Electrical Engineering
2024 · Paper 1
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Questions 34–36 of 65. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.
Question 34
Open questionEENAT1 markNeeds review
The incremental cost curves of two generators (Gen A and Gen B) in a plant supplying a common load are shown in the figure. If the incremental cost of supplying the common load is Rs. 7400 per MWh, then the common load in MW is ______ (rounded off to the nearest integer).

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A forced commutated thyristorized step-down chopper is shown in the figure. Neglect the ON-state drop across the power devices. Assume that the capacitor is initially charged to 50 V with the polarity shown in the figure. The load current (
) can be assumed to be constant at 10 A. Initially,
is ON and
is OFF. The turn-off time available to
in microseconds, when
is triggered, is _________ (rounded off to the nearest integer). 
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Open questionEEMCQ2 marksNeeds review
Consider a vector
, where
represent unit vectors along the coordinate axes
respectively. The directional derivative of the function
at the point
in the direction of
isYour answerChoose one option.
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