Electronics and Communication Engineering
GATE ECE format:nat PYQs
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Questions 231–239 of 239. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 44
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A 4-bit shift register circuit configured for right-shift operation, i.e.
,
,
,
, is shown. If the present state of the shift register is
, the number of clock cycles required to reach the state
is ____________. 
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Figure I shows a 4-bit ripple carry adder realized using full adders and Figure II shows the circuit of a full-adder (FA). The propagation delay of the XOR, AND and OR gates in Figure II are 20 ns, 15 ns and 10 ns, respectively. Assume all the inputs to the 4-bit adder are initially reset to 0.


At
, the inputs to the 4-bit adder are changed to
,
and
. The output of the ripple carry adder will be stable at
(in ns) = ______Log in to check the answer
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A unity feedback control system is characterized by the open-loop transfer function
. The value of
for which the system oscillates at
is ________Log in to check the answer
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The unmodulated carrier power in an AM transmitter is 5 kW. This carrier is modulated by a sinusoidal modulating signal. The maximum percentage of modulation is 50%. If it is reduced to 40%, then the maximum unmodulated carrier power (in kW) that can be used without overloading the transmitter is __________
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A modulating signal given by
V is fed to a phase modulator with phase deviation constant
rad/V. If the carrier frequency is 20 kHz, the instantaneous frequency (in kHz) at
ms is __________Log in to check the answer
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A continuous time signal
, where
is in seconds, is the input to a linear time invariant (LTI) filter with the impulse response
Let
be the output of this filter. The maximum value of
is ________.Log in to check the answer
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An optical fiber is kept along the
direction. The refractive indices for the electric fields along
and
directions in the fiber are
and
, respectively (
due to the imperfection in the fiber cross-section). The free space wavelength of a light wave propagating in the fiber is 1.5
m. If the lightwave is circularly polarized at the input of the fiber, the minimum propagation distance after which it becomes linearly polarized, in centimetres, is ________.Log in to check the answer
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An electron (
) is moving in free space with velocity
m/s towards a stationary electron (
) far away. The closest distance that this moving electron gets to the stationary electron before the repulsive force diverts its path is __________
m. [Given, mass of electron
kg, charge of electron
C, and permittivity
F/m]Log in to check the answer
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The permittivity of water at optical frequencies is
. It is found that an isotropic light source at a distance
under water forms an illuminated circular area of radius 5 m, as shown in the figure. The critical angle is
. 
The value of
(in meter) is __________Log in to check the answer
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