Page No... 06ELE15/25 USN First / Second Semester B.E. Degree Examination, July 2007 Common to All Branches Basic Electrical Engineering Time: 3 hrs.] [Max. Marks:100 Note: Answer any FIVE full questions choosing atleast two full question from each part. PARTA 1a, State and explain Kirchoff’s laws. (06 Marks) b. A circuit consists of two parallel resistors having resistance of 20 2 and 30 Q respectively connected in series with 15 If current through 15 Q resistor is 3 A, Find: i) Current in 20 Q and 30 @ resistors ii) The voltage across the whole circuit iii) The total power and power consumed in all resistances. (08 Marks) cc. State and explain Faraday’s laws of electromagnetic induction. (06 Marks) 2a. Define the following terms as applied to AC circuits and write expressions to each of them interms of 'R’ and “X” if the impedance Z = R+jX j) Conductance if) Susceplance iii) Power factor. (06 Marks) b. A series RLC circuit is connected across a 50 Hz. supply R= 100 Q, L = 159.16 mH and C = 63.7 uP. Ifthe voltage across *C” is 150-90" V. Find the supply voltage. (08 Marks) c. The circuit shown in fig.2(c) is operating at @ = 50 rad/sec. Construct two phasor diagrams one for 3 voltages and other for 3 currents. (06 Marks) iw —_§ 0.02H + es W Fig.2(¢) 3 a. Obtain the relationship between line voltages and phase voltages in a balanced 3-phase supply system. (06 Marks) b. The power flowing in a 3, 3-wire balanced load system is measured by two wattmeter method. The reading in Wattmeter A is 750 watts and wattmeter B is 1500 watts. What is the power factor of the system and load current per phase? (08 Marks) c. Discuss the effect of variation of power factor on wattmeter readings. (06 Marks) 4a, Describe with a circuit the method of controlling a lamp from 3 switches. (06 Marks) b. Mention the factors on which the effects of electric shocks depend. What are the precautionary measures to be taken against electric shock? (06 Marks) ‘c. Sketch a single-phase induction type energy meter and name the parts. Explain how the damping torque is developed in it (08 Marks) Contd... 2Page No...2 5 O6ELE15/25, Soa b. © 6 a. b. e Toa b. ©, Boa b. PARTB. ‘What is back emf in a de motor? What is its significance? (06 Marks) Derive an expression for the armature torque developed in a de motor. (06 Marks) A 440 V de shunt motor takes an armature current of 20 A and runs at 500 rpm. The armature resistance is 0.6 Ohms. If the flux is reduced by 40%, calculate the new values of armature current and speed. (08 Marks) In what way does the core type transformer differ in construction from the shell type? With figures compare the magnetic circuits of the two. (06 Marks) Mention the various power losses in a transformer and explain how they are minimized in practice. (06 Marks) ‘A_1 KW single-phase transformer has core loss of 15 watts and full load copper loss of 20 watts. Calculate the efficiency at Full load, 0.9 PF. lag ') Half full load unity PF. i) % fall load, 0.707 P-F. lag/lead. (08 Marks) With necessary sketches distinguish between salient pole and cylindrical pole type synchronous generation and when these are preferred. (07 Marks) For an alternator find the different possible synchronous speeds for choice of poles from 2 to 10 for a frequency of 50 Hz. (04 Marks) A 6 pole, 30, star connected alternator has 90 slots and 8 conductors per slot and rotates at 1000 rpm. The flux per pole is 50 mWb. Find the induced emf across its lines. Take the winding factor of 0.97. (09 Marks) What is the principle of working of an induction motor? Explain the different types of an induction motor. = (10 Marks) Define a slip. Derive expression for the slip and frequency of rotot current. (06 Marks) An 8 pole alternator runs at 750 rpm supplies power to 4 pole induction motor. The frequency of rotor is 1.5 Hz. What is the speed of the motor? What is the slip? (04 Marks)