Electronics and Communication Engineering
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Question 48
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A unity feedback control system is characterized by the open-loop transfer function
. The Nyquist path and the corresponding Nyquist plot of
are shown in the figures below. 
If
, then the number of poles of the closed-loop transfer function that lie in the right-half of the
-plane isYour answerChoose one option.
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The Nyquist plot of the transfer function
does not encircle the point
for
but does encircle the point
for
. Then the closed loop system (having unity gain feedback) isYour answerChoose one option.
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The signal
, where
is in seconds, is sampled at a rate of 9000 samples per second. The sampled signal is the input to an ideal lowpass filter with frequency response
as follows:
What is the number of sinusoids in the output and their frequencies in kHz?
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In binary frequency shift keying (FSK), the given signal waveforms are
, and
,
where
is the bit-duration interval and
is in seconds. Both
and
are zero outside the interval
. With a matched filter (correlator) based receiver, the smallest positive value of
(in milliseconds) required to have
and
uncorrelated isYour answerChoose one option.
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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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Let
be a wide sense stationary random process with the power spectral density
as shown in Figure (a), where
is in Hertz (Hz).

The random process
is input to an ideal lowpass filter with the frequency response
as shown in Figure (b).

The output of the lowpass filter is
.Let
be the expectation operator and consider the following statements:I.
II.
III.
Select the correct option:
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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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Consider a binary memoryless channel characterized by the transition probability diagram shown in the figure.

The channel is
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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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