LAB QUESTIONS AND BOOKS TO REFER

QUESTIONS ON INSTRUMENTS:

1) What is the frequency of ac supply available in our houses?

2) How an ammeter is connected in an electrical circuit?
3) How a wattmeter is connected in an electrical circuit?
4) What symbol is used for identification of moving coil instruments?
5) Why the pressure coil of a wattmeter have more no. of turns than the current coil?
6) What happen when a permanent magnet moving coil instrument be connected in an
ac circuit?
7) What is the difference between an ammeter and a voltmeter? Show how a
galvanometer can be used as an ammeter and as a voltmeter?
8) What electric power supply system should be available in an electrical engineering
laboratory?
9) If no symbol is given, how we can identify a moving coil or a moving iron
instrument?
10) How the controlling torque can be provided in measuring instruments?
11) What is the use of calibration?
12) In calibration curve, why the readings of the meter calibrated are plotted in horizontal axis?
13) What do you mean by substandard meter?
14) Define % error of a meter?
15) If two lamps each of 230V, 40W are connected in series across 230V supply, explain why
they do not glow fully?
16) What symbol is used for identification of moving iron instruments?

QUESTIONS ON A.C. CIRCUITS (SERIES, PARALLEL AND 3-PHASE):

1) What are the sources of error in this experiment?

2) What are the advantages of using parallel circuits?
3) Explain the phenomenon of resonance in a parallel circuit.
4) Why fuse is not required in the neutral?
5) What is the frequency of a d.c supply?
6) Why ac quantities are expressed in r.m.s values and not in average values?
7) When it is stated that an ac supply is 230V, what does it mean?
8) Is an alternating current a vector quantity?
9) What does the form factor of a wave indicate?
10) What is the difference between the direct and alternating current?
11) What do you understand by the term power factor in reference to ac circuit?
12) What are the power factors of purely resistive purely inductive and purely capacitive
circuits? Describe with the help of phasor diagrams. Also write appropriate voltage and
current expressions and draw waveforms.
13) What are the main parameters of ac circuits and their units?
14) What is the phase difference between the current and applied voltage if an ac circuit
contains
i) A pure inductance only?
ii) A pure capacitance only?
iii) A pure resistance only?
15) What do you understand by the term impedance?
16) Define the term ‘resonance’ in reference to the ac series circuit.
17) How cane you define the value of frequency at which an R-L-C series circuit will have
resonance?
18) Define admittance, conductance, and susceptance of an ac circuit.
19) Determine the magnitude and phase of conductance and susceptance for the circuit
having impedance (5+j10) ohm.
20) What is quality factor of a coil?
21) Establish the relationships between phase and line quantities when three phase supply is
given to the star and delta connected balanced load.
22) Draw the circuit diagram for three phase power measurement using two wattmeter
method. Draw the phasor diagram also.

QUESTIONS ON NETWORK THEOREMS:

1. Why network theorems like maximum power transfer, Thevenin`s theorem are used
to solve circuits?
2. State difference between mesh and loop.
3. What is linear circuit?
4. What is bilateral circuit?
5. State difference between ideal voltage source and practical voltage source.
6. State difference between ideal current source and practical current source.
7. How does circuit behave under maximum power transfer condition?
8. What are the applications of the maximum power transfer theorem?
9. Why power system is never operated under maximum power transfer condition?
10. Why electronic circuits are operated under maximum power transfer condition?
11. What is the difference between Thevenin`s theorem and Norton’s theorem?
12. What are the advantages of Thevenin`s theorem?

TEXT/REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. D. P. Kothari and I. J. Nagrath – Basic Electrical Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill, 2010.
2. D.C. Kulshreshtha – Basic Electrical Engineering, McGraw Hill, 2010.

3. L.S. Bobrow –Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Press, 2011.

4. E. Huges –Electrical and Electronics Technology, Pearson, 2010.

5. V. D. Toro – Electrical Engineering Fundamentals, Prentice Hall India, 1989.

6. B. L. Theraja and A. K. Theraja –A Textbook of Electrical Technology, Vol I, II, IV, S.

Chand & Co., 2015.

7. Abhijit Chakrabarti, Sudipta Nath and Chandan Kumar Chanda –Basic Electrical
Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill, 2017.