ENGINEERING CAREER AND STUDY MATERIALS

Basic Electrical Engineering Questions and Answers Multiple Choice Basic Electrical Engineering Question Answers are listed below, these are useful for Electrical Engineering staff Recruitment Exams Question No. 1. A potentiometer may be used for (a) measurement of resistance (b) measurement of current (c) calibration of ammeter (d) calibration of voltmeter (e) all of the above Answer: (e) all of the above Question No. 2. A dc shunt generator has a speed of 800 rpm when delivering 20 A to the load at the terminal voltage of 220V. If the same machine is run as a motor it takes a line current of 20A from 220V supply. The speed of the machine as a motor will be (A) 800 rpm. (B) more than 1000 rpm. (C) less than 800 rpm. (D) both higher or lower than 800 rpm. Answer: (C) less than 800 rpm. Question No. 3. In order to reduce the harmonics in the emf generated in an alternator (A) slots are skewed (B) salient pole tips are chamfered (C) winding is well distributed (D)

GATE Electrical Engineering Question & Answer Key The GATE Electrical Engineering Exam Questions with answers published for the use of candidates who are appearing upcoming Examinations   Question No. 1. The d.c. series motor should always be started with load because (A) at no load, it will rotate at dangerously high speed. (B) it will fail to start. (C) it will not develop high starting torque. (D) all are true.  Ans: A Question No. 2. The armature of a dc machine is laminated to reduce: (A) Eddy current loss (B) Hysteresis loss (C) copper losses (D) friction and windage losses  Ans: A Question No. 3. The frequency of the rotor current in a 3 phase 50 Hz, 4 pole induction motor at full load speed is about (A) 50 Hz. (B) 20 Hz. (C) 2 Hz. (D) Zero.  Ans: C Question No. 4. If a single phase alternator has 8 slots per pole uniformly speed, but the winding is arranged with the middle two left empty, the breadth coefficient will be (A) 0.53. (B) 0.88 (C) 0.67 (D

Q.#1. The resistance of armature winding depends on (a) length of conductor (b) cross-sectional area of the conductor (c) number of conductors (d) all of the above Ans: (d) all of the above Q.#2. A commutator in a d.c. machine  (A) Converts the induced a.c armature voltage into direct voltage.  (B) Reduces power loss in field circuit.  (C) Reduces power loss in armature.  (D) Is not necessary. Ans:  (A) Converts the induced a.c armature voltage into direct voltage. Q.#3. In D.C. generators, the cause of rapid brush wear may be (a) severe sparking (b) any of the above (c) imperfect contact (d) rough commutator surface Ans: (b) any of the above Q.#4. The introduction of interpoles in between the main pole improves the performance of d.c. machines, because (A) A counter e.m.f. is induced in the coil undergoing commutation. (B) The flux waveform is improved with reduction in harmonics. (C) The inequality of air flux on the top and bottom halves of armatur

Mechanical Engineering Multiple Choice Questions Q1. The buckling load for a column pinned at both ends is 10 kN. If the ends are fixed, the buckling load changes to (1) 40 kN (2) 2·5 kN (3) 5 kN (4) 20 kN Q2. A 30 mm hole/shaft assembly results in minimum and maximum clearance of 0·03 mm and 0·3 mm respectively. The hole has a unilateral tolerance with zero fundamental deviation. If the tolerance of the shaft is 0·08 mm, the maximum size of the hole is (1) 30·11 mm (2) 30·16 mm (3) 30·19 mm (4) 30·27 mm Q3. Consider the following drives : A. V-belt B. Flat belt C. Toothed belt D. Round belt Which of the above is/are positive drive(s) ? Select the code for the correct answer from the options given below : (1) A and B only (2) B only (3) C only (4) C and D only Mechanical Engineering Solved Question Paper-100 Questions- Click here Q4. Bolts in the flanged end of a pressure vessel are usually pre-tensioned. Indicate which of the following statements is not

1. D.C. generator generally preferred for charging automobile batteries is (a) series generator (b) shunt generator (c) long shunt compound generator (d) any of'the above Ans: c 2. No-load current in a transformer (a) lags behind the voltage by about 75° (b) leads the voltage by about 75° (c) lags behind the voltage by about 15° (d) leads the voltage by about 15° Ans: a 3. Primary winding of a transformer (a) is always a low voltage winding (b) is always a high voltage winding (c) could either be a low voltage or high voltage winding (d) none of the above Ans: c 4. Power transformers are designed to have maximum efficiency at (a) nearly full load (b) 70% full load (c) 50% full load (d) no load Ans: a 5. In a transformer the tappings are generally provided on (a) primary side (b) secondary side (c) low voltage side (d) high voltage side Ans: c 6. Transmission voltage of llkV is normally used for distances upto (a) 20—25 km (b) 40—50 km (c)

Question No. 1. Electric resistance seam welding uses __________ electrodes.  (A) Pointed (B) Disc.  (C) Flat (D) Domed Ans: B Question No. 2. Spring constant in force-voltage analogy is analogous to (a) capacitance (b) reciprocal of capacitance (c) current (d) resistance Ans: b Question No. 3. The frequency and time domain are related through which of the following? (a) Laplace Transform and Fourier Integral (b) Laplace Transform (c) Fourier Integral (d) Either (b) or (c) Ans: a Question No. 4. When the initial conditions of a system are specified to be zero it implies that the system is (a) at rest without any energy stored in it (b) working normally with reference input (c) working normally with zero reference input (d) at rest but stores energy Ans: d Question No. 5. The power of a n-phase circuit can be measured by using a minimum of (a) (n - 1) wattmeter elements (b) n wattmeter elements (c) (n + 1) wattmeter elements (d) 2n wattmeter eleme

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING EXAM QUESTIONS Question # 1. If the mechanical properties of a composite improves as a result of increasing the average fibre length, then it is called (1) Long fibre (2) Short fibre (3) Medium length fibre (4) Elastic fibre Question # 2. A refrigerator working on a reversed Carnot cycle removes 2 kW per minute of heat from a system working between the temperatures of 300 K and 200 K. The COP and power consumed by the cycle will be (1) 1, 1 kW (2) 1, 2 kW (3) 2, 1 kW (4) 2, 2 kW Question # 3. 18-4-1 HSS steel contains (1) 18% tin, 4% nickel, 1% chromium (2) 18% tungsten, 4% nickel, 2% chromium (3) 18% tungsten, 4% chromium, 1% vanadium (4) 18% nickel, 4% chromium, 1% manganese Question # 4. The dryness fraction of sample steam in separating calorimeter is 0·9 and in throttling calorimeter is 0·8. The dryness fraction of the sample is (1) 0·9 (2) 0·8 (3) 0·66 (4) 0·72 Mechanical Engineering Solved Question Paper-100 Questions- Clic