TEST CODE: 111

ESE - 2024 Mains Test Series

Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Test-11 on Full Length MOCK Tests-3
(Paper-I)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 300

INSTRUCTIONS
Please read each of the following instructions carefully before attempting questions:
There are EIGHT questions divided in TWO sections.
Candidate has to attempt FIVE questions in all.
Questions no. 1 and 5 are compulsory and out of the remaining, THREE are to be attempted choosing
at least ONE question from each section.
The number of marks carried by a question / part is indicated against it.
Wherever any assumptions are made for answering a question, they must be clearly indicated.
Diagrams / figures, wherever required, shall be drawn in the space provided for answering the question
itself.
Unless otherwise mentioned, symbols and notations carry their usual standard meanings.
Attempts of questions shall be counted in sequential order. Unless struck off, attempt of a question shall
be counted even if attempted partly. Any page or portion of the page left blank in the Question-cum-
Answer Booklet must be clearly struck off.
Answers must be written in ENGLISH only.
Values of constants which may be required:
Electron charge = –1.610–19 Coulomb
Free space permeability = 410–7 Henry/m
Free space permittivity = (1/36)10–9 Farad/m
Velocity of light in free space = 3108 m/sec
Boltzmann constant = 1.3810–23 J/K
Planck’s constant = 6.62610–34 J-s
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SECTION-A

01. (a) The current required to feed the hole injection at x = 0 in figure is obtained by evaluating Ip(x)
at x = 0. The result is IP(x) = qADpp/Lp
p(x)

p
p0

x
0
Show that this current can be calculated by integrating the charge stored in the steady state hole
distribution p(x) and then dividing by the average hole lifetime  p . (10 M)

01. (b) A 3 phase, 4 pole, 400 V, 50 Hz, star connected induction motor has following circuit
parameters: r1 = 1.0, r2 = 0.5, x1 = x2 = 1.2, xm = 35 .
Draw the approximate equivalent circuit model and use it to find the starting torque when the
motor is started direct-on-line? (10 M)

01. (c) The h-parameters of a 2-port network used in the circuit of Fig. are h11=100, h12 = 0.0025,
V2
h21= 20 and h22 = 1ms. Find the ratio .
V1
1k
 
V1 2-port RL=2k
VS V2
network
– –

Fig. (10 M)
01. (d) The current
i(t) = 2 t 0t1
=  2t + 4 1  t  2
=0 otherwise
is passed through a capacitor of 0.5 farad. Find the expression for the voltage across the capacitor
in the time interval 1  t  2. (10 M)
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01. (e) For a particular n-channel MOS technology, in which the minimum channel length is 1m,
the associated value of  is 0.02 V-1. If a particular device for which L is 3m operates at
VDS = 1V with a drain current of 80A, what does the drain current become if VDS is raised
to 5 V? What percentage change does this represent ? What can be done to reduce the percentage
by a factor of 2? (10 M)

01. (f) Assume the following values for the ADC. Clock frequency = 1MHz; VT = 0.1 mV; DAC has
F.S. output = 10.23V and a 10-bit input. Determine the following values.
(i) The digital equivalent obtained for VA = 3.728V.
(ii) The conversion time.
(iii) The resolution of this converter. (10 M)

02. (a) A three-phase, 25 hp, 230 V, 50 Hz, induction motor draws 60 A from the source at 0.866
lagging power factor. The motor losses include the following:
Stator copper loss Pcus = 850 W
Magnetic core loss Pcore = 450 W
Rotor copper loss Pcur = 1050 W
Rotational loss Prot = 500 W
Determine the following:
(i) Air-gap power Pag
(ii) Slip s
(iii) Mechanical power developed
(iv) Output power
(v) Efficiency of the motor (20 M)

02. (b) (i) Explain briefly Loss of charge method and derive the expression for resistance using this
method. (12 M)
(ii) An unbalanced DC Wheatstone bridge is shown in the figure. Prove that the value of p to get
the magnitude of V0 as maximum is (1  x) .
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pR R(1+x)
+
V0
–

pR R

+ –
E
(8 M)

02. (c) Two passive two-port networks are connected in cascade as shown in figure. A voltage source is
connected at port 1.

I1 I2 I3
+ + +
V1 ~ Two-port Two-port
V2 V3
 Network-1 Network-2
 
Port-1 Port-2 Port-3

Given: V1 = A1V2 + B1I2

I1 = C1V2 + D1I2
V2 = A2V3 + B2I3
I2 = C2V3 + D2I3
A1, B1, C1, D1, A2, B2, C2 and D2 are the generalized circuit constants.
Draw the Thevenin equivalent circuit with respect to port 3? (20 M)

03. (a) A 1 cm long bar of N-type Ge has a cross section of 1mm  1mm. The resistivity of the material
is 20 ohm-cm and the life time of carriers is 100 microseconds
(i) Find the resistance of the bar
(ii) Find the donor concentration
(iii) Find the resistance of the bar when it is illuminated such that 1015 photons strike it every
second. Assume that each photon generates an electron-hole pair and these pairs are
distributed uniformly all over the bar. (20 M)

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03. (b) For the circuits in figure ,  n Cox  2.5  p Cox  20 A / V 2 , | Vt | 1V,   0, r  0, L  10 m,

and W = 30 m, unless otherwise specified. Find the labeled currents and voltages. (20 M)

+3V +3V +3V

W = 75m
I1 I3 I6
V2 V4 V5

(i) (ii) (iii)

03. (c) We wish to design a sequence detector circuit which detects three or more consecutive 1’s in
a string of bits through an input line
(1) Find the state diagram
(2) Tabulate state (or transition) table of sequence detector
(3) Implement the circuit using J-K flip flops. (20 M)

04. (a) (i) A potential transformer, ratio 1000/100 volt, has the following constants:
Primary resistance = 94.5 
Secondary resistance = 0.86 
Primary reactance = 66.2 
Total equivalent reactance = 110 
No load current = 0.02 A at 0.4 power factor
Calculate:
(1) phase angle error at no load
(2) burden in VA at unity power factor at which the phase angle will be zero. (10 M)
(ii) Calculate the punch through voltage for an NPN silicon transistor of the alloy, if W = 1m
and the resistivity of the base = 0.5 -cm, r  12,   0 r . (10 M)

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04. (b) (i) A copper disc with a diameter 2cm and thickness 25mm has resistivity of 70n-m. The disc
conduct heat from an electron device to a heat sink at a rate of 10Watts. Estimate value of
temperature drop across the disc. Neglecting heat loss from the surface. (12 M)
(ii) Determine the diameter of the lead wire to pass maximum super current of 0.0021 mA
at 5.0 K. The critical temperature and critical magnetic field for lead are respectively 7.18 K
and 6.5×10–4 A/m. (8 M)

04. (c) (i) Implement the following Boolean functions with a 41 multiplexer and external gates.
Connect inputs A and B to the selection lines. The input requirements for the four data lines
will be a function of variable C and D. These values are obtained by expressing F as a
function of C and D for each of the four cases when AB = 00, 01,10 and 11. These functions
may have to be implemented with external gates.
(1) F(A,B,C,D) = (1,3,4,11,12,13,14,15)
(2) F(A,B,C,D) = (1,2,4,7,8,9,10,11,13,15) (15 M)

(ii) Implement F = A  B C  D using minimum number of 2-input NAND gates (5 M)

SECTION-B

05. (a) (i) Explain how unknown frequency can be measured using CRO in Y-t mode of operation?
(4 M)
(ii) What are the Advantages of Digital voltmeters over Analog Voltmeters? (4 M)
1
(iii) Give the minimum and maximum voltages measurable by a 3 digit DVM in 10V Range
2
of operation? (4 M)

05. (b) In a p  - n Si junction, the n-side has a donor concentration of 1016cm–3. If ni = 1010 cm–3,
relative dielectric constant r = 12, calculate the depletion width at a reverse bias of 100V?
What is the electric field at the mid-point of the depletion region on the n-side? (12 M)
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05. (c) Consider a counter circuit that contains six FF’s, wired in asynchronous mode shown below.

1 J1 Q1 1 J2 Q2 1 J6 Q6
FF FF FF
CL 1 2 6
K 1 K1 Q1 1 K2 Q2 1 K6 Q6

(i) Determine the counter’s MOD number?

(ii) Determine the frequency at the output of the last FF (Q6) when the input clock frequency
is 1MHz.
(iii) What is the range of counting states for this counter?
(iv) Assume a starting state (count) of 000000. What will be counter’s state after 131
pulses? (12 M)

05. (d) (i) Derive the rule of mixtures for the modulus of elasticity of a fiber reinforced composite when
a stress () is applied along the axis of the fibers. (6 M)
(ii) Suppose that the average displacement of the electrons relative to the nucleus in a copper
o
atoms is 108 A when an electric field is imposed on a copper plate. Calculate the electronic
polarization. Lattice parameter of copper is 3.651 A (6 M)

05. (e) The reverse saturation current of a Ge diode was measured as 5A at room temperature when it
was reverse biased with 10V. The reverse saturation current was found to increase by T% for
every degree raise in temperature. Find the leakage resistance shunting the diode. (12 M)

06. (a) (i) Find the voltage at which the reverse current of a Ge diode at room temperature will reach
90% of its saturation value. Also find the ratio of diode current with a forward bias of 0.05 V
to the current with a reverse bias of 0.05 V to the current with a reverse bias of 0.05 V.
(10 M)
(ii) Show that the maximum regulation of transformer is equal to the percentage impedance of
transformer. (10 M)

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06. (b) A schering bridge, used to test a specimen, has the following bridge arms. Arm ab contains the
unknown capacitance (C1) whose loss part is represented by a series resistance (r1), arm bc
contains a non-inductive resistance (R3) of 315 , arm cd contains a variable capacitor (C4) in
parallel with a variable non-inductive resistance (R4) and arm da contains a standard capacitor
(C2) of 150 PF. The supply is connected between a and c and the detector is connected between b
and d. The specimen is tested at a frequency of 50 Hz, it is having a thickness of 6.3 mm and it is
tested between electrodes each having a dimension of 0.15m  0.18 m. At balance, C4 = 0.375
F and R4 = 423 . Find the
(i) Capacitance
(ii) Dissipation factor
(iii) Relative permittivity of the specimen. (20 M)

06. (c) For the circuit shown 1 = 0.98, 2 = 0.96, VCC = 24 V, RC = 120 and IE = –100mA.
Neglecting the reverse saturation currents, determine

24V

IC R C 120
I C1 IC 2

IB
Q1 Q2
IE

IE1 IB2

(i) The currents IC1, IB1, IC2, IB2 and IC;

(ii) VCE
IC IC
(iii) , (20 M)
IB IE

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07. (a) What are capacitive transducers? What are their advantages and disadvantages? Explain the use
of capacitive transducer for the measurement of liquid level. (20 M)

07. (b) (i) Calculate the planar density and planar fraction for the (010) and (020) planes in simple cubic
polonium, which has a lattice parameter of 0.334nm. (10 M)
(ii) A 10Ah Ni-Cd battery is charged at 2C-rate and discharged at 0.25 C-rate.
Calculate
(1) charging current and time.
(2) discharging current and time. (10 M)

07. (c) Find V0(t) in the circuit using superposition theorem.

2H 1 4
+ V0 –

+ + 5V
10 cos2t V
– 2 sin 5t A 0.1F –

(20 M)

08. (a) What is Curie temperature and explain effect of Curie temperature on hysteresis loop and
remanance ? (20 M)

08. (b) (i) In the circuit shown in Fig., find the initial and final values of the currents i 1 and i2 (using
initial and final value theorems) when the switch is closed.
15

+
150V 30mH 6

i1 i2

(15 M)
Fig.
(ii) In the circuit shown below, the switch S is in position ‘1’ long enough to establish steady -
state conditions and at t = 0 it is switched to position ‘2’. Draw ‘s - domain’ network:
S
1 25
2

100V 2H
50V

(5 M)
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08. (c) A DC motor has the following specifications: 10 Hp, 37.5 A, 230 V; flux/pole = 0.01 Wb,
number of poles = 4, number of conductors = 666, number of parallel paths = 2.
Armature resistance = 0.267. The armature reaction is negligible and rotational losses are
600 W. The motor operates from a 230 V DC supply. If the motor runs at 1000 rpm, find the
output torque produced. (20 M)

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Question Cum Answer Booklet (QCAB)
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Test-11 Paper-I
Full Length Mock Tests - 3
Time Allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 300

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NAME OF THE CANDIDATE:

TEST CODE : 111 DATE : 08-06-2024 MOBILE No. :

General Instructions

 This Question-cum-Answer (QCA) Booklet contains 80 pages. Question Paper in

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Name of the Examination : ............................................................................ 111

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QUESTION PAPER SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

Please read each of the following instructions carefully before attempting questions:
There are EIGHT questions divided in TWO sections.
Candidate has to attempt FIVE questions in all.
Questions no. 1 and 5 are compulsory and out of the remaining, THREE are to be attempted
choosing
at least ONE question from each section.
The number of marks carried by a question / part is indicated against it.
Wherever any assumptions are made for answering a question, they must be clearly indicated.
Diagrams / figures, wherever required, shall be drawn in the space provided for answering the
question
itself.
Unless otherwise mentioned, symbols and notations carry their usual standard meanings.
Attempts of questions shall be counted in sequential order. Unless struck off, attempt of a question
shall
be counted even if attempted partly. Any page or portion of the page left blank in the Question-cum-
Answer Booklet must be clearly struck off.
Answers must be written in ENGLISH only.
Values of constants which may be required:
Electron charge = –1.610–19 Coulomb
Free space permeability = 410–7 Henry/m
Free space permittivity = (1/36)10–9 Farad/m
Velocity of light in free space = 3108 m/sec
Boltzmann constant = 1.3810–23 J/K
SECTION - A
Planck’s constant = 6.62610–34 J-s

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01. (a) The current required to feed the hole injection at x = 0 in figure is obtained by evaluating
Ip(x) at x = 0. The result is IP(x) = qADpp/Lp

p(x)

p
p0

x
0
Show that this current can be calculated by integrating the charge stored in the steady
state hole distribution p(x) and then dividing by the average hole lifetime  p . (10 M)

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01. (b) A 3 phase, 4 pole, 400 V, 50 Hz, star connected induction motor has following circuit Candidates
parameters: r1 = 1.0, r2 = 0.5, x1 = x2 = 1.2, xm = 35 . must not
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Draw the approximate equivalent circuit model and use it to find the starting torque when margin
the motor is started direct-on-line? (10 M)

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01. (c) The h-parameters of a 2-port network used in the circuit of Fig. are h11 = 100,
V
h12 = 0.0025, h21= 20 and h22 = 1ms. Find the ratio 2 .
V1
1k
 
V1 2-port RL=2k
VS V2
network –
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Fig. (10 M)

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01. (d) The current

i(t) = 2 t 0t1
=  2t + 4 1  t  2
=0 otherwise
is passed through a capacitor of 0.5 farad. Find the expression for the voltage across the
capacitor in the time interval 1  t  2. (10 M)

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1m, the associated value of  is 0.02 V-1. If a particular device for which L is 3m must not
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operates at VDS = 1V with a drain current of 80A, what does the drain current become if
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VDS is raised to 5 V? What percentage change does this represent? What can be done to
reduce the percentage by a factor of 2? (10 M)

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01. (f) Assume the following values for the ADC. Clock frequency = 1MHz; VT = 0.1 mV;
DAC has F.S. output = 10.23V and a 10-bit input. Determine the following values.
(i) The digital equivalent obtained for VA = 3.728V.
(ii) The conversion time.
(iii) The resolution of this converter. (10 M)

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02. (a) A three-phase, 25 hp, 230 V, 50 Hz, induction motor draws 60 A from the source at 0.866
lagging power factor. The motor losses include the following:
Stator copper loss Pcus = 850 W
Magnetic core loss Pcore = 450 W
Rotor copper loss Pcur = 1050 W
Rotational loss Prot = 500 W
Determine the following:
(i) Air-gap power Pag
(ii) Slip s
(iii) Mechanical power developed
(iv) Output power
(v) Efficiency of the motor (20 M)

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02. (b) (i) Explain briefly Loss of charge method and derive the expression for resistance using
this method. (12 M)
(ii) An unbalanced DC Wheatstone bridge is shown in the figure. Prove that the value of
p to get the magnitude of V0 as maximum is (1  x) .

pR R(1+x)
+
V0
–

pR R

+ –

E
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+ + +
V1 ~ Two-port Two-port
V2 V3
 Network-1 Network-2
 
Port-1 Port-2 Port-3
Given: V1 = A1V2 + B1I2
I1 = C1V2 + D1I2
V2 = A2V3 + B2I3
I2 = C2V3 + D2I3
A1, B1, C1, D1, A2, B2, C2 and D2 are the generalized circuit constants.
Draw the Thevenin equivalent circuit with respect to port 3? (20 M)

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03. (a) A 1 cm long bar of N-type Ge has a cross section of 1mm  1mm. The resistivity of the Candidates
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(i) Find the resistance of the bar
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(ii) Find the donor concentration
(iii) Find the resistance of the bar when it is illuminated such that 1015 photons strike it
every second. Assume that each photon generates an electron-hole pair and these
pairs are distributed uniformly all over the bar. (20 M)

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03. (b) For the circuits in figure ,  n Cox  2.5  p Cox  20 A / V 2 ,

| Vt | 1V,   0, r  0, L  10 m, and W = 30 m, unless otherwise specified.
Find the labeled currents and voltages.
+3V +3V +3V

W = 75m
I1 I3 I6
V2 V4 V5

(i) (ii) (iii)

(20 M)

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(2) Tabulate state (or transition) table of sequence detector
(3) Implement the circuit using J-K flip flops. (20 M)

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04. (a) (i) A potential transformer, ratio 1000/100 volt, has the following constants: Candidates
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Primary reactance = 66.2 
Total equivalent reactance = 110 
No load current = 0.02 A at 0.4 power factor
Calculate:
(1) phase angle error at no load
(2) burden in VA at unity power factor at which the phase angle will be zero. (10 M)
(ii) Calculate the punch through voltage for an NPN silicon transistor of the alloy,
if W = 1m and the resistivity of the base = 0.5 -cm, r  12,   0 r . (10 M)

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surface. (12 M)
(ii) Determine the diameter of the lead wire to pass maximum super current of 0.0021 mA
at 5.0 K. The critical temperature and critical magnetic field for lead are respectively
7.18 K and 6.5×10–4 A/m. (8 M)

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04. (c) (i) Implement the following Boolean functions with a 41 multiplexer and external gates. Candidates
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data lines will be a function of variable C and D. These values are obtained by
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expressing F as a function of C and D for each of the four cases when AB = 00, 01,10
and 11. These functions may have to be implemented with external gates.
(1) F(A,B,C,D) = (1,3,4,11,12,13,14,15)
(2) F(A,B,C,D) = (1,2,4,7,8,9,10,11,13,15) (15 M)
(ii) Implement F = A  B C  D using minimum number of 2-input NAND gates
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(ii) What are the Advantages of Digital voltmeters over Analog Voltmeters? (4 M)
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(iii) Give the minimum and maximum voltages measurable by a 3 digit DVM in 10V
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05. (c) Consider a counter circuit that contains six FF’s, wired in asynchronous mode shown Candidates
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FF FF FF
CL 1 2 6
K 1 K1 Q1 1 K2 Q2 1 K6 Q6

(i) Determine the counter’s MOD number?

(ii) Determine the frequency at the output of the last FF (Q6) when the input clock
frequency is 1MHz.
(iii) What is the range of counting states for this counter?
(iv) Assume a starting state (count) of 000000. What will be counter’s state after 131
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05. (d) (i) Derive the rule of mixtures for the modulus of elasticity of a fiber reinforced Candidates
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Calculate the electronic polarization. Lattice parameter of copper is 3.651 A (6 M)

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05. (e) The reverse saturation current of a Ge diode was measured as 5A at room temperature
when it was reverse biased with 10V. The reverse saturation current was found to
increase by T% for every degree raise in temperature. Find the leakage resistance
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06. (a) (i) Find the voltage at which the reverse current of a Ge diode at room temperature will Candidates
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bias of 0.05 V. (10 M)
(ii) Show that the maximum regulation of transformer is equal to the percentage
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06. (b) A schering bridge, used to test a specimen, has the following bridge arms. Arm ab
contains the unknown capacitance (C1) whose loss part is represented by a series
resistance (r1), arm bc contains a non-inductive resistance (R3) of 315 , arm cd contains
a variable capacitor (C4) in parallel with a variable non-inductive resistance (R4) and arm
da contains a standard capacitor (C2) of 150 PF. The supply is connected between a and c
and the detector is connected between b and d. The specimen is tested at a frequency of
50 Hz, it is having a thickness of 6.3 mm and it is tested between electrodes each having a
dimension of 0.15m  0.18 m. At balance, C4 = 0.375 F and R4 = 423 . Find the
(i) Capacitance
(ii) Dissipation factor
(iii) Relative permittivity of the specimen. (20 M)

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06. (c) For the circuit shown 1 = 0.98, 2 = 0.96, VCC = 24 V, RC = 120 and IE = –100mA.
Neglecting the reverse saturation currents, determine
24V

IC R C 120
I C1 IC 2

IB
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IE1 IB2

(i) The currents IC1, IB1, IC2, IB2 and IC;

(ii) VCE
I I
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07. (a) What are capacitive transducers? What are their advantages and disadvantages? Candidates
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07. (b) (i) Calculate the planar density and planar fraction for the (010) and (020) planes in
simple cubic polonium, which has a lattice parameter of 0.334nm. (10 M)
(ii) A 10Ah Ni-Cd battery is charged at 2C-rate and discharged at 0.25 C-rate.
Calculate
(1) charging current and time.
(2) discharging current and time. (10 M)

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07. (c) Find V0(t) in the circuit using superposition theorem.

2H 1 4
+ V0 –
+ 5V
10 cos2t V +
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08. (a) What is Curie temperature and explain effect of Curie temperature on hysteresis loop and
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(ii) In the circuit shown below, the switch S is in position ‘1’ long enough to establish
steady - state conditions and at t = 0 it is switched to position ‘2’. Draw ‘s - domain’
network:
S
1 25
2

100V 2H
50V

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Rating on a scale of 1 to 10
(1 being the least and 10 being the highest)

1. Competency in understanding the question.

2. Competency in approach / methodology while answering

3. Competency in space management

4. Competency in drawing figures / circuits / block diagrams / graphs etc.

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