MPPSC AE 2017: State Engineering Service Examination, Electrical Engineering Paper-I
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Candidate should write his/her Roll No. here.
Total No. of Questions : 7 No. of Printed Pages : 7
SE]y[-2017(02)-I
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Paper—
Time: 3 Hours ] [ Total Marks : 300
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attempting questions.
Candidates should attempt all the FIVE questions.
Question Number 1 is compulsory. Out ofremaining SIX questions, attempt any FOUR.
All questions carry equal marks. The number of marks carried by apart ofa question is
indicated against it.
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1. All parts carry equal marks 6x10=60
(a) Three numbers of 700^2 resistors are all connected in parallel across a
210 V DC source. It is desired to limit the voltage across these resistors to
110 V by connecting another resistor in series with these three parallel
combination. Determine the value of the series resistor.
(b) In the circuit shown in Fig. 1, determine the value of the current at 10 sec
after the switch is closed. Assume the circuit is initially relaxed.
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1 £2
+
100 V -er 10 H
Fig. 1
(c) A dielectric slab of flat surface with relative permittivity 4 is disposed
with its surface normal to a uniform field with electric flux density
of 1-5 coulombs/m^. The slab occupies a volume of 0-08 cubic meter and
is uniformly polarized. Determine the polarization in the slab.
(d) A resistance wire strain gauge uses a soft iron wire of small diameter. The
gauge factor is +4-2. Neglecting the piezoelectric effect, calculate the
Poisson's ratio.
{e) Define the following terms : 2x3=6
(i) Repeatability
(ii) Resolution
(iii) Linearity
(f) For the diode resistance circuit shown in Fig. 2, the diode cut-in
voltage is 0-6 V and the voltage drop across a conducting diode is 0-7 V.
Calculate Vj, and indicate the state of each diode for the following : 3+3
(ij 1^1 = 10 V, 1^2 =0 V
(u) Vi = 10V, V2 =5V
2 k£2
0- -VW\A
Vo O- WNAAA 18 k£2
2 k£2
Fig. 2
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(g) For the circuit shown in Fig. 3, calculate V^. The OPAMP is ideal.
I 30 kQ
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F,= 4V
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10 kSl
^1 A
Fig. 3
(h) Draw the V-I characteristics of TRIAC. Also draw its equivalent circuit. 3+3
(i) Obtain the z transform of the following signal :
(i) A signal f(t) has a duration of 2 msec and an essential bandwidth
of 10 kHz. It is desirable to have a frequency resolution of 100 Hz in the
DFT (Fq =100). Determine Nq. Assume Nyquist sampling rate and zero
padding is employed.
2. All parts carry equal marks ; 15x4=60
(a) For the circuit shown in Fig. 4, obtain Vo(s)
° . Assume OPAMP is ideal.
Vs(s)
vV\M vVW
® Fa
Fig. 4
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(b) Deduce an expression for the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor
having two dielectric media. The capacitor has a plates separation of t
The capacitance with only air between the plates is C. When a slab of
thickness t' <t and relative permittivity is placed in the gap between the
plates, the capacitance is C. Show that
C_
C t'+Ej.(t — t')
(c) A Zener diode rated 10 V, 32 mA can be considered ideal, i.e., =0.
Calculate the range of Rj^ (load) and for to be maintained constant.
Given Vg = 50 V and = 1 kO.
(d) Four like charges of 30 pC each are located at the four comers of a square,
the diagonal of which measures 8 m. Find the force on a 150|iC charge
located 3 m above the centre of the square.
3. All parts carry equal marks : 15x4=60
(a) Write Maxwell's equations for time-varying fields in differential form.
(b) Set up a logic circuit ivith D flip-flops to generate 1011110.
(c) A single-phase bridge rectifier that supplies a very high inductive load such
as a DC motor. The tums ratio of the transformer is unity. The load is such
that the motor draws a ripple free armature current . Determine the total
harmonic distortion (THD) of the input current.
(d) Derive the expression for Poisson's equation.
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(a) A 240 V, 5 A, single-phase energy meter has a registration constant of
1200 revolutions per kWh. It is tested by means of a 240 V, 5A wattmeter
having 500 scale divisions which can be read to 0-1 division and a
stopwatch which can be read up to 0-01 second and which has negligible
error. When tested at full load at unify power factor, the meter makes 40
revolutions in 99-8 seconds. If the human error in timing be taken as
± 0-05 seconds, estimate the limits within which the error of the meter may
lie. The wattmeter is accurate to within 0-05% of its full-scale reading.
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(b) Solve the following second-order linear differential equation :
^
dp
+5^
dt
+6y(t)=/(t)
where initial conditions'are t/(0)=0, — =0 and the input f(t)= e-4«
\ dt i-Q
Assume the system is initially relaxed.
(C) (i) Find the number of two-input ^ND gates, required for the
implementation of /(A, B, C)= A+BC. 8
(ii) How many numbers of two-input NOR gates are required to
implement
g(A, B, C)= A + BC7
id) A wattmeter has a current coil of 0-03 Q resistance and a pressure coil
of 6000 Q resistance. Calculate the percentage error if the current coil in
the wattmeter is connected on the load side, if the load takes 20 A at a
voltage of 220 V and 0-6 power factor.
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(a) Find the average power dissipated in the circuit shown in Fig. 5.
01 ZO" A
<5^
—1^— Hf-
Cj —J100 £2 C2 =-7lOO£i
0-4 Z0° A\Z 50 Q
©, 20 ZO" V
Fig. 5
(Voltage and current are in RMS form)
(b) Find the Fourier transform of the unit-step function 17(f).
(c) A thermistor has a resistance of 3980 Q at the ice point of 0 °C, and 794 Q.
at 50 °C. The resistance-temperature relationship is given by
R'P = clRq exTp(b IT).
Calculate the constants a and b. Also calculate the range of resistance to be
measured in case the temperature varies from 40 °C to 100 °C. 8+7
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(d) A Wheatstone bridge is shown in Fig. 6.
b
Fig. 6
The Thevenin source generator voltage Eq = 24 mV and the galvanometer
current is 13-6 nA. Calculate the value of Q.
6. All parts carry equal marks :
15x4=60
(a) Find the node voltages and Vq using nodal analysis for the circuit shown
in Fig. 7.
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1 A 2A
Fig. 7
(b) A series R-L-C circuit is connected to a 220 V, 50 cycles/sec supply.
When L is varied the maximum current obtained is 0-4 A and the voltage
across the capacitor then is 330 V. Find the circuit constants.
(c) For the circuit shown in Fig. 8, draw the Thevenin's equivalent circuit at
the terminals AB.
9 Q.
—vVW^
7-5 Si
-VWV^ VWNA-
6 Si ^ 30 V
1-5 Si 5Si
Fig. 8
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(d) A DC chopper circuit connected to a 100 V d.c. source supplies an
inductive load having 40 mH in series with a resistance of 5 £2. A
freewheeling diode is placed across the load. The load current varies
between the limits of 10 A and 12 A. Determine the time ratio of the
chopper.
7. All parts cany equal marks : 15x4=60
(a) A single-phase half-bridge inverter has a resistive load of R = 3 0, and
the d.c. input voltage £^^ = 50^/. Calculate---
(i) the RMS output voltage at the fundamental frequency;
(ii) the average current of each thyristor. 8+7
(b) A single-phase fully controlled bridge converter supplies an inductive load.
Assuming that the output current is virtually constant and is equal to ,
determine the following if the supply voltage is 230 V and the firing angle.is
maintained at (n/6) radians : 5+5+5
(i) Average output voltage
(ii) Fundamental power factor
(Hi) Supply power factor
(c) Consider the discrete time system shown in Fig. 9. Write a difference
equation that relates the output i/[n] and the input jc[n].
unit
q[n-l]
Fig. 9
(d) -Find the discrete time Fourier transform of discrete time signal x[t\\
x[n]= U[n]-U[n- N]
1 n>0
where U[ri\ =
0 n <0
and N is some integer.
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