Instrumentation Engineering
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Question 21
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A 300 V, 5A, 0.2 pf low power factor wattmeter is used to measure the power consumed by a load. The wattmeter scale has 150 divisions and the pointer is on the 100ᵗʰ division. The power consumed by the load (in Watts) is ____ .
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As shown in the figure, temperature
is measured using a K type thermocouple. It has a sensitivity of 40
V/°C. The gain (G) of the ideal instrumentation amplifier is 25. If the output
is 96 mV, then the value of
(in °C) is ___. 
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An amplitude modulated signal is shown in the figure. The modulation index is (up to one decimal place) ______.

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An optical pulse containing
photons is incident on a photodiode and
electron-hole pairs are created. The maximum possible quantum efficiency (in %) of the photodiode is ______.Log in to check the answer
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In the given circuit, superposition is applied. When
is set to 0 V, the current
is −6 A. When
is set to 0 V, the current
is +6 A. Current
(in A) when both sources are applied will be (up to two decimal places) ____. 
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In the figure, an RLC load is supplied by a 230 V, 50 Hz single phase source. The magnitude of the reactive power (in VAr) supplied by the source is ________.

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Consider the standard negative feedback configuration with
and
. The number of clockwise encirclements of
in the Nyquist plot of the loop transfer-function
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Consider a standard negative feedback configuration with
and
. For the closed loop system to have poles on the imaginary axis, the value of
should be equal to (up to one decimal)_____.Log in to check the answer
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In the given relaxation oscillator, the opamps and the zener diodes are ideal. The frequency (in kHz) of the square wave output
is _____. 
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An opamp that is powered from a
V supply is used to build a non-inverting amplifier having a gain of 15. The slew rate of the opamp is
V/s. For a sinusoidal input with amplitude of 0.3 V, the maximum frequency (in kHz) up to which it can be operated without any distortion (up to one decimal place) ____.Log in to check the answer
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