Previous year question paper for FEE (Diploma Electrical Engineering 3rd)

1. (a) Application and Advantages of Electrical Energy (4 Hrs)

• Different forms of energy

• Advantages of electrical energy

• Uses of electrical energy

(b) Basic Electrical Quantities

• Basic concept of charge, current, voltage, resistance, power,

energy and their units

• Conversion of units of work, power and energy from one form to

another

2. DC Circuits (10 Hrs)

2.1 Ohm’s law, resistances in series and parallel

2.2 Effect of temperature on resistance, temperature coefficient of

resistance and specific resistance

2.3 Kirchhoff’s laws and their applications in solving electrical network

problems

2.4 Network theorems such as Thevenin’s theorem, superposition

theorem Maximum power and transfer theorem and Norton’s

theorem

2.5 Star-delta transformation

3. Batteries (10 Hrs)

3.1 Basic idea about primary and secondary cells

3.2 Working principle, construction and applications of Lead acid, Nickel

Cadmium and Silver Oxide Cells

3.3 Charging methods used for lead acid accumulator

3.4 Care and maintenance of a lead acid battery

 3.5 Grouping of cells in series and parallel (simple numerical problems).

4. Magnetism and Electromagnetism: (8 Hrs)

4.1 Introduction to electromagnetism, Magnetic field around a straight

current carrying conductor and a solenoid and methods to find its

direction, force between two parallel current carrying conductors.

4.2 Force on a conductor placed in the magnetic field

4.3 Series & parellel magnetic circuits, simple problems

4.4 Concept of hyteresis loop and hysteresis loss.

5.. Electromagnetic Induction: (8 Hrs)

5.1. Faraday's Laws of electromagnetic induction

5.2. Lenz's law

5.3. Fleming's Right and Left Hand Rule

5.4. Principle of self and mutual induction 

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5.5. Principle of self and mutually induced e.m.f. and simple problems

5.6. Inductances in series and parallel

5.7. Energy stored in a magnetic field

5.8. Concept of eddy currents, eddy current loss

6. AC Fundamentals (8 Hrs)

6.1. Difference between a.c and d.c

6.2. Concept of alternating current and voltage, equation of

instantaneous values

6.3. Representation of alternating sinusoidal quantities by vectors

6.4. Phasor algebra (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of

complex quantities)

7. AC Circuits (16 Hrs)

7.1. AC through pure resistance, inductance and capacitance

7.2. Alternating voltage applied to RL,RC and RLC series and parallel

circuits (impedance triangle, phasor diagram and their solutions)

7.3. Concept of susceptance, conductance and admittance

7.4. j-notation and its application in solving problems in ac circuits

7.5. Power in pure resistance, inductance, capacitance, RL, RC, RLC

circuits

7.6. Role of use of current in RL and RC circuit.

7.7. Active and reactive components of current and their significance

7.8. Power factor and its practical significance

7.9. Resonance in series and parallel circuits