Instrumentation Engineering
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Question 36
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The loop transfer function of a negative feedback system is given by
, where
. The value of
at the breakaway point of the root locus for the above system (rounded off to one decimal place) is ____Log in to check the answer
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The system shown in Fig. (a) has a time response
to an input
as shown in Fig. (b),
being the unit step input. Both
are positive. The gain
of the system is ____

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Assuming that the opamp used in the circuit shown is ideal, the reading of the 1 Hz bandwidth, permanent magnet moving coil (PMMC) type voltmeter (in volts) is ____

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If the opamps in the circuit shown are ideal and
mV, the steady state value of
(in volts, rounded off to two decimal places) is ____

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Two T-flip flops are interconnected as shown in the figure. The present state of the flip flops are: A = 1, B = 1. The input x is given as 1, 0, 1 in the next three clock cycles. The decimal equivalent of
with A being the MSB and B being the LSB, after the 3rd clock cycle is ____

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The address lines A9 … A2 of a 10 bit, 1.023 V full-scale digital to analog converter (DAC) is connected to the data lines D7 to D0 of an 8-bit microprocessor, with A1 and A0 of the DAC grounded. Now, D7 … D0 is changed from 1010 1010 to 1010 1011. The corresponding change in the output of the DAC (in mV, rounded off to one decimal place) is ____
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The real power drawn by a balanced load connected to a 400 V, 50 Hz, balanced, symmetrical 3-phase, 3-wire, RYB sequence mains is measured using the two-wattmeter method. Wattmeter W1 is connected in the R line and wattmeter W2 is connected in the B line. The line current is measured as
A. If the wattmeter W1 reads zero, the reading on W2 (in watts) is ____Log in to check the answer
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A 6½ digit timer-counter is set in the ‘time period’ mode of operation and the range is set as ‘ns’. For an input signal, the timer-counter displays 100000. With the same input signal, the timer-counter is changed to ‘frequency’ mode of operation and the range is set as ‘Hz’. The display will show the number ____
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The circuit shown uses ideal opamp powered from a supply
V. If the charge
generated by the piezoelectric sensor is of the form
μC, the peak detector output after 10 cycles of
(in volts, rounded off to one decimal place) is ____

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A metallic strain gauge of resistance
with a gauge factor of 2 is bonded to a structure made of a metal with modulus of elasticity of 200 GN/m
. The value of
is 1 kΩ when no stress is applied.
is a part of a quarter bridge with three identical fixed resistors of 1 kΩ each. The bridge is excited from a DC voltage of 4 V. The structure is subjected to a stress of 100 MN/m
. Magnitude of the output of the bridge (in mV, rounded off to two decimal places) is ____Log in to check the answer
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