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Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Lucena City
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Saturday, February 20, 2021 8:00 a.m. – 12:00noon
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SET A

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. NOTC means – None of the three choices.

MULTIPLE CHOICE :

1. A positively charged dielectric has a charge of 2 coulombs. If 12.5 x 1018 free electrons are
added to it, what will be the net charge on the said dielectric?
a. 4C b. -2C c. 8C d. zero
2. A battery can deliver 10 joules of energy to move 5 coulombs of charge. What is the potential
difference between the terminals of the battery?
a. 2V b. 50V c. 0.50V d. 5V
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3. A cloud of 2.5 x 10 electrons move past a given point every 2 seconds. How much is the
intensity of the electron flow?
a. 1A b. 2A c. 2.5A d. 1.5A
4. The current in an electric lamp is 5 amperes. What quantity of electricity flows towards the
filament in 6 minutes?
a. 30C b. 3600C c. 72C d. 1800C
5. A constant current of 4 A charges a capacitor. How long will it take to accumulate a total
charge of 8 coulombs on the plates?
a. 2s b. 1/2s c. 12s d. 32s
6. A conductor whose diameter s 0.175 inch has a resistance of 0.50 ohm. The wire is drawn
through a series of dies until its diameter is reduced to 0.08inch. assuming the specific
resistance of the material remains constant, what is the resistance of the lengthened
conductor?
a. 10.22 ohm b. 10.82ohm c. 11.45ohm d. 12.75ohm
7. A certain wire has a resistance R. The resistance of another wire identical with first except for
having twice it diameter is
a. ¼ R b. ½ R c. 2R d. 4R
8. A given wire has a resistance of 17.5 ohms. If its length is 560m, how much length must be
cut-off from the wire in order to reduce its resistance to 12.5 ohms.
a. 145m b. 155m c. 160 m d. 170m
9. What is the size in square millimeter is the cable of 250 MCM size?
a. 118.656mm2 b. 126.675mm2 c. 112.565mm2 d.
132.348mm 2

10. A 500 MCM ACSR cable has 37 strands. Determine the diameter in mils of each strand.
a. 110.35 b. 116.25 c. 118.34 d. 120.24
11. The resistance of a wire is 126.48 ohms at 100 deg Celsius and 100 ohms at 30 deg. Celsius.
Determine the temperature coefficient of copper at 0 deg. Celsius.
a. 0.00427 b. 0.00615 c. 0.0256 d. 0.0356
12. Two wires A and B made from two different materials have temperature coefficient of
resistance equal to 0.0025 and 0.0005 ohm per deg. Celsius, respectively. It is desired to
make a coil of wire having a resistance of 1200 ohms with a temperature coefficient of 0.001,
using suitable lengths of the two given wires connected in series. Determine the required
length of wire A?
a. 5.0m b. 5.5m c. 6.0m d. 6.2m
13. Two heating elements which is 500 ohms and 250 ohms are connected in series with
temperature coefficients of 0.001 and 0.003 ohms per deg. Celsius, respectively at 20 deg.
Celsius. Calculate the effective temperature coefficient of the combination.
a. 0.00215 b. 0.00626 c. 0.00712 d. 0.00167
14. A cylindrical rubber insulated cable has a diameter of 0.18 inch and an insulation thickness of
0.25 inch. If the specific resistance of rubber is 1014 ohm-cm., determine the insulation
resistance per 1000-ft length of the cable.
a. 624Mohm b. 682Mohm c. 678Mohm d. 694Mohm
15. The diameter of a given bare conductor is 0.50 inch. A thermoplastic insulation with thickness
of 0.1 inch is wrapped around to insulate the conductor. Determine the insulation resistance of
this conductor per meter. Assume specific resistance of thermoplastic insulation to be 2 x 1014
ohm-cm.
a. 105 x 109ohm b. 107 x 109ohm c. 109 x 109ohm d. 110
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x10 ohm
16. A load of 10 ohms was connected to a 12-volt battery. The current draw was 1.18amperes.
What is the internal resistance of the battery??
a. 0.35ohm b. 0.20 ohm c. 0.25ohm d. 0.30 ohm
17. The potential at the terminals of the battery falls from 9 V on open circuit to 6 V when a resistor
of 10 ohms is connected across its terminals. What is the internal resistance of the battery?
a. 2 ohm b. 3 ohm c. 4 ohm d. 5 ohm
18. The electromotive force of a standard cell is measured with a potentiometer that gives a
reading of 1.3562V. when a 1.0Mohm resistor is connected across the standard cell terminals,
the potentiometer reading drops to 1.3560V. what is the internal resistance of the standard
cell?
a. 174.5 ohms b. 145.7 ohms c. 147.5ohm d. 157.4ohms
19. A battery is formed of five cells joined in series. When the external resistance is 4 ohms, the
current is 1.5A and when the external resistance is 9 ohms, the current falls to 0.75A. Find the
internal resistance of each cell.
a. 0.2 ohm b. 0.3 ohm c. 0.5 ohm d. 1.0 ohm
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20. A Barangay power station supplies 60 kW to a load over 2,500 ft, 100mm , two conductors
copper feeder, the resistance of which is 0.078 ohm per 1000 ft. The bus bar voltage is
maintained constant at 600V. determine the load current.
a. 102A b. 105A c. 108A d. 110A
21. A 120 V DC motor draws current of 100A and is located 1000ft from the supply source. If the
diameter of the copper transmission line 0.45 inch, what must be the voltage of the supply?
a. 125.32V b. 127.05V c. 129.05V d. 130.24V
22. A LRT car, 5 km distance from the Tayuman, takes 100A over a 100mm hard drawn copper
trolley wire having a resistance of 0.27 ohm per km. the rail and ground return has a resistance
of 0.06 ohm per km. If the station voltage is 750V what is the voltage of the car?
a. 580 V b. 585V c. 590V d. 595V
23. The hot resistance of an incandescent lamp is 10 ohms and the rated voltage is 50 V. Find the
series resistance to operate the lamp from an 80V supply.
a. 4 ohm b. 6 ohm c. 8 ohm d. 10 ohm
24. When two resistors A and B are connected in series, the total resistance is 36 ohms. When
connected in parallel, the total resistance is 8 ohms. What is the ratio of the resistance of Ra to
resistance of Rb. assume Ra < Rb
a. 0.4 b. 0.5 c. 0.6 d. 0.8
25. Three resistors of 10, 15, and 20 ohms each are connected in parallel. What is the equivalent
resistance?
a. 0.22ohm b. 17.2 ohms c. 45 ohm d. 4.62 ohms
26. The coil in a magnetic contactor requires 0.5A to provide a magnetizing force of 500AT. How
many turns are necessary?
a. 350 b. 500 c. 1000 d. 2000
27. A solenoid 30-cm long is wound with 300 turns, what is the value of its field strength inside the
solenoid, when the coil is carrying a current of 2 amperes.
a. 1500AT/m b. 1800AT/m c. 2000AT/m d. none of these
28. Calculate the magnetic field intensity to produce a flux density of 10 x 10-3 tesla at the center of
a long straight solenoid.
a. 6423AT/m b. 7958AT/m c. 7869AT/m d. 8323AT/m
29. A certain laminated steel core has a permeability of 3000. The length is 5m and the cross
section is 2 sq. cm. what is its reluctance?
a. 2.5 b. 8.33 x 10-4 c. 1200 d. 7500
30. A coil with 900 turns is wound over a magnetic core with a reluctance of 10,000 AT/Wb. If a
current of 0.5A is pass through the coil, how much is the magnetic flux that the coil generates?
a. 0.032Wb b. 0.045Wb c. 0.058Wb d. 0.062Wb
31. An air-core circular coil has 5000 turns. The inner and outer diameters are 20 and 24 cm
respectively. If a current of 2A is passed through the coil, determine the flux density inside the
coil.
a. 0.013T b. 0.015T c. 0.018T d. 0.021T
32. A given magnetic circuit has a magnetic field intensity of 400AT/m. if the length of the magnetic
path is doubled maintaining the same magnetomotive force, how much is the new magnetic
field intensity?
a. 200AT/m b. 400AT/m c. 600AT/m d. 800AT/m
33. A magnetic circuit consists of silicon steel of 3000 permeability, of 10 cm length and a cross
section of 1.5sq.cm and an air gap of the same cross section and of 2cm length. A ½ ampere
current flows through the 5000-turn coil. What is the field intensity at the air gap?
a. 250oersted b. 795oersted c. 1567 oersted d. 2262
oersted
34. A magnetic coil produces 100,000 maxwells with 2,000turns and with a current of 2A. The
current is cut-off and the flux collapses in 0.01 sec. What is the average voltage that will
appear across the coil?
a. 2kV b. 20V b. 200V d. 2,000kV
35. A magnet, which generates 800 maxwells of flux, is inserted through a coil of 1000 turns. It is
then withdrawn within 0.15 sec. what is the voltage that appears across the coil?
a. 0.22V b. 0.0533V c. 53.3V d. 533.3V
36. The armature coil of a generator with 50 conductors n it rotates in a magnetic field with a
magnetic flux density 1.5T. the effective area of the coil is 1000 cm². If this coil is move across
the pole in 0.5 sec, determine the average emf induced in the coil.
a. 12V b. 15V c. 20V d. 10V
37. A coil of inductance 8mH, produces 80μWb of magnetic flux. Of this total flux 60 μWb are
linked to a second coil of inductance 2mH, how much is the mutual inductance between coils?
a. 2mH b. 3mH c. 3H d. 5H
38. The total inductance of two coils, A and B when connected in series aiding is 0.5H and 0.2H
when connected in series opposing. Coil A when isolated from coil B has a self-inductance of
0.2. Calculate the self-inductance of coil B.
a. 0.12H b. 0.15H c. 0.16H d. 0.20H
39. Two identical coils with self-inductance of 250 μH each are connected in series. When
connected series aiding the equivalent inductance is 550 μH and 450 μ when connected series
opposing. How much is the coupling coefficient of two coils?
a. 0.1 b. 0.2 c. 0.3 d. 0.4
40. A cylinder whose radius is 2cm and altitude of 100cm is uniformly wound with 2500 turns of
wires in a single layer. A second layer of 100 turns and of much finer wires is wound over the
first near its center. Calculate the mutual inductance of the two coils.
a. 0.32mH b. 0.40mH c. 0.52mH d. 0.63mH
41. Two coils having 200 and 300 turns respectively are wound side by side on a common closed
core whose cross section is 100cm² and mean length of 200cm. what will be the voltage
 induced in the second coil if the current in the first coil changes from 0 to 5A in 0.05 sec.
assume relative permittivity of the core to be 1500.
a. 52.3V b. 58.6V c. 62.6V d. 67.8V
42. The energy (Wo) stored in a coil is dependent in the inductance (L) of the coil and the current
flowing. If the inductance were doubled with the same current flowing, what would be the
resulting stored energy?
a. 0.5Wo b. 1.0Wo c. 2.0Wo d. 4.0Wo
43. A 6.0H coil whose resistance is 12 Ω is connected in series with a 24 Ω resistor and to a 144V
battery and a switch. The switch is closed at t =0. Determine the energy stored in the magnetic
field at steady state.
a. 46J b. 48J c. 50J d. 52J
44. Two coils having self-inductance and mutual inductance of 3H, 2H and 1H respectively are
connected in series. If a current of 4A is passed through the coil, evaluate the ratio of the
energy stored in the magnetic field when fluxes (self and mutual) are in the same direction to
the energy stored when the said fluxes are against each other.
a. 1.73 b. 2.67 c. 2.33 d. 3.24
45. What is the wavelength of a carrier wave with a frequency of 100 mHz?
a. 1.5m b. 3.0m c. 6.0m d. 7.5m
46. A char speed of a recording instrument is 25mm/sec. one cycle of the signal being recorded
extends over 5mm. what is the frequency of the signal?
a. 5cps b. 2cps c. 20cps d. 50cps
47. A 240-V, 25Hz sinusoidal generator is connected to a 20 ohms resistor. Determine the
instantaneous current when elapsed time is 0.01sec.
a. 12.00A b. 15.43A c. 16.30A d. 16.97A
48. A wire carries a current, I = 3cos 314t amperes. What is the average current over 6 sec?
a. 0A b. 0.523A c. 1.5A d. 3.0A
49. Two current sources deliver current to a common load. The first source delivers a current
whose equation is 25sin 100πt amperes while the second delivers a current whose equation is
15 cos 100πt amperes. What is the rms value of the current in the load?
a. 10A b. 20.6A c. 29.15A d. 40A
50. Two alternators A and B delivers 100 and 150A, respectively to a load. If these currents are
out of phase by 30 electrical degrees, determine the total current drawn by the load.
a. 201.5A b. 215.4A c. 241.8A d. 250.0A
51. Three loads, unit A, B and C are connected in parallel and take current that are 12, 10 and 15A
respectively. Assuming Ia to be the reference phasor. Ib by 30° and Ic by 65°, calculate the total
(resultant) current.
a. 28.33A b. 26.46A c. 30.21A d. 32.10A
52. Which one of the following is not type of energy source?
a. Battery c. potentiometer
b. Solar cell d. generator
53. How much is the battery voltage when there are 24J of energy for 10C of charge?
a. 10V c. 24V
b. 2.4V d. 0.416V
54. The current in a given circuit is not to exceed 22A, which value of fuse is best?
a. 10A c. 25A
b. 20A d. 40A
55. When a positively charged material and negatively charged material are placed close together
then they will ____.
a. Become neutral c. repel
b. Attract d. exchange charge
56. With a DC generator, which of the following regulation is preferred?
a. 1% regulation c. 100% regulation
b. 50% d. infinite regulation
57. A 120V DC generator is run at full speed without any excitation. The open circuit voltage will
be ______.
a. Zero c. about 120V
b. About 1V d. 120V
58. An exciter used for a turbo generator is _____.
a. Shunt generator c. separatively excited generator
b. Compound generator d. series generator
59. When 2 V emf is applied across 2-farad capacitor, it will store energy of ____.
a. 2J c. 4J
b. 2W d. 4W
60. The capacitor stores the energy in the form of _______.
a. Magnetic field c. positive charge
b. Negative charge d. electric field
61. 1 KHz source is applied to 4μF capacitor, what is the capacitive reactance?
a. 25.80 c. 39.80
b. 35.80 d. 80
62. Capacitance increases with _____
a. Decrease in plate area and value of applied voltage
b. Increase in plate area and decrease in distance between the plates
c. Reduction plate area and distance between the plates
d. Increase in plate area and distance between the plates
63. If a 4μF capacitor is charged to 120V, the charge in Coulombs will be ____.
a. 0.03μC c. 33.3μC
b. 480μC d. 480C
64. Find the equivalent capacitance of the following electrical circuit?

a. 1μF c. 3μF
b. 2μF d. 4μF
65. The dark and bright lamp method is used for ______.
a. Synchronizing c. balancing load
b. Transfer load d. phase sequence
66. In an alternator, armature reaction is considered equivalent to _______.
a. Fictitious impedance c. fictitious reactance
b. Fictitious conductance d. fictitious resistance
67. In an alternator, the generated emf for the same field current and double speed will be ______.
a. Same c. less than double
b. Double d. more than double
68. What is commutation in DC motor?
a. The process of switching speed
b. The process of switching currents
c. The process of switching voltage
d. The process of switching frequency
69. Which motor is best suited to control system applications?
a. Series motor c. compound motor
b. Shunt motor d. permanent magnet motor
70. A 12V DC motor has an armature resistance of 20Ω and generates CEMF ( counter emf
generated in motor) at the rate of 0.3V/ 100 rpm. Find the actual armature current at 0 rpm?
a. 0.3A c. 0.6A
b. 0.585A d. 0.8A
71. How many number of poles are used in DC motor to avoid deep spot in the commutator?
 a. 2poles c. >2 poles
b. < 2 poles d. NOTC
72. A motor has a no-load of 1150rpm. When the maximum load for a certain application is applied
to the motor, the spped drops to 1000 rpm. Find the speed regulation of a motor for this
application.
a. 15% c. 20%
b. 0.2% d. 0.15%
73. A series DC motor has armature of 10 ohm and field resistance of 2ohms is connected to
supply voltage of 120V. what is the armature current at motor stand still condition?
a. 6A c. 8A
b. 4A d. 10A
74. Which of the following motor is used for unity power factor?
a. Hysteresis motor c. charge motor
b. Slip ring induction motor d. squirrel cage induction motor
75. During each cycle the sine wave reaches a peak value
a. Two times c. four times
b. A number of times depending on the frequency d. one time
76. The average value of a 10V peak sine wave over one complete cycle is
a. 6.37V c. 0V
b. 5V d. 7.07V
77. A moving iron ammeter is wound with 50 turns and gives full-scale deflection with 4A. if it is
desired to extend the full-scale reading to 10A, how many turns are needed on the same
bobbin?
a. 10 c. 30
b. 20 d. 40
78. A galvanometer has a coil resistance of 50 ohms and a current sensitivity of 0.001μA per mm.
How much is the voltage across its terminals when the deflection is 15cm at full scale?
a. 7.50μV c. 9.05μV
b. 8.25μV d. 10.0μV
79. A certain 50μA meter movement has a resistance of 90 ohms. What value of series multiplier
is needed to make the instrument to read 5V (maximum).
a. 98kΩ c. 102kΩ
b. 99.91kΩ d. 110kΩ
80. A direct current wattmeter with a potential coil connected across the load side of the instrument
reads 250W. if the voltage across the load is rated at 230V, what is the actual power drawn by
the load. The resistance of the potential coil is known to be 1 kΩ.
a. 194.2W c. 197.1W
b. 193.5W d. 189.6W
81. A three-phase star connected AC generator is rated at 2.5 MVA, 11 kV, 60 Hz. The generator
has a negligible resistance and a synchronous reactance 20 ohms per phase. To what value
will the terminal voltage rise when full load at 80% pf lagging is switched-off?
a. 12.7V c. 14.2V
b. 13.5V d. 15.3V
82. A 1200 kVA, 6600 V, 3-phase Y-connected alternator has an effective resistance of 0.40 ohm
and a reactance of 6 ohms per phase. It delivers full load current at 0.80 lagging power factor
at rated voltage. What will be the terminal voltage for the same excitation and load current, if
the power factor is 0.80 leading?
a. 4250V c. 7898V
b. 4560V d. 9878V
83. A 2500 kVA, 6600 V synchronous turbo alternator is operating at full load and 0.80 pf lagging.
This machine has synchronous reactance per pahse is 10.4 ohms and a negligible resistance.
Calculate the percentage voltage regulation.
a. 42.35% c. 45.84%
b. 43.96% d. 48.56%
84. A 50-kVA, 550-V single-phase alternator draws a field current 10A at rated load. With the
same field current, the open circuit emf and short-circuit current are 300V and 150A. The
ohmic resistance of the armature between terminals is 0.18 ohm. The ratio of effective to
ohmic resistance maybe taken as 1.5. Determine the regulation at 0.8 pf lagging/
a. 27.8% c. 25.5%
b. 26.4% d. 24.9%
85. A standby Diesel generator set will have the following loads; inductive load drawing 50kVA at
0.8 pf; lighting load drawing 20kVA at 1.0 pf. At what power factor will the generator operate?
a. 0.855 lagging c. 0.821lagging
b. 0.872 lagging d. 0.894 lagging
86. A 250V, 30Hz generator supplies power to a parallel circuit consisting of a 20 hp motor whose
efficiency is 90% at 0.80 lagging and a second load that draws an apparent power of 7kVA at
unity pf. Determine the system reactive power.
a. 23.582kVAR c. 10.341kVAR
b. 12.435kVAR d. 20.384kVAR
87. An open delta, three-phase transformer consisting of two single-phase transformers is
operating with a balanced three-phase load of 50kVA, 440-V at a lagging pf of 0.80. determine
the operating pf of each transformer
a. 0.393laggging, 0.993 lagging
b. 0.383 lagging, 0.887 lagging
c. 0.383 lagging, 0.993 lagging
d. 0.393 lagging, 0.887 lagging
88. Two single-phase transformers in an open-delta bank served a three-phase balanced load of
290.4 kVA. If a third is added for delta operation, what percent increase in load does this
represent?
a. 73.2% c. 80.5%
b. 84.6% d. 79.4%
89. A balanced 3-phase transformer bank has delta-connected primary and wye-connected
secondary windings. The primary to secondary winding voltage ratio is 2400/277. Solve for the
primary line current if the low-side (secondary) load drawn is line current of 1000A
a. 200A c. 150A
b. 115A d. 175A
90. What should be the turns ration of a three phase transformer to transform 10,000 kVA from
230kV from 230kV to 4160V if the transformer is to connected delta-wye?
a. 94 c. 98
b. 96 d. 97
91. The resistance of a copper wire at 30 ⁰C is 50- Ω. If the temperature coefficient of copper at 0
⁰C is 0.00427, what is the resistance at 100 ⁰C?
a. 72.26 Ω c. 54.25 Ω
b. 63.24 Ω d. 58.15 Ω
92. The resistance of a wire is 126.48- Ω at 100 ⁰C and 100- Ω at 30 ⁰C. Determine the
temperature coefficient of copper at 0 ⁰C.
a. 0.00427 c. 0.0256
b. 0.00615 d. 0.0356
93. The electromotive force of a standard cell is measured with a potentiometer that gives a
reading of 1.3562 volts. When a 1M- Ω resistor is connected across the standard cell
terminals, the potentiometer reading drops to 1.356 volts. What is the internal resistance of the
standard cell?
a. 174.5 Ω c. 147.5 Ω
b. 145.7 Ω d. 157.4 Ω
94. An electric motor lifts a mass of 450 kg, 50 meters high in 15 seconds. What is the power
output developed by the motor?
a. 12.25kW c. 14.70kW
b. 15.75 kW d. 9.67kW
95. Two charges of 2 x 10-5C and 3 x 10-6C are placed 10 cm apart. Find the force in kg on each
charge.
a. 5.5 kg c. 10.0kg
b. 7.7kg d. 2.25kg
96. Two electrons in a vacuum experience a force of 2 x 10-15 N. how far apart are the electrons?
a. 3.4 x 10-7m c. 9.60 x 10-7m
b. c. 2.84 x 10-12m d. 5.05 x 10-12m
97. Three equal positive charges of 10 stat coulomb each are located at the vertices of an
equilateral triangle of 2 cm leg. What is the magnitude of the force acting on each charge?
a. 12.5 dynes c. 43.3 dynes
b. 25 dynes d. 50 dynes
98. A lead-sheath cable for underground service has a copper conductor (diameter = 0.350 inch)
surrounded by 0.20 inch wall of rubber insulation. Assuming a dielectric constant of 4.3 for
rubber, calculate the capacitance of the cable per mile of length.
a. 1.01 μF/mile c. 0.76 μF/mile
b. 0.504 μF/mile d. 0.252 μF/mile
99. There are no transients in pure resistive circuits because they
a. Offer high resistance c. have no stored energy
b. Obey ohm’s law d. are linear circuits
100. Transient currents in electrical circuit are associated with
a. Inductors b. capacitors c. resistors d. both a and b