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2. ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS
2.3 Wattmeter and Energy Meter
1. 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____.
[GATE-2018, 1 Mark]
2.4 Bridges and Potentiometer
1. If the deflection of the galvanometer in the 2. The inductance of a coil is measured using the
bridge circuit shown in the figure is zero, then bridge shown in the figure. Balance (D = 0) is
the value of Rx in ohms is ________ . . obtained with C1 1nF. R1 2.2 M,
R 2 22.2 k, R 4 10k. . The value of the
100 200 inductance Lx (in mH) is ____.
100 100
C1
G
100 Rx R2
R1
Vs D
R4 Lx
2V Rx
[GATE-2015, 2 Marks] [GATE-2018, 2 Marks]
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2.5 CRO, Q-meter and Digital Voltmeters
1. In an oscilloscope screen, linear sweep is 5. A 200 mV full scale dual-slope 3½ digit
applied at the DMM has a reference voltage of 100 mV and
(A) Vertical axis (B) Horizontal axis a first integration time of 100 ms. For an input
(C) Origin of 100 10cos 100t mV, the conversion
(D) both horizontal and vertical axis
time (without taking the auto-zero phase time
[GATE-2014, 1 Mark]
into consideration) in millisecond is _______ .
[GATE-2016, 2 Marks]
2. Frequency of an analog periodic signal in the
range of 5 kHz – 10 kHz is to be measured with 6. A voltage of 6 cos(100 t ) V is fed as y-input to
a resolution of 100 Hz by measuring its period a CRO. The waveform seen on the screen of the
with a counter. Assuming negligible signal and CRO is shown in the figure.
transition delays the minimum clock frequency
and minimum number of bits in the counter
needed, respectively, are:
(A) 1 MHz, 10-bits (B) 10 MHz, 10-bits
(C) 1 MHz, 8-bits (D) 10MHz, 8-bits
[GATE-2014, 2 Marks]
The Y and X axes setting for the CRO are
3. A 3 ½ digit DMM has an accuracy specification
respectively.
of 1% of full scale (accuracy class 1). A
(A) 1V/div and 1ms/div
reading of 100.0 mA is obtained on its 200 mA
(B) 1 V/div and 2 ms/div
full scale range. The worst case error in the
(C) 2V/div and 1 ms/div
reading in milliampere is ____________.
(D) 2 V/div and 2ms/div
[GATE-2016, 1 Mark]
[GATE-2018, 1 Mark]
4. A coil is tested with a series type Q-meter. 7. A high Q coil having districted (self)
Resonance at a particular frequency is obtained capacitance is tested with a Q-meter. First
with a capacitance of 110 pF. When the
resonance at 1 10 rad / s is obtained with a
6
frequency is doubled, the capacitance required
capacitance of 990 pF. The second resonance at
for resonance is 20 pF. The distributed
capacitance of the coil in pico farad is ______. 2 2 106 rad / s is obtained with a 240 pF
[GATE-2016, 2 Marks] capacitance. The value of the inductance (in
mH) of the coil is (up to one decimal place)
____.
[GATE-2018, 2 Marks]
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