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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A piezoelectric pressure sensor has a bandpass characteristic with cut-off frequencies of 0.1 Hz and 1 MHz, and a sensitivity of 100 mV/kPa. The sensor is subjected to a static constant pressure of 100 kPa. Its steady-state output will be
Your answerChoose one option.
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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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Given
, the value of the line integral
along the straight line
from
to
isYour answerChoose one option.
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Two bags
and
have equal number of balls. Bag
has 20% red balls and 80% green balls. Bag
has 30% red balls, 60% green balls and 10% yellow balls. Contents of bags
and
are mixed thoroughly and a ball is randomly picked from the mixture. What is the chance that the ball picked is red?Your answerChoose one option.
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Consider the following system of linear equations:
Here
and
are the unknowns and
is a real constant. The value of
for which there are infinite number of solutions isYour answerChoose one option.
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Consider the following equations
where p and q are constants.
that satisfies the above equations isYour answerChoose one option.
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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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