Ministry of Higher Education

Electrical Power & Machines Dept.

Institute of Aviation
Fourth Year
Engineering & Technology
Utilization of Electric Energy

Sheet 1

1. A lamp has a mean spherical candle power of 25, Calculate the total flux of light from the lamp.

2. A 250 V lamp has a total flux of 3000 lumens and takes a current of 0.8 Amp.
Calculate:
i. lumens /watt.
ii. m.s.c.p /watt.

3. A filament lamp of 200 W is suspended at a height of 5 meters above working plane and gives uniform
illumination over an area of 5 meters diameter. Assume efficiency of reflector as 50%. Determine the
illumination on the working plane. Efficacy of the lamp is 0.9 W/c.p.

4. A lamp having a uniform luminous intensity of 200 c.p. is suspended 7 meters above street level. What
will be the illumination on the ground:
i. Vertically beneath the lamp.
ii. 7 meters away from it.

5. The illumination at a point on a working plane directly below the lamp is to be 100 lux. The lamp gives
256 c.p. uniformly below the horizontal plane. Determine the height at which the lamp is suspended?
Also find illumination at a point on the working table 1.2 meters away from the vertical axis of the amp.

6. Two lamps are hung at a height of 9 meters from the floor level. The distance between lamps is 1 meter.
Lamp one is of SOO c.o. If the illumination on the floor vertically below this lamp is 20 lux. Find the
candle power of lamp 2.

7. A small light source with intensity uniform in all directions is mounted at a height of 10 meters above the
horizontal surface. Two points A and B both lie on the surface with point A directly beneath the source.
How far is B from A if the illumination at b is only 1/10 as great as at A.

8. Two powerful street lamps of 1000 candela and 800 candela (assume uniform in all directions) are
mounted 12.5 meters above the road level and are spaced 25 meters apart. Find the intensity of the
horizontal illumination produced at a point on the ground in between the lamp posts and just below the
lamp posts.

9. A lamp giving out 1200 lumen in all directions is suspended 8 meters above the working plane. Calculate
the illumination at a point on the working plane 6 meters away from the foot of the lamp.
Ministry of Higher Education
Electrical Power & Machines Dept.
Institute of Aviation
Fourth Year
Engineering & Technology
Utilization of Electric Energy

Sheet 2

1. A corridor is lighted by 4 lamps spaced 10 m apart and suspended at a height of 5 m above the center line
of the floor. If each lamp gives 200 c.p. in all directions below the horizontal plane. Find the illumination
at the point on the floor midway between the second and third lamps.

2. Two lamps A and B of 200 candela and 400 candela, respectively are situated 100 m apart. The height of
A above the ground level is 10 m and that of B is 20 m. If a photometer is placed at the center of the line
joining the two lamp posts, calculate its reading.

3. For the room shown in figure below, four lamps A, B, C and D of 500 candela each, are put In the corners
of the ceiling. State which of the points a, b and c has the maximum illumination and which has the
minimum. Check that by calculation.

4. For the room shown in figure below, three lamps A, B and C of 500 candela each, are placed 6m above
the ground so as to stand at the corners of equilateral triangle of 15m side. Calculate the illumination at
ground: i. At the base of any of the 3 lamps (a or b or c}. ii. At the center of the area.
Ministry of Higher Education
Electrical Power & Machines Dept.
Institute of Aviation
Fourth Year
Engineering & Technology
Utilization of Electric Energy

5. For the room shown in figure below, five lamps A, B, C, D and E of 500 candela each are put in the
ceiling of the room. Calculate the illumination points at points a and b.