SECTION-A (GENERAL)
1. The quantity 1 kg m/sec is equivalent to?
(A) 1 Newton (B) 1 Newton-Sec (C) 1 Newton/Sec (D) 1 Newton/m
3. Small rockets are used to make tiny adjustments in the speed of satellites. One such
rocket has a thrust of 50.0 N. If it is fired to change the velocity of a 75,000-kg spacecraft by
45 cm/s, how long should it be fired?
(A) 18.8 min (B) 9.4 min (C) 22 min (D) 11 min
6. The bases and heights of a cylinder and a cone are the same. The volume of the cylinder
is V cm3. What is the approximate volume of the cone in mm3?
(A) 3V (B) 1/9 V (C) 1/3 V (D) 333 V
7. A baby was born on February 29 th 2012. How many days will there be before he has
another birthday on February 29th?
(A) 365 (B) 366 (C) 1460 (D) 1461
10. If A and B be two matrices such that B = A -1, then which of the following may not be
true?
(A) A. B-1 = A (B) Both A and B are square matrices
(C) |A| = |B| =1 (D) A x B = B x A
11. The diameter of a van tire is 64.8 cm. A stone is stuck in the tread of the right rear tire.
What is the approximate magnitude of the stone's angular velocity if the van is traveling at
2.92 m/s?
(A) 3 rad/sec (B) 6 rad/sec (C) 9 rad/sec (D) 12 rad/sec
13. I've been living in America ___ I was five years old?
(A) when (B) until (C) since (D) for
16. Two objects A & B have same kinetic energy. Linear momentum of A is double of that of
B. The ratio of mass of A to mass of B is?
(A) 2 (B) 1/2 (C) 4 (D) 1/4
17. A bag contains 2 red, 4 blue and 2 green balls. If 2 balls are drawn at random, the
probability that both of the balls will be of same colour is?
(A) 5/28 (B) 2/7 (C) 3/7 (D) 3/14
18. A job (such as lifting an object) is done slowly and an identical job is done quickly. Both
jobs require the same amount of ____________ but different amounts of __________
(A) Work, Energy (B) Energy, Work (C) Work, Power (D) Power, Work
19. Farah’s cell phone plan included 500 anytime minutes. When she wanted to get a new
plan, she was offered a 20% increase in minutes for the same price of Rs. 500. After a six
month trial period, the wireless company would decrease the anytime minutes 20%. How
many minutes would be on her plan after the six months trial?
(A) 400 min. (B) 480 min. (C) 500 min, (D) 600 min.
20. Forty people at a gathering shook hands with each other exactly once. The number of
handshakes took placed was?
(A) 1600 (B) 1560 (C) 1520 (D) 1480
23. If a planet takes about 11.9 h to rotate about its axis, what is the planet's angular speed in
rad/s?
(A) 1.47 x 10-4 (B) 14.7 x 10-4 (C) 147 x 10-4 (D) 1.47 x 10-3
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(A) 1 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) None of these
25. The process by which a solid changes into its liquid state at a certain fixed temperature by
the absorption of heat is called
(A) Fusion (B) Liquefaction (C) Vaporization (D) Solidification
26. A turtle is walking to the left along a ruler which is being pulled to the right. The speed of
the ruler is greater than the speed of the turtle walking along the ruler. The speed of the turtle
with respect to the ground is?
(A) Greater than the speed of the ruler (B) Less than the speed of the ruler
(C) Same as the speed of the ruler (D) Zero
SECTION-B (ELECTRICAL)
31. A 100 μA ammeter has an internal resistance of 100 W. Which of the following figures in
nearer to the shunt resistance in ohms to extend its range to measure 500 μA?
(A) 20.0 (B) 22.2 (C) 25.0 (D) 50.0
32. For the circuit shown in the given Figure, considering ideal voltage and current sources,
the current flowing through 2 ohm resistance is
(A) 2 A
(B) 1 A
(C) 0 A
(D) Not enough data to calculate
33. The rms value of the resultant current in a wire which carries a dc current of 10 A and a
sinusoidal alternating current of 20 A peak value is
(A) 14.1 A (B) 17.3 A (C) 22.4 A (D) 30.0 A
35. (chap 1)If a 220 V, 5 kW heater is used on 110 V supply, heat produced by it will be
(A) 250 W (B) 10 kW (C) 125 W (D) 20 W
36. Two ac sources feed a common variable resistive load as shown in the given figure.
Under the maximum power transfer condition, the power absorbed by the load resistance R L
is
(A) 2200 W
(B) 1250 W
(C) 1000 W
(D) 625 W
37. Two similar electric charges of 1 C each are placed 1 m apart in air. Force of repulsion
between them would be nearly
(A) 1 N (B) 9 x 109 N (C) 4 N (D) 8.854 x 1012 N
39. A coil of 1000 turns is wound on a core. A current of 1 A flowing through the coil creates
a core flux of 1 mWb. The energy stored in Joules in the magnetic field is
(A) 0.25 (B) 0.5 (C) 1 (D) 2
40. For the circuit shown in the given figure, the current through L and the voltage across C 2
are respectively
(A) zero and RI
(B) I and zero
(C) zero and zero
(D) I and RI
43. Which of the following figures is nearest to reading of the voltmeter in the given figure in
volts?
(A) 80
(B) 120
(C) 200
(D) 0
46. In a simple high-pass RC filter, if the value of capacitance is doubled, the cutoff
frequency is
(A) Doubled (B) Halved (C) Tripled (D) Quadrupled
47. The transient current in a loss-free L-C circuit when excited from an ac source is a sine
wave of the type
(D) critically
(A) over damped (B) un damped (C) under damped
damped
48. (dc generator)The armature of a d.c. generator has a 2-layer lap-winding housed in 72
slots with six conductors per slot. What is the minimum number of commutator bars required
for the armature?
(A) 72 (B) 432 (C) 216 (D) 36
50. (Chap DC Generator)The critical resistance of the d.c. generator is the resistance of
(A) armature (B) field (C) load (D) brushes
53. (dc motor)A d.c. motor develops a torque of 200 N-m at 25 rps. What torque in N-m will
it develop at 20 rps?
(A) 200 (B) 160 (C) 250 (D) 128
54. (Chap DC Motor)The d.c. series motor should never be switched on at no load because
(A) the field current is zero (B) The machine does not pick up
(C) The speed becomes dangerously high (D) It will take too long to accelerate
55. A transformer has negative voltage regulation when its load power factor is
(A) zero (B) unity (C) leading (D) lagging
57. Which of the following statements is WRONG statements concerning parallel operation
of transformers?
(A) transformers must have equal voltage ratings
(B) transformers must have same ratio of transformation
(C) transformers must be operated at the same frequency
(D) transformers must have equal kVA ratings
58. If maximum torque of an induction motor is 200 units at a slip of 12%, the torque at 6%
slip would (in the same units) be?
(A) 100 (B) 160 (C) 40 (D) 50
59. A 3-phase, 4-pole, 50-Hz induction motor runs at a speed of 1440 r.p.m. What would be
the speed of the rotating magnetic field produced by the rotor in rpm with respect to the
rotor?
(A) 1500 (B) 1440 (C) 60 (D) 0
60. As load power factor of an alternator becomes more leading, the value of generated
voltage required to give rated terminal voltage
(A) increases (B) remains unchanged
(C) decreases (D) varies with rotor speed
61. Two identical alternators are running in parallel and carry equal loads. If excitation of one
alternator is increased without changing power of the prime mover, which of the following
statement is correct about the generator?
(A) kVAR supplied by it would decrease
(B) its power factor will increase
(C) kVA supplied by it would decrease
(D) it will keep supplying almost the same load
62. A synchronous motor connected to infinite busbars has at constant full-load, 100%
excitation and unity p.f. If only excitation is increased, the power factor will
(A) go lagging (B) go leading
(C) get a value more than 1 (D) both (B) and (C)
65. The phenomenon of rise in voltage at the receiving end of the open-circuited or lightly
loaded line is called the
(A) Seeback effect (B) Ferranti effect (C) Raman effect (D) none of these
70. The circuit below shows a 3-phase half-wave rectifier. The source is a symmetrical, 3-
phase four-wire system. The line-to-line voltage of the source is 100 V. The supply frequency
is 400 Hz. The ripple frequency at the output is
(A) 400 Hz.
(B) 800 Hz.
(C) 1200 Hz.
(D) 2400 Hz.
72. An ideal OP-AMP has the following values of its open loop gain, input resistance and
output resistance respectively
(A) - ∞, ∞, 0 (B) 0, 0, ∞ (C) - ∞, 0, ∞ (D) - ∞, 0, 0
74. The maximum value of torque that a synchronous motor, can develop without losing its
synchronism, is known as
(A) breaking torque (B) synchronizing torque
(C) pull out torque (D) slip torque
75. The damping ratio of a system having the characteristic equation s2+2s+8=0 is
(A) 0.353 (B) 0.330 (C) 0.300 (D) 0.250
(A) Blocked rotor test of a 3 phase induction motor helps to find short-circuit current
with normal voltage
(B) Blocked rotor test of a 3 phase induction motor helps to find short-circuit power
factor
(C) Blocked rotor test of a 3 phase induction motor helps to find fixed losses
(D) Blocked rotor test of a 3 phase induction motor helps to find motor resistance as
referred to stator
77. If the driving power from the prime-mover driving an alternator is lost but the alternator
remains connected to the supply network and the field supply also remains on. The alternator
will
(A) Start to smoke and burn at once
(B) Behave as an induction motor but will rotate in opposite direction
(C) Behave as a synchronous motor and will rotate in the same direction
(D) Behave as a synchronous motor but will rotate in a reverse direction to that
corresponding to generator action
78. In a three phase half wave rectifier, each diode conducts for
(A) Half of the cycle (B) One third of the cycle
(C) One fourth of the cycle (D) One sixth of the cycle
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79. If the transfer function of a first-order system is G ( s ) = then the time constant of
1 + 2s
the system is
(A) 10 second (B) 1/10 second (C) 2 second (D) 0.5 second
80. What would happen if a power transformer designed for operation on 50 Hz (frequency)
were connected to a 500 Hz (frequency) source of the same voltage?
(A) Current will be too much high
(B) Transformer may start to smoke and burn
(C) Eddy Current and Hysteresis loss will be excessive
(D) No effect