ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS

1. A 300 V full scale deflection voltmeter has an accuracy of2%, when it reds 222 V.
The actual voltage
a) Lies between 217.56 V and 226.44 V
b) Lies between 217.4 V and 226.6 V
c) Lies between 216 V and 228 V
d) Is exactly 222 V
2. The current flowing through the resistor R whose resistance is 1000.2 is 20.02 A.
The commuted value of power is
a) 4000.42 W
b) 4004.60 W
c) 4008.80 W
d) 40010.65 W
3. The instruments having their uses merely confined within standardizing laboratories
are
a) Indicating type
b) Recording type
c) Integrating type
d) Absolute type
4. In an indicating type of instrument the pointer returns to its zero position on removing
the source producing the deflection torque. This happens due to
a) Damping torque
b) Controlling torque
c) Balancing torque
d) Mass of pointer
5. The voltmeter of choice for measuring the emf of a 100 V dc source would be
a) 100 V,1 mA
b) 100 V, 2 mA
c) 100 V, 10 k/V
d) 100 V, 100 /V
6. Which of the following instrument is free from hysteresis and eddy current errors?
a) Moving iron instrument
b) Electrostatic instrument
c) PMMC instrument
d) Moving coil dynamometer type instrument
7. A PMMC ammeter and a MI type ammeter are connected in series in a resistive circuit
fed from output of a half wave rectifier voltage source. If the MI instrument reads 5A,
the PMMC type instrument is likely to read
a) Zero
b) 2.5 A
c) 3.18 A
d) 5 A
8. A moving coil instrument gives full scale deflection for 1 mA has a resistance of 5. If
a resistance of 0.55 is connected in parallel to the instrument, what is the maximum
value of current it can measure?
a) 5 mA
b) 10 mA
c) 50 mA
d) 100 mA
9. If the readings of the two wattmeters are equal and positive in two wattmeter method,
the load pf in a balanced 3-phase 3-wire circuit will be
a) Zero
b) 0.5
c) 0.866
d) Unity
10. The current through a current coil of a wattmeter is i(t)=1+2sint A and the voltage
across the potential coil is v(t)= 2+3sint V. The wattmeter is calibrated to read the
average power in watts. The reading of the wattmeter is
a) 8.0
b) 5.05
c) 2.0
d) 0.0
11. Which one of the following is measured by the loss of charge method?
a) Low R
b) High R
c) Low L
d) High L
12. High resistances are provided with guard terminal in order to
a) Protect the resistance against stray electrostatic field
b) Bypass the leakage current
c) Protect the resistance against over loads
d) Protect the resistance against stray electromagnetic field.
13. A coil is tuned to resonance at 1MHz with a resonating capacitance of 72pF. At 500kHz,
the resonance is obtained with a resonating capacitance value of 360 pF. The self-
capacitance of the coil is
a) 12 pF
b) 24 pF
c) 36 pF
d) 72 Pf
14. The capacitance and loss angle of a capacitor can be accurately measured by
a) Kelvins bridge
b) Andersons bridge
c) Schering bridge
d) Carey-Fosters bridge
15. Wein bridge is very easily balanced for:
a) Square wave applied voltage
b) Rectangular applied voltage
c) Sinusoidal applied voltage
d) Triangular applied voltage