BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI

Hyderabad Campus
Second Semester 2011-12
Electrical Sciences (EEE F111)
Comprehensive Examination (Closed Book part)
Time : 2 hrs. Date: 10/05/2012

Max Marks : 80 Day: Thursday

1. A) Draw the diagram of a moving coil instrument and label all the parts.
B) A moving coil instrument has a coil resistance of 15 and full scale deflection is given by
a current of 5mA. This instrument is to be adapted to operate:
i. as a voltmeter with full scale deflection of 100V,
ii. as an ammeter with full scale deflection of 2A.
Sketch the circuits in each case with all component values.
C) Explain how the moving coil instrument can be used for measuring alternating voltage or
current. (10M)

2. A separately excited DC machine when operating as a generator produces 260V DC output

on no-load when its armature rotates at a speed of 350RPM and flux per pole is 0.05Wb. The
armature resistance of the DC machine is 0.1. Determine the following:
i. The terminal voltage produced on 100A load, speed 350RPM and flux remains same.
ii. The terminal voltage on no-load when the flux is reduced by 10% and speed
increased by 20%.

When the DC machine is operating as Motor with 275V input voltage, 100A input current
and rated flux determine the following:

iii. The motor speed in RPM.

iv. The electrical power developed by the machine.
v. The electrical shaft power developed by the motor if the friction and windage losses
are 2000W.
vi. Shaft speed in Radians per second.
vii. The useful torque developed at the motor shaft. (10M)
3. A 10-KVA, 2000/400-V single phase transformer has resistances and leakage reactances as
follows:
Primary (2000V side): R1= 5.5; X1 = 12;RC = 20,000
Secondary (400V side): R2 = 0.2; X2 = 0.45;
Draw the equivalent circuit diagram referred to 2000V or primary side.
Determine:
i. Secondary voltage at full load, 0.8 power factor (lagging), when the primary voltage
is 2000 V.
ii. Core losses.
iii. Total copper losses. (10M)

4. For the circuit shown below verify that the transistors are in the active region by finding ic1;
vce1; ic2; and vce2.

(10M)
5. Find the V1; V2; V3in the following circuit. (Hint: Use Node analysis)

(10M)

6. In a three phase power supply system VAB = (400+j0) V; VBC lags VAB by 120 and VCAlags
VAB by 240. This supply is connected to a delta load as shown below. Calculate the phase
currents in polar form. Represent the phase currents in complex form. Calculate the line
currents. (10M)
 7. Fill the following blanks: (20M)
a. Around any loop in a circuit, the algebraic sum of voltages is equal to _________.
(1M)
b. To obtain Thevenin-equivalent resistance, all the voltage sources should be
.. ..

c. In a circuit with dc source, the inductor behave as ________________.

d. A circuit whose Thevenin-equivalent (output) impedance is Z0 transfers maximum
power to a load when ZL = _________________. A sine wave voltage is applied
across an inductor, when the frequency of voltage is increased, the current
____________
e. The electron and hole concentrations in an intrinsic semiconductor are both equal to ni per cm3
at 300o K. Now if acceptor impurities are introduced with a concentration of NA per cm3 (where
NA>> ni), the electron concentration per cm3 at 300o K will be__________________(in terms of
hole concentration and intrinsic concentration)
f. For a common-emitter amplifier, IC = 2 mA ,and =50 . The value base current is___________
g. In a pure Capacitor circuit , the current _____________the voltage by 900 degrees.

h. To work as an amplifier JFET should be operated in ________________ region.

(1M)
i. A current of 100mA is flowing through the 500 turns winding. The core is having a
reluctance of 10,000. The core flux is equal to _____________.(1M)
j. In a DC series generator, the induced voltage increases with ______________if the
rotor speed is constant. 1M)
k. ____________and _____________ are known as universal logic gates.
l. For the circuit shown below, input impedance Zin = 4 + 3j ohms at w = 100 rad / s.
The value of C is___________ (2M)

Zin R=5
C

m. Draw the voltage-divider bias circuit for BJT amplifier.. (2M)

n. A 220V (RMS) AC source is supplying 20A (RMS) current to 0.707 powerfactor
load. The active and reactive powers are _________ and _________ respectively.
(2M)
o. Represent V= 282.84 Sin t; I1 = 14.14 Sin (t+40) and I2 = 28.28 Sin (t-50) as
phasor quantities. (3M)
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