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CNS-EE4 Instrumentations / Energy Conversion / Others: Moving-Iron Instrument
CNS-EE4 Instrumentations / Energy Conversion / Others: Moving-Iron Instrument
1. An instrument which depends on current in one or more fixed coils acting on one or
more pieces of soft iron, at least one of which is movable.
moving-iron instrument
2. What is that device which depends on the action of a movable permanent magnet in
aligning itself in the resultant field produced either by a fixed permanent magnet and
an adjacent coil or coils carrying current or by two or more current-carrying coils
whose axes are displaced by a fixed angle?
moving-magnet instrument
3. What ammeter is mostly used in measuring high-frequency currents?
thermocouple
4. This instrument measures temperatures by electric means, especially temperatures
beyond the range of mercury thermometers.
pyrometer
5. This instrument refers to that one which measures the intensity of the radiation
received from any portion of the sky
pyranometer
6. A device used to mechanically measure the output power of a motor.
dynamometer
7. An indicating instrument whose movable coils rotate between two stationary coils,
usually used as wattmeter.
electrodynamometer
8. Error in ohmmeter reading is due to
battery aging
9. Which of the ammeter below that has no insertion error?
clamp-meter
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To prevent damage of the multirange ammeter during selection, a/an _________ should
be used.
Ayrton shunt
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If a meter with a full-scale current of 100uA is used as an ac voltmeter with halfwave rectification, its ac sensitivity is
4,500 /V
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The force(s) that is(are) acting on the pointer of an indicating instrument as they
rest on there final deflected position. (Note: damping torque is 0).
controlling & deflecting torques
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What is (are) the force(s) acting on the pointer of an indicating instrument when
it is in motion?
controlling, damping, and defecting torques
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What is this measuring instrument that uses the force of repulsion between fixed
and movable magnetized iron vanes, or the force between a coil and a pivoted vaneshaped piece of soft iron to move the indicating pointer?
vane-type instrument
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What is that instrument used for measuring the strength and direction of magnetic
fields?
magnetometer
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What do you call of that instrument used for measuring reactive power vars?
either varmeter or reactive volt-ampere meter
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This is a method of using a Wheatstone bridge to determine the distance from the
test point to a fault in telephone or telegraph line or cable.
Varley loop
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This is a special bridge for measuring very low resistance (0.1 or less). The
arrangement of the bridge reduces the effects of contact resistance which causes
significant error when such low resistances are connected to conventional resistance
bridges.
Kelvin double bridge
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What do you call of that frequency-sensitive bridge in which two adjacent arms are
resistances and the other two arms are RC combinations?
Wein bridge
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When the capacitors of a Wein bridge are replaced by inductors, the bridge becomes
Wein inductance bridge
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A simplified version of the Wheatstone bridge wherein, two of the ratio arms are
replaced by a 100 cm long Manganin of uniform cross-sections and provided with a
slider.
slide-wire bridge
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46.
What is the primary reason why carbon brushes are preferred over copper brushes in
dc motors?
they product less arcing
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When a dc motor has no load, what will happen to the back emf?
becomes maximum
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One cause why the shaft torque is less than the developed armature torque of a dc
motor.
friction loss
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What is the most common method used in varying the sped of a dc motor?
by varying the field strength
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One advantage of a cumulatively compounded motor is that it does not run widely at
light loads, this feature is due to
shunt winding
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In applications where sudden heavy loads happen for short duration, a ______ motor
is the best choice.
cumulatively compounded
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In motors of the same rating, which has the least starting torque?
dc shunt
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Which motor that produces the highest increase in torque considering the same
increase in current?
dc series
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The law which pertains, for any dielectric reflector, the relationship in which the
reflective index is equal to the tangent of the polarizing angle.
Brewsters angle
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A law that states the current in a thermoionic diode varies directly with the
three-halves power of anode voltage and inversely with the square of the distance
between the electrodes, providing operating conditions are such that the current is
limited only by the spacecharge.
Childs law
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The logarithm of the decay constant of an alpha emitter is linearly related to the
logarithm of the range of the alpha particles emitted by it is called _____.
Geiger-Nuttal law
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The law that processing power of a computer is proportional to the square of its
cost.
Groshs law
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The law which states an electric motor develops maximum power when Ei = 2Ebk, where
Ei is the applied voltage an dEbk is the back-emf.
Jacobs law
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The law that sparkling potential between two parallel place electrodes in a gas I a
function of the product of the gas density and the distance between the electrodes.
either Paschens rule or Paschens law is right
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The rule that hysteresis loss in a magnetic material varies directly in proportion
with the cube of the magnetic induction.
Rayleighs law
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The thermal-radiation law that shows the total emissive power of ablackbody to be
proportional to the fourth power of the absolute temperature of the body.
Stefan-Boltzmann law
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The law showing that the emissive power of a black body is proportional to the
fifth power of absolute temperature is known as
either Wiens radiation law or Wiens second law
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An electromagnetic wave will take a path that involves the least travel time when
propagating between two points.
Fermats principle
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The rule that states, during transitions of orbital electrons from higher to lower
energy states (accompanied by the emission of the photons), changes in the inner
quantum number may not only e by a factor of 0 r +/- 1.
J rule
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The random variations in the output current of an electron tube that has an oxidecoated cathode, caused by random changes in cathode emission.
flicker effect
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What do you call of the momentary illumination produced when an electric field is
applied to a phosphor previously excited by ultraviolet radiation?
Gudden-Pohl effect
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The variation (caused by the earths magnetic field) of the strength of cosmic rays
arriving at different longitudes on the surface of the earth is known as
longitude effect
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This is the effect when the magnetization of a helically wound, ferromagnetic wire
fluctuates, the tendency for a potential difference to occur.
Mateucci effect
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100. What gadget that electronically aids the blind which has a camera that scan printed
matter and a device forms corresponding raised letters which can be read with the
fingertips?
optacon
101. What do you call of a monostable pentode circuit that generates sharp pulses at an
adjustable and accurately timed interval after receipt of a triggering signal?
phantastron
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