ISRO Scientist or Engineer Electrical 2015

For the following questions answer them individually

The current I em units, flowing in a coil of a tangent galvanometer is given by the expression where
r = Mean radius of the galvanometer coil.
N = Numberof turns of the galvanometercoil.
H = Horizontal componentof earth magneticfield.
$$\phi$$ = Deflection of galvanometer magnetic needle.

If a circuit is formed consisting of two dissimilar metallic conductors, and if one of the junction has a temperature of 71 and the other is at higher temperature 72, a current flow in the circuit. This effect is called as

Two wattmeter connected to measure the input of a balanced 3 Phasecircuit indicates 2000 Watts and 500 Watts respectively. What will be the power factor of the circuit when
both of the readings are positive?

Which of the following network theorem deals with finding out the circuit values of voltage and current in a restricted portion of the network by replacing the actual source of energy by a single “equivalent voltage source” or by a single “equivalent current source” acting at a terminal pair?

The differential protection relay may lose its stability for through faults due to saturation of CT magnetic circuit during short circuit condition. To overcome this difficulty which of the following technique is used

During single phasing, the unbalanced stator current have a negative sequence component, which cause

The relation between the flux density (B) and Magnetic field intensity (H) is given by $$B = \mu H$$. What is $$\mu$$ in this relation?

A power factor meter connected in a circuit indicates pf of 0.6 lagging. To improve the power factor, we have to insert the following componentin the circuit.

The figure shows a half wave rectifier circuit with input voltage $$U(t) = 10 \sin (100 \pi t)$$ volts. Assuming ideal diode characteristics with zero forward voltage drop and zero reverse current, the average power consumed in watts by the load resistance RL is

A three stage Johnson counter ring in figure is clocked at a constant frequency of $$f_c$$. from starting state of $$Q_0, Q_1, Q_2 = 101$$. The frequencyof output $$Q_0, Q_1, Q_2,$$ will be

Figure shown below, capacitor is initially charged to $$V_o = 50 V$$ with upper plate positive. Switch S is closed at t = 0. Current through the circuit at t = 0 and final voltage across C are respectively

A transformer coupled class A amplifier drives a 16 Ohm loud speaker through 4:1 transformer with $$V_{cc} = 36 V$$. If the circuit delivers 2 Watts to load, the rms voltage across the load assuming transformer efficiency as 100 % is

A-source $$V_s(t) = V \cos 100 \pi t$$ has an internal impedance of $$(4 + j3) Ω$$. If a purely resistive load is connected to this source has to extract the maximum powerout of the source, its value in Ohms should be

In a transformer, exciting current is made up of two components namely magnetizing current Im and core loss current Ic, with negligible leakage impedance drop (V is supply voltage)

In a tap changer, the voltage at consumer terminals is kept within the prescribed limits by varying the

The residual magnetism of a self excited DC generatoris lost. To build up its emf what to be done to regain the residual magnetism?

Two DC series machines are mechanically coupled. One machine is running as a motor and the other as a generator. The iron andfriction loss will be identical when

The phaser diagram of a synchronous machine connected to an infinite bus is shown below. The machine is

A 3 phase synchronous motor, connected to aninfinite bus, operating at a leading pf with a constant load torque, if excitation is increased ($$\delta$$ is load angle and $$\phi$$ power factor angle)

Two Induction motors A and B are identical except that the air gap of motor ‘A’ is 50% greater than that of motor B then

A 3 phase induction motor draws active power P and reactive power Q from grid. If it is operating as a generator, P and Q will respectively be

The output voltage of the ideal transformer with polarities and dots shown in the figure is given by

A sinusoidal voltage $$V = 50 \sin \omega t$$ is applied to a series RL circuit. The currentin the circuit is given by $$I = 25 \sin(\omega t - 53^\circ)$$. The apparent power consumed by the load is

A band pass filter is one which

A bulb in staircase has two switches, one switch being at the ground floor and the other being at first floor. The bulb can be turned ON and also OFF by any one of the switch
irrespective of the state of the other switch. The logic of switching of bulb resembles

Time domain expressionsfor the voltage $$V_1(t)$$ and $$V_2(t)$$ is given by
$$V_1(t) = V_m \sin(10 t - 130^\circ)$$ and $$V_2(t) = V_m \cos(10 t + 10^\circ)$$ which is the correct statement
The anticlockwise direction of rotation of phasor may be taken as positive.

In practice, earth is chosen as a place of zero electric potential because it

A Digital Volt Meter (DVM) uses 10 MHz clock and hasa voltage controlled generator which provides a width of $$5 \mu$$ sec/volt of unit signal. A 10 V input signal would correspond to a pulse count of

A practical current source consists of

Techniques that automatically move program and data blocks into physical main memory when they are required for execution are called

Resistor of microprocessor $$(\mu P)$$ which keeps track of the execution of program and which contain the memory address of next instruction to be executed is called

To limit current chopping in Vacuum Circuit Breakers (VCB), the contact material used has

The positive $$(Z_1)$$, negative $$(Z_2)$$ and zero $$(Z_0)$$ sequence impedances of a solidly grounded system under steady state condition always follow the relation

Eddy currentloss in core of a transformer is

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