Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Question Bank
(0701220104)

(B.Tech., AIML - I– Sem.)

(A.Y 2022-2023)

Course Instructor: Prof.Jayshree Pande

Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

Symbiosis Institute of Engineering & Technology
Lavale, Pune, Maharashtra- 412115
 UNIT- 1

1. Illustrate the Loop currents I1, I2 and I3 by Mesh loop analysis as shown in figure
below

Fig 1

2. Describe the behavior of a pure resistor in an AC circuit and derive its expression.

3. Illustrate the Loop currents I1, I2 and I3 by Mesh loop analysis as shown in Fig.

Fig1

4. Describe the behavior of a pure inductor in an AC circuit and derive its expression

5. Define Kirchoff’s Current Law.

6. Define Ohm’s Law.

7. Calculate the current through 2 Ω resistor for the network using

Nodal analysis shown in Fig. 1
8. The voltage and current through circuit element are
v = 5 sin (w t + 60 ) volts
i = 100 sin (w t + 200 ) amperes
i.Identify the circuit element
ii.Find the value of the element

9. Describe the behavior of a pure capacitor in an AC circuit and derive its expression

10. Define Power. and determine the currents I1, I2 and I3, using mesh analysis in the
network of fig

11. The circuit consists of four load in series. The voltage across the loads are given by
v = 5 sin (314 t + 60 ) volts
v = 10 cos (314 t + 90 )volts
v = 30 sin (314t - 45 ) volts
Calculate the total supply voltage

12. Find the current supplied by the battery.

13. A 100 V, 60 W lamp is connected in series with a 100 V, 100 W lamp across 200 V
supply. What will be the current drawn by the lamps? What will be the power
consumed by each lamp?

14. An alternating voltage is represented by the following expression: v = 25 sin (200 𝜋t)
Calculate the following:
(i) Amplitude
(ii) Time period
(iii) Frequency
(iv) Angular velocity
(v) Form factor
15. Define Kirchoff’s Voltage Law.

16. Explain in detail about Energy

17. State the advantages of energy meter

18. Differentiate between nodal and Mesh analysis

19. Define RMS

20. Write down the expression of equivalent resistance for ‘n’- number of resistors in
parallel connection.

UNIT-2

1. A 4 pole generator has an 800 armature conductors. The flux per pole is 10 mwb
when speed is 600rpm. Calculate the induced emf in armature winding when it is
connected with Lap winding.

2. Explain the construction and working principle of DC Motor with neat sketches.

3. A 120 V DC shunt motor draws a current of 200 A. The armature resistance is 0.02
Ohm, and shunt field resistance of 30 Ohm.
(i). Find the back EMF.
(ii). If the lap-wound armature has 90 slots with 4 conductors per slot, at what speed
will the motor run, when the flux per pole is 0.04 Wb?

4. With a neat sketch, describe the construction and working principle of DC Generator.
5. Describe the EMF equation of a DC Generator.

6. Summarize the various types of DC Motors.

7. Summarize any two application of various types of DC Generators.

8. Describe the construction and working principle of DC shunt motor.

9. What are the different parts of DC generator? What is the difference between DC
motor and DC generator?

10. Give the emf equation of a transformer and define each term.

11. A 1100/400 V, 50 Hz single phase transformer has 100 turns on the secondary
winding. Calculate the number of turns on its primary.

12. A 6600/440V Single phase 600 KVA transformer has 1200 primary turns. Find (i)
Transformation ratio (ii) Secondary turns (iii) Voltage / turn (iv) Secondary current
when it supplies a load of 400 kW at 0.8 p.f. lagging.
13. Mention the difference between core and shell type transformers.

14. Draw the circuit for various types of d.c motor.

15. Give some application of D.C motor.

16. What is the main purpose of commutator and brushes?

17. Describe the construction details of single phase transformer.

18. Derive the expression of generated e.m.f. in a DC motor. A 4 pole lap wound dc
motor has 480 conductors. The flux per pole is 24mWb, and the armature resistance
is 1 ohm. If the motor is connected to a 200V dc supply and running at 1000 rpm on
no load, calculate: (i) Back emf (ii) Armature current

19. A 4- pole lap wound armature dc motor has flux per pole of 25mWb. The number of
armature conductors is 200. The motor draw in armature current of 20 A when
connected across a 200V dc supply. Calculate the back emf and the speed of motor if
armature resistance is 0.4 ohm

20. A 4 pole lap wound dc motor has 480 conductors. The flux per pole is 24mWb, and
the armature resistance is 1 ohm. If the motor is connected to a 200V dc supply and
running at 1000 rpm on no load, calculate: (i) Back emf (ii) Armature current (iii)
Power output

UNIT-3

1. Differentiate between zener breakdown and avalanche breakdown.

2. How a PN junction diode is working? Draw and explain V-I characteristics of PN

diode with neat diagrams.

3. List some applications of zener diode.

4. Explain CB configuration with the help of input and output characteristics.

5. Derive the expression for DC load current and DC load voltage for half wave
rectifier.

6. Explain the CE configuration with neat diagrams and also draw the input and output
characteristics.
7. Classify the following as trivalent or pentavalent impurities - Boron, Phosphorus,
Antimony, Aluminium, Indium and Arsenic.

8. Write a note on LED.

9. Why is Silicon preferred over Germanium for manufacturing semiconductor devices?

10. Describe the circuit of a center tap Full-wave-rectifier with neat diagram and
waveforms.

11. Distinguish between PN junction and zener diode?

12. Draw the input and output characteristics of CE configuration of BJT and analyze.

13. Draw the circuit of a Full-wave-rectifier and interpret the ripple factor,
% Efficiency?

14. Draw the circuit of a half-wave-rectifier and interpret the ripple factor, % Efficiency
,RMS value and Form Factor?

15. Explain the CC configuration of BJT with neat diagram with the input and output
characteristics.

16. Describe the variation of width of depletion layer under forward and reverse bias.

17. What is Doping? Describe P-and N-type semiconductors?

18. Draw the circuit diagram of a Bridge Rectifier and explain its operation with input
and output waveforms.

19. What is the difference between PN junction and Zener diode?

20. Explain the difference between the difference in the doping levels and the widths of
the three terminals of BJT.

UNIT-4

1. Draw the schematic and truth table of a Half adder.

2. Convert the following:

a) (5050)10 = (?)16
b) (2724)8 = (?)10

3. State and prove DeMorgan’s theorem.

4. Convert decimal number (12.50)10 to binary.

5. Draw the schematic and truth table of a Full adder.

6. Convert decimal number (225)10 to binary, octal and hexadecimal.

7. Verify the boolean expression for universal gate

8. Explain what are the basic logic elements?

9. Explain what are the universal logic gates?

10. Explain why is a two-input NAND gate called universal gate?

11. Write down the expression of sum and carry for half adder & Full adder circuit

12. Explain with figures how NAND gate and NOR gate can be used as Universal gate.

13. Draw the logic symbol and construct the truth table for each of the following gates.
[1] Two input NAND gate [2] Three input OR gate [3] Three input EX-NOR gate [4]
NOT gate [5] Two input AND gate

14. Convert 8B3FH to binary.

15. Convert the following octal number to decimal (17)8

16. Convert the following binary number to decimal (10011010)2

17. Convert the following binary number to octal (001101011)2

18. Convert decimal 213 to binary.

19. Convert the following decimal number to hexadecimal.125

20. Convert the following octal number to binary.

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