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1. A conductor has an area of 40,000 circular mils. What is the diameter of this conductor in inches? A. 0.60 B. 0.20 C. 0.50 D. 0.40 2. A copper wire has a diameter of 0.032 inch. What is the area in circular mils? A. 1,288 B. 1,024 C. 810 D. 1,624 3. An ampere is how many abampere? A. 0.4 B. 0.3 C. 0.1 D. 0.2 4. One kW is equal to _________ hp. A. 0.746 B. 1.34 C. 550 D. 1.5 5. Find the resistance of 50 m of tungsten ( = 5.5 x 10-8 -m) wire having a diameter of 0.8 mm at 20 degree centigrade. A. 4.38 B. 5.47 C. 4.92 D. 5.91 6. The specific resistance depends upon A. The area of the cross-section and the length of the conductor B. The material of the conductor, its area of cross-section and length C. The nature of the material of the conductor only D. The area of cross-section of the conductor

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7. A copper bar has a length of 20 ft, width of 4 inches and thickness of 0.5 inch. If the resistivity of copper is 10.37 -CM/ft, what is the resistance of the bar? A. 81.4 B. 8.14 C. 814 D. 0.814 8. A piece of wire 1 foot long with a cross-sectional area of 10-5 square inch has a resistance of 0.75 ohm. What is the resistance of 200 ft wire of the same material with a cross-sectional area of 3 x 10-5 square inch? A. 100 ohms B. 200 ohms C. 150 ohms D. 50 ohms 9. If 750 m of 3.0 mm diameter wire have a resistance of 27.6 ohms, what length of similar wire 5.0 mm diameter will have the same resistance? A. 1,250 m B. 208 m C. 125 m D. 2,083 m 10. Suppose that you wish to fabricate a uniform wire out of 1.00 g of copper. If the wire is to have a resistance of 0.50 ohm, and if all the copper is to be used, what will be the diameter of this wire? Resistivity of copper is 1.70 x 10-8 -m. Mass density is 8.92 x 103 kg/m3. A. 270 m B. 260 m C. 290 m D. 280 m 11. A kilometer of wire having a diameter of 11.7 mm and a resistance of 0.031 ohm is drawn down so that its diameter is 5 mm. What does its resistance become? A. 0.013 B. 0.928 C. 0.170 D. 0.072

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12. The resistance of the field winding of a DC machine is 0.25 at 25 deg C. When operating at full-load, the temperature of the winding is 75 deg C. The temperature coefficient of resistance of copper is 0.00427 per deg C at 0 deg C. Find the resistance of the field winding at full-load? A. 0.298 B. 0.315 C. 0.512 D. 0.271 13. A length of copper telephone line has a resistance of 24 ohms at 20 deg C. What is the resistance on hot summer day when its temperature rises to 36 deg C? A. 26.5 B. 24.5 C. 25.5 D. 27.5 14. What is the value of Rx in Kohms to be connected in parallel to a 75 Kohms to reduce the value of total resistance to 10 Kohms? A. 11.7 B. 15.7 C. 7.5 D. 12.7 15. A 115 v source of emf is attached to a heating element which is a coil of nichrome wire ( = 100 x 10-8 -m) of cross-section 1.20 square mm. What must be the length of the wire if the resistive power loss is equal to 700 watts? A. 22.67 m B. 26.5 m C. 19.8 m D. 17.6 m 16. A series circuit consists of three resistors R1, R2, and R3 which are connected to a 240 v source. If the voltage drop across R1 is 60 v when the current is 4 A and R2 = 1.5R3, what is the ohmic resistance R3? A. 15 B. 18 C. 27 D. 28

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17. Three resistors of 3, 6 and Z ohms, respectively are connected in parallel across a constant current source of 10 A. Find the value of Z if this resistor draws 2 A current? A. 3 B. 6 C. 4 D. 8 18. A voltage divider circuit of two resistors is designed with a total resistance of the two resistors equal to 100 ohms. If the output voltage is 20% of the input, what are the values of the two resistors in the circuit? A. 15 and 85 B. 20 and 80 C. 10 and 90 D. 2 and 98 19. A 110 v dc motor draws a current of 30 A and is located 500 ft from the power source. What is the supply voltage if the diameter of copper wire is 0.25 inch? A. 119 B. 117 C. 121 D. 115 20. A power station supplies 60KW to a load over 2,500 ft of 000 2-conductor copper feeder the resistance of which is 0.078 ohm per 1,000 ft. The bus-bar voltage is maintained constant at 600 volts. Determine the maximum power which can be transmitted. A. 60 KW B. 230.7 KW C. 120 KW D. 150 KW 21. A switch is connected across a 120 V supply. What is the voltage across the switch if it is closed? A. 120 V B. 0 C. Infinity D. 60 V 22. What is 1012 ergs/se in KW? A. 100 KW B. 1000 KW C. 10 KW D. 10,000 KW devilbat Page 4

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23. What is the work in ergs needed to raise a 10 gram weight 100m meters up? A. 4.9 x 105 B. 9.8 x 107 C. 98 x 107 D. 1.96 x 107 24. How many calories does an electric heater of 100 watts generate per second? A. 10 B. 1,000 C. 23.88 D. 42.25 25. In a certain process water is heated at a rate of 2 liters per minute. The water enters an electric heater at 25 deg C and exits at 50 deg C. Assuming no heat loss, calculate the wattage of the heater. A. 2420 B. 3488 C. 6520 D. 5125 26. How is the storage battery rated in capacity? A. Volts B. Watts C. Amperes D. Ampere-hour 27. A 12 volts battery has a 50 ampere-hour capacity. The internal resistance is 0.1 ohm. A 5 ohm load is connected for 5 hours. How many ampere-hours are still left? A. 28.51 B. 41.24 C. 38.23 D. 35.92 28. Two batteries are connected in series, one of 8 v, 2 k and the other of 16 v, 3 k . The combination supplies a 7 k load. Determine the power dissipated in the 3 k battery. A. 12 mw B. 1.2 mw C. 12 w D. 1.2 w

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29. A dozen cell with an emf of 1.5 v and internal resistance of 0.15 ohm each are joined in parallel and connected to an external resistor of 1.9875 ohms. What is the current drawn by the external resistor? A. 0.85 A B. 0.75 A C. 0.60 A D. 0.50 A 30. It is the unconventional unit of mmf in the cgs system. A. Unit pole B. Statvolts C. Gilberts D. Ampere turns 31. A solenoid has a magnetic reluctance of 2.2 x 10-3. It has 300 turns and a core area of 5 cm2. What is the flux density when the current flowing is one ampere? A. 26,300 gauss B. 34,200 gauss C. 12,200 gauss D. 21,200 gauss 32. When the current in a wire is 5A, the flux 3 meters from the wire is 30 mWb. If the current is decreased to 4A, what will be the flux? A. 24 mWb B. 37.5 mWb C. 19.2 mWb D. 46.88 mWb 33. An infinitely long straight conductor located in air is carrying a current of 100 A. Determine the flux density at point 0.08 m away from the conductor. A. 0.50 x 10-3 T B. 0.25 x 10-3 T C. 0.40 x 10-3 T D. 0.33 x 10-3 T 34. Two parallel wires 10 cm apart carry currents in the opposite direction of 8A. What is the magnetic field halfway between them? A. 32 x 10-6 T B. 64 x 10-6 T C. 16 x 10-6 T D. 8 x 10-6 T devilbat Page 6

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35. A 120 cm long conductor is carrying a current of 3.2 A and is situated at right angle to a field with flux density of 0.85 T. Calculate the force on the conductor. A. 3.2640 N B. 3.3048 N C. 3.1396 N D. 3.5477 N 36. A south pole 20 unit pole is placed one inch away from another south pole 35 unit pole. What is the force between the two poles? A. 108.5 dynes repulsion B. 108.5 dynes attraction C. 70.0 dynes repulsion D. 70.0 dynes attraction 37. Two opposite poles of strength 160 and 192 units has a force of 1,960 dynes. What is the distance in cm between them? A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6 38. A magnetic circuit has a length of 100 cm and cross-sectional area of 5 square cm. The total flux is 10 x 104 webers. The coil has 100 turns and current of 4 amperes. What is the magnetic strength? A. 500 AT/m B. 400 AT/m C. 350 AT/m D. 450 AT/m 39. An iron ring electromagnet having a relative permeability of 1250 when it is excited by a coil having 500 turns at 0.8 A. The mean length of iron parts is 48 cm, the cross-section of the core is 10 square cm and the air gap is 0.5 cm. What is its total reluctance? A. 306 x 103 AT/Wb B. 4286 x 103 AT/Wb C. 3980 x 103 AT/Wb D. 3674 x 103 AT/Wb

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40. A solenoid has an inductance of 1.58 mH. How many turns of wire does it have if the solenoid is 25 cm long and its radius is 2.5 cm? A. 160,000 turns B. 350 turns C. 400 turns D. 600 turns 41. An iron core has a cross-sectional area of 10-3 square meter and mean circumference of 1 meter. The relative permeability of the material is 500 and the number of turns is 200. Determine the current required to set up a flux of 0.001 weber. A. 7.54 A B. 7.96 A C. 8.19 A D. 8.47 A 42. Two coils having 30 and 600 turns respectively are wound side by side on a closed iron circuit of cross-section 100 cm2 and of mean length 150 cm. A current in the first coil grows steadily from zero to 10A in 0.01 second. Find the emf induced in the coil. Relative permeability of iron is 2,000. A. 209.4 v B. 301.6 v C. 299.3 v D. 300.9 v 43. Calculate the AT/m to produce flux density of 0.001 Wb/m2 at the center of a long straight solenoid. A. 783 B. 796 C. 799 D. 745 44. Wire length of 50 cm is moved in a field of density 1 weber per square meter at a velocity of 30 meters per second. What is the emf induced if the motion is perpendicular to the field? A. 1.5 v B. 150 v C. 15 v D. 0.15 v

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45. A 20 mH conductor and a 12 mH inductor are connected in series with a 1.50 A current source. Find the total energy stored. A. 36 mJ B. 16 mJ C. 32 mJ D. 64 mJ 46. Two identical coupled coils have an equivalent inductance of 100 mH when connected series aiding and 50 mH in series opposing. What is the value of the self-inductance L1 and L2? A. 3.75 mH B. 375 mH C. 0.375 mH D. 37.50 mH 47. Two identical coupled coils have an equivalent inductance of 40 mH when connected in series aiding and 17.5 mH in series opposing. What is the value of the mutual inductance? A. 0.5625 mH B. 562.5 mH C. 5.625 mH D. 56.25 mH 48. A potential difference of 60 V exists between the ends of a wire of length 110 cm. If its diameter is 0.14 mm and the current through it is 2 A, calculate the specific resistance. A. 42 x 10-8 -m B. 42 x 10-7 -m C. 4.2 x 10-8 -m D. 4.2 x 10-3 -m 49. Two wires A and B are joined in series and the temperature coefficient of the combination is 0.1% at 0 deg C. The resistance of B is 3.5 times that of A at 0 deg C. If temperature coefficient of A is 0.4% per deg C at 0 deg C, find its value for B at that temperature. A. 0.0143% B. 0.0286% C. 0.0072% D. 0.0375%

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50. It is found that the resistance of a coil of wire increases fro 50 at 15 deg C to 60 at 55 deg C. Calculate the resistance-temperature coefficient at 0 deg C of the conductor material. A. 0 = 1/18 per deg C B. 0 = 1/185 per deg C C. 0 = 1/195 per deg C D. 0 = 1/85 per deg C

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