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Multiple Choice: 6. A circuit of three resistors rated: 10 A. 10 ohms C. 15 ohms

ohms, 15 ohms and 20 ohms are B. 20 ohms D. 5 ohms
1. Delta to wye or wye to delta connected in delta. What would be
transformation technique is applied the resistances of the equivalent wye 12. A coil of aluminum wire has a
to a ______ network. connected load? resistance of 50  when its
temperature is 0°C. Determine its
A. one-terminal A. 0.30, 0.23 and 0.15 ohm resistance at 100°C if the temperature
B. two-terminal B. 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 ohms coefficient of resistance of aluminum
C. three-terminal C. 3.33, 4.44 and 6.66 ohms at 0°C is 0.0038/°C.
D. complex D. 5.77, 8.66 and 11.55 ohms
A. 69 Ω C. 96 Ω
2. A load of 10 Ω was connected to a 7. The hot resistance of an incandescent B. 65 Ω D. 90 Ω
12-V battery. The current drawn was lamp is about _____ times its cold
1.18 A. What is the internal resistance. 13. What is the significance of
resistance of the battery? connecting loads in parallel?
A. 10 C. 5
A. 0.35 Ω C. 0.20 Ω B. 50 D. 100 A. It makes power consumption less
B. 0.25 Ω D. 0.30 Ω B. It provides greater efficiency
8. A certain factory takes 250 A at 220 C. It increases the safety factor
3. Which of the following safety rules V. It is supplied through a pair of D. It allows independent operations
should be observed while working on feeders 73.2 meters long and 1.29 of loads
live electric circuit? cm2 in cross section. What voltage
must be maintained at the supply end 14. A wire with a smaller cross-sectional
A. Keep yourself well insulated from of the feeders? (Use  = 1.78 -cm) area will produce:
earth ground.
B. When making measurements in a A. 111.5 V C. 333.5 V A. less heat
live circuit place one hand behind B. 222.5 V D. 444.5 V B. more conductance
your back or in your pocket. C. less resistance
C. Make resistance measurements 9. Four cubic meters of water is to be D. more heat
only in a live circuit. heated by means of four 1.5 kW,
D. Both A and B. 230-V immersion heating elements. 15. Halving the cross-sectional area of a
Assuming the efficiency of the heater conductor will:
4. “The sum of the emf’s and potential as 90%, determine the time required
differences around a closed loop boiling the water if the initial A. Not affect the resistance.
equals zero” is a consequence of: temperature is 20oC and if all four B. Quarter the resistance.
elements are connected in parallel. C. Half the resistance.
A. Newton’s third law D. Double the resistance.
B. Newton’s second law A. 71 hrs C. 63 hrs
C. Conservation of energy B. 69 hrs D. 66 hrs 16. An aluminum wire has a resistance of
D. Conservation of charge 50  at 20°C. The wire is heated to a
10. The equivalent wye element of 3 temperature of 100°C. Determine the
5. A Barangay power station supplies equal resistors each equal to R and resistance of the wire at 100°C,
60 kW to a load over 2,500 ft, 100 connected in delta is assuming that the temperature
mm2, two-conductors copper feeder, coefficient of resistance at 0°C is
the resistance of which is 0.078 ohm A. R C. 3/2 R 0.004/°C
per 1000 ft. The bus bar voltage is B. R/3 D. 3R
maintained constant at 600 V. A. 64.81 Ω C. 68.14 Ω
Determine the load current. 11. Find the equivalent resistance of the B. 61.84 Ω D. 63.16 Ω
figure shown below:
A. 105 A C. 108 A 17. In Norton’s Theorem, the short
B. 110 A D. 102 A circuit current is obtained by

A. opening the load terminals

B. shorting the load terminals
C. opening the voltage source
D. shorting the voltage source
E.

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18. If the diameter of a wire is doubled, 24. Which of the following is neither a A. 1.2 A, 17.28 W
its current carrying capacity becomes basic physical law nor derivable from B. 0.96 A, 11.52 W
one? C. 1.09 A, 13.1 W
A. one-fourth D. 1.5 A, 20.25 W
B. half A. Ohm’s law
C. twice B. Coulomb’s law 30. Twelve 1 Ω resistance are used as
D. four times C. Kirchhoff’s first law edges to form a cube. What is the
D. Kirchhoff’s second law resistance between two diagonally
19. Suppose you double the voltage in a opposite corners of the cube?
simple dc circuit, and cut the 25. A process equipment contains 100
resistance in half. The current will gallons of water at 25oC. It is A. 5/6 Ω C. 1 Ω
become: required to bring it to boiling in 10 B. 6/5 Ω D. 3/2 Ω
minutes. The heat loss is estimated to
A. Four times as great be 5%. What is the kW rating of the 31. The polarity of a resistor’s voltage
B. Twice as great heater? drop is determined by
C. The same as it was before
D. Half as great A. 125 kW C. 252 kW A. the direction of current through
B. 50.5 k D. 207 kW the resistor.
20. In a series circuit, the current, I, is B. how large the resistance is.
26. If a resistor in a series circuit C. how close the resistor is to the
A. different in each resistor. becomes open, how much is the voltage source.
B. the same everywhere. voltage across each of the remaining D. how far away the resistor is from
C. the highest near the positive and resistors that are still good? the voltage source
negative terminals of the voltage
source. A. Each good resistor has the full 32. The electric energy required to raise
D. different at all, the largest value of applied voltage. the temperature of a given amount of
resistance has B. The applied voltage is split water is 1000 kWh. If heat losses are
evenly among the good resistors. 25%, the total heating energy
21. When a material becomes a C. 0 V. required is _____ kWh.
superconductor, its resistivity D. It cannot be determined.
becomes A. 1500 C. 1250
27. A series circuit in which desired B. 1333 D. 1000
A. very small portions of the source voltage may be
B. zero tapped off for use in equipment. 33. The resistance of a 5 m length of
C. about 10% of normal value wire is 600 . Determine the
D. about 20% of normal value A. Voltage selector resistance of an 8 m length of the
B. Dividing network same wire.
22. Two (2) 115-V incandescent lamps A C. Voltage trap
and B are connected in series across a D. Voltage divider A. 960 Ω C. 690 Ω
230-V source. If lamp A is rated 75 B. 906 Ω D. 609 Ω
watts and lamp B is rated 50 watts, 28. If a complex circuit is reduced to an
determine the current drawn by the equivalent circuit consisting of a 34. What is expected when two 20 k, 1
series connection. single voltage source in series with a watt resistor in parallel are used
single resistor, this is an example of: instead of one 10 k, 1 watt?
A. 0.52 A C. 0.64 A
B. 0.48 A D. 0.57 A A. Norton's theorem A. Provides higher current
B. Thevenin's theorem B. Provides less power
23. A network contains linear resistors C. Ohm's law C. Provides more power
and ideal voltage sources. If values of D. Kirchhoff's law D. Provides wider tolerance
all the resistors are doubled, then the
voltage across each resistor is 29. Two resistances of 10 and 15 ohms, 35. Twelve identical wires of resistance 6
each respectively are connected in ohms each are arranged to form the
A. increase by 4 times parallel. The two are then connected edge of a cube. A current of 40 mA is
B. half in series with a 5-ohm resistance. It is led into the cube at one corner and
C doubled then connected across a 12-V battery, out at the other diagonally opposite
D. no change what are the current and power? corner. Calculate the potential

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difference developed between these 42. In a parallel circuit, the individual 47. The power transferred from a supply
corners. branch currents are source to a load is at its maximum
when the resistance of the load is
A. 0.20 V C. 0.28 V A. not related to the branch _______ the internal resistance of the
B. 0.22 V D. 0.24 V resistance values source.
B. directly proportional to the branch
36. The superposition theorem is used resistance values A. lower than
when the circuit contains C. inversely proportional to the B. greater than
branch resistance values. C. equal to
A. reactive elements D. None of the above D. one-half of the
B. active elements
C. number of voltage sources 43. In any network made up of linear 48. What If you have a 12-strand
D. single voltage source resistances and containing more than conductor and each strand has a
one source of e.m.f., the resultant radius (one-half the diameter) of 2/10
37. If a resistance element is part of two current flowing in any branch is the inch, what is the square mil area of
loops, how many voltage drops must algebraic sum of the currents that the conductor?
be calculated for that component? would flow in that branch if each
source was considered separately. A. 1507965 sq. mil
A. Two C. One What is this theorem? B. 1705965 sq. mil
B. None D. Three C. 1607955 sq. mil
A. Thevenin's theorem D. 1907565 sq. mil
38. In a normally operating parallel B. Norton's theorem
circuit, the individual branch currents C. Superposition theorem 49. A 5- and 10- resistor are
are D. Millman's theorem connected in series across a dc
voltage source. Which resistor will
A. independent of each other. 44. Two resistors of 4 ohms and 6 ohms dissipate more power?
B. not affected by the value of the are connected in parallel. If the total
applied voltage. current is 30 amperes, find the A. the 5- resistor.
C. larger than the total current, IT. current through each. B. the 10- resistor.
D. None of the above. C. It depends on how much the
A. 17 A and 13 A current is.
39. What is a closed path made of B. 18 A and 12A D. They will both dissipate the same
several branches of the network C. 20 A and 30 A amount or power.
called? D. 16 A and 14 A
50. The first step in Thevenin's theorem
A. Junction C. Node 45. If an emf in circuit A produces a is to:
B. Terminal D. Loop current in circuit B, then the same
emf in circuit B produces the same A. determine the short-circuit current
40. What is expected when two 20 k, 1 current in circuit A. This theorem is B. open the load under test
watt resistor in parallel are used known as C. short the load under test
instead of one 10k, 1 watt? D. determine the open-circuit current
A. Maximum power transfer
A. Provides higher current theorem
B. Provides less power B. Millman’s theorem
C. Provides more power C. Reciprocity theorem END
D. Provides wider tolerance D. Norton’s theorem

41. A 5-ohm resistance is connected in
parallel with a 10-ohm resistance.
Another set, a 6-ohm and 8-ohm
resistances are also connected in
parallel. The two sets are connected
in series. What is the equivalent
resistance?
A. 6.76 ohms C. 9.25 ohms
B. 14.4 ohms D. 21.2 ohms
46. A 100- resistor, R1, and a 300-
resistor, R2, are in parallel across a
dc voltage source. Which resistor
dissipates more power?
A. The 300- resistor.
B. Both resistors dissipate the same
amount of power.
C. The 100- resistor.
D. It cannot be determined.

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