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KONGU POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
4052310 BASICS OF EEE
Question Bank
UNIT- I AC FUNDAMENTALS, BATTERIES AND UPS

THREE MARK:
1. Write the difference between AC and DC
2. Write the advantages of AC over DC
3. Define Cycle, Time period, Frequency, Amplitude (Peak value)
4. Define Form factor & Peak factor
5. Write about the meaning of Lagging & Leading Sine wave
6. Define Batteries, Primary cell and Secondary cell
7. Write about maintenance free batteries
8. Write about Need for UPS and Heat sink
9. Write about Ratings of Switches and Ratings of wire
10. Write about Types of wires
11. Write about necessity of MCB & ELCB

BIG QUESTIONS:
1. Explain about Construction of Lead acid Battery with active materials
2. Explain about Method of charging
3. Explain about Care and maintenance of Lead acid battery
4. Explain about Indication of fully charged cell
5. Explain about Online UPS and Offline UPS
6. Write about Specification and Ratings of UPS
7. Write about Phase, Phase difference, Phase angle, Single phase & Three phase
8. Write the advantage of 3 phase over single phase
9. Explain about types of Switches

UNIT- II TRANSFORMER AND SPECIAL MOTORS

THREE MARK:
1. Define Transformer
2. Write about the emf equation of Transformer
3. Define Voltage Ratio and Current ratio of Transformer
4. Define Efficiency of transformer
5. Define Step up transformer and Step down transformer
6. Write the difference between Auto transformer and two winding transformer
7. Define Earthing and write about need for earthing
8. Define Fuse and write its need.
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UNIT II - BIG QUESTIONS:

1. Explain about Working principle of Transformer
2. Explain about Construction of Transformer
3. Explain about Losses in a Transformer
4. Explain about Auto Transformer
5. Explain about Stepper Motor
6. Write about DC servo motor and AC servo motor
7. Write about factors to be considered for selecting a motor for a particular application
8. Write about Electric shock and Prevention from electric shock
9. Explain about types of Earthing

UNIT- III SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

THREE MARK:
1. Define Diode and write its applications
2. Write about Barrier potential and Depletion Region
3. Define Rectifier and write its need
4. Define PIN diode
5. Write about Rectifier efficiency and TUF
6. Define Ripple factor and Peak inverse voltage(PIV)
7. Write about Capacitor filter and Inductor filter
8. Write about LC filter and PI filter
9. Write about Transistor

BIG QUESTIONS:
1. Explain about PN Junction diode (Forward bias and Reverse bias)
2. Explain about Zener Diode and its breakdown
3. Explain about Light Emitting Diode
4. Explain about Light Dependent Resistor and Photo diode
5. Explain about Rectifier (Half wave, Full wave and Bridge Rectifier)
6. Write about NPN and PNP Transistor
7. Explain about Transistor Configuration (CE, CB, CC)
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UNIT- IV BOOLEAN ALGEBRA, LOGIC GATES COMBINATIONAL SYSTEM

THREE MARK:
1. Write about Decimal, Binary, Octal and Hexadecimal number Systems
1. Write about Conversion of number from one number system to another
2. Define BCD code and ASCII code
3. Define Odd parity and Even parity
4. Write about AND, OR, NOT Logic gates
5. Write about EX OR and EX NOR logic gates
6. Write about Two variable Karnaugh map & three variable karnaugh map
7. Write about Quads and Octets in Karnaugh map
8. Write about Redundant group and Don’t condition in Karnaugh map

BIG QUESTIONS:
1. Explain about Demorgan Theorem
2. Explain about NAND as Universal logic gate
3. Explain about NOR as Universal logic gate
4. Explain about Half adder & Full adder
5. Explain about Half subtractor and Full subtractor
6. Write about Parity Generator and Parity Checker
7. Write about Multiplexer and Demultiplexer
8. Explain about Encoder and Decoder
9. Explain about Karnaugh map simplifications

UNIT- V SEQUENTIAL LOGIC SYSTEM

THREE MARK:
1. Define Flip flop and mention its types
2. Define Toggling
3. Define Edge triggered flip flop and Level triggered Flip flop
4. Define Counter and mention its types
5. Write about Need and Application of counter
6. Write the difference between Synchronous and Asynchronous counter
7. Write about Register and Shift Register
8. Write about the application of shift register
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UNIT V - BIG QUESTIONS:

1. Explain about SR Flip flop
2. Explain about JK Flip flop and JKMS flip lop
3. Explain about D flip flop and T Flip flop
4. Explain about 4 bit Asynchronous up counter and Down counter
5. Explain about Decade counter
6. Explain about MOD N counter (MOD 3, MOD 5 & MOD 7)
7. Write about 4 bit Synchronous counter
8. Explain about Serial in Serial out Shift Register
9. Explain about Serial in Parallel out Shift Register
10. Explain about Parallel in Parallel out Shift Register