When the damping co-efficient (ξ) is unity, the system is
A. Overdamped
B. Critically damped
C. Underdamped
D. Highly fluctuating
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For a feed back control system to be stable, the
A. Roots of the characteristic equation should be real
B. Poles of the closed loop transfer function should lie in the left half of the complex plane
C. Bode plots of the corresponding open loop transfer function should monotoni-cally decrease
D. Poles of the closed loop transfer function should lie in the right half of the complex plane
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In a closed loop system, the process to be controlled is an integrating process with transfer function 2 s 1 . The controller proposed to be used in an integral controller with transfer function T 1 s 1 . When a step change in set point is applied to such a closed loop system, the controlled variable will exhibit
A. Overdamped response
B. Underdamped response
C. Undamped response
D. Unstable response
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Which of the following controllers has maximum offset?
A. P-controller
B. P-I controller
C. P-D controller
D. P-I-D controller
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Which of the following relates the emf. generated in a single homogeneous wire to the temperature difference?
A. Peltier effect
B. Thomson effect
C. Seebeck effect
D. None of these
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Flow rate of a river is measured by a/an
A. Pitot tube
B. Vane meter
C. Kennison nozzle
D. Open weir
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Composition of alloys can be determined by
A. Polarograph
B. Chromatograph
C. Refractrometer
D. None of these
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In a single tank system, the transfer function of level to inlet flow rate is
A. R/TS
B. R/(TS + 1)
C. L(TS + l)
D. 1/TS
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The root locus method, a pole of a transfer function G(s) is the value of s for which G(s) approaches
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The __________ of a vapor pressure thermometer is a secondary element.
A. Pointer
B. Bourdon tube
C. Bulb
D. None ofthese
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Stability of a control system containing a transportation lag can be best analysed by
A. Routh test
B. Root locus methods
C. Frequency response methods
D. None of these
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Starting temperature of optical radiation pyrometer is __________ °C.
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A system with a double pole at the origin is unstable since the corresponding term in the time domain
A. Is a constant
B. Grows exponentially with time
C. Grows linearly with time
D. Decays linearly with time
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Use of I-control along with P-control facilitates
A. Elimination of offset
B. Reduction of offset
C. Reduction of stability time
D. None of these
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Positioning controllers are used for
A. Low loads
B. Temperature changes
C. High loads
D. Flow rate changes
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Dilute wine was used as a thermometric liquid initially to develop temperature scale. First emperical temperature scale developed was the __________ scale.
A. Kelvin
B. Centigrade
C. Fahrenheit
D. Reaumer
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Mass spectrometer is used for the composition analysis of
A. Alloys
B. Solids
C. Isotopes
D. None of these
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The offset introduced by proportional controller with gain Kc in response of first order system can be reduced by
A. Reducing value of Kc
B. Introducing integral control
C. Introducing derivative control
D. None of the above
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In a second order under damped system, the
A. Time required for the response of first reach its ultimate value is called the response time
B. Overshoot (which is a measure of how much the response exceeds the ultimate value) increase with the decrease of damping co-efficient e
C. Decay ratio (which is the ratio of the sizes of successive peaks) is equal to the reciprocal of overshoot
D. None of these
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Which of the following is not a composition measuring instrument?
A. Thermal conductivity cell
B. Mass spectrometer
C. Polarograph
D. Hot wire anemometer
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