14.

The pointer of an indicating

Instrumentation instrument is in the final deflected
position, the _____ is zero. damping
1. What kind of instrument is an
torque
ammeter? An indicating
15. A moving system force in an analog
2. As the deflection of the moving
instrument which causes the moving
system increases, the controlling
system to deflect from its zero
torque in an indicating instrument.
position. deflecting force
Increases
16. A moving system force in analog
3. Which is the best type of ammeter
instruments which ensures that the
movement? D'Arsonval
deflection of the pointer for a given
4. Which dynamometer type has
value of measured quantity always
uniform scale? Wattmeter
has the same value. controlling force
5. When both deflecting and controlling
17. All voltmeters except one of the
torque act, the pointer of an
following are operated by the
indicating instrument comes to rest
passage of current. Electrostatic
6. The output voltage of a
18. Disc is made of what material in
thermocouple increases with
eddy current damping? conductor
temperature
and non-magnetic material
7. An instrument in which the
19. The time interval between pulses is
magnitude of the measured quantity
called pulse delay
is indicated by means of a pointer.
20. An oscilloscope provides easy
analog instrument
measurement of _____ values. peak
8. If the pointer of an indicating
to peak
instrument is in motion, then what
21. An element in electronics which
opposes deflecting torque? damping
serves as a protection against
and controlling torques
overload? Fuse
9. How can electric currents be
22. What sensor provides a dc voltage
induced with a coil and a magnet?
approximately 1V at 10 mW? diode
by moving either the magnet or the
sensor
coil
23. Hot-wire instrument has a/an _____
10. When should a fuse be replaced
scale. Squared
with a higher rated unit? Never
24. For time measurements, _____
11. The pointer of an indicating
scale of the scope is used.
instrument is generally made of
Horizontal
aluminum
25. Fluid friction damping is employed in
12. The time interval that a waveform is
one of the following. Kelvin
high (or low) is the _____ of the
electrostatic voltmeter
signal. pulse width
26. Current range extension in moving
13. A Wheatstone bridge is balanced if
coil instruments can be achieved by
the ratio of resistors on one side of
placing a _____ in shunt with the
the bridge equals the ratio of
instrument. low resistance resistor
resistors on the other side
27. Permanent-magnet moving coil
instrument can be used in dc work
only
28. What CRT element provides for
control of the number of electrons
passing farther into the tube? control
grid
29. It refers to garaging the two
adjustments of an AC bridge
together in such a way that changing
in one adjustment changes the other
in a special way, but changing the
second adjustment does not change
the first. orthogonal nulling
30. When the vertical input is 0V, the
electron beam may be positioned at
the _____ of the screen. vertical
center
31. What is the reason why the scale of
a permanent-magnet moving coil
instrument is uniform? because it is
spring controlled
32. A sensing element that provides a dc
voltage less than 10mV with typical
power range of 0.1 to 100 mW.
thermal converters
33. Tank circuit frequency can be
measured by _____. grid-dip meter
34. Shunts are generally made of what
material? Manganin
35. _____ meter is the most sensitive. 1
μA
36. A dynamometer instrument is mainly
used as a wattmeter
37. Which movement is the most
expensive? Dynamometer
38. Attraction and repulsion instruments
are considered as moving-iron
instruments
39. In wheatstone bridge, bridge
balance is a condition where there is
no current that flows through the
load
40. The temperature coefficient of
resistance of the shunt material is
negligible
41. In VTVMS, _____ is used to balance
both halves of the difference
amplifier or cathode-coupled
amplifier. zero adjust
42. In an oscilloscope, _____ adjusts
the brightness of the spot by
changing the current on the control
grid. intensity control
43. A force in analog instrument which
quickly brings the moving system to
rest in its final position. damping
force
44. The resistance of a moving-coil
instrument is 10ohm(s) and gives
full-scale deflection at 10mA.
Calculate the resistance of the shunt
required to convert the instrument to
give full-scale deflection when the
circuit current is 5 A. 0.02004ohm(s)
45. A small swamping resistance is
connected in series with operating
coil of a moving coil ammeter in
order to compensate for the effects
of temperature variation
46. The typical power range of a diode
sensor is 0.1nW to 10mW
47. A _____ operates on the magnetic
attraction-repulsion principles.
Milliameter
48. A dc bridge widely used for the
accurate measurements of
resistance. Wheatstone bridge
49. Which of the following is a dc bridge
that is very useful for making
extremely accurate voltage
measurements? Potentiometer
bridge
50. Majority of analog measuring
instrument utilizes one of the
following effects. magnetic effect
51. Multimeter typically provides
measurement of _____ values (for a
sinusoidal waveform). Rms
52. Dynamometer type instrument can
be used for both dc and ac works
53. ":"_____ is an instrument in which
springs provide the controlling
torque as well as serve to lead
current into and out of the operating
coil. permanent-magnet moving coil
54. In VTVMS, _____ refers to the
smallest signal that can be reliably
measured. Sensitivity
55. The frequency of rotation in some
rotating machinery can be measured
by a stroboscope
56. Which of the items below describes
an absorption meter's usage check
the output frequency of a transmitter
57. An instrument used for observing
voltage and current waveforms is the
_____. Oscilloscope
58. Which of the following forces does
not act on the moving systems of
analog instruments. an electrostatic
force
59. When current through the operating
coil of a moving-iron instrument is
tripled the operating force becomes
9 times
60. What is the typical full-scale
deflection current of a moving coil
instrument? 50 mA
61. An instrument used for measuring
the amount of current flowing in a
circuit. Ammeter
62. A type of meter that gives a precise
reading of voltage, current or
resistance where there is the
generation of samples at the input
and then feeds it to a digital read-
out. DMM
63. What is the typical full-scale voltage
across a moving coil voltmeter? 50
mV
64. The period of a repetitive signal is 1
cycle of the waveform
65. An element of a CRT, that releases
electrons when heated indirectly by
a filament. Cathode
66. Moving-iron instrument has a/an
_____ scale squared
67. A pattern displayed by oscilloscopes
which has a steady characteristic is
called Lissajous
68. A galvanometer with 20 ohms coil
resistance has a full-scale deflection
of 10 mA. A 0.02 ohm is placed
across the meter to increase its
rating capacity. What is the new full-
scale current for the meter? 10.01 A
69. Which of the following extends the
range of a moving-iron ac ammeter?
changing number of turns of
operating coil
70. Which of the following is not a basic
part of a CRT? sawtooth generator
71. For amplitude measurements, _____
scale is calibrated in either volts per
centimeter (V/cm), or millivolts per
centimeter (mV/cm). vertical
72. _____ ammeter is used to measure
high-frequency currents.
Thermocouple
73. Which of the voltmeter is used for
measuring high direct voltage (say
10kV)? Electrostatic
74. A common technique for measuring
power at high frequency is to employ
a sensing element that converts the
RF power to a measurable dc or
low-frequency signal
75. The _____ provides the visual
display showing the form of the
signal applied as a waveform on the
 front screen of a cathode ray
oscilloscope. CRT
76. Electrostatic instruments are
exclusively used as voltmeters
77. What is the typical power range for
thermocouple sensors? 0.1 μW to
100mW
78. An electric pyrometer is an
instrument used to measure high
temperatures
79. Which instrument is the most
sensitive? permanent-magnet
moving coil
80. Which is the most commonly used
induction type instrument? induction
watt-hour meter
81. What type of instrument is the watt-
hour meter? an integrating
82. A certain pulse measures 10ms and
has a period of 50 ms. The duty
cycle is 20%
83. Indicating instrument is assumed to
be most accurate at what part of the
scale? at half or full
84. On a simple ohmmeter, the 0-ohm(s)
mark is located _____ of the scale.
at far right
85. One of the basic functions of
electronic circuit is the generation
and manipulation of electronic
waveshapes
86. What provides a visual
representation of any waveform
applied to the input terminals?
cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO)
87. The interval of a pulse from start to
end is the _____ of the pulse. Period
88. Considered as the \"heart\" of the
cathode ray oscilloscope. cathode
ray tube (CRT)
89. A material that glows when struck by
the energetic electrons in a CRT.
Phosphor
90. What sensor provides a change of
resistance with typical power range
of 1μW to 10mW and with maximum
frequency greater than 100GHz?
thermiston sensor
91. An ammeter with an internal
resistance of 50 ohm(s) is used to
measure a current through a load
resistor Rl = 1 kohm(s). Determine
the percentage error of the reading
due to ammeter insertion. 4.76%
92. Most AC voltmeters have an rms
scale which is valid only if the input
signal being measured is a _____
signal sinusoidal
93. Which of the following bridges
measures dc resistance?
wheatstone bridge
94. What bridge is used to measure
high-Q inductors (Q > 10)? hay
bridge
95. Maxwell bridge measures an
unknown inductance in terms of
known capacitance
96. _____ is used for measuring
medium Q coils (1 < Q < 10).
maxwell bridge
97. _____ has a series RC combination
in one arm and a parallel RC
combination in the adjoining arm and
used as a notch filter in harmonic
distortion analyzer. wien bridge
98. Sensitivity of a voltmeter is
expressed in ohm(s)/V
99. The smallest change in applied
stimulus that will indicate a
detectable change in deflection in an
indicating instrument is called
resolution
100. Insulation resistance is
measured by which meter? Megger
101. What is the degree of
exactness of measurement when
compared to the expected value of
 the variable being measured?
Accuracy
102. The art, or process of
determining the existence or
knowing the magnitude of
something, directly or indirectly in
terms of a recognized standard
Measurement
103. A procedure, or sequence of
operations for determining wheter a
component or equipment is
functioning or working normally Test
104. A measure of consistency or
repeatability of measurements is
called precision
105. Precision is also known as
reproducibility
106. In measurements, the sum of
a set of numbers divided by the total
number of pieces of data in the
given set is called arithmetic mean
107. The deviation of a reading
from the expected value error
108. Errors due to frictions of the
meter movement, incorrect spring
tension, improper calibration or
faulty instruments: Intsrument errors
109. Errors in analog meter
reading due to physical position with
respect to the meter scale parallax
error
110. An instrument or device
having recognized permanent or
stable value that is used as a
reference standard instrument /
device
111. The smallest change in a
measured variable to which an
instrument will respond resolution
112. A device or mechanism used
to determine the value of a quantity
under observation. Instrument
113. What is the basic unit for
measuring current flow? Ampere
114. An instrument used to detect
and measure the presence of
electrical current is generally called
galvanometer
115. What is the most common
type of meter movement? D'
Arsonval
116. A permanent-magnet
moving-coil instrument D'Arsonval
meter movement
117. An instrument which depends
on current in one or more fixed-coils
acting on one or more pieces of soft
iron, at least one of which is
moveable moving-iron instrument
118. What is the device, which
depends on the action of a movable
permanent magnet, in aligning itself
in the resultant field produced by a
fixed permanent magnet or current-
carrying coils whose axes are
displaced by a fixed angle? moving-
magnet instrument
119. What ammeter is mostly
used in measuring high frequency
currents? Thermocouple
120. Measurement of high dc-
voltages is usually done by using
electrostatic
121. Measuring instrument that
can be used only to measure
voltages electrostatic
122. This instrument measures
temperatures by electric means,
especially temperatures beyond the
range of mercury thermometers
pyrometer
123. This instrument refers to that
one, which measures the intensity of
the radiation, received from any
portion of the sky. Pyranometer
124. What is the normal indication
on a megger (megaohmeter) when
checking insulation? Infinity
125. Resistance measuring
instrument particularly used in
determining the insulation resistance
A or B are correct
126. An electrodynamic meter
used to measure power wattmeter
127. A device used to
mechanically measure the output
power of a motor dynamometer
128. An indicating instrument
whose movable coils rotate between
two-stationary coils, usually used as
wattmeter electrodynamometer
129. Dynamometers are mostly
used as wattmeter
130. What damping method is
generally used in dynamometers?
air friction
131. Which dynamometer
instrument has a uniform scale?
Wattmeter
132. For a dynamometer to be
able to measure high current, a
_______ should be used current
transformer
133. Error in voltmeter reading is
due to loading
134. Error in ammeter reading is
due to insertion
135. Which type of meter requires
its own power source An ohmmeter
136. Error in ohmmeter is due to
battery aging
137. Decreasing the value of the
shunt resistor of an ammeter, its
current measuring capability
increases
138. A device that is used to
measure current without opening the
circuit clamp probe
139. Which of the ammeter below
has no insertion error? clamp-meter
140. To prevent damage of the
multirange ammeter during
selection, a/an ________ should be
used. Ayrton shunt
141. For the greatest accuracy,
what should be the input impedance
of a VOM be? as large as possible
142. Voltage measurement in a
high impedance circuit requires a
voltmeter with high input impedance
143. A meter has a full-scale
current of 50µA, what is its
sensitivity? 20 k ohm/V
144. If a meter with a full-scale
current of 100µA is used as an ac
voltmeter with half-wave rectification,
its ac sensitivity is 4,500 ohm/V
145. In order to make an accurate
measurement as possible, the
internal resistance of a voltmeter
must be as high as possible
146. An ammeter has a full-scale
deflection current of 100mA. If the
same ammeter is used to measure a
full-scale current of 1.0 ampere,
what is the value of the shunt
resistor in ohms if the voltage across
the meter is 9.0 volts? 10
147. What is the purpose of the
rheostat in ohmmeter? compensate
aging battery of the meter
148. The zero-adjust control in an
analog type ohmmeter is used to
compensate for the differing internal
battery voltage
149. The scale of a hot-wire
instrument is a/an ___________
function squared
150. Moving iron instruments have
a scale function that is squared
151. To increase the measuring
capability of a moving-iron ac
ammeter, a ______ should be used
 different number of turns of
operating coil
152. Which electrical instruments
below is the most sensitive? PMMC
153. Basically, a PMMC
instrument can be used only in dc
measurements
154. Controlling torque in PMMC
spring action
155. What damping method is
used in induction type ammeters?
eddy current damping
156. Induction type instruments
are mostly used as watt-hour meter
157. In indicating instruments,
what will happen to the controlling
torque if the deflection becomes
greater? Increases
158. The forces that are acting on
the pointer of an indicating
instrument as it rests on its final
deflected position. (Damping torque
is 0). A & B above
159. What is the force acting on
the pointer of an indicating
instrument when it is in motion?
controlling, damping, and deflecting
torques
160. Material that is mostly used
as a pointer in indicating instruments
aluminum
161. A Kelvin electrostatic
voltmeter uses what method of
damping? fluid friction
162. Shunts in meters should
have a _______ temperature
coefficient of resistance very small
163. In a moving coil ammeter, a
________ is connected in series
with the coil to compensate for
temperature variations swamping
resistor
164. Where can we use the
dynamometer? dc and ac
165. What is that meter that
depends for its operation on the
forces attraction and repulsion
between electrically charged
bodies? electrostatic instrument
166. What do you call of an
instrument that depends for its
operation on the reaction between
magnetic flux set up by currents in
fixed windings and other currents set
up by electromagnetic induction in
movable conducting parts? induction
instrument
167. A meter that for its operation,
it depends on a movable iron vane
which aligns itself in the resultant
field of a permanent magnet and an
adjacent current carrying coil
permanent-magnet moving-coil
instrument
168. What is the measuring
instrument that uses the forces of
repulsion between fixed and
movable magnetized iron vanes, or
the force between a coil and a
pivoted vane-shaped piece of soft
iron to move the indicating pointer?
vane-type instrument
169. An electrostatic voltmeter in
which an assembly of figure - 8 -
shaped metal plates rotate bet. the
plates of a stationary assembly
when a voltage ismapplied bet. the
assemblies. Kelvin voltmeter
170. What is that instrument used
for measuring the strength and
direction of magnetic fields?
Magnetometer
171. What do you call of that
instrument used for measuring
reactive power in vars? A or C is
correct
172. What is this instrument or
circuit that has four or more arms, by
 means of which one or more of the
electrical constants of an unknown
component may be measured?
Bridge
173. A four-arm bridge. All arms of
which are predominantly resistive;
used for measuring resistance B or
C is correct
174. This is a method of using a
Wheatstone bridge to determine the
distance from the test point to a fault
in a telephone or telegraph line or
cable Varley Loop
175. This refers to a four-arm ac
bridge used for measuring
inductance against a standard
capacitance. Maxwell bridge
176. Refers to an ac bridge for
measuring the inductance and Q of
an inductor in terms of resistance,
frequency and a standard
capacitance Hay bridge
177. A special bridge for
measuring very low resistance (0.1
ohm or less). Kelvin double bridge
178. A type of four-arm bridge in
which the unknown capacitance is
compared with a standard
capacitance. Used for testing
electrolytic capacitors, a dc
polarizing voltage is applied.
Schering bridge
179. What do you call of that
frequency-sensitive bridge in which
two adjacent arms are resistances
and other are RC combinations?
Wein bridge
180. When the capacitors of a
Wein bridge are replaced by
inductors, the bridge becomes Wein
inductance bridge
181. A simplified version of the
Wheatstone bridge wherein, two of
the ratio arms are replaced by a
100cm long Manganin of uniform
cross-sections and provided with a
slider slide-wire bridge
182. Bridge used to measure both
inductive and capacitive impedances
at higher frequencies radio-
frequency bridge
183. A bridge wherein all legs are
electrically identical balance bridge
184. Comparison bet dc and ac
measuring instruments all of these
are correct
185. What is an electronic
instrument capable of showing on
screen and maybe on print, relative
spacing of transmitter carriers, their
sidebands and harmonics?
Spectrum analyzer
186. An instrument capable of
displaying simultaneously of signals
having different frequencies
spectrum analyzer
187. A spectrum analyzer is a
real-time analyzer
188. Indications of spectrum
analyzer is presented by means of a
CRT
189. An electronic measuring
device that provide instantaneous
visual indication of voltage
excursions oscilloscope
190. An instrument that is capable
of displaying waveforms by means
of a fluorescence in a CRT
oscilloscope
191. Types of oscilloscopes that
are able to retain the display for a
longer period of analysis. This
display is retained by the use of
flood gun storage oscilloscope
192. What do you call an
oscilloscope that uses sampling
techniques in processing signals
having frequencies beyond its
 normal capabilities? sampling
oscilloscope
193. Generally, oscilloscope uses
what type of deflection? electrostatic
deflection
194. A device or instrument, which
delivers signals of precise frequency
and amplitude, usually over a wide
range signal generators
195. The two most common audio
oscillators are Wein bridge and
phase shift
196. What are the two most
popular RF oscillators? Colpitts and
Hartley
197. A device or instrument able
to generate noise with accurate
voltage for test purposes noise
generator
198. When do you need a noise
generator? When evaluating noise
characteristic of an amplifier
199. In RF or microwave system,
what instrument is used to measure
the incidental and reflected signals
reflectometer
200. A type of photometer used to
measure reflection reflectometer
201. A tunable RF instrument,
which, by means of a sharp dip of an
indicating meter, indicates
resonance with an external circuit
under test dip meter
202. A type of dip meter
employing a vacuum tube oscillator,
whose indicating dc microammeter
is in the grid circuit grid-dip meter
203. In meter movement, how do
you prevent the meter from
oscillating and overswing? by
damping
204. When the meter is
unsufficiently damped, it is
considered as underdamped
205. A meter when ______ will
become insensitive to small signals
overdamped
206. Meters with moving coil are
normally used for measuring dc only
207. Another name for PMMC
instrument D'Arsonval
208. Whith no added gadget,
D'Arsonval meter can be used to
measure DC
209. Type of power-line frequency
meter composed of vibrating iron
reeds placed in alternating magnetic
field Vibrating reed type
210. Type of power-line frequency
meter device utilizing a principle of
balancing an indicator needle at
center of a scale using magnetic
fields opposing each other magnetic
type
211. Electrodynamometer can be
used to measure AC and DC
212. An iron vane is used to
measure AC
213. It is the reciprocal of the full-
scale current of a meter sensitivity
214. How much current does an
electrostatic voltmeter require
through it to operate? zero current
215. High sensitive DC voltmeter
provides accurate reading when
measuring ________ circuits high
resistance
216. The only use of voltage
sensitive meter movement very low
voltage measurement
217. What should be the
resolution of a digital voltmeter
having three-digit 0-3 V? 3 mV
218. Calculate the series
resistance needed to convert a
D'Arsonval meter with FSD of 100µA
and a meter resistance of 1 kilo ohm
 to a voltmeter with 10 V FSD 99 kilo measuring ________ circuits high
ohms resistance
219. Calculate the shunt 232. A _________ is a device that
resistance needed to increase the can test all pins of an IC at the same
FSD of an ammeter 5 times if the time logic clip
meter resistance is 1 kilo ohm 250 233. Determine which is not a
ohm dynamic instrument Logic
220. Calculate the series 234. Is a nucleonic sensing
resistance needed to increase the method employing usually one or
range of a voltmeter 5 times if the more radioisotope sources and
meter resistance is 1 kilo ohm 4 kilo radiation detectors Radiation
ohm sensing
221. A bridge used to locate 235. In therapeutic radiology and
accidental grounds on in nuclear medicine, the energies of
communications and power lines interest range from about 100 to
Murray loop 10000 keV
222. A bridge used to measure
small resistances Kelvin bridge
223. An AC bridge that measures
inductance in terms of resistance
and capacitance Owen's bridge
224. An AC bridge that measures
capacitance and dissipation factor
Schering bridge
225. An AC bridge that measures
mutual inductance Heaviside bridge
226. Instrumentation amplifier
employs how many op amps? 3
227. It consists of a diode and an
opamp and has the ability to clip low
level signals precision diode
228. What is being controlled at
the potentials between anode of an
oscilloscope? Focus
229. What kind of voltage is
applied to the horizontal deflection
plates of the oscilloscope? sweep
voltage
230. Type of waveform generated
by the sweep generator of the CRT
sawtooth
231. Low sensitive DC voltmeter
provides inaccurate result when