implies that the load
is________________________
A) Inductive
B) Capacitive
C) Both Inductive and Capacitive
D) None of these
ANSWER: A
40. A 3-ϕ, 6 pole 50 Hz induction motor is running at 5% slip. What is the speed of motor?
A) 850 rpm
B) 900 rpm
C) 950 rpm
D) 1000 rpm
ANSWER: C
41. If the load on an induction motor is increased from no load to full load, its slip and power
factor will, respectively
A) Decrease, decrease
B) Decrease, increase
C) Increase, increase
D) Increase, decrease
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: C
44. The efficiency of a 20 KVA, 2000/200 V, 1-ϕ transformer at unity pf is 98%. The total
losses at full load condition are?
A) 408W
B) 4.08 kW
C) 204 W
D) 2.04 kW
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
46. If a home has 10 tube-lights of 20 watt run for 4 hours daily and 5 Fans of 100 watt run
for 6 hour daily. Determine the cost of energy in a month of 30 days if Rs 7 per unit.
A) Rs 850
B) Rs 798
C) Rs 740
D) Rs 765
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
48. A battery has taken a charging current of 5.2 A for 24 Hrs. at a voltage level of 2.25 V,
while discharging it gave a current of 4.5 A for 24 Hrs. at an average voltage of 1.85 V.
The watt hour efficiency of the battery would be______
A) 78.20 %
B) 76.25 %
C) 71.15 %
D) 72.34 %
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
52. Reduction in core losses and increase in permeability are obtained with transformer
employing
A) Core build up laminations of cold rolled grain-oriented steel
B) Core build up laminations of hot rolled steel
C) Either of the above
D) None of the above
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
56. When two resistors are connected in series total resistance is 8Ω and when connected in
parallel, equivalent resistance is 2Ω. Values of resistances are:
A) 5Ω and 3Ω
B) 4Ω and 4Ω
C) 4Ω and 3Ω
D) 3Ω and 4Ω
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: A
59. For the EHV equipment for maintenance first it should be isolated and connected to
ground because ____________
A) To provide low impedance
B) To discharge the charging capacitance to ground
C) Protection for operating personal
D) Both b and c
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: A
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: B
66. Calculate the energy consumption per month in a house using 5 CFL of 20 W each, 3
fans of 20 W each for 3 hours in a day?
A) 15.2 kWh
B) 14.4 kWh
C) 16.4 kWh
D) 17.2 kWh
ANSWER: B
67. Calculate the backup of 100AH battery connected to a load of 100 W and supply voltage
is 12V?
A) 9.2 hours
B) 8.4 hours
C) 8.1 hours
D) 7.5 hours
ANSWER: B
68. What will happen to a given transformer if it made to run at its rated voltage but reduced
frequency?
A) Flux density remains unaffected
B) Iron losses are reduced
C) Core flux density is reduced
D) Core flux density is increased
ANSWER: D
69. An alternating voltage wave V = VmSin100t. The angular frequency of the signal
is_______
A
A) 314 rad/s
B) 377 rad/s
C) 100 rad/s
D) None of the above
ANSWER: C
70. A sinusoidal varying alternating current of frequency 500 Hz has a maximum value of
15A. Calculate the RMS value.
A) 15A
B) 14.625A
C) 10.60A
D) 16.63A
ANSWER: C
72. A 10V source is connected in series with 4 Ω resistor. What is its current source
equivalent?
A) 3 A
B) 5 A
C) 2.5A
D) 4 A
ANSWER: C
73. The elements which are not capable of delivering energy by its own are known as
A) Unilateral elements
B) Nonlinear elements
C) Passive elements
D) Active elements
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: B
75. Name the cable or conductor which connects the distributor to the consumer terminal?
A) Service main
B) Feeder
C) Distributor
D) Bus bar
ANSWER: A
76. For a transformer given, operating at constant load current, maximum efficiency will
occur at ______
ANSWER: D
77. An 8-pole, 3-phase, 50 Hz induction motor is operating at a speed of 720 rpm. The
frequency of the rotor current of the motor in Hz is __________
A) 2
B) 4
C) 3
D) 1
ANSWER: A
78. For a power transformer operating at full load, it draws voltage and current equal to 200
V and 100 A respectively at 0.8 pf. Iron and copper losses are equal to 120 W and 300W.
What is the efficiency?
A) 86.44%
B)96.44%
C)97.44%
D) 99.12%
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: B
81. A sinusoidal voltage v = 50sinωt is applied to a series RL circuit. The current in the
circuit is given by I = 25sin (ωt-53⁰). Determine the apparent power (VA).
A) 620
B) 625
C) 630
D) 635
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: A
83. In a series RL circuit supplied with 50 V, the circuit current is measured as 100 mA with
a phase angle of 25o. What is the reactive power supplied to the circuit?
A) 4 VAR
B) 2.1 VAR
C) 3.2 VAR
D) 7.8 VAR
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
86. A 3-phase induction motor runs at almost 1000 rpm at no load and 950 rpm at full load
when supplied with power from a 50 Hz, 3-phase supply. What is the corresponding
speed of the rotor field with respect to the rotor?
A) 30 rpm
B) 40 rpm
C) 60 rpm
D) 50 rpm
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: B
88. Balanced 3-ϕ system indicates the three 1-ϕ voltages are separated by:
A) 120o
B) 140o
C) 160o
D) 180o
ANSWER: A
89. If the system is perfectly balanced, the current through the neutral of 3-ϕ star connected
system is:
A) Three times of IN
B) Zero
C) Non positive
D) None of the above
ANSWER: B
90. The capacity of a battery is expressed in terms of
A) Current rating
B) Voltage rating
C) Ampere hour rating
D) None of the above
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: A
93. A 4 pole 50 Hz induction motor is running at 1300 rpm. Find the speed of stator magnetic
field with respect to the rotor?
A) 1500 rpm
B) 200 rpm
C) 1300 rpm
D) 3000 rpm
ANSWER: B
95. A 3-ϕ, 4 poles, 50 Hz induction motor has a full load speed of 1440 rpm. The full load
slip will be
A) 3%
B) 5%
C) 4%
D) 2%
ANSWER: C
96. A shunt generator running at 1000 r.p.m. has generated e.m.f. as 200 V. If the speed
increases to 1200 r.p.m., the generated e.m.f. will be nearly:
A) 150 V
B) 175 V
C) 240 V
D) 290 V
ANSWER: C
97. In a 20 kVA, 2200 / 220 volts transformer iron and full load copper losses are 300 and
400 watts respectively. Its efficiency at half load and unity power factor is
A) 95.11%
B) 96.15%
C) 97.77%
D) 98%
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: B
99. In an ac circuit, the voltage is given as V(t)= 200sin314t and the current is given as I(t)
=10sin(314t – 30o)A. The active power will be
A) 2kW
B) 1kW
C) 1.732kW
D) 866W
ANSWER: D
100. A delta connected balanced 3-phase load is supplied from a 33-phase, 400 V supply.
The line current is 30A and power taken by the load is 12kW, the impedance per phase
is
A) 20Ω
B) 30Ω
C) 23.09Ω
D) 10Ω
ANSWER: C