1.

A 20 KVA, 220 volt, wye connected, 3-phase, salient pole synchronous generator supplies
rated load at 0.707 lagging power factor. The reactance per phase are XL-2Xq-4 ohms and
resistance is negligible. Determine the percent voltage regulation.
A. 100%
B. 600%
C. 144%
D. 10%

2. Synchronization of alternators means

A. Connecting alternators in series
B. Transferring load to one alternator to another
C. Connecting alternators in parallel
D. Adjusting the excitation of alternators

3. Adjustunent of field excitation on one of the two alternators operating in parallel will
A. increased its load
B. change its frequency
C. decrease its load
D. change its power factor

4. Each of the two alternators operating in parallel are adjusted for unity power factor.
Increasing the field current of one
A. Cause its power factor to become leading
B. Causes its power factor to become lagging
C. Changes its speed
D. Increases its load

5. Dampers in large generators

A. Increase stability
B. Reduced voltage fluctuations
C. Reduced frequency fluctuations
D. None of the above

6. In order to transter the load from one alternator to another alternator, when they are
operating in parallel
A. Field current is increased
B. Field current is decreased
C. Speed is decreased
D. Prime mover power input is increased

7. A generator at no load operates 61 Hz, slope IMW/Hz. Load 1-1.0 MW and load 2-0.8MW
are connected. Find the frequency before and after adding the load 2.
A. 60 Hz & 59 Hz.
B. 60 Hz & 59.1 Hz
C. 60 Hz & 59.2 Hz
D. 60 Hz & 59.3 Hz

8. Polar graph representing variation in candle power of illumination.

A. Photometric distribution
B. Photometric report
C. Phot sensor
D. Photometric brightness

9. For indoor lawn tennis, what is the recommended level of illumination for tournaments?
A. 30 fc
B. 10 fc
C. 20 fc
D. 50 fc

10. Compute the illumination in foot candle at the edge of a circular table of radius of 1 m, if
a 300 cd source is suspended 5 m above its center.
A. 11,31
B. 12.76
C 1.05
D.1.18

11. A solid angle is expressed in terms of

A. Radians/metre
B. Radians
C. Steradians
A. Degrees

12. A 150 candle power lamp give sufficient light to read a book at a distance of 6 feet. If the
lamp depreciates to 75 candle power, how much closer should the hook be placed to be read
with same luminance in foot-candle.
A. 3.4 t
B. 2.2 ft
C. 2.6 ft
D. 1.8 ft

13. A 100-Watt, 110 Volts lamp is rated 11.0 Im/watt. At what distance from the lamp is the
maximum illumination 10 lux?
A. 2.96 meters
B. 7,00 meters
C. 11.73 meters
D. 1,91 meters

14. A light source emits a total luminous flux of 1000 lumens distributed uniformly over a
quarter of a sphere. What is the luminous intensity at 2.5 m?
A. 270 cd
B. 318 cd
C. 357 cd
D. 400 cd

15. A light has a candle power of 100 at a given direction at a point 10 tt distance from the
source, if the receiving plane is tilted through 30 degrees from the perpendicular, what is the
illumination upon the surface?
A. 0.70 fc
B. 0,34 fc
C. 0.5 fc
D. 0.866 fc

16. A 100 candle lamp emits light uniformly in all dircetions and is suspended 2 m above the
center of a working plane of a table which is 3m square. The illumination at each corner of
the table in foot candle is?
A. 0.67
B. 1.00
C. 0.75
D. 1.65
17. A lamp gives an average output of 628 lumens. What is the M.S.C.P?
A. 45
B. 48
C. 50
D. 40

18. A 100 watt light bulb emits a total luminous flux of 1500 lumens, distributed uniformly
over a hemisphere. What is the illuminance at a distance of 2 m?
A. 10.6 lux
B. 21.2 lux
C. 46.8 lux
D. 59.7 lux

19. Given 800 lux, what is the lux when the distance to the point is doubled?
A. 300
B. 100
C. 400
D. 200

20. The net energy required of a certain county in yr 2000 was approximately 3x10 GWh
What is the equivalent value in quad?
A. 12.42
B. 10.24
C. 124.2
D. 102.4

21. Given a charge of 36 nCoul at time of 4 millisecond. Find the current.

A. 9x 10-6 A
B. 0.09 A
C. 0.9 x 10-6 A
D. 9A

22. Find the value of a capacitor with 500 volts across it, in which 20 Joule of energy is stored
A. 150 micro-farad
В. 300 micro-farad
C. 160 micro-farad
D. 320 micro-farad

23. A factory has an average demand of 176 kW of 70% power factor. What is the minimum
size of capacitor required to raise the power factor to 95%?
A. 122 kvar
B. 82 kvar
C. 165 kvar
D. 157 kvar

24. For a series RCL circuit at resonance the current amplitude is for a fixed voltage
amplitude and the power factor is
A. minimum, zero
B. minimum, unity
C. maximum, zero
D. maximum, unity

25. An induction motor are often braked rapidly by a teclinique known as "plugging", which
is the reversal of the phase sequence of the voltage supplying the motor. With 4 poles is
operating at 1750 rpm from an available infinite bus at 60 Hz. Two of the supply leads are
suddenly interchanged. What is the new slip?
A. 1.97
B. 0.97
C. 0.027
D. 0.078

26. A single phase, two wire-transmission line, 15 km long, is made up of round conductor
each of 0.8 cm in diameter, separated from each other by 40 cm. Calulate the equivalent
diameter of a fictitious hallow, thin walled copper conductor having the same inductance as
the original design.
A. 0.8cm
B. 0.623 cm
C. 1.6 cm
D. 1.25 cm

27. A 69 kV line has a horizontal configuration. The distance between adjacent conducte in
6ff, what is the geometric distance of the line?
A. 6 ft
B. 8.5 ft
C. 10.4 ft
D. 7.6 ft

25. What is the GMR of three strands conductor of radius Imm of an individual strand?
A. 2.1 mm
B. 2.304 mm
C. 1,46 mm
D. 2.177 mm

29. A single phase transmission line is 35 km long, consist of two solid round conductor cace
10.9 a diameter, the conductor spacing is 2.5 m. Calculate the inductance per conductor.
A. 36 mH
B. 63 mH
C. 46 mH
D. 15 mH

30. A 500 kV three phase transposed line is composed of one ACSR 1272 MCM, 45/7 Bittern
conductor per phase with horizontal conductor configuration, 35 ft spacing. The conductors
have diameter of 1.345 in and GMR is 0.5328 in. Find inductance per kni.
A. 1.38 mH/km
B. 2.54 mH
C. 1.56 mH
D. 3.46 mH/km

31. A 69-kV three phase transposed line is composed of one ACSR 336, 400 mil, 400 самі,
36/7 Linnet conductor per phase with a horizontal configuration of D-5ft. Day 5ft and mile
and GMR of 0.0244 ft. What is the reactance for 12 miles line?
A. 6 ohms
B. 2 ohms
C. 4 ohms
D. 8 ohms

32. A three-phase circuit, 60 Hz, 230 kV transposed transmission line is composed of two
1272 MCM, 54/19 conductors per phase with horizontal configuration. The bundle spacing is
50 cm while phase spacing between the centers of the bundle is 10 m If the GMR of the
ACSR conductors is 0 0466 1t. tind the inductive reactance in ohm/km/phase at the
transmission line?
A. 0.3775
B. 0.3398
C. 0.3628
D. 0.3964

33. A three phase 60 Hz transposed transmission line has a flat horizontal spacing
configuration. The line reactance i(0.486 ohm per km. The conductor geometric mean vadius
is 2.0 cm. Determine the spacing D in meter.
A. 10 m
R. 15 m
C. 18 m
D. 20 m

0.486734. A 5 miles three phase line has an equilateral spacing of 4 ft. The conductor has
GMR of 0 01688 ft and resistance of 0.303 ohm per mile. What is the impedance?
A. 1.515 + j3.46
B. 11.515 + j3.32
C. 1.515 + j0.002
D. 0.505 + j3.32

35. The conductors of double circuit 3-phase 115 kV lines are arranged at the vertices of a
regular hexagon 10 it on sides, Calculate the equivalent spacing of the parallel lines
A. 13.16 ft
B. 12. 78 ft
C. 13.68 ft
D. 14.14 ft

36. The three phase untransposed 20 km transmission line has 4 m horizontal spacing and a
telephone line 2 m spacing is 5m below phase e and the line are supported on the same tower.
The power line carries a 60 Hz balanced current of la-320cis lb-320cis 240°, ie-320cis120° A.
Find the magnitude of the voltage induced in the telephone line.
A. 70 V
B. 60V
C. 90 V
D. 80 V

37. A transmission line has a triangular configuration of 4ft spacing. The conductor 336.4
MCM ACSR. The outside diameter of 336.4 MCM ACSR is 0.721 in. if the length of the line
is 30km, What is the shunt capacitive reactance per phase.
A. 7782
B. 4833
C. 3000
D. 5000

38. A single circuit, 745 kV, 60 Hz 3-phase transposed transmission line is composed of four
ASCR per phase, 1272,000 circular mils, 54/19, pheasant conductor has a horizontal
configuration. The distance between the centers of the bundle is 14m and the spacing between
the conductor is 45 cm. The conductor has a diameter of 1.382 inches and gmr of 0.5592
inches. Find the capacitance per phase in micro-farad per km.
A. 0.0142
B. 0.0123
C. 0.0158
D. 0.0126
39. A one-meter of annealed copper 2.5 cm in diameter is drawn until its resistance is 100
times the initial resistance, its diameter afterward is?
A. 0.79 cm
B. 0.47 cm
C. 0.25 cm
D. 0.15 cm

40. A dc motor 120 Volts has 100 Amp rated current. The allowable voltage drop of 3% of
input voltage. Find the maximum distance from the supply if the wire has a diameter of 316
mils and resistivity of wire is 10.4 ohm-cm.
A. 508 ft
B. 316 ft
C. 178 ft
D. 203 ft

41. The resistance of a transformer winding is 0.25 ohm at 25°C. When operating at tull load
the temperature of the winding is 75°C. The temperature coefficient of resistance for copper is
0.00427 per "C. What is the winding resistance at full load?
A. 0.298 ohm
B. 0.315 ohm
C. 0.512 ohm
D. 0.271 ohm

42. A 100-Volt carbon filament lamp takes | Amp when glowing with a tilament temperature
of 1615°C. Calculate the momentary current when the lamp is first switched on in air
temperature of 15°C. The temperature coefficient of resistance for carbon may be taken as -
0.000265 per °C at 15°C.
A. 1.72 Amp
B. 0.65 Amp
C. 0.58 Amp
D. 1.94 Amp

43. A certain process uses warm water at rate of 2 liters per minute. The water enters at
electric heater at 25°C to 50°C. Assuming no heat losses, what is the wattage of the heater?
A. 5125
B. 3488
C. 2420
D. 6250

44. A battery source of 15 Volts delivers power to a load of 20 Watts at terminal voltage of
11,5 Volts. Find the internal resistance of the battery.
A. 1 ohm
B. 2 ohms
C. 3 ohms
D. 6 ohms

45. A 12-Volt battery has 50 Amp-hr capacity. The internal resistance is 0.1 ohm. A 5-olm
resistor is connected for 5 hours. How many Amp-hours are still left?
Α. 38.23
B. 3
C. 41.24
D. 11.76
46. When two unknown resistors are connected in series with a battery, the battery delivers
225 W and carries a total current of 5 Amp. For the same total current, 50 W is delivered
when the resistors are connected in parallel, Find the values of the two resistors.
A. 3 and 8
B. 6 and 3
C. 9 and 2
D. 4 and 6

47. A 20-olun resistor is connected in parallel with a variable resistor A. The parallel
combination is then connected in series with a 4-ohm resistor and connected across a 240 V
source. Determine the minimum value of R it the power of R is equal to the power taken by
the 4-ohm resistor.
A. 7.95 ohms
B. 8.40 olums
C. 7.64 olms
D. 6.87 ohms

63. For a 36-slot 4-pole three-phase full-pitch distributed winding, what is the percent
reduction in the generated voltage
A. 4
B. 3
C. 6
D. 5

64. A conductor has a radius of 0.1625 inch. What is the area in circular mils?
A. 26.406.25
B. 82.957.68
C. 100,000
D. 105,625

65. The law that induces emf and current always opposes the cause producing them was
discovered by:
A. Lenz
B Maxwell
C. Faraday
D. Ohm

66. A 3-phase induction motor has rotor resistance and standstill reactance of 0.1 ohm and 3.5
ohm per phase respectively. The rotor eint at standstill is 60 volts per phase, for a slip of 5%
what is the rotor current?
A. 14.88 A
B. 16.36 A
C 18.62 A
D. 13.5 A

67. A 30, 6 poles, 50 Hz induction motor develops 3.73 kW at 960 rpm. What will be the
stator input it the stator loss is 280 Watts?
A. 4165 W
B. 4500 W
C. 4615 W
D. 1855 W

68. A 4 pole, 60 Hz, 3-phase induction motor has a full speed of 1750 rpm. What is the speed
at halt load in tpm?
A. 1770
B. 1775
C. 3500
D. 875

69. A 15 Hp, 4 pole 60 Hz, wye connected, 208 volts induction motor draw 12 kW from the
line have losses as follows: Stator copper loss 900W, Rotor copper loss 300, Iron loss 800 W
and Friction & Windage Loss 100 W. Determine the speed of the motor in rpm.
A. 1710
B. 1720
C. 1700
E. 1747

70. A 6-pole, 3-phase, 60-Hz induction motor takes 48kW in power at 1140 rpm. The stator
copper loss is 1.4 kW, stator core loss is 1.6 kW, and rotor mechanical losses are IkW. Find
the motor efficiency?
A. 87%
B. 86%
C. 88%
D. 89%

71. An overexcited 2300-V, 3-phase, wye-connected synchronous motor runs at a power

angle of -21. The per-phase synchronous impedance of 0.1 12 2. If the motor takes a line
current of 350 A, determine the power factor.
A. 0.87 leading
B. 0.82 leading
C. 0.65 leading
D. 0.707 leading

72. A 300 hp, 2300 volts 60 cps synchronous motor has a synchronous impedance at starting
by action of the amortisseur grids, so that 6.00 per unit current will de drawn if rated voltage
is applied. It is desired to reduce the starting current drawn from the line to 2.5 per unit. What
voltage would be applied to motor at starting?
A. 1285 volts
B. 1385 volts
C. 1485 volts
D. 1585 volts

73. In a 3-phase synchronous converter the ratio ae current to dc current is equal to of

A. 0.943
B. 0.612
C. 1.60
D. 0.318

74. A DC voltage of 80 volts is applied to a circuit containing a resistance of 80 ohms in

series with an inductance of 20 Henries. Calculate the growth of current at the instant
completing circuit.
A. 4 Amp/sec
B. 1/2 Amp/sec
C. 2 Amp/sec
D. 1/4 Amp/sec

75. The time constant of an inductive circuit is defined as the ratio of

A. R/L
B. RUL
C. LER
D. LR

76. A capacitor of 200uf is connected in series with a resistance of 100 ohms. The time
constant of the circuits is
A. 2 seconds
B. 0.2 seconds
C. 0.02 seconds
D. 0.002 seconds

77. A certain precision I micro-farad capacitor has a very high resistance material used
between its conducting surfaces. The capacitor is charged to 1 volt at t=0 and disconnected
from the source. It is found that the voltage drops to 0.9 volt in 100 hour.
Find the insulation resistance of the capacitor.
A. 3420 G
Β. 1240 G
C. 4220 G
D. 6524 G

78. A series RC circut with 50,000 ohms resistance and 10 micro-farad unchanged
capacitance is sunddenly connected to a dc source of 120 volts at t 0. Calculate the current
after one time constant
A 10mA
B 1.52 mA
C. 0.88 mA
D 2.4 mA

79. A series RLC circuit with R-50 ohms, L-100mH and C-50 micro-farad is suddenly
connected to 100 volts de supply. The resulting transient current is a/an _____ case.
A. Critically damped
B. Underdamped
C. Overdamped
D. Undamped

80. A series RLC with R-2 ohm and L-0.5 H. Find the value of capacitance so that the circuit
is critically damped.
A. 0.25 F
B. 0.5 F
C. 1 F
E. 2 F

81. The armature of a motor has of 400 active conductors, the flux density in the field being
3000 gauss. The axial length of the armature is 20.32 cm. the current is 30 amperes Determine
the total force exerted in the armature.
A. 731.5 N
B. 645.9 N
C. 0.07 N
D. 439.2 N

82. A 4-pole wave-wound armature has 144 slots with two coil sides per slot, each coil having
two turns. If the flux per pole is 20mWb and the armature rotates at 720 rpm. What is the
induced voltage?
A. 138.24 V
B. 34.96 V
C. 69.12 V
D. 276. 48 V
88. An external resistance is added in series with the field of dc motor, When the motor runs
the effect of resistance is
A. To reduce the speed of the motor
B. To reduce the armature current drawn by the motor
C. To increase the speed of the motor
D. To reduce the losses

89. A 500 volt shunt motor cunning at 720 rpm takes an armature current of 50 amp, it
effective resistance 0.40 ohm. When the resistance of 1.6 ohm is placed in series with the
armature, what is the new speed? Assume that load torque is constant.
A. 720 rpm
B. 600 rpm
C. 750 rpm
D. 680 rpm

90. A dc shunt motor runs at 900 rpm from a 460V supply when taking an armature current of
25A. Calculate the speed at which it will run from a 230V supply when taking an armature
current of 15A. The resistance of the armature circuit is 0.8 ohm. Assume thus per pole at
230V have to decrease to 75% of its value at 460V
A. 495
B. 485
C. 583
D. 595

91. A 120 volt dc shunt motor is having an armature circuit resistance of 0.2 ohm and field
circuit resistance of 60 ohms, draw a line current of 40 at full load. The brush drop is 3- volt
and rated speed is 1800 rpm. What is the speed at half load?
A. 900 гpm
B. 1863 rpm
С. 3600 грm
A. 720 rpm

92. The effective voltage for a 5-turn coil on a 6 pole generator is 10.6 volts. The flas per pole
is 0.00795 Weber. Calculate the frequency of the machine
A. 60 Hz
B. 50 Hz
C. 30 Hz
D. 40 Hz

91. Calculate the electrical displacement between adjacent slots of a 16 pole alternator
144 slots.
A. 30
B. 20
C. 60
D. 20

94 The induced omf in cach coil side of a certain alternator winding is calculated as tis volta,
if the measured voltage across the coil is 19.32 volte, the winding is sleevet bry fue retry
electrical degrees?
A. 30
B. 50
C. 60
D. 20
95. For a 3-phase winding with 6 slots per pole per phase and with coil span of 15 sint, de
value of pitch factor is
A. 0.851
B. 0.966
C. 0.951
D. 1.05

96. A 4 polc, 3-phase synchronous machine has 48 slots. Calculate the armature winding
distribution factor.
A. 0.958
B. 0.966
C. 0.956
D. 0.951

97. Calculate generated est per phase of a 10 pole, 3 phase, 60 Hz alternator with 5 slot pics
pole per phase and 4 conductors per slots in two layers. The winding is short by 3 slots & the
flux per pole is 0.12 Weber
A. 2908 Volta
B. 1000 Volts
C. 720 Volts
D. 3200 Volts

98. A generator is rated 100 MW at 22 kV, and 90% power factor. The effective ac resistance
to ohmic resistance is 1.35. The resistance is obtain by connecting two terminals to a 12 volts
of DC source. If the current is 120 Amperes, what is the percent effective resistance per phase?
A. 1.5%
R. 6%
C. 4.5%
D. 6.9%

99. A 150 kVA, 1000 volts three phase wye-connected alternator has an open circuit emf of
1000 volts. When an alternator is short circuited at the same excitation, the armature cument
is 460 amperes. What is the synchronous impedance?
A. 1.26 ohms
B. 2.23 ohms
C. 2.17 ohms
D. 3.23 ohms

100. A 3-phase, 60 Hz wye connected round rotor synchronous generator rated 10 KVA, 230
volts has a synchronous reactance of 1.2 ohm per phase and an armature resistance of 0.5 ohm
per phase. Calculate the percent regulation at full load with 0,8 lagging power factor.
A. 12.8%
B. 28.1%
C. 21.8%
D. 18.2%