Instrumentation Engineering
GATE IN year:2022 PYQs
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Questions 51–60 of 65. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 51
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Monochromatic light of wavelength 532 nm is used to measure the absorption coefficient of a material in a UV-Visible Spectrophotometer. The measured light intensity after transmission through a 1 cm thick sample of the material is 0.414 mW/cm
. For a sample of thickness 2 cm, the measured light intensity is 0.186 mW/cm
. The absorption coefficient (in cm
) of the material is ______ (round off to two decimal places)Log in to check the answer
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In the circuit shown, the load is driven by a sinusoidal ac voltage source
V at 50 Hz. Given
,
F,
mH and
, the power factor is ______ (round off to one decimal place) 
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In a unity-gain feedback control system, the plant
is controlled by a lag compensator
The slope (in dB/decade) of the asymptotic Bode magnitude plot of the loop gain at
rad/s is ______ (in integer)Log in to check the answer
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Given Circuit A with currents
and
as shown, the current
in Circuit B (in amperes), is ______ (round off to one decimal place) 
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In the balanced three-phase circuit shown,
F and the line-to-line r.m.s. voltage is 440 V at 50 Hz. The reading on the wattmeter (in watts) is ______ (round off to two decimal places) 
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The circuit shown is driven by a sinusoidal input voltage,
, resulting in the output voltage,
. The frequency (in kilohertz) at which the voltage gain is 0 dB is ______ (round off to two decimal places) 
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A conducting semi-circular loop of radius
m, with its diameter centered at the origin, rotates in the
-
plane about the origin with a constant angular velocity,
rad/s, as shown. A magnetic field of magnitude
T and normal to
-
plane exists in the region
as shown. If the loop has a resistance of 2
, and negligible inductance, the peak-to-peak current (in milliamperes) in the loop is ______ (round off to one decimal place) 
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In the circuit shown,
and
. If the base-to-emitter voltage of the npn BJT is 0.7 V and the collector-to-emitter voltage is 5.2 V, the
(current gain) of the BJT is ______ (round off to two decimal places) 
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A capacitor is constructed using two concentric spheres and air as the dielectric medium (permittivity of air = 8.854 × 10
F/m). The radii of the inner and outer spheres are
cm and
cm, respectively. The capacitance (in picofarads) is ______ (round off to 2 decimal places)Log in to check the answer
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A 1 kHz sine-wave generator having an internal resistance of 50
generates an open-circuit voltage of 10 V
. When a capacitor is connected across the output terminals, the voltage drops to 8 V
. The capacitance of the capacitor (in microfarads) is ______ (round off to two decimal places)Log in to check the answer
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