MODULE 3 REVIEW QUESTIONS – CHAPTERS 9-18

47. What are the factors that affect the capacitance of a capacitor and how?
48. What is called capacitor capacitance?
49. What is the dielectric constant?
50. What is the formula for capacitance?
51. Why is the voltage rating of a capacitor important?
52. How does a capacitor behave in DC and in AC?
53. What is the RC time constant?
54. What is the capacitance of capacitors in series and in parallel?

55. Attraction and repulsion of magnets, poles of magnets.

56. What is permeability?
57. What is reluctance?
58. Earth’s magnetic field, magnetic poles, magnetic variation.
59. What will happen if we break a magnet in half?
60. What is magnetic flux and flux density?
61. What is magnetic field intensity?
62. Which factors affect flux density?
63. How can we increase the flux density?
64. What is magnetic shielding and how it is achieved?
65. Explain the right-hand and left-hand clasp rules.

66. How is an electromotive force developed?

67. What will happen if there is relative motion between a magnetic field and conductor?
68. What is self-inductance and when it is created?
69. What is Lens’s Law for inductance?
70. What are the factors affecting inductance?
71. What is the unit and the formula of inductance?
72. What is mutual inductance? Which electrical component is based on it?
73. What are the factors affecting mutual inductance?

74. How is voltage created in a generator?

75. How is voltage controlled in a generator?
76. How is determined the polarity of the voltage in a generator?
77. How is the current direction determined in a generator?
78. What is the purpose of the commutator in a generator?
79. Which part of the generator is the armature?
80. What are the basic parts of a generator?
81. What is the field winding of a generator?
82. What is the principle of operation of a DC motor?
83. What determines the direction of rotation of a DC motor?
84. What is the purpose of the commutator in a DC motor?
85. What is the main advantage of a series DC motor?
86. What is the main disadvantage of a series DC motor?
87. What is the main advantage of a shunt DC motor?
88. What is a compound DC motor?
89. How can you reverse the direction of rotation of a DC motor?
90. How is the speed of a DC motor controlled?
91. What is a starter-generator?

92. What is the relationship between peak, peak-to-peak, RMS and average values?
93. What is the definition alternating current?
94. What is called AC frequency, period, phase, amplitude?

95. What are the definitions of impedance, resistance and reactance?

96. What is the relationship between V and I in an inductive circuit?
97. What is the relationship between V and I in a capacitive circuit?
98. What is the reactance in an inductive circuit?
99. What is the reactance in a capacitive circuit?
100. What are the factors that affect reactance?
101. How much is the total reactance of an AC circuit?
102. How much is the impedance in an AC circuit?
103. What is the relationship between true power, reactive power and apparent power?
104. What is power factor?

105. What are the basic components of transformer?

106. What is the basic operation of a transformer?
107. What is the relationship of voltage, current, power between the primary and secondary
coils (ratios)?
108. What is the effect of an iron core in a transformer?
109. Why is the core of a transformer laminated?
110. What is the phase relationship between the primary and the secondary of a transformer?
111. What is a current transformer?
112. What is an autotransformer?

113. What is the purpose of a filter circuit?

114. Which property of inductors and capacitors is used to make filters?
115. What is the purpose of low-pass filter?
116. What is the purpose of a high pass filter?
117. What is the purpose of a band-pass filter?
118. What is the purpose of a band-stop filter?

119. Explain the operation of a basic AC generator.

120. What is a prime mover?
121. What is the difference between a rotating field and a rotating armature AC generator?
122. What is a three-phase AC generator?
123. How is voltage controlled in an AC generator?
124. How is the frequency of an AC generator calculated?
125. Describe the configuration of the Star connected generator and the Delta connected
generator.

126. What is the principle of operation of a Synchronous motor?

127. What is the principle of operation of an Induction motor?
128. What is the main disadvantage of a synchronous motor?
129. What is the relationship between the speed of the field and the rotor of an induction
motor?