GATE Paper 2011 Instrumentation Engineering

The infinite series converges to

The diameters of 10000 ball bearings were measured. The mean diameter and standard deviation were found to be 10mm and 0.05mm respectively. Assuming Gaussian distribution of measurements, it can be expected that the number of measurements more than 10.15mm will be

A person weighing 60 kg receives radiation energy of 0.3J over the entire body. The dose of radiation absorbed (in rad) is

u(t) represents the unit step function. The Laplace transform of u is

A measurement system with input x(t) and output y(t) is described by the differential equation The static sensitivity of the system is

Poisson’s ratio for a metal is 0.35. Neglecting piezo-resistance effect, the gage factor of a strain gage made of this metal is

Match the Following

In a pulse code modulated (PCM) signal sampled at and encoded into an n-bit code, the minimum bandwidth required for faithful reconstruction is

A beam of unpolarized light is first passed through a linear polarizer and then through a quarter-wave plate. The emergent beam is

f(x), shown in the adjoining figure is represented by



The value of is

The PMMC ammeter A in the adjoining figure has a range of 0 to 3mA. When switch S1 is opened, the pointer of the ammeter swings to the 1mA mark, returns and settles at 0.9mA. The meter is

The open loop transfer function of a unity gain feedback system is given by:


The range of positive values of k for which the closed loop system will remain stable is:

A real n × n matrix is defined as follows

if i=j = 0, otherwise the summation of all n eigen values of A is

The contour C in the adjoining figure is described by



The value of is.

Note :

In the dc circuit shown in the adjoining figure, the node voltage at steady state is

A 1W resistor and a 2W resistor are connected in series. The maximum dc voltage that can be applied continuously to the series circuit without exceeding the power limit of any of the resistors is

The seismic mass of an accelerometer oscillates sinusoidally at 100Hz with a maximum displacement of 10mm from its mean position. The peak acceleration of the seismic mass is

In the ideal opamp circuit given in the adjoining figure, the value of is varied from The gain

A signal with frequency components 50Hz, 100Hz and 200Hz only is sampled at 150samples/s. The ideally reconstructed signal will have frequency component(s) of

The subroutine SBX given below is executed by an 8085 processor. The value in the accumulator immediately after the execution of the subroutine will be:
SBX :
MVI A, 99h
ADI 11h
MOV C,A
RET

The Integral evaluates to

The deflection angle of the pointer of an ideal moving iron ammeter is for 1.0 ampere dc current. If a current of 3sin (314t) amperes is passed through the ammeter then the deflection angle is

A 8-bit DAC is interfaced with a microprocessor having 16 address lines as shown in the adjoining figure. A possible valid address for this DAC is

H(z) is a discrete rational transfer function. To ensure that both H(z) and its inverse are stable its

The output voltage of a transducer with an output resistance of is connected to an amplifier. The minimum input resistance of the amplifier so that the error in recording the transducer output does not exceed 2% is

X and Y are non-zero square matrices of size n x n. If then

Consider the differential equation with y = 1. The value of y (1) is

The electric charge density in the region

is given as where x and y are in meters. The total charge (in coulomb) contained in the region R is

The input x(t) and the corresponding output y(t) of a system are related by The system is

A digital filter having a transfer function is implemented using Direct Form – I and Direct Form – II realizations of IIR structure. The number of delay units required in Direct Form – I and Direct Form – II realizations are, respectively

The velocity v (in m/s) of a moving mass, starting from rest, is given as Using Euler forward difference method (also known as Cauchy-Euler method) with a step size of 0.1s, the velocity at 0.2s evaluates to

The rotor of the control transformer of a synchro pair gives a maximum voltage of 1.0V at a particular position of the rotor of the control transmitter. The transmitter is now rotated by anticlockwise keeping the transformer rotor stationary. The transformer rotor voltage for this position is

The matched transistors Q1 and Q2 shown in the adjoining figure have The matched transistors Q1 and Q2 shown in the adjoining figure have of the transistor Q2 is

The volume of a cylinder is computed from measurements of its height (h) and diameter (d). A set of several measurements of height has an average value of 0.2m and a standard deviation of 1%. The average value obtained for the diameter is 0.1m and the standard deviation is 1%. Assuming the errors in the measurements of height and diameter are uncorrelated, the standard deviation of the computed volume is

A thermocouple based temperature measurement system is shown in the adjoining figure. Relevant thermocouple emf data (in mV) is given below. The cold junction is kept at The temperature is in the other parts of the system. The emf is measured to be 26.74mV. the temperature of the hot liquid is

A differential pressure transmitter is used to measure the flow rate in a pipe. Due to aging, the sensitivity of the pressure transmitter is reduced by 5%. All other aspects of the flow meter remaining constant, change in the sensitivity of the flow measurement is

The asymptotic Bode magnitude plot of a lead network with its pole and zero on the left half of the s-plane is shown in the adjoining figure. The frequency at which the phase angle of the network is maximum (in rad/s) is

In an analog single channel cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO), the x and y sensitivities are set as 1ms/div. and 1V/div. respectively. The y-input is connected to a voltage signal The trigger source is internal, level chosen is zero and the slope is positive. The display seen on the CRO screen is

A unit ramp input is applied to the system shown in the adjoining figure. The steady state error in its output is

A unity feedback system has an open loop transfer function The value of k that yields a damping ratio of 0.5 for the closed loop system is

A 4-bit successive approximation type ADC has a full scale value of 15V. The sequence of the states, the SAR will traverse, for the conversion of an input of 8.15V is

The logic gate circuit shown in the figure realizes the function

In an 8085 processor, the main program calls the subroutine SUB1 given below. When the program returns to the main program after executing SUB1, the value in the accumulator is



SUB1:
MVI A,00h
CALL SUB2

SUB2:
INR A
RET

Light coming out of an optical fiber is incident on a plane perpendicular to the fiber axis and 50mm away from the end of the fiber. The light coming out creates a circular spot that can at most be of 20mm diameter. Neglecting the diameter of the fiber, the numerical aperture of the fiber is, approximately

A solution “P” is put in a spectrophotometer cuvette of optical path length 1cm. The transmittance is found to be 10%. Another solution “Q” has a transmittance of 40% under the same circumstances. If equal volumes of P and Q are mixed together, the transmittance of the resulting solution (assuming the constituents of P and Q do not react with each other) is, approximately,

4-point DFT of a real discrete-time signal x[n] of length 4 is given by
X [k], n = 0,1,2,3 and k = 0,1,2,3. It is given that X [0] = 5, X¹ = 1 + j1, X [2] = 0.5
X [3] and x [0] respectively are

An active filter is shown in the adjoining figure. The dc gain and the 3dB cut-off frequency of the filter respectively, are, nearly

Directions for next two questions: A differential amplifier is constructed using an ideal opamp as shown in the adjoining figure. The values of and are and respectively.

The input impedances seen looking into the terminals and with respect to ground, respectively are

are connected to voltage sources having an open circuit output of +1V each and internal resistances of respectively. The output voltage is

Directions for next two questions: A PMMC type ammeter has full scale current of 100 μ A and a coil resistance of

The resistance required to convert the ammeter into 1A full scale dc ammeter is

The above PMMC meter is connected in the circuit shown in the adjoining figure. The opamp is ideal. The voltage (t) = 1.0sin314t V . Assuming the source impedance of (t) to be zero, the ammeter will indicate a current of

Directions for next two questions: A coil having an inductance (L) of 10mH and resistance R is connected in series with an ideal capacitor ( C ). When excited by a voltage source of value
the series RLC circuit draws 20W of power.

The value of the coil resistance R is

The Q factor of the coil at an angular frequency of 1000rad/s is

Directions for next two questions: Consider a temperature measurement scheme shown in the adjoining figure. It uses an RTD whose resistance at is and temperature coefficient of resistance is



The differential gain of the instrumentation amplifier to achieve a voltagesensitivity of at should be approximately

The RTD is placed in hot water bath of temperature Based on the gain calculated in previous question, the error in the measured value of the temperature due to bridge nonlinearity is

Directions for next five questions: Carry One Mark Each

25 persons are in a room. 15 of them play hockey, 17 of them play football and 10 of them play both hockey and football. Then the number of persons playing neither hockey nor football is:

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence:

If we manage to …................ our natural resources, we would leave a better planet for our children.

The question below consists of a pair of related words followed by four pairs of words. Select the pair that best expresses the relation in the original pair.

Unemployed: Worker

Which of the following options is the closest in meaning to the word below:
Circuitous

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to the complete the following sentence:

His rather casual remarks on politics …...................... his lack of seriousness about the subject.

Directions for next five questions: Carry Two Mark Each

Hari (H), Gita (G), Irfan (I) and Saira (S) are siblings (i.e. brothers and sisters). All were born on january. The age difference between any two successive siblings (that is born one after another) is less than 3 years. Given the following facts:
i. Hari’s age + Gita’s age > Irfan’s age + Saira’s age
ii. The age difference between Gita and Saira is 1 year. However, Gita is not the oldest and Saira is not the youngest.
iii. There are no twins.

In what order were they born (oldest first)?

5 skilled workers can build a wall in 20days; 8 semi-skilled workers can build a wall in 25 days; 10 unskilled workers can build a wall in 30days. If a team has 2 skilled, 6 semi-skilled and 5 unskilled workers, how long will it take to build the wall?

Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare; and regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause.
Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage:

Given digits 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4 how many distinct 4 digit numbers greater than 3000 can be formed?

If 137 + 276 = 435 how much is 731 + 672?