Electrical Accessories

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Electrical Accessories: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Galvanometer, Voltmeter, Ammeter, Rheostat, Electric Switch, Resistance Box, Different Types of Switch, Two-way Key and, Commutator Key

Important Questions on Electrical Accessories

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A moving coil galvanometer on connecting with a high resistance in series is converted into:

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The reading on a high resistance voltmeter, when a cell is connected across it, is 2.5 V. When the terminals of the cell are also connected to resistance of  5 Ω  as shown in the circuit, the voltmeter reading drops to 2.0 V. The internal resistance of the cell is:

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Two tangent galvanometers A and B have coils of radii 8 cm and 16 cm respectively and resistance 8 Ω each. They are connected in parallel with a cell of emf 4 V and negligible internal resistance. The deflections produced in the tangent galvanometers A and B are 30° and 60° respectively. If A has 2 turns, then the number of turns B must have is

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The deflection in galvanometer falls to 14th, when it is shunted by 3 Ω . If additional shunt of 2 Ω is connected in parallel to earlier shunt, the deflection in galvanometer falls to 1αth value. Write the value of 2α.

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Discuss the working of plug key.

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Resistance 4Ω and 6Ω are connected across the left gap and right gap respectively of a meter bridge. when a 2Ω resistance is connected in series with the 4Ω resistance in the left gap, the shift in the balance point is

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Resistance R1 and R2 are connected respectively in the left gap and right gap of a metere bridge. If the balance point is located at 55cm, the ratio of R2R1 is

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A resistance of 5Ω is connected across the gap of a meter bridge and an unknown resistance, greater than 5Ω, is connected across the other gap. When these resistances are interchanged the balance point shifts by 50cm. Neglecting any correction, what is the unknown resistance? The length of wire is 150cm.

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Which error is removed when the known and unknown resistance are interchange in a meter bridge?

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Two resistance are connected in two gaps of meter bridge. The balance is 20cm from the zero end. A resistance of 15 ohms is connected in series with the smaller of the two. The null point shifts to 40 cm. What is the value of the bigger resistance?

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For a four pole, 16 slot armature with two coil-side/slot having lap connected progressive winding has single turn coils. Then number of commutator segment is?

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200V d.c machine working at rated spedd. Voltage across the commutating terminals should indeally be_____.

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Operation of a d.c. machine will ________.

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Commutator action is analogous to ________ in analog electronics.

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What is commulator?

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A simple slide wire potentiometer is used for measurement of current in the circuit. The voltage drop across a standard resistor of 0.6Ω is balanced at 60cm. The magnitude of current if the standard cell of 4V is balanced at 50cm is_______.

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A standard cell of 1.0185 V is used with a slide wire potentiometer. The balance was obtained at 60cm. When an unknown emf was connected, the balance was obtained at 82cm. What is the magnitude of unknown emf?

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For measurement of potential difference a potentiometer is preferred over voltmeter because-

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Two cells of emf's approximately 5V and 10V are to be accurately compared using a potentiometer of length 400cm.This statement satisfies-

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In a potentiometer of 5 wires, the balance point is obtained on the 2nd wire. To shift the balance point to the 4th we should decrease the current of the main circuit.