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The output power in a step-up transformer used in practice is ______.

Asked in GUJCET 2014 · Transformers

Answer: (3) Less than the input power

Step-by-step solution

Idea: for any real transformer Pₒᵤₜ=Pᵢₙ-Pₗₒₛₛ.

Losses: I²R heating in the copper windings, eddy currents and hysteresis in the iron core, and leakage of flux.

The efficiency η=(Pₒᵤₜ)/(Pᵢₙ) is high (often above 90%), but always less than 1.

So in practice the output power is less than the input power.

Why the other options are wrong

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