electrical engineering MCQs – Page 155

Practise multiple-choice questions from electrical engineering for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

electrical engineering Mcqs
3081. _______________is a closed loop system?
comments icon0

A. Car starter

B. Electric switch

C. Direct current generator

D. Auto-pilot for an aircraft
3082. Pressure error can be measured by which of the following ?
comments icon0
A. Differential bellows and straingauge

B. Strain gauge

C. Strain gauge and potentiometer

D. Selsyn

3083. The desirable static characteristics of a measuring system are______________?
comments icon0

A. accuracy and reproducibility

B. static error

C. drift and dead zone

D. accuracy, sensitivity and reproducibility
3084. Which of the following statements is correct for a system with gain margin close to unity or a phase margin close to zero ?
comments icon0

A. None of the above

B. The system is highly oscillatory

C. The system is highly stable

D. The system is relatively stable

3085. The function of shunt in an ammeter is to______________?
comments icon0

A. increase the resistance of ammeter

B. by pass the current

C. none of the above

D. increase the sensitivity of the ammeter

3087. _____________is not a final control element?
comments icon0

A. Control valve

B. Electropneumatic converter

C. Servomotor

D. Potentiometer
3088. Which of the following statements is correct for any closed loop system ?
comments icon0
A. Only one of the static error co-efficients has a finite non-zero value

B. None of the above

C. All the co-efficients can have zero value

D. All the co-efficients are always non-zero

3091. Which of the following properties a damping oil must possess ?
comments icon0

A. Should not have corrosive action upon the metal of the vane

B. Should be non-evaporating

C. All of the above

D. The viscosity of the oil should not change with the temperature

E. Must be a good insulator

3092. A differentiator is usually not a part of a control system because it______________?
comments icon0

A. reduces the gain margin

B. reduces damping

C. increases error

D. increases input noise
3093. To measure a resistance with the help of a potentiometer it is_________________?
comments icon0

A. necessary to use a volt ratio box in conjunction with the potentiometer

B. none of the above

C. not necessary to standardise the potentiometer

D. necessary to standardise the potentiometer

3095. In a stable control system backlash can cause which of the following ?
comments icon0

A. Underdamping

B. Low-level oscillations

C. Poor stability at reduced values of open loop gain

D. Overdamping

3096. The differential gain is _____________?
comments icon0

A. about 100

B. very low

C. dependent on input voltage

D. very high
3097. The output of a feedback control system must be a function of_________________?
comments icon0
A. reference and output

B. input and feedback signal

C. output and feedback signal

D. reference and input

3098. The principle on which vector voltmeter is based is_____________?
comments icon0

A. that it measures the response of linear ramp voltage

B. that it works on the principle of complex variation

C. that it measures the amplitude of a single at two points and at the same time measures their phase difference

D. same as digital meter

3100. When the initial conditions of a system are specified to be zero it implies that the system is______________?
comments icon0

A. working normally with zero reference input

B. at rest without any energy stored in it

C. at rest but stores energy

D. working normally with reference input