REGISTERED ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Board Examination

Saturday, August 08, 2015 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM

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ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND ALLIED SUBJECTS

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only
one answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice
on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 2 only.

MULTIPLE CHOICE: # 1 – 48 → APRIL 2015

1. Commercially used to pressure measuring device is?

A. Bourdon tube gauge
B. Manometer
C. Kelvin gauge
D. Barometer
2. In thermodynamics we focus our attention on which forms of energy?
A. Kinetic
B. Potential
C. Internal
D. Total
3. Installations underground or in concrete slabs or masonry in direct contact with
the earth.
A. Wet location
B. Dry location
C. Damp location
D. Moist location
4. Structural steel elements subjected torsion develop.
A. Tensile stress
B. Compressive stress
C. Shearing stress
D. Bending stress
5. The three moment equation may be used to analyze:
A. A continuous beam
B. A beam loaded at the third points
C. A step tapered column
D. A three element composite beam
6. An open system first law should be utilized for all the following except:
A. Nozzle
B. A turbine
C. A piston-cylinder device with no inlet/exhaust valves
D. A compressor
7. What system in which there is no exchange of matter with the surrounding or mass
does not cross its boundaries?
A. Open system
B. Closed system
C. Isolated system
D. Non flow system
8. Change in enthalpy occurs at constant ______.
A. Pressure
B. Volume
C. Temperature
D. Entropy
9. The first law of thermodynamics is based on which of the following principles?
A. Conservation of mass
 B. Conservation of energy
C. Action and reaction
D. The entropy – temperature relationship
10. Reversed Joule cycle is also known as:
A. Rankine cycle
B. Sterling cycle
C. Brayton cycle
D. Bell-coleman cycle
11. What is the final temperature of the mixture if 128 g of cold water at 3 deg C
is mix with 289 g of hot water at 91 deg C?
A. 72 deg C
B. 62 deg C
C. 78 deg C
D. 64 deg C
12. In piston-cylinder arrangement if weight of 15,000 N located at bigger piston of
A = 0.1 sq. m., what is the force exerted in a smaller piston with A = 0.002 sq.
m.?
A. 200 N
B. 400 N
C. 300 N
D. 150 N
13. WWW stands for:
A. World Wide War
B. World Wide Web
C. World Wide Wrestling
D. World Wide Workers
14. ALU stands for:
A. Arithmetic Logic Unit
B. Arithmetic Logical Unit
C. Arithmetic Logic User
D. Arithmetic Logical User
15. 1 kwhr is how many kilojoules?
A. 360
B. 3600
C. 1000
D. 100
16. Find the required diameter of steel member if the tensile design load is 6,000
pounds. Assume a safety factor of 5 based on an ultimate strength of 65,000
lbf/sq. in.
A. 0.98 in
B. 0.86 in
C. 0.77 in
D. 0.69 in
17. A rocket with an ejection velocity of 2200 m/s is ejecting 1 percent of its mass
per second. What is the initial acceleration?
A. 24 m/s^2
B. 22 m/s^2
C. 20 m/s^2
D. 12 m/s^2
18. With initial price of P3,000 with 7 percent discount, how much is the discount
price?
A. P250
B. P220
C. P200
D. P210
19. A price of P1,500 is payable for 70 days, but it has 5 percent discount if paid
within 35 days. What is the annual interest rate?
A. 52%
B. 15%
C. 54%
D. 36%
20. An object is placed 3 feet from the center of a horizontally rotating platform.
The coefficient of friction is 0.30. The object will begin to slide off when the
platform speed is nearest to:
A. 12 rpm
B. 17 rpm
C. 22 rpm
D. 33 rpm
21. Dual Combustion cycle is used in:
A. Petrol engine
B. Diesel engine
C. Steam engine
D. Gas turbine
22. In throttling process:
A. There is no work done
B. There is no heat transfer
C. There is no change in enthalpy
D. All of these
23. For some interest rate i and some number of interest periods n, the uniform
series capital recovery factor is 0.0854 and the sinking fund factor is 0.0404.
the interest rate i must be:
A. 3.5 percent
B. 4.5 percent
C. 6 percent
D. 8 percent
24. A 60-inch diameter steel pipe, 3/8 inch thick, carries water under a pressure
head of 550 feet. Determine the hoop stress in the steel.
A. 4,760 psi
B. 38,080 psi
C. 9,520 psi
D. 19,040 psi
25. If two objects have the same momentum, but different masses, which of these is
possible?
A. The one with less mass has more kinetic energy.
B. The one with more mass requires more impulse to bring it to that momentum
from rest.
C. The same work is done to each to accelerate it from rest.
D. They each have the same velocity.
26. The present worth of an obligation of $10,000 due in 10 years if money is worth
9 percent is nearest to:
A. $10,000
B. $9,000
C. $7,500
D. $4,500
27. The wheel of an automobile spinning at 180 rpm begins to experience a 10 rad/s^2
angular acceleration. What is the angular velocity of the wheel after 5 seconds?
A. 230 rpm
B. 275 rpm
C. 477 rpm
D. 657 rpm
28. Which of the following is not a ductile metal?
A. Aluminum
B. Copper
C. Mild steel
D. Lead
29. As a person moves closer to a plane mirror, the size of the image formed by the
mirror.
A. Remains the same
B. Gets larger
C. Gets smaller
D. Increases, then decreases
30. A manufacturing company buys a machine for P500,000. It estimates the machine’s
useful life is 20 years and that it can then be sold for P50,000. Using straight
line depreciation, what is the annual depreciation charge?
A. P20,000
B. P22,500
C. P25,000
D. P27,500
31. What is the new volume of 20 liters of gas at STP which experience a pressure
increase of 2 atm and temperature increase of 75 degrees?
A. 12.75 liters
B. 25.5 liters
C. 17 liters
D. 8.5 liters
32. A piece of property is purchased for P100,000 and yields P10,000 yearly profit.
If the property is sold after five years, what is the minimum price to break-
even, with interest at 6 percent?
A. P50,000
B. P65,540
C. P77,430
D. P83,140
33. The executive officer of the Board of Electrical Engineering is ______.
A. PRC Commissioner
B. Chairman of the Board of EE
C. Civil Service Commission
D. IIEE President
34. The pressure head of an oil of sp. Gravity 0.75, corresponding to a pressure
head of 6 m of water will be:
A. 9m
B. 4.5m
C. 8m
D. 6m
35. If the speed of light in a vacuum is c, then the speed of light in a medium with
an index of refraction of 2 will be:
A. c/2
B. 2c
C. c/4
D. 4c
36. The number of neutrons in an atom with an atomic number of 26 and a mass number
of 56 is:
A. 26
B. 56
C. 30
D. 82
37. The radius of gyration of a circular section of diameter d is:
 A. d/2
B. d/4
C. d
D. d/8
38. water flows radially outward from a circular shower head through the side of a
cylinder 2 mm high and 25 cm in diameter, with an average velocity of 2 m/s.
What is the flow rate?
A. 3.14 liters/s
B. 3.41 liters/s
C. 0.314 liter/s
D. 1.0 liter/s
39. The ozone layer exists primarily in what section of the atmosphere?
A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Ionosphere
40. The majority of the rocks in the Earth’s crust are:
A. Igneous
B. Metamorphic
C. Sedimentary
D. Basalt
41. What element is added to copper to make it extremely hard?
A. Silicon
B. Aluminum
C. Lead
D. Zinc
42. The maximum bending moment in a simple supported beam of span L and carrying a
central concentrated load “W” is:
A. WL
B. WL/2
C. WL/4
D. 2WL
43. An object orbits a star in an elliptical orbit. The distance at aphelion is 2a
and the distance at perihelion is a. Determine the ratio of the object’s speed
at perihelion to that at aphelion.
A. 2
B. Sq. root of 2
C. 1
D. 4
44. The most abundant element in the universe is:
A. He
B. C
C. H
D. O
45. It is the payment for the use of borrowed money.
A. Load
B. Interest
C. Maturity value
D. Principal
46. For an orifice, head above the orifice is 4 m, and Cc = 0.6. Then the actual
velocity of flow through the orifice will be:
A. 5.32 m/s
B. 8.96 m/s
C. 12.56 m/s
D. 16.36 m/s
47. The mass of air in a room 3 x 5 x 20 m is known to be 350 kg. Determine the
specific weight.
A. 11.45 N/cu.m.
B. 11.54 N/cu.m.
C. 12.63 N/cu.m.
D. 12.36 N/cu.m.
48. An electrical engineer wishes to accumulate a total of P10,000,000 in a savings
account at the end of 10 years. If the bank pays only 4 percent compounded
quarterly, what should be the initial deposit?
A. P6.76 M
B. P6.72 M
C. P6.17 M
D. P6.18 M
49. A debt of P10,000 with 10% interest compounded semi-annually is to be amortized
by semi-annual payments over the next 5 years. The first due in 6 months.
Determine the semi-annual payment.
A. P1,295.05
B. P1,264.05
C. P1,682.80
D. P1,534.80
50. The brass wire has a triangular cross-section, 2 mm on the side. If the yield
stress for brass is 205 MPa, determine the maximum torque to which it can be
subjected so that the wire will not yield.
A. 0.82 N-m
B. 0.082 N-m
C. 0.95 N-m
D. 0.095 N-m
51. Determine the maximum horsepower a solid steel shaft 50 mm in diameter can
transmit at 4 rev/sec if the working stress in shear is 90 MPa.
A. 35.5 kW
B. 64.6 kW
C. 55.3 kW
D. 33.5 kW
52. A person throws stone upward at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal. It
lands 173.2 ft measured horizontally and 6 ft below the person’s arm measured
vertically. Determine the time of flight.
A. 1.838 s
B. 2.563 s
C. 3.642 s
D. 4.258 s
53. Determine the elongation in a helical steel spring composed of 20 turns of 20 mm
diameter wire on a man radius of 80 mm when the spring is supporting a load of 2
kN. Use G = 83 GPa.
A. 94.8 mm
B. 98.7 mm
C. 89.6 mm
D. 86.8 mm
54. A car travels 100 miles to city A in 2 hours, and then travels 200 miles to
city B in 3 hours. What is the average speed of the car for the trip?
A. 45 mph
B. 58.3 mph
C. 60 mph
D. 66.7 mph
55. Determine the maximum deflection of a 3 cm x 24 cm rectangular aluminum beam, 5
m long, if a concentrated load of 800 N acts downward at its midpoint.
 A. 0.28 m
B. 0.36 m
C. 0.18 m
D. 0.10 m
56. The Hooke’s law holds good within:
A. Yield point
B. Elastic limit
C. Plastic limit
D. Euler’s limit
57. A force of 40 N is needed to set a 10-kg steel box moving across a wooden floor.
The coefficient of static friction is:
A. 0.08
B. 0.25
C. 0.4
D. 2.5
58. The Pauli Exclusion Principle states that:
A. Any atoms with a free s orbital can form bonds.
B. No two atoms can occupy the same orbital unless their spins are different.
C. Two atoms can occupy the same orbital unless their spins are different.
D. Atoms of the same configuration do not change.
59. What mass in grams of solute is needed to prepare 3.50 L of 0.400 M NaOH?
A. 54
B. 56
C. 52
D. 58
60. The speed with which a liquid escapes from a vessel through an orifice is given
by:
A. Archimedes’ Principle
B. Torricelli’s Theorem
C. Bernoulli’s Theorem
D. Flow equation
61. A refrigerator gives off 3 J of heat for every joule of mechanical energy input.
Its coefficient of performance is:
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
62. What is Article II of Code of Ethics for Electrical Engineers?
A. Relations with Client and Employer
B. Relations with Fellow Engineers
C. Professional Life
D. Penal Provisions
63. The minimum diameter of a longitudinal bar in a column is:
A. 6 mm
B. 8 mm
C. 12 mm
D. 16 mm
64. RA 7920, Rule 2(0) defining?
A. IIEE
B. DECS
C. CHED
D. TESDA
65. Which of the following is the poorest conductor of electricity?
A. Carbon
B. Silver
 C. Steel
D. Aluminum
66. Who invented the barometer?
A. Torricelli
B. Avogadro
C. Rutherford
D. Becquerel
67. Calculate the nitrogen pressure in a mixture of 0.500 mol of oxygen and 0.750
mol of nitrogen with a total pressure of 40.0 kPa.
A. 8 kPa
B. 16 kPa
C. 24 kPa
D. 40 kPa
68. During polytropic process 10 lb of an ideal gas, whose R = 40 ft-lb/lbm-deg R
and Cp = 0.25 BTU/lb-deg R changes state from 20 psia and 40 deg F to 120 psia
and 340 deg F. Determine ∆U.
A. 585.6 BTU
B. 595.5 BTU
C. 750.6 BTU
D. 780.5 BTU
69. What is the pH of a 0.014 M Ca(OH)2 solution?
A. 1.55
B. 1.85
C. 12.15
D. 12.45
70. A metal plate 4.00 mm thick has a temperature difference of 32.0 deg C between
its faces. It transmits 200 kcal/h through an area of 5.00 sq. cm. Calculate the
thermal conductivity of this metal in W/m-K.
A. 85.5
B. 58.5
C. 68.5
D. 86.5