Practice Test: Question Set - 07
1. Vapor actuated pressure spring thermometer does not require ambient temperature compensation. Ambient temperature compensation is provided in gas or liquid expansion pressure spring thermometer by
- (A) Making the volume of thermometer bulb as large
as conveniently possible
- (B) Reducing the volume of the capillary to a
minimum
- (C) Reducing the volume of the receiving element to a minimum
- (D) All 'a', 'b' & 'c'
2. Continuous measurement of specific gravity of a liquid is done by
- (A) Hydrometer
- (B) Contact-type electric indicators
- (C) Displacement meter
- (D) Both (a) and (c)
3. Gas chromatography is used for the measurement of
- (A) Temperature
- (B) Pressure
- (C) Concentration
- (D) Flow rate
4. Which of the following is not classified as a thermo electric pyrometer?
- (A) Resistance thermometer
- (B) Thermocouple
- (C) Optical pyrometer (disappearing filament type)
- (D) Radiation pyrometer
5. 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
6. If response of a control system is to be free of offset and oscillation, the most suitable controller is
- (A) Proportional controller
- (B) Proportional-derivative (PD) controller
- (C) Proportional-integral (PI) controller
- (D) Proportional integral-derivative (PID) controller
7. Working principle of disappearing filament type optical pyrometer is based on the
- (A) Wien's law
- (B) Seebeck effect
- (C) Kirchoff's law
- (D) Peltier effect
8. Temperature measurement range of iron-constantan thermocouple is 0 to 870°C. It can be used to measure sub zero temperature, because at lower temperature
- (A) Emf produced is very low of the order of
microvolt
- (B) Embrittlement of iron occurs
- (C) Rusting of iron takes place
- (D) Both (b) and (c)
9. Dilatometer is used to measure
- (A) Stress
- (B) Strain
- (C) Deflection
- (D) Contraction/expansion due to changes in
temperature
10. For two non-interacting first order systems connected in series, the overall transfer function is the ________ of the individual transfer functions.
- (A) Product
- (B) Ratio
- (C) Sum
- (D) Difference
11. Relationship between absorption/evolution of heat at the thermocouple junctions and the current flow in the circuit is given by ________ effect.
- (A) Peltier
- (B) Thomson
- (C) Seebeck
- (D) None of these
12. Which of the following thermocouples is capable of measuring a temperature of -50°C?
- (A) Platinum-platinum + rhodium
- (B) Chromel-Alumel
- (C) Iron-constantan
- (D) Copper-constantan
13. pH meter has
- (A) One cell
- (B) Two cells
- (C) Three cells
- (D) No cell
14. Reference points i.e., ice point and steam point in Reaumer temperature scale are respectively
- (A) - 273° & 80°
- (B) 0° & 80°
- (C) 32° & 460°
- (D) 32° & 80°
15. Flow rate of those fluids which are insensitive to changes in their density, viscosity or flow velocity profile can be best measured by a
- (A) Magnetic flowmeter
- (B) Pitot tube
- (C) Flow nozzle type flowmeter
- (D) Turbine flowmeter
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