Instrumentation Engineering
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Question 64
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In the circuit shown, the switch is initially closed. It is opened at
and remains open thereafter. The time (in milliseconds) at which the output voltage
becomes LOW is ______ (round off to three decimal places) 
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In the Wheatstone bridge circuit shown,
and
. The switch is initially open and the voltage between the points C and D is
. Upon closing the switch at
, the resistance in the arm AD changes by an amount
, and the voltage between C and D changes by
. The sensitivity of the bridge (in volt/kilohm), defined as
, is ________ (round off to two decimal places) 
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A single-phase transformer has a magnetizing inductance of 250 mH and a core loss resistance of 300
, referred to primary side. When excited with a 230 V, 50 Hz sinusoidal supply at the primary, the power factor of the input current drawn, with secondary on open circuit, is ____ (rounded off to two decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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Taking
as positive for clockwise encirclement, otherwise negative, the number of encirclements
of
in the Nyquist plot of
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The diode used in the circuit has a fixed voltage drop of 0.6 V when forward biased. A signal
is given to the ideal OpAmp as shown. When
is at its positive peak, the output (
) of the OpAmp in volts is _____. 
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The transistor Q₁ has a current gain
and the transistor Q₂ has a current gain
. The current
in microampere is ______.

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A 300 V, 5 A, LPF wattmeter has a full scale of 300 W. The wattmeter can be used for loads supplied by 300 V ac mains with a maximum power factor of __________ (rounded off to one decimal place).
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A 10-bit ADC has a full-scale of 10.230 V, when the digital output is (11 1111 1111)₂. The quantization error of the ADC in millivolt is _________.
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A strain gage having nominal resistance of 100
has a gage factor of 2.5. If the strain applied to the gage is 100
m/m, its resistance in ohm will change to __________ (rounded off to two decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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Given: Density of mercury is 13,600 kg/m³ and acceleration due to gravity is 9.81 m/s². Atmospheric pressure is 101 kPa. In a mercury U-tube manometer, the difference between the heights of the liquid in the U tube is 1 cm. The differential pressure being measured in pascal is ______ (rounded off to the nearest integer).
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