PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

ENTRANCE TEST FOR POST GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAM

AT KINPOE AND CHASCENT, 2011

(ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING)

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1. The Laplace transform of e–2t is
(A) 0.5 s (B) 2/(s+1) (C) 1/(s+2) (D) 2/(s+2)
2. Tanθ in the accompanying diagram is
(A) y/(y+2x)
(B) x/(y+x)
(C) y/(y+x)
(D) y/x

3. The absolute temperature for an ideal gas is

(A) directly proportional to the rotational K.E. of gas molecules
(B) directly proportional to vibrational K.E of gas molecules
(C) directly proportional to average translational K.E of gas molecules
(D) directly proportional to the P.E of the gas molecules
4. An engineer claims, with some thermodynamic analysis, that if the proposed construction site of a
Nuclear power plant is changed from one city to another, Plant efficiency will increase (cost of
construction and everything else is same). Does change of city has to do anything with
thermodynamic efficiency of plant?
(A) No
(B) Yes
(C) Cannot be determined
(D) Yes, but only if population difference is negligible
5. By a chord of the curve y = x3 we mean any line joining two distinct points on it. The number of
chords which have slope 1 is
(A) infinite (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) 2
6. A banana has twice the calories than an apple has. Also a hamburger has 1.5 times as many calories
as banana. Therefore,
(A) A hamburger has as many calories as one apple
(B) A hamburger has 2 times as many calories as one apple
(C) A hamburger has 3 times as many calories as one apple
(D) A hamburger has 4 times as many calories as one apple
7. In a uniform circular motion
(A) both acceleration and speed change
(B) both acceleration and speed are constant
(C) both acceleration and velocity are constant
(D) both acceleration and velocity change

8. A square matrix A is skew Hermitian if

(A) A = A* (B) AT = – A (C) – A = A* (D) AT = A
 {A* conjugate of A and AT  Transpose of A}
9. The absolute pressure inside a
system was noted to be 2.5 meters of mercury. Which of the following figures is nearer to the value
of this pressure in MegaPascal (MPa)?
(A) 7.6 (B) 3.3 (C) 1.6 (D) 0.33
10. The average of 216 and 218 is
(A) 217 (B) 116 + 118 (C) 217 + 215 (D) 216 + 218
11. Three pipes A, B and C can fill a tank in 10, 12 and 15 minutes respectively. First A was opened.
After one minute B was opened and after two minutes from the start of A, C was opened. Find the
time in which the tank is just full.
(A) 4 min,52 sec (B) 3 min (C) 3 min,52 sec (D) 4 min, 06 sec
12. Zafar is twice as good workman as Fahad. Together they can finish a work in 16 days. In how many
days can it be done by each separately?
(A) 18, 36 (B) 19, 38 (C) 11, 22 (D) 24, 48
13. Which number in the series should come next?
-1 0 1 8
(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 27
14. How much heat is released by 100 gm of water when its temperature decreases from 25 C to 5 C?
(A) 9400 J (B) 8400 J (C) 2000 / 4.2 J (D) 84 / 100 J
15. If a square is inscribed in a circle of radius r as shown in figure. The area of square region is
(A) r2
(B) 2r2
(C) r2
(D) r2 / 2

16. Two ships are 1550 miles apart sailing towards each other. One sails at the rate of 85 miles/day
while the other at the rate of 65 miles/day. How apart will they be at the end of 9 th day?
(A) 180 miles (B) 200 miles (C) 220 miles (D) 785 miles
17. Jamil weighs twice as much as Malik. Malik’s weight is 60% of Babars’s weight. Dawood weighs
50% of Ali’s and Ali weighs 90% of Jamil’s weight. Which of these 5 persons weighs the least?
(A) Babar (B) Dawood (C) Ali (D) Malik
18. It takes 30 days to fill a laboratory dish with bacteria. If the size of the bacteria doubles each day,
how long did it take for the bacteria to fill one half of dish?
(A) 15 days (B) 7½ days (C) 29 days (D) 14½ days

19. In a survey of a town of Karachi, it was found that 65% of the people surveyed watched the news on
television, 40% read newspaper, and 25% read a newspaper and watched the news on television.
What percent of the people surveyed neither watched the news on the television nor read a
newspaper?
 (A) 30% (B) 25% (C) 20% (D) 15%
20. If the dimensions of a square are increased by 98%, its area increases by
(A) 98% (B) 292.04% (C) 329.04% (D) 96.04%
21. Two bodies, one heavier and other lighter, have the same momentum. Which one has greater kinetic
energy?
(A) lighter body (B) heavier body
(C) both have the same kinetic energy (D) not enough data to calculate
22. A sixteen players’ squad was announced by cricket council in which a captain, four batsmen and
three bowlers were permanent members of the team. How many possibilities are there to select a
team of eleven players in such a condition?
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 56
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23. The pressure P units and the volume V m of a quantity of gas stored at a constant temperature are
related by pv=k. At a certain time, the volume of gas in cylinder is 30 m 3 and pressure is 20 units. If
the gas is being compressed at the rate of 6m 3/sec, at what rate is the pressure changing?
(A4units/s increasing (B) 6 units/s increasing
(C) 6 units/s decreasing (D) 4units/s decreasing
24. What is the remainder when(x3+x2+3x-2) is divided by (x-1)?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4
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25. A dense oil is leaking of drum at the 10 cm per second and is expanding in form of a circular disk
of 1mm thickness on uniform floor. At what rate will the radius of the circular disc increasing at the
moment when exactly 1 litre oil has been leaked out of the drum?
(A) 10 cm/s (B) 56 cm/s (C) 2.8 mm/s (D) 28 mm/s
26. A ground is 150 m long and 60 m wide. All along the border, there is a pavement of 10 m wide on
the inner side of the ground. Two rectangular tracks are formed on each side of the pavement. Tow
athletes A, and B start running on the outer and inner tracks respectively. How early would the inner
runner complete his round than the outer if both of them have a uniform speed of 5 m/s? (neglect
the width of the tracks)
(A) 8 seconds
(B) 16 seconds
(C) 32 seconds
(D) 64 seconds

27. If x= log5 50 , which of the following is true?

(A) 1<x<2 (B) 2<x<3 (C) 3<x<4 (D) 4<x<5
28. What is the summation of first 400 natural numbers?
 (A) 60200 (B) 70200 (C) 80200 (D) 90200
29. If y=x+2 and y=3x – 1 be two straight lines, How much far from each other will they cut the y-axis?
(A) 3 units (B) 1 unit (C) 2½ units (D) 1½ units
30. If a worker is paid Rs.20/- on the first day of his job, and his daily payment is doubled each day,
which of the following figures will be closer to his earning during first 20 working days?
(A) Less than 10 thousand rupees (B) Around 20 thousand rupees
(C) Around 200 thousand rupees (D) More than 20 million rupees
31. Which one in the group [August, September, October and November] is a misfit?
(A) August (B) September (C) October (D) November
32. A foot ball is made up of 100 small regular hexagonal pieces of lather having 3.5 cm side lengths
when ready and inflated. What would be the approximate circumference of the ball?
(A) About 71 cm (B) About 11.7 cm (C) About 22.5 cm (D) About 28 cm
33. An ideal gas initially at 0 C is heated externally until both its pressure and volume increase by
20%. Guess the final temperature.
(A) 0 C (B) 60 C (C) 120 C (D) 200 C
34. Specific volume of a gas is 0.01 in S.I. units. Guess its density.
(A) 100 g/cm3 (B) 10 g/cm3 (C) 1 g/cm3 (D) 0.1 g/cm3
35. A ball is hit by a cricket player making an angle of 45 with the ground. If the initial velocity of the
ball is 30 m/s, how high would it rise?
(A) About 50 m (B) About 33 m (C) About 23 m (D) 10 m
36. Chashma Nuclear Power Plant has 300 MW full power (out-going) capacity. What would be the
revenue of one day if power is sold @ Rs. 3.07 per unit?
(A) Rs. 22.104 million (B) Rs. 921 million (C) Rs. 22104/- (D) Rs. 2.2104 million
37. In the diagram, AB is the diameter of the circle, C is the centre, and chord BD is 4 units long. What
is the circumference of the circle?
(A) 4
16
(B) 
3
(C) 4 2
8
(D) 
3

38. “Water always saturates at 100C”.

(A) The statement is true
(B) The statement is false because water never saturates
(C) The statement is false because saturation temperature depends upon the pressure and is not fixed
(D) The statement is false because the saturation temperature of water is always greater than 100 C
39. Given is the graph of velocity, v (m/s) of a body versus time t (second). What is the acceleration of
the body during the time interval 0 – 3 seconds?
(A) 10 m/s2 (B) 5 m/s2 (C) 3.33 m/s2 (D) 0 m/s2
40. What is the total distance covered in the time interval 10 – 17 seconds in graph?
(A) 84 m

Velocity, v (m/s)
(B) 81 m
(C) 126 m
(D) 70 m

18

10
6

0 3 8 10 13 14 17
Time in seconds

41. A Reversed Carnot cycle heat pump uses a hot reservoir whose temperature is T h and a cold
reservoir whose temperature is Tl. The coefficient of performance of this heat pump is
(A) Tl / (Th - Tl) (B) Th / (Th - Tl) (C) (Th - Tl) / Tl (D) (Th - Tl) / Tl
42. The major performance gain of an absorption refrigeration system over vapor compression system
is
(A) Replacing a vapor compressor with a liquid pump
(B) The use of a regenerator between the generator and absorber
(C) Heating of the generator with an external heat source
(D) Cooling of the absorber with an external energy sink
43. The total amount of heat added to a closed system executing the reversible, isothermal process
shown below is given by
(A) Qin = T (s2 - s1)
(B) Qin = T (s1 - s2)
(C) Qin = mT (s2 - s1)
(D) Qin = mT (s1 - s2)
44. Water undergoes the reversible process illustrated here as it passes through a steady-flow device that
has one inlet and one outlet. How much work does this device produce?
(A) 0 kJ/kg
(B) P (v2 - v1) kJ/kg
(C) R (T2 - T1) kJ/kg
(D) cv (T2 - T1) kJ/kg

45. Which temperature-specific entropy state diagram below correctly represents the isobaric cooling
process occurring in a heat exchanger?
(A) (a)
(B) (b)
(C) (c)
46. In (D) (d) process, one needs fluid flow in a given direction and the valve is to open or close by
a certain
the fluid pressure. Which of the following valves permits fluid flow in one direction only?

47. A Carnot heat pump uses thermal reservoirs at 27 °C and 57 °C. How much power does this pump
consume to produce a 100 kW heating effect?

48. Which of the following controllers has maximum offset?

49. Two plates of equal thickness and cross section are joined together to form a composite. If the
thermal conductivity of plates are K and 2K then, the effective thermal conductivity of composite is

50. Thermocouple is suitable for measuring

51. In an alternator, the voltage drop occurs in

52. An alternator has full load regulation of 4% when the power factor of the load is 0.8 lagging, and
the alternator runs at 1500 rpm. If the same alternator is connected to a prime mover of 1400 rpm,
what will be its full load regulation?

53. In a synchronous motor, which of the following losses does not vary with load?

54. A three phase 440 V, 50 Hz induction motor has a speed of 950 rpm. If the machine has 6 poles, the
percent slip would be

55. A squirrel cage induction motor designed to run at 60 Hz is connected 400V, 50 Hz, 3-phase supply.
The rotor will

56. A sinusoidal voltage with equation Vm=sin 314 t is applied across a load and the current lags behind
the voltage by 30 degrees. Which of the following is NOT correct?

57. Which of the following is not the function of transformer oil?

58. Over voltage transient may occur in a transmission line due to
(A) Lightening (B) Switching
(C) Arcing ground (D) Any of the above
59. Which of the following statements is not correct for a pure inductive circuit?
(A) The power factor of the circuit is zero
(B) The power consumed in the circuit is zero
(C) The instantaneous power in the circuit can have any value positive, negative or zero
(D) All of the above statements are true for a pure inductive circuit
60. A transmitting aerial is radiating un-modulated carrier, the radiated power being 1200 W. If the
carrier is now modulated simultaneously by two pure notes to depth of 20% and 40% respectively,
the total power radiated will now be
(A) 1320 W (B) 1200 W (C) 1180 W (D) 920 W
61. “Current in rotor of an induction machine has the same frequency as the supply”. Which of the
following comments is most valid?
(A) The statement is wrong because there is DC in the rotor of an induction machine
(B) The statement is wrong because frequency in rotor is more than supply frequency
(C) The statement is wrong because frequency in rotor is slip times the stator field
frequency; normally very smaller compared to supply frequency
(D) The statement is true
62. Machine with a negative slip is
(A) Induction Motor (B) Brake
(C) Induction Generator (D) Synchronous machine
63. An Induction motor is analogous to
(A) DC motor (B) Transformer
(C) Synchronous motor (D) DC Generator
64. Blocked rotor test is analogous to
(A) SC test (B) OC test (C) Swinburnes (D) Load test
65. If stator field is rotating in clockwise direction rotor rotates in
(A) any direction (B) cannot predict (C) anticlockwise (D) clockwise
66. A resistor has a value of 680 , and you expect it will have to draw 1 mA maximum continuous
current. What power rating is best for this application?
(A) ¼ W (B) ½ W (C) 1 W (D) 2 W

67. (Chap 1)Three 3Ω resistors are connected to form a triangle. What is the resistance between any two
of the corners?
(A) ¾ Ω (B) 3Ω (C) 2 Ω (D) 4/3 Ω
68. (Chap 1)A total current of 352 A is flowing through a circuit having two loads in parallel with
resistances of 132 Ohms and 44 ohms respectively. The current in 44 Ohms resistance will be:
(A) 88 A (B) 264 A (C) 352 A (D) 44 A
69. (chap 1)A standard 60 W bulb is in series with a room heater and connected across the mains. If the
60 W bulb is replaced by 100 W bulb
(A) The heater output will increase
(B) The heater output will remain unaltered
(C) The heater output will decrease
(D) None of the above is correct

70. (chap 1)The hot resistance of a tungsten lamp is about 10 times the cold resistance. Accordingly,
cold resistance of a 100 W, 200 V lamp will be
(A) 4000 Ω (B) 400 Ω (C) 40 Ω (D) 4Ω

71. Which of the following material can be used as fuse material?

(A) Silver (B) Copper
(C) Aluminium (D) Any of the above

72. Which of the following relations for the power factor is incorrect?
(A) Power factor = Real power / Apparent power
(B) Power factor = Resistance / Impedance
(C) Power factor = kW / kVA
(D) None of the above

73. Voltmeters should generally have:

(A) Large internal resistance.
(B) Low internal resistance.
(C) Maximum possible sensitivity.
(D) Ability to withstand large currents.

74. The value of inductance necessary to produce resonance at 100 kHz with a capacitance of 0.001 µF
is
(A) 25 mH (B) 2.5 mH (C) 0.25 mH (D) 0.025 mH

75. The function of a breather in a transformer is

(A) To provide oxygen to the cooling oil
(B) To provide cooling air
(C) To arrest flow of moisture when outside air enters the transformer
(D) To filter the transformer oil
76. If excitation current of alternator is decreased then stability of alternator in a Transmission system
will
(A) Increase
(B) Decrease
(C) Remain constant
(D) Excitation is not used in an alternator
77. A short circuit test on a transformer gives
(A) Copper losses at full load
(B) Copper losses at half load
(C) Iron losses at any load
(D) Sum of iron losses and copper losses

78. If the frequency of the supply voltage is doubled, which of the following losses will increase in a
transformer?
(A) Eddy current loss
(B) Hysteresis loss
(C) Copper loss
(D) None of the above

79. If the e.m.f. in the rotor of a three pole induction motor has a frequency of 1.5 Hz and that in the
stator is 50 Hz. What is the speed at which the motor is running?
(A) 750 rpm
(B) 744 rpm
(C) 727.5 rpm
(D) 713.5 rpm

80. A 3 phase slip ring induction motor has

(A) Shrot circuited rotor
(B) Double cage rotor
(C) Wound rotor
(D) All of the above

81. Which method of starting an induction motor is expected to take largest starting current.
(A) Direct on-line starting
(B) Stator rotor starting
(C) Star-delta starting
(D) Auto-transformer starting

82. The back e.m.f. set up in the stator of a synchronous motor will depend upon
(A) Rotor speed only
(B) Rotor excitation only
(C) Rotor excitation and rotor speed
(D) Coupling angle, rotor speed and excitation

83. An alternator is generating power at 210 V per phase while running at 1500 rpm. If the speed of an
alternator drops to 1000 rpm the generated voltage per phase will be
 (A) 180 V
(B) 150 V
(C) 140 V
(D) 105 V

84. The driving power from the prime-mover driving the alternator is lost but the alternator remains
connected to the supply network and the field supply also remains on. The alternator will
(A) Get itself burnt
(B) Behave as an induction motor but will rotate in opposite direction
(C) Behave as a synchronous motor and will rotate in the same direction
(D) Behave as a synchronous motor but will rotate in a reverse direction to that
corresponding to generator action

85. The transient voltage that appears across the contacts of a circuit breaker at the instant extinction is
called
(A) Recovery voltage
(B) Re-striking voltage
(C) Supply voltage
(D) Peak voltage

86. As compared to oscillators, an inverter provides

(A) Low voltage output
(B) Low frequency output
(C) Distortion loss output
(D) Noiseless output

87. One’s complement of a binary number can be found out by

(A) Change all one’s to zero’s
(B) Change all zero’s to one’s
(C) Changing all one’s to zero’s and all zero’s to one’s
(D) (A) in case of even numbers and (B) in case of odd numbers.

88. (chap 2)Which cell has the reversible chemical reaction?

(A) Lead acid
(B) Mercury oxide
(C) Carbon zinc
(D) Silver oxide

89. (chap 2)The internal resistance of a dry cell is of the order of

(A) 0.2 to 0.4 ohm
(B) 1 to 1.5 ohm
(C) 2 to 5 ohm
(D) 1 to 15 ohm
90. The skin effect of a conductor will reduce as the
(A) Diameter increases
(B) Frequency increase
(C) Permeability of conductor material increases
(D) Resistivity of conductor material increases

91. In overhead transmission lines the effect of capacitance can be neglected when the length of line is:
(A) More than 300 km
(B) More than 200 km
(C) Between 150 and 200 km
(D) Less than 80 km

92. Corona usually occurs when the electrostatic stress in the air around the conductor exceeds
(A) 30 kV (maximum value)/ cm
(B) 22 kV (maximum value)/ cm
(C) 11 kV (maximum value)/ cm
(D) 6.6 kV (maximum value)/ cm

93. The bundling of conductors is done primarily to

(A) Reduce reactance
(B) Increase reactance
(C) Increase ratio interference
(D) Reduce ratio interference

94. Under no load conditions the current in a transmission line is due to

(A) Corona effects
(B) Capacitance of the line
(C) Back flow from the earth
(D) Spinning reserve.