Basic Electricity (Phase-II)

1. Natural Magnets are found in Asia minor is known as … Magnetite or magnetic oxide
2. When a magnet is to be stored, the device is known as … keeper bars
3. The Permeability scale is based on a … perfect vacuum with a rating of one
4. The nonferrous metals having permeability greater than one rating are called …
paramagnetic
5. An individual lines of force is known as … Maxwell
6. The measure of opposition to the lines of forces through a conductor is known as …
reluctance
7. A m.m.f. of one Gilbert will cause one Maxwell to be acting in a material when …
reluctance is one
8. The ability of a magnet to hold the magnetism is known as … retentivity
9. The induced current caused by the relative motion of the conductor and a magnetic
field flows in such a direction that its magnetic field opposes the motion, this law is
known as … Lenz law
10. The generator thumb rule can be used to determine the direction of the
induced e.m.f. conductor motion and flux direction, an application … first finger
points flux direction, second indicates e.m.f. direction and the thumb points the
conductor direction
11. The number of lines each cycle occurs in a period of time is called … Frequency
12. Current direction with a dot symbol on the end indicates that … electrons are
flowing towards the observer
13. The device made by placing a soft iron core inside a coil is called … solenoid
14. The polarity of an electromagnet is determined by the left hand thumb rule is …
fingers indicates the direction of flux
15. The strength of the magnetic field can be increased by … increasing the current flow,
taking a material of high permeability and increasing the number of coil
16. The effective value of alternating current is … .707 times of the maximum value
17. When an e.m.f. of 1 volt is induced in the inductor with current changing rate of 1
amp per sec is called … 1 henrys
18. When there is inductance in a.c. circuit, ohm’s law will be … E=IxXL
19. Inductive reactance is … directly proportional to inductance and frequency
20. Inductive reactance is proportional to … inductance and frequency
21. A capacitor can store an amount of energy depends on … plate area, distance
between them and dielectric
22. A good capacitor will … pass the effects of a.c., block D.C. but pass the pulsating d.c.
23. All dielectric material are compared to a vacuum and given a number. This capacity
ratio between them is called … dielectric constants
24. The unit of measurement of capacitance is … farad & coulomb
25. In series arrangement of two capacitors Ca & Cb, total capacitance will be … Cs=Ca
X Cb/Ca + Cb
26. Inductive reactance can be found by … XL=2rfL
27. The algebraic sum of the applied voltage and drop around the circuit is zero. This law
is known as … Kirchhoff’s voltage law
28. The current flowing through Ra & Rb are 1 & 4 amps. What is value of Rc if the
junction is zero … 5 amps
29. Total opposition in the a.c. circuit is called … impedance
30. D’Arsenval meter movement is a current measuring device which is used …
ammeter, voltmeter and ohmmeter
31. Springs of the d.c. measuring instruments are wound in … opposite direction to
compensate temp variation
32. The force of rotation of the moving coil is proportional to the interaction of the
same poles of the coil and the amount of current flow in the coil
33. If the current is allowed to flow in the wrong direction, it will … rotate
counterclockwise and damage the pointer
34. The sensivity of the meter movement may be expressed as … the amount of current
required to give a full scale defection and the number of mill volts across the meter
when that current passes
35. The device connected parallel to the ammeter to measure current is called …
Shunt resistor
1. What are the factors governing e.m.f. that is induced in the generator?
2. Find out the total resistance in the series –parallel circuit.
3. Calculate the value of shunt, when 10ma current is passing through it in a 50 Mili
volt 0-1 Mili ammeter.
4. What are the factors of the storage of the capacitors?
5. Measure the frequency when cycle is 3600 in a 4 pole generator.