Unit -1

1) Two resistances of 10Ω and 40Ω respectively are connected in parallel. A third resistance
of 5Ω is connected in series with the combination and a D.C supply of 240 V is applied
to the ends of the completed circuit. Calculate the current in each resistance?
2) a) State Ohm’s Law and its limitations?
b) Three resistors R1, R2, and R3 are connected in series with a constant voltage source
of V volts. The voltage across R1 is 4 V power loss in R2 is 16W and the value of R3 is 6
Ω. If the current flowing through the circuit is 2 A find the voltage V?
3) a) Define following terms current, voltage, power, energy, and inductor?
b) A copper conductor of circular cross section has length 10 m and diameter 2 mm
calculate its resistance if the resistivity of copper is given as 1.72*10-8 Ω m?
4) By applying Kirchhoff’s law, find the current through all the elements in the circuit as
shown in the figure?

6 a) Explain Kirchhoff’s law with examples.

b) A 100 Ω resistance is directly switched on across 10V battery what is the current
through resistor? How much is the power loss? Also find the energy consumed in 5
seconds.
7 Explain superposition theorem? Calculate the current passing through 3 Ohm Resistor
using Superposition theorem.

8) Find the current in 5-ohm resistance using superposition theorem?

9) Find the current in 10-ohm resistance using superposition theorem?

10) Explain briefly Various Electrical elements?

11) Explain about Ideal and practical sources?
12) Explain briefly about Active elements?
 13) Convert given circuit into single voltage and single resistance circuit using Source
transformation technique?

14) . Determine currents in each branch using mesh analysis & nodal analysis

15) Find the equivalent resistance, inductance, & Capacitance for given circuits

16) Determine the current Ix in the circuit shown in figure by using

I. Mesh analysis II. Super position theorem

17) Define following terms waveform, time period, frequency, amplitude, phase, phase
difference, average value, RMS value, form factor, peak factor
18) Find average, RMS, form factor, peak factor values of i) sinusoidal wave form
ii) Rectified sinusoidal half wave iii) Rectified sinusoidal full wave
19) V= 75 sin(200 Π t-0.25) volts find amplitude, peak, peak to peak, time period, frequency,
average & RMS values of a given waveform
20) Define Active, reactive, apparent power and power factor give the relations between
them?
21) Show that the average value of sinusoidal wave is zero?
22) Explain Steady state analysis of R, L, C & RLC circuits with neat sketch & phasor
diagrams?
Unit- 2

1) Explain principle, operation, Construction & applications of these machines (i) DC Motor
(ii) DC Generator (iii) Transformer (iv) Induction motor (v) Alternator
2) Explain the following terms (i) Slip (ii) Slip Speed (iii) Synchronous speed
3) A 3ph induction motor operate with 50Hz supply frequency runs at a speed of 1440rpm
find its (i) Synchronous speed (ii) stator field speed (iii) slip speed (iv) % slip before
running motor (v) % slip of motor under running conditions
 4) Explain principle, operation, Construction, Advantages, Disadvantages & applications of
these measuring instruments (i) Digital multimeters (ii) PMMC (iii) MI (iv) Wheat stone
bridge (v) Megger (vi) Tong tester
5) Explain importance of deflecting, controlling, damping torques of measuring
instruments?
6) Explain (i) Fleming left hand & right-hand rules (ii) faraday 1st & 2nd law
7) What is the value of x when Wheatstone’s network is balanced?

Unit – 3

1) Explain operation and construction of various power generation systems with neat sketches
(i) Hydel (ii) nuclear (iii) wind (iv) solar power plants with merits & demerits?
2) Define conventional & non-conventional energy sources give some examples?
3) Explain nuclear fusion & nuclear fission?
4) Write power ratings of some electrical equipment’s which are used in house hold applications?
5) Define unit of electrical energy?
6) A 1000watt bulb operated, 7hr in a day, 10 days in a month Calculate no of units which are
consumed in a year also find total cost of energy, the cost of unit energy is 4Rs
7) Define fuse & explain its operation, construction and merits demerits?
8) Explain Miniature circuit breaker with neat circuit diagram also merits demerits?
9) What is earthing? Explain plate and pipe earthing with neat sketches and its importance in
safety?
10) Write any 5 safety measures to avoid electric shock and what we are to do after getting shock?
11) Compare fuse and circuit breaker?

Unit -4

1) Explain construction & operation of PN junction diode with neat diagram?

2) What is bias? Explain operation of PN junction diode in forward and reverse biased mode?
3) Explain following terms (i) Cut in voltage (Barrier potential) (ii) Knee voltage (iii) Break down
voltage (iv) Leakage current?
4) Explain construction & operation of Zener diode with neat diagram also in forward in reverse
biased modes?
5) What are the differences between Avalanche & Zener Breakdowns?
6) What is transistor? And explain its construction & operation with neat sketch?
7) Explain CE, CB configurations of an NPN transistor also draw its characteristics?
8) Compare CB, CE, & CC configurations?
9) Derive the relation between CB, CE, & CC current gains?
10) Define voltage, current & power gains also relation between them?
Unit -5

1) Explain full wave bridge rectifier with & with out capacitor with neat wave forms ?
2) What do you know about ripple & ripple factor in half wave and full wave rectifiers?
3) Explain Zener diode operation as voltage regulator with neat sketch?
4) Explain block diagram of electronic instrumentation system with neat sketch?
5) Explain block diagram of public address system with neat sketch?
6) Explain block diagram of regulated power supply system with neat sketch?
7) Explain half wave rectifier with neat circuit & wave forms?

Unit -6

1) Explain various number systems which are used in digital circuits?

2) What is logic gate? Explain various logic gates with truth tables?
3) Why the NAND & NOR gates are called universal gates?
4) Define combinational circuit. Draw and explain the logical circuit diagram of 2 bit and 3-bit
adders of combinational circuit
5) Define bit, Nibble and Byte.
6) Explain the process to convert BCD to Excess 3 & Excess 3 to BCD
7) Explain the process to convert Gray to binary & binary to Gray
8) Explain briefly about hamming code how to encode and decode?
9) Problems to identify error using hamming code using even & odd parity?
10) Problems to convert decimal to binary, octal, Hexa decimal & vice versa?