Q. Consider the following features of an instrument

I. suitable for both ac and dc
II. free from hysteresis and eddy current errors
III. No waveform and frequency errors
IV. it is essentially a voltmeter

This instrument is

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Q. Which one of the following effects is used in measuring power?

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Q. The effect of lead resistance is important in measurement of

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Q. A high resistance was measured by loss of charge method. The voltmeter resistance was 10¹ᴼ ohms. The calculation gave the value of unknown resistance as 0.8 x 10⁹ ohms. The true value of resistance is

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Q. A resistance wire strain gauge has gauge factor 2. If stress is 100 mega newton/m² and Young's modulus is 200 giga newton/ m², the percentage change in gauge resistance due to stress is

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Q. The loss of charge method can be used to measure

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Q. Assertion (A): Maxwell bridge is for measuring inductance of medium magnitude.

Reason (R): In Maxwell's bridge the unknown inductance is measured by comparing it with a capacitance.

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Q. Assertion (A): A semiconductor strain gauge is more accurate than a resistance strain gauge.

Reason (R): The gauge factor of a semiconductor strain gauge is about 100 where as the gauge factor of a resistance strain gauge is only about 2.

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Q. Current density has the dimensions

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Q. The resistance of a dc galvanometer is 20 Ω. A current of 10 mA causes full scale deflection. To convert it into 0-300 V voltmeter, we have to use a series resistance of

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Q. The current in a circuit is measured using a 150 : 1 CT If the ammeter reads 0.6 A, the circuit current is

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Q. A volt ratio box should have low resistance.

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Q. A Hall effect transducer has KH = - 1 x 10¯⁸. If B = 1 Wb/m², I = 3 A and bismuth slab is 2 mm wide, the Hall voltage is

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Q. Two ammeters A and B both 0-10 A have internal resistance of 1 Ω and 0.5 Ω respectively. They are connected in parallel. If total current is 15 A, then

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Q. Which of the following is not correct?

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Q. Assertion (A): Thermocouple instruments can be used for ac only.

Reason (R): Thermocouple instrument has a non linear scale.

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Q. A meter has a resistance of 1 Ω and full scale deflection current of 1 mA. To convert into an ammeter of 1 A range, the shunt resistance should be

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Q. Two wattmeter method is suitable only for balanced loads.

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Q. A rectifier voltmeter using bridge rectifier and PMMC meter is calibrated to read rms value of sine wave. A triangular wave is applied to it and it reads 6.82 V. The rms value of triangular wave is

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Q. A radiation thermometer is suitable for temperatures

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