Paper format. PEO/Engineers Canada National Examination
07-Mec-A5 Electrical & Electronics Engineering, May 2015 — 3 hours,
closed book, Casio or Sharp approved calculator only. Eight questions
of equal value; any five constitute a complete paper. All eight are solved
here, since the set is intended as a study resource.
Constants printed on the front page.
$\pi = 3.14159$, $1\ \text{hp} = 746\ \text{W}$, and the permeability of free space
$\mu_0 = 4\pi \times 10^{-7}\ \text{H}\,\text{m}^{-1}$.
Reference texts for this subject.
- Sedra & Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 8th ed. — transistor biasing,
load lines, operational-amplifier circuits (Ch. 2, 6, 7).
- Mano & Ciletti, Digital Design, 6th ed. — Boolean algebra, DeMorgan's
theorems, universal-gate synthesis (Ch. 2–3).
- Chapman, Electric Machinery Fundamentals, 5th ed. — magnetic circuits,
transformers, dc machines and induction machines (Ch. 1–2, 6–8).
- Sadiku & Alexander, Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, 7th ed. —
first-order transients, phasors, ac power, frequency response (Ch. 7, 9–11, 14).
- Glover, Sarma & Overbye, Power System Analysis and Design, 6th ed. —
power-factor correction and transmission loss.
Check — printed constants, checked against the printed paper. All three constants in Note [8] of this examination paper are printed correctly and are used exactly as given: $\pi = 3.14159$, $1\ \text{hp} = 746\ \text{W}$ and $\mu_0 = 4\pi \times 10^{-7}\ \text{H}\,\text{m}^{-1}$. The flux-path lengths in the Question 4 specification table are likewise printed correctly as $3.77 \times 10^{-2}$ m and $7.54 \times 10^{-2}$ m, and the negative exponents are used as printed; with them the reluctances come out to exactly $1.5 \times 10^{6}$ and $3.0 \times 10^{6}$ A/Wb, which is how the question was designed.
