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Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning - Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation - Instrumentation Engineering Previous Year Questions

Practice Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning - Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation - Instrumentation Engineering previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

21Papers
18Years
84Questions
1Topics

Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning question pattern

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Questions by year

Year-wise coverage for Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning. Each bar uses a separate theme-derived color.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Easy 44 52.4%
Medium 39 46.4%
Hard 1 1.2%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 58 69%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 22 26.2%
Fill in the blanks 3 3.6%
MSQ 1 1.2%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Instrumentation Engineering
84 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation
84 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
84 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2026
5 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2025
5 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2024
4 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2023
4 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2022
2 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2021
4 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2020
4 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2019
3 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2018
3 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2017
3 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2016
4 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2014
6 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 1]
2 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 3]
2 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 4]
1 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2011
2 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2010
5 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2009
5 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2008
8 Qs
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2007
11 Qs

Included previous year papers

Newest papers appear first. Sort by year, question coverage or name.

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 202620265View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 202520255View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 202420244View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 202320234View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 202220222View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 202120214View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 202020204View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 201920193View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 201820183View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 201720173View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 201620164View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 201420146View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 1]20132View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 2]20131View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 3]20132View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 4]20131View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 201120112View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 201020105View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 200920095View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 200820088View paper
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2007200711View paper

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2009 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2009

An LVDT is supplied with a sinusoidal voltage of amplitude 5 V and frequency 1 kHz. The output is connected to an ac voltmeter. The reading of the voltmeter is 1 V for a displacement of 1 mm from the null position. When the displacement is 1 mm in the opposite direction from the null position, the reading of the voltmeter is

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2009 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2009
The values of the material constant \(\beta\) for thermistors P and Q are 4000 K and 3000 K, respectively. The resistance of each thermistor at 298 K is 2 kΩ. At 373 K the ratio of the resistance of thermistor P to that of thermistor Q will be closest to
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2009 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2009

A standard three-lead frontal plane ECG is taken of a person with a normal heart. The peak amplitude of the R-wave is

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2009 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2009

In a pulsed ultrasound imaging system, a single 5 MHz crystal is used both as source and as detector. Bursts of at least 20 cycles are needed for acceptable image quality. The velocity of sound in the tissue being imaged is 1500 m/s. The minimum distance of the objects to be imaged should be

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2009 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2009
The sensitivity \(\frac{v_0/v_i}{\Delta\theta}\) is
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2010 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2010
The rotor of the control transformer of a synchro pair gives a maximum voltage of 1.0 V at a particular position of the rotor of the control transmitter. The transmitter rotor is now rotated by \(30^\circ\) anticlockwise keeping the transformer rotor stationary. The transformer rotor voltage for this position is
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2010 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2010
A thermocouple based temperature measurement system is shown in the adjoining figure. Relevant thermocouple emf data (in mV) is given below. The cold junction is kept at \(0^\circ C\). The temperature is \(30^\circ C\) in the other parts of the system. The emf \(V_o\) is measured to be 26.74 mV. The temperature of the hot liquid is
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2010 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2010
The differential gain of the instrumentation amplifier to achieve a voltage sensitivity of 10 mV/°C at 0°C, should be approximately
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2010 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2010
The RTD is placed in a hot water bath of temperature 100°C. Based on the gain calculated in Q.54, the error in the measured value of the temperature due to bridge nonlinearity is
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2010 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2010
Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare; and regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause.

Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage?
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2011 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2011
For a copper-constantan (Type T) thermocouple, the junction potential \(E\) (in μV) at θ °C is given by \(E = 38.74θ + 3.3×10^{-2} θ^2 + 2.07×10^{-4} θ^3 - 2.2×10^{-6} θ^4\) + higher order terms, assuming the cold junction compensation. The sensitivity of thermocouple at 100 °C is approximately
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2011 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2011
The primary and secondary of an LVDT (stroke length ±50mm) are connected to a 3 kHz sinusoidal source and ideal semiconductor diode bridge-based phase sensitive demodulator circuit. The core of the LVDT remains static at 15 mm above the ideal null position. The frequency of the voltage observed at the input of the low-pass filter is
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2013 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 1]
Match the following biomedical instrumentation techniques with their applications
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2013 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 1]
The minimum frequency of a force signal in Hz within its useful mid-band range of measurement, for which the gain amplitude is more than 0.95, approximately is,
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2013 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 3]
Match the following biomedical instrumentation techniques with their applications P : Otoscopy U : Respiratory volume measurement Q : Ultrasound Technique V : Ear diagnostics R : Spirometry W : Echo-cardiography S : Thermodilution Technique X : Heart volume measurement
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2013 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2013 [Session 4]
Match the following biomedical instrumentation techniques with their applications
P : Otoscopy U : Respiratory volume measurement
Q : Ultrasound Technique V : Ear diagnostics
R : Spirometry W : Echo-cardiography
S : Thermodilution Technique X : Heart volume measurement
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2014 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2014
A pH electrode obeys Nernst equation and is being operated at 25°C. The change in the open circuit voltage in millivolts across the electrode for a pH change from 6 to 8 is ________.
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2014 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2014
Semiconductor strain gages typically have much higher gage factors than those of metallic strain gages, primarily due to :
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2014 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2014
In order to remove respiration related motion artifacts from an ECG signal, the following filter should be used.
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2014 · Instrumentation Engineering · Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation · Sensor Principles and Signal Conditioning
Instrumentation Engineering (IN) 2014
A thermistor has a resistance of 1 kΩ at temperature 298 K and 465 Ω at temperature 316 K. The temperature sensitivity in K⁻¹ [i.e. (1/R)(dR/dT), where R is the resistance at the temperature T(in K)], of this thermistor at 316 K is ______________.
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