GATE 08 General Aptitude (GA) Set6 Q. Q. 5 carry one mark each. Q. Since you have gone off the, the sand is likely to damage the car. The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are (A) course, coarse (C) coarse, course (B) course, course (D) coarse, coarse Q. A common misconception among writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought; the more the structure, the more complicated the ideas. The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is (A) detailed (B) simple (C) clear (D) convoluted Q.3 The three roots of the equation f(x) = 0 are x = {, 0, 3}. What are the three values of x for which f(x 3) = 0? (A) 5, 3, 0 (B), 0, 3 (C) 0, 6, 8 (D), 3, 6 Q.4 For what values of k given below is (k) k 3 an integer? (A) 4, 8, 8 (B) 4, 0, 6 (C) 4, 8, 8 (D) 8, 6, 8 Q.5 Functions F(a, b) and G(a, b) are defined as follows: F(a, b) = (a b) and G(a, b) = a b, where x represents the absolute value of x. What would be the value of G(F(, 3), G(, 3))? (A) (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 36 Q. 6 Q. 0 carry two marks each. Q.6 An email password must contain three characters. The password has to contain one numeral from 0 to 9, one upper case and one lower case character from the English alphabet. How many distinct passwords are possible? (A) 6,760 (B) 3,50 (C) 40,560 (D),05,456 GA /
GATE 08 General Aptitude (GA) Set6 Q.7 In a certain code, AMCF is written as EQGJ and NKUF is written as ROYJ. How will DHLP be written in that code? (A) RSTN (B) TLPH (C) HLPT (D) XSVR Q.8 A class of twelve children has two more boys than girls. A group of three children are randomly picked from this class to accompany the teacher on a field trip. What is the probability that the group accompanying the teacher contains more girls than boys? (A) 0 (B) 35 864 (C) 55 864 (D) 5 Q.9 A designer uses marbles of four different colours for his designs. The cost of each marble is the same, irrespective of the colour. The table below shows the percentage of marbles of each colour used in the current design. The cost of each marble increased by 5%. Therefore, the designer decided to reduce equal numbers of marbles of each colour to keep the total cost unchanged. What is the percentage of blue marbles in the new design? Blue Black Red Yellow 40% 5% 0% 5% (A) 35.75 (B) 40.5 (C) 43.75 (D) 46.5 Q.0 P, Q, R and S crossed a lake in a boat that can hold a maximum of two persons, with only one set of oars. The following additional facts are available. (i) The boat held two persons on each of the three forward trips across the lake and one person on each of the two return trips. (ii) P is unable to row when someone else is in the boat. (iii) Q is unable to row with anyone else except R. (iv) Each person rowed for at least one trip. (v) Only one person can row during a trip. Who rowed twice? (A) P (B) Q (C) R (D) S END OF THE QUESTION PAPER GA /
GATE 08 Q. Q. 5 carry one mark each. Q. A singlephase 00 kva, 000 V / 00 V, 50 Hz transformer has a voltage drop of 5% across its series impedance at full load. Of this, 3% is due to resistance. The percentage regulation of the transformer at full load with 0.8 lagging power factor is (A) 4.8 (B) 6.8 (C) 8.8 (D) 0.8 Q. In a salient pole synchronous motor, the developed reluctance torque attains the maximum value when the load angle in electrical degrees is (A) 0 (B) 45 (C) 60 (D) 90 Q.3 A single phase fully controlled rectifier is supplying a load with an antiparallel diode as shown in the figure. All switches and diodes are ideal. Which one of the following is true for instantaneous load voltage and current? i o L O A D v o (A) vo0 & io 0 (B) vo0 & io 0 (C) v 0 & i 0 (D) v 0 & i 0 o o o o Q.4 Four power semiconductor devices are shown in the figure along with their relevant terminals. The device(s) that can carry dc current continuously in the direction shown when gated appropriately is (are) A MT A D G K I G I MT G I K G I S Thyristor Triac GTO MOSFET (A) Triac only (B) Triac and MOSFET (C) Triac and GTO (D) Thyristor and Triac EE /5
GATE 08 Q.5 Two wattmeter method is used for measurement of power in a balanced threephase load supplied from a balanced threephase system. If one of the wattmeters reads half of the other (both positive), then the power factor of the load is (A) 0.53 (B) 0.63 (C) 0.707 (D) 0.866 Q.6 Consider a lossy transmission line with and as the sending and receiving end voltages, respectively. Z and are the series impedance and reactance of the line, respectively. The steadystate stability limit for the transmission line will be X V V (A) greater than (C) equal to VV X VV X (B) less than (D) equal to VV X VV Z Q.7 The graph of a network has 8 nodes and 5 independent loops. The number of branches of the graph is (A) (B) (C) 3 (D) 4 Q.8 In the figure, the voltages are v (t) = 00cos (ωt), v (t) = 00cos (ωt π/8) and v 3 (t) = 00cos (ωt π/36). The circuit is in sinusoidal steady state, and R << ωl. P, P and P 3 are the average power outputs. Which one of the following statements is true? R L L R v (t) P P P 3 v (t) v 3 (t) (A) P = P = P 3 = 0 (B) P < 0, P > 0, P 3 > 0 (C) P < 0, P > 0, P 3 < 0 (D) P > 0, P < 0, P 3 > 0 EE /5
GATE 08 Q.9 Match the transfer functions of the secondorder systems with the nature of the systems given below. Transfer functions 5 P: s 5s5 5 Q: s 0s5 35 R: s 8s35 Nature of system I: Overdamped II: Critically damped III: Underdamped (A) PI, QII, RIII (B) PII, QI, RIII (C) PIII, QII, RI (D) PIII, QI, RII Q.0 A positive charge of nc is placed at (0, 0, 0.) where all dimensions are in metres. Consider the plane to be a conducting ground plane. Take 0 8.85 0 F/m. The component of the E field at (0, 0, 0.) is closest to z x y (A) 899.8 V/m (B) 899.8 V/m (C) 999.09 V/m (D) 999.09 V/m Q. Let f be a realvalued function of a real variable defined as f ( x) x x for 0 f ( x). Which one of the following statements is true? (A) f() x is discontinuous at x 0. (B) f() x is continuous but not differentiable at x 0. (C) f() x is differentiable but its first derivative is not continuous at x 0. (D) f() x is differentiable but its first derivative is not differentiable at x 0. x x for 0, and Q. The value of the directional derivative of the function Φ(x, y, z) = xy yz zx at the point (,, ) in the direction of the vector p = i j k is (A) (B) 0.95 (C) 0.93 (D) 0.9 Q.3 The value of the integral z dz in counter clockwise direction around a circle C of C z 4 radius with center at the point z = is (A) πi (B) πi (C) πi (D) πi EE 3/5
GATE 08 Q.4 In the logic circuit shown in the figure, Y is given by A B C D Y (A) Y = ABCD (B) Y = (A B)(C D) (C) Y = A B C D (D) Y = AB CD Q.5 The opamp shown in the figure is ideal. The input impedance v in i in is given by Z i in v in v o R R (A) Z R R (B) Z R R (C) Z (D) Z R R R Q.6 A continuoustime input signal x(t) is an eigenfunction of an LTI system, if the output is (A) k x(t), where k is an eigenvalue (B) k e jt x(t), where k is an eigenvalue and e jt is a complex exponential signal (C) x(t) e jt, where e jt is a complex exponential signal (D) k H(), where k is an eigenvalue and H() is a frequency response of the system Q.7 Consider a nonsingular square matrix A. If trace ( A) 4 and trace ( A ) 5, the determinant of the matrix A is (up to decimal place). Q.8 Let f be a realvalued function of a real variable defined as f ( x) x [ x], where [ x ].5 denotes the largest integer less than or equal to x. The value of f ( x )dx is (up 0.5 to decimal places). EE 4/5
GATE 08 Q.9 V In the twoport network shown, the h parameter where, h =, when V =0 I is (up to decimal places). in ohms I V I V Q.0 The series impedance matrix of a short threephase transmission line in phase coordinates Z s Z m Z m is [ Z m Z s Z m ]. If the positive sequence impedance is ( j 0) Ω, and the zero Z m Z m Z s sequence is (4 j 3) Ω, then the imaginary part of Z m (in Ω) is (up to decimal places). Q. The positive, negative and zero sequence impedances of a 5 MVA, threephase, 5.5 kv, stargrounded, 50 Hz generator are j0. pu, j0.05 pu and j0.0 pu respectively on the machine rating base. The machine is unloaded and working at the rated terminal voltage. If the grounding impedance of the generator is j0.0 pu, then the magnitude of fault current for a bphase to ground fault (in ka) is (up to decimal places). Q. A 000 000 bus admittance matrix for an electric power system has 8000 nonzero elements. The minimum number of branches (transmission lines and transformers) in this system are (up to decimal places). Q.3 The waveform of the current drawn by a semiconverter from a sinusoidal AC voltage source is shown in the figure. If I0 = 0 A, the rms value of fundamental component of the current is A (up to decimal places). voltage and current Vm sin(ωt) 0 30 I 0 I 0 80 ωt 0 EE 5/5
GATE 08 Q.4 A separately excited dc motor has an armature resistance R a = 0.05 Ω. The field excitation is kept constant. At an armature voltage of 00 V, the motor produces a torque of 500 Nm at zero speed. Neglecting all mechanical losses, the noload speed of the motor (in radian/s) for an armature voltage of 50 V is (up to decimal places). Q.5 Consider a unity feedback system with forward transfer function given by Gs () ( s)( s) The steadystate error in the output of the system for a unitstep input is (up to decimal places). EE 6/5
GATE 08 Q. 6 Q. 55 carry two marks each. Q.6 A transformer with toroidal core of permeability is shown in the figure. Assuming uniform flux density across the circular core crosssection of radius, and neglecting any leakage flux, the best estimate for the mean radius R is r R i I sint P r is 0 v V cost P NP R N S vs (A) P Vr N I (B) P S Ir N N V (C) Vr N P I (D) Ir N P V Q.7 A 0 Ampere moving iron ammeter has an internal resistance of 50 mω and inductance of 0. mh. A shunt coil is connected to extend its range to 00 Ampere for all operating frequencies. The time constant in milliseconds and resistance in mω of the shunt coil respectively are (A), 5.55 (B), (C).8, 0.55 (D)., Q.8 The positive, negative and zero sequence impedances of a three phase generator are Z, Z and Z 0 respectively. For a linetoline fault with fault impedance Z f, the fault current is I f = ki f, where I f is the fault current with zero fault impedance. The relation between Z f and k is (A) Zf = (Z Z )( k) k (C) Zf = (Z Z )k k (B) Zf = (Z Z )(k) k (D) Zf = (Z Z )k k EE 7/5
GATE 08 Q.9 Consider the two bus power system network with given loads as shown in the figure. All the values shown in the figure are in per unit. The reactive power supplied by generator G and G are QG and QG respectively. The per unit values of QG, QG, and line reactive power loss (Qloss) respectively are.0.00 j0. G 0jQ G Q loss G 5jQ G 5j5 0j0 (A) 5. 00,.68,.68 (B) 6.34, 0.00,.34 (C) 6.34,.34,.68 (D) 5.00,.34,.34 Q.30 The perunit power output of a salientpole generator which is connected to an infinite bus, is given by the expression, P =.4 sin δ 0.5 sin δ, where δ is the load angle. Newton Raphson method is used to calculate the value of δ for P = 0.8 pu. If the initial guess is 30, then its value (in degree) at the end of the first iteration is (A) 5 (B) 8.48 (C) 8.74 (D) 3.0 Q.3 A DC voltage source is connected to a series LC circuit by turning on the switch S at time t 0 as shown in the figure. Assume i(0) 0, v(0) 0. Which one of the following circular loci represents the plot of i( t) versus v( t )? S it () t 0 L=H 5V C=F vt () (A) it () vt () (B) it () (C) it () (D) it () (0, 5) (5, 0) vt () (0, 5) ( 5, 0) vt () vt () EE 8/5
GATE 08 Q.3 The equivalent impedance Z eq j 9 for the infinite ladder circuit shown in the figure is j 9 Z eq j 5 j 5... j j (A) j Ω (B) j Ω (C) j3 Ω (D) 3 Ω Q.33 Consider a system governed by the following equations d x ( t) x( t) x( t) dt d x( t) x( t) x( t) dt The initial conditions are such that x(0) x(0). Let x f lim x ( t) and t x f lim ( ) t x t. Which one of the following is true? (A) x x (B) f f x x (C) f f x x f f (D) x x f f Q.34 The number of roots of the polynomial, s 7 s 6 7s 5 4s 4 3s 3 73s 5s 00, in the open left half of the complex plane is (A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 Q.35 If C is a circle z = 4 and f (z) = z (z 3z), then C f ( z) dz is (A) (B) 0 (C) (D) EE 9/5
GATE 08 Q.36 Which one of the following statements is true about the digital circuit shown in the figure D Q D Q D Q fout C C C fin (A) It can be used for dividing the input frequency by 3. (B) It can be used for dividing the input frequency by 5. (C) It can be used for dividing the input frequency by 7. (D) It cannot be reliably used as a frequency divider due to disjoint internal cycles. Q.37 Digital input signals A, B, C with A as the MSB and C as the LSB are used to realize the Boolean function F = m 0 m m 3 m 5 m 7, where m i denotes the i th minterm. In addition, F has a don t care for m. The simplified expression for F is given by (A) A C B C AC (C) C A (B) A C (D) A C BC AC Q.38 Consider the two continuoustime signals defined below: t, t t, t x( t), x( t) 0, otherwise 0, otherwise These signals are sampled with a sampling period of T = 0.5 seconds to obtain discretetime signals and x [ n ], respectively. Which one of the following statements is true? x[ n] (A) The energy of x[ n] is greater than the energy of x [ n ]. (B) The energy of x [ ] n is greater than the energy of (C) x[ n] and x [ ] n have equal energies. (D) Neither x[ n ] nor x [ ] n is a finiteenergy signal. x[ n]. Q.39 The signal energy of the continuoustime signal x ( t) = [( t ) u( t )][( t ) u( t )][( t 3) u( t 3)][( t 4) u( t 4)] is (A) /3 (B) 7/3 (C) /3 (D) 5/3 EE 0/5
GATE 08 Q.40 The Fourier transform of a continuoustime signal is given by X ( ),, where and denotes frequency. Then the 0 j value of ln xt () logarithm to base e) at t j xt () = is (up to decimal place). ( ln denotes the Q.4 In the circuit shown in the figure, the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) has a current gain β = 00. The baseemitter voltage drop is a constant, V BE = 0.7 V. The value of the Thevenin equivalent resistance R Th (in Ω) as shown in the figure is (up to decimal places). 5 V 0 0 k 0.7 V k a b R Th Q.4 As shown in the figure, C is the arc from the point (3,0) to the point (0,3) on the circle x y = 9. The value of the integral (y yx)dx (xy x )dy is (up to C decimal places). y (0,3) C x (3,0) Q.43 3 Let f ( x) 3x 7x 5x 6. The maximum value of f() x over the interval [0, ] is (up to decimal place). EE /5
GATE 08 Q.44 0 Let A 0 3 and B A A 4A 5I, where I is the 3 3 0 0 determinant of B is (up to decimal place). identity matrix. The Q.45 The capacitance of an airfilled parallelplate capacitor is 60 pf. When a dielectric slab whose thickness is half the distance between the plates, is placed on one of the plates covering it entirely, the capacitance becomes 86 pf. Neglecting the fringing effects, the relative permittivity of the dielectric is (up to decimal places). Q.46 The unit step response y(t) of a unity feedback system with open loop transfer function K G ( s) H( s) is shown in the figure. The value of K is (up to ( s ) ( s ) decimal places). y(t).4. y(t) 0.8 0.6 0.4 0. 0 0 4 6 8 0 4 6 8 0 Time (sec) t (sec) Q.47 A threephase load is connected to a threephase balanced supply as shown in the figure. If V an 000 V, V bn 00 0 V and V cn 00 40 V (angles are considered positive in the anticlockwise direction), the value of R for zero current in the neutral wire is Ω (up to decimal places). a n R c j0 j0 b EE /5
GATE 08 Q.48 The voltage across the circuit in the figure, and the current through it, are given by the following expressions: v(t) = 5 0 cos(ωt 60 ) V i(t) = 5 X cos(ωt) A where ω = 00 π radian/s. If the average power delivered to the circuit is zero, then the value of X (in Ampere) is (up to decimal places). i(t) v(t) Electrical Circuit Q.49 A phase controlled single phase rectifier, supplied by an AC source, feeds power to an RLE load as shown in the figure. The rectifier output voltage has an average value given by Vo= V m π (3 cos ), where V m= 80π volts and α is the firing angle. If the power delivered to the lossless battery is 600 W, α in degree is (up to decimal places). Ω Vm sin(ωt) V O 0 mh 80 V Battery EE 3/5
GATE 08 Q.50 The figure shows two buck converters connected in parallel. The common input dc voltage for the converters has a value of 00 V. The converters have inductors of identical value. The load resistance is. The capacitor voltage has negligible ripple. Both converters operate in the continuous conduction mode. The switching frequency is khz, and the switch control signals are as shown. The circuit operates in the steady state. Assuming that the converters share the load equally, the average value of i S, the current of switch S (in Ampere), is (up to decimal places). i S 00 V S L C S Switch control signals S L S 0 0.5 ms ms t t Q.5 A 3phase 900 kva, 3 kv / kv ( /Y), 50 Hz transformer has primary (high voltage side) resistance per phase of 0.3 Ω and secondary (low voltage side) resistance per phase of 0.0 Ω. Iron loss of the transformer is 0 kw. The full load % efficiency of the transformer operated at unity power factor is (up to decimal places). 3 Q.5 A 00 V DC series motor, when operating from rated voltage while driving a certain load, draws 0 A current and runs at 000 r.p.m. The total series resistance is Ω. The magnetic circuit is assumed to be linear. At the same supply voltage, the load torque is increased by 44%. The speed of the motor in r.p.m. (rounded to the nearest integer) is. Q.53 A dc to dc converter shown in the figure is charging a battery bank, B whose voltage is constant at 50 V. B is another battery bank whose voltage is constant at 50 V. The value of the inductor, L is 5 mh and the ideal switch, S is operated with a switching frequency of 5 khz with a duty ratio of 0.4. Once the circuit has attained steady state and assuming the diode D to be ideal, the power transferred from B to B (in Watt) is (up to decimal places). i L L = 5 mh D 50 V B S B 50 V EE 4/5
GATE 08 Q.54 The equivalent circuit of a single phase induction motor is shown in the figure, where the ' ' parameters are R R X l X l=, X M = 40 and s is the slip. At noload, the motor speed can be approximated to be the synchronous speed. The noload lagging power factor of the motor is (up to 3 decimal places). V0 jx l R X j M X j M R s j, X l, R ( s) j, X l, Q.55 The voltage v(t) across the terminals a and b as shown in the figure, is a sinusoidal voltage having a frequency ω = 00 radian/s. When the inductor current i(t) is in phase with the voltage v(t), the magnitude of the impedance Z (in Ω) seen between the terminals a and b is (up to decimal places). v(t) Z a b i(t) L 00 F 00 END OF THE QUESTION PAPER EE 5/5