Romblon State University

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

EE CORRELATION 3 - EXAM 1 (Solving)

Tuesday, January 19, 2024
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Basic EE / Cells & Batteries, Dc Circuit, SET B

Network Theorem, Electrostatics, Magnetic
Circuits

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only the
answer for each item by encircling the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided.
STRICTLY NO ERASURE ALLOWED.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A resistive coil draws 2 A at 110 V after operating for a long time. If the
temperature rise is 55 deg C above the ambient temperature of 20 deg C, calculate
the external resistance which must be initially connected in series with the coil
to limit the current to 2 A. The temperature coefficient of the material of the
coil is 0.0043 per C at 20 deg C.

2. A LRT car, 5 km distance from the Tayuman, takes 100 A over a 100 mm hard drawn
copper trolley wire having a resistance of 0.270 ohm per km. The rail and ground
return has a resistance of 0.06 ohm per km. If the station voltage is 750 V, what
is the voltage of the car?

3. A circuit consisting of three resistors rated: 10 ohms, 15 ohms and 20 ohms are
connected in delta. What would be the resistances of the equivalent wye connected
load?
4. Two resistances of 10 and 15 ohms each respectively are connected in parallel.
The two are then connected in series with a 5-ohm resistance. What is the
equivalent resistance?

5. Two resistances of 10 and 15 ohms, each respectively are connected in parallel.

The two are then connected in series with a 5-ohm resistance. It is then connected
across a 12-V battery, what are the current and power?

6. A 120 V DC motor draws current of 100 A and is located 1000 ft from the supply
source. If the diameter of the copper transmission line is 0.45 inch, what must
be the voltage of the supply?

7. 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 Ra to resistance Rb . Assume Ra < Rb.

8. Find the value of R in the given circuit.

9. A small single – phase transformer has 10.2 watts at no load. The core has a
volume of 750 cubic cm. The maximum flux density is 10,000 gauss and the hysteresis
constant of the core is 5 x 10-4. Using the Steinmetz law to find the hysteresis,
determine the eddy current loss

10. A magnetic ring (Relative Permittivity = 800) has a mean radius of 10 cm and a
cross sectional area of 5 cm^2. An air gap measuring 1.5 mm is cut in the ring.
Determine the required mmf in order to produce a flux of 0.25 mWb in the air gap.

11. A magnetic circuit consists of silicon steel of 3000 permeability and an air gap.
The length of the steel core is 10 cm and the air gap is 2 cm. Both have the same
cross section of 1.5 sq. cm. A current of ½ ampere flows through the windings to
produce 2351 maxwells flux. How many turns are there in the coil?

12. A magnetomotive force is supplied by a current of one ampere through 100 turns.
The magnetic circuit consists of a steel core of 1000 permeability, 10 cm long
and 4 sq. cm area and an air gap one cm long. What is the field intensity at the
air gap

13. Find V in the circuit shown.

14. Two charges of 2 x 10-5 C and 3 x 10-6 are placed 10 cm apart. Find the force in
kg on each charge.

15. Two point charges 10 cm apart exert a force of 0.001 g on each other. If the
charges are of the same value, what is each charge in statcoulomb?

16. A capacitor in an LC oscillator has a maximum potential difference of 15V and a

maximum energy of 360 μJ. At a certain instant the energy in the capacitor is 40
μJ. At that instant what is the potential difference across the capacitor?

17. Three equal positive charges of 10 statcoloumb 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?

18. Two electrons in a vacuum experience a force of 2x10^-15 N. How far apart are the
electrons?

19. 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?
20. What is the size in square millimeter is the cable of 20 (250) MCM size?

21. If a resistor rated at 5 watts and 6 volts are connected across a battery with
an open circuit voltage of 6 volts. What is the internal resistance of the battery
if the resulting current is 0.8 A?

22. A total of 0.8 kg of water at 20 C is placed in a 1-kW electric kettle. How long
a time in minute is needed to raise the temperature of the water to 100 deg C?

23. The power drawn by a resistive coil made of copper wire is 220 W at 100 V and 20
C. Calculate the power consume by the coil at 115 V and 100 C. The temperature
coefficient of resistance at 20 C is 0.00393.

24. A Barangay power station supplies 60 kW to a load over 2,500 ft, 100 mm, two-
conductors copper 2 feeder, the resistance of which is 0.078 ohm per 1000 ft. The
bus bar voltage is maintained constant at 600 V. Determine the load current.

25. Two sphere separated from each other by 10m have a charges of 0.001 coulomb and
0.003 coulomb respectively. In between the two spheres is a point of zero electric
field. What is the distance from the 0.001 coulomb sphere?
26. The result of capacitance C1 = 6 microfarads and c2 connected in series is 3
microfarads. Capacitor C2 in microfarad is

27. Three capacitors A,B and C are charged as follows: A = 10 uF, 100 V : B = 15uF,
150V and C = 25 uF, 200V. They are connected in parallel with terminals of like
polarity together. What is the voltage across the combination?

28. The substation bus bar is made up of 2-inches round copper bars 20 ft. long. What
is the resistance of each bar I the resistivity is 1.724 x 10^-6 ohm-cm.

29. Determine the resistance of a bus bar made of copper if the length is 10 meters
long and the cross section is a 4x4 cm^2. Use 1.7241 micro ohm-cm as the
resistivity.

30. A coaxial cable has 10 m diameter inside conductor and a metallic sheath with an
inside diameter of 20 mm. If the insulating medium has a dielectric constant,
k=2, and a permittivity of 1.113 x10^-10, what is the capacitance between the
conductor and the shield per km?

31. The resistance of a copper wire at 30 deg C is 50 ohms. If the temperature

coefficient of copper at 0 deg C is 0.00427, what is the resistance at 100 deg
C.
32. The resistance of a wire is 126.48 ohms at 100 deg C. and 100 ohms at 30 deg C.
Determine the temperature coefficient of copper at 0 deg C.

33. Two heating elements which is 500 ohms and 250 ohms are connected in series with
temperature coefficient of 0.001 and 0.003 ohms per deg C, respectively at 20 deg
C. Calculate the effective temperature coefficient of the combination.

34. A lead storage battery is rated at 12 volts. If the internal resistance is 0.01
ohm, what is the maximum power that can be delivered to the load?

35. A 120V battery having an internal resistance of 0.5 ohm, is connected through a
line resistance of 9.5 ohm to a variable load resistor. What maximum power will
battery deliver to the load resistor?

36. Twelve similar wires each of resistance 2 ohms are connected so as to form a
cube. Find the resistance between the two diagonally opposite corners.

37. The insulation resistance of a kilometer of cable having a diameter of 2 cm and

an insulation thickness of 2 cm is 600 ohms. If the thickness of the insulation
is increased to 3 cm, find the insulation resistance of the cable.
38. The resistance of 120 meters of wire is 12 ohms. What is its conductance?

39. A lead-sheath cable for underground service has a copper conductor (diameter =
0.350 inch) surrounded by 0.2 inch wall of rubber insulation. Assuming the
dielectric constant of 4.3 for rubber, calculate the capacitance of the cable per
mile length.

40. A 12V battery o 0.05 ohms resistance and another battery o 12V and 0.075 ohm
resistance supply power to a 2 ohms resistor. What is the current through the
load?

41. The lead storage batteries A and B are connected in parallel. A has an open
circuit voltage of 12 V and an internal resistance of 0.2 ohms. Battery B has an
open circuit voltage of12.2V and an internal resistance of 0.3 ohm. If the two
batteries together delivers power to a 0.5 ohm power resistor. Neglecting effects
of temperature, how much current is contributed by the battery?

42. A coil with 900 turns is wound over a magnetic core with a reluctance of 10,000
AT/Wb. If a current of 0.5 A is pass through the coil, how much is the magnetic
flux that the coil generates?

43. An air-core circular coil has 5000 turns. The inner and outer diameters are 20
and 24 cm respectively. If a current of 2 A is passed through the coil, determine
the flux density inside the coil.
44. A coil in a magnetic contactor requires a 0.5 A provide a magnetizing force of
500 AT. How many turns are necessary?

45. A given magnetic circuit has a magnetic field intensity of 400 AT/m. If the length
of the magnetic path is doubled maintaining the same magnetomotive force, how
much is the new magnetic field intensity?

46. The reluctance of non-magnetic circuit is 12 units. How much flux will be set up
if surrounded by a coil 600 turns carrying a current of 3A?

47. If a current of 5A flows through a long wire of radius 0.004 meter, what is the
flux density (H) produced 0.02 m away from the surface of the wire.

48. The relative permeability of certain silicon steel is 4500. A certain magnetic
loop consist of a silicon steel of 10 cm square, 20 cm long and an air gap of ¼
cm. What is the reluctance of the magnetic circuit?

49. A certain laminated steel core has a permeability of 3000. Length is 5 cm and the
cross section is 2 sq. cm. What is its reluctance?
50. A permanent magnet loudspeaker is equipped with a 10 ohm 10 turn voice coil wound
on a tube 1 inch in diameter. The flux density in the air gap is 10,000 lines per
square inch. If the impedance of the voice coil is a pure resistance, what will
be the maximum thrust delivered to the core if the impressed signal is 20 dB
above 0.005 watt?