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#21📘 reviewer_appEasy
Energy radiated continuously in the form of lighting waves is called
Aluminous intensity
Bluminous flux
Clumen
D illumination
#22📘 reviewer_appEasy
The luminous flux emitted in unit solid angle by a uniform point source having a luminous intensity of 1 candela is called
ALumen
BLux
CIllumination
DLuminance
#23📘 reviewer_appEasy
The illumination of a surface is
Adirectly proportional to its distance from the source
Binversely proportional to its distance from the source
Cdirectly proportional to the square of its distance from the source
Dinversely proportional to the square of its distance from the source*
#24📘 reviewer_appEasy
The principle of working of a high pressure mercury vapour lamp is that
Athe radiation from the discharge excites a fluorescent material
Bthe radiation is produced directly by the discharge
Cthe radiation is produced by the argon gas
Dvery high voltage is needed to start the discharge
#25📘 reviewer_appEasy
Although the average efficiency of a 400W high pressure mercury vapour lamp is high, its main disadvantages are
Ahigh cost colour distortion and high copper loss
Bcolour distortion, stroboscopic effect and cannot be started immediately
Chigh cost can not be started immediately and high copper loss
Dneeds a capacitor, choking coil and a starter
#26📘 reviewer_appEasy
Founded the wave theory of light
AFrancesco Grimaldi
BEdward Appleton
CJames Clerk Maxwell
DChristian Huygens
#27📘 reviewer_appEasy
If a mirror is used to reflect light, the reflected light angle is _____ as the incident angle.
Asmaller
Blarger
Cthe same
Dindependent
#28📘 reviewer_appEasy
Dispersion is used to describe the
Asplitting of white light into its component colors
Bpropagation of light in straight lines
Cbending of a beam when it goes from one medium to another
Dbending of beam light when it strikes a mirror
#29📘 reviewer_appEasy
Luminance efficiency is minimum for a
Afluorescent tube
Bhigh wattage light bulb
Cmercury vapor lamp
Dlow wattage light bulb
#30📘 reviewer_appEasy
An object farther from a converging lens than its focal point always has a/an _____ image.
Ainverted
Bthe same in size
Cvirtual
Dsmaller size
#31📘 reviewer_appEasy
An object nearer to a converging lens than its focal point always has a/an _____ image.
Ainverted
Bthe same in size
Csmaller
Dvirtual
#32📘 reviewer_appEasy
The depth of an objects submerged in a transparent liquid
Aalways seems less than its actual depth
Balways seems more than its actual depth
Cmay seem more than its actual depth, depending on the index of refraction of the liquid
Dmay seem less or more than its actual depth, depending on the angle of view
#33📘 reviewer_appEasy
Total internal reflection can occur when light passes from one medium to another
Athat has a lower index of refraction
Bthat has a higher index of refraction
Cthat has the same index of refraction
Dat less than the critical angle
#34📘 reviewer_appEasy
The brightness of light source is called its luminous intensity, whose unit is
Acandela
Blux
Clumen
Dfootcandle
#35📘 reviewer_appEasy
Luminous efficiency is least for a
Alow-wattage light bulb
Bmercury vapor lamp
Chigh-wattage light bulb
Dfluorescent tube
#36📘 reviewer_appEasy
The minimum illumination recommendation for reading is
A8000 cd
B8000 lx
C8000 lm
D800 W
#37📘 reviewer_appEasy
The solid angle subtended by a hemisphere about its center is
Api/2 sr
B2pi sr
Cpi sr
Ddepends on the radius of the hemisphere
#38📜 EE Pre-Board August 2012📘 PowerhouseEasy
The gas inside the inner discharge tube of a sodium vapor lamp is
AArgon
BNeon
CNitrogen
DHelium
#39📜 EE Pre-Board August 2012📘 PowerhouseEasy
A lamp produces an illumination of 10 lux at a point 10 m directly below it. What is its luminous intensity?
A100 Cd
B10 Cd
C10,000 Cd
D1,000 Cd
#40📜 EE Pre-Board August 2012📘 PowerhouseEasy
This is a lighting system wherein the percentage of upward and downward brightness is the same.
AGeneral Diffuse
BDirect
CIndirect
DSemidirect

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