Instrumentation Engineering
GATE IN exam:gate PYQs
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Question 26
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An oscilloscope has an input resistance of 1 M
. A 10X passive attenuating probe is connected to it to increase the input voltage range as well as the effective input resistance. The effective input resistance, in M
, seen into the probe tip isYour answerChoose one option.
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For the transfer function
, the number of zeros lying in the left half of the s-plane isYour answerChoose one option.
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Consider the control system block diagram given in Figure (a). The loop transfer function
does not have any pole on the
-axis. The counterclockwise contour with infinite radius, as shown in Figure (b), encircles two poles of
. Choose the correct statement from the following options for closed loop stability of the system. 
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A Boolean function X is given as
. The reduced form of
isYour answerChoose one option.
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A 60 V DC source with an internal resistance
is connected through a switch to a pair of infinitely long rails separated by
as shown in the figure. The rails are placed in a constant, uniform magnetic field of flux density
, directed into the page. A conducting bar placed on the rails is free to move. At the instant of closing the switch, the force induced on the bar isNote: Assume there is no friction between the bar and the rails. The resistances of the conducting bar and the rails are zero.

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The circuits mentioned in the following options are realized using ideal opamp. Among these, the circuit(s) performing non-linear operation on the input signal is/are
Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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If one of the eigenvectors of the matrix
is along the direction of
, where
is any non-zero real number, then the value of
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Consider the function
, where
is a complex variable. The sum of the residues at singular points of
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A dual-slope ADC has a fixed integration time of 100 ms. The reference voltage of the ADC is −5 V. The time taken by the ADC to measure an input voltage of 1.25 V is __________ ms (rounded to the nearest integer).
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In the circuit shown, assume that the BJT in the circuit has very high
and
V, and the Zener diode has
V. The current
through the LED is __________ mA (rounded off to two decimal places). 
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