122 Reglatratlon No.

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B Name of Candidate :

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ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, 2017

M.Tech. NANO SCIENCE

[ Field of Study Code : NNSP (182)/NNEP (190) ]

Time Allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

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 PART-A

( Re:earch Hethodology )

1. A hypothesis is a

(a) tentative statement whose validity is still to be tested

(b) statement of fact

(c) supposition which is based on the past experiences

(d) All of the above

2. Tippit table is

(a) a table of random digits

(b) used in statistical investigation

(c) used in sampling method

(d) All of the above

3. What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following letter-number
series?
M3V 05U R7T T9S WllR?

(a) Yl3Q (b) Zl3Q

(c) Yl5Q (d) Yl3P

4. X-ray diffractogram of a bee lattice shows

(a) only even integer reflection indices

(b) only odd integer reflection indices

(c) only those reflection indices whose sum is an even integer

(d) only those reflection indices whose sum is an odd integer

5. If a system absorbs 100 J of heat and does a work of 25 J, what is the increase in its
internal energy in joules?

(a) 75 (b) 125

(c) 100 (d) None of these

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6. Calculate the work done in joules by a gas in expanding from a volume of 1 m to 2 m
at a pressure of I Pa.

(a) I (b) 0·5

(c) 2 (d) None of these

7. Which method would you use to determine that a membrane fraction you have isolated
contains actin?

(a) Thin-layer chromatography

(b) Column chromatography

(c) Immunoblotting

(d) Ultracentrifugation

8. NMR signal mainly depends on

(a) electronegativity of nearby atoms

(b) hydrogen bonds of the molecules

(c) charge of the atoms

(d) mass of the molecules

9. Cluster analysis in DNA microarray experiments refers to

(a) genes that are clustered together in the genome

(b) cluster of probes that are used to monitor gene expression

(c) genes which are likely to work in concert in the cell

(d) cluster of cDNAs printed on microarray chip

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10. In a mass spectrometry experiment for determining molecular mass of a protein, the
property that is used for the determination of the molecular mass is

(a) massfcharge ratio

(b) charge/mass ratio

(c) total charge on the protein

(d) net charge on the protein

11. Which one of the following wavelengths is most suitable for determining the
concentration of polyalanine (a synthetic polypeptide composed solely of alanine
residues) directly in aqueous solution without using any reagents in a UV-visible
spectrometer?

(a) 220 nm

(b) 260 nm

(c) 280 nm

(d) 595 nm

238 after the emission of an alpha particle is converted to

12. 92 u

(a) u238
92

(b) u235
92

(c) nu 234
(d) Th234
90

13. Which one of the following is nonradiative transition?

(a) Internal Conversion

(b) Phosphorescence

(c) Intersystem crossing

(d) All of the above

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14. You are given two tubes (A and B) containing actively growing cell cultures. The cell
culture in tube A is treated with a drug that inhibits cell division, while the culture in
tube B remains untreated. Which one of the following techniques you would use to
analyze the inhibition of cell cycle?

(a) Fluorescence spectroscopy

(b) Fluorescence-activated cell sorting

(c) UV-Vis spectroscopy

(d) NMR spectroscopy

15. Efficiency of a thermal engine working between upper temperature of 500 K and a lower
temperature of 400 K is

(a) 20% (b) 25%

(c) 80% (d) None of these

16. As you increase the n (number of measurements) in an experiment, which quantity do

you expect, to decrease?

(a) Mean

(b) Correlation

(c) Standard error of the mean

(d) Both (b) and (c)

17. Which blood cells are called 'soldiers' of the body?

(a) WBCs

(b) Platelets

(c) RBCs

(d) All of the above

18. The SJ unit of refractive index is

(a) meter

(b) em

(c) watt

(d) No unit

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19. Acid present in gastric juice is

(a) hydrochloric acid

(b) citric acid

(c) sulphuric acid

(d) acetic acid

20. The liquid metal is

(a) bismuth

(b) magnesium

(c) mercury

(d) sodium

21. Electric bulb filament is made of

(a) copper

(b) aluminium

(c) lead

(d) tungsten

22. Which of the following is a nonmetal that remains liquid at room temperature?

(a) Phosphorus

(b) Bromine

(c) Chlorine

(d) Helium

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 Main memory in computer is
23.

(a) random access memory

(b) read only memory

(c) serial access memory

(d) None of tbe above

24. The brain of a computer is

(a) CPU (b) CD

(c) floppy disc (d) mouse

25. A compact disc is a data storage of which of the following types?

(a) Magnetic

(b) Optical

(c) Electrical

(d) Electromechanical

26. An atmospheric pollutant is

(a) C0 2 (b) co
(c) 02 (d) N2

27. An object is placed to the left of thin convex lens, at a distance greater tban twice the
focal length of the lens. Which of the following is true?

(a) A real inverted image is formed on tbe right side of lens between tbe focal length
and twice tbe focal length.

(b) A real inverted image is formed on the right side of lens at a distance larger than
twice tbe focal length.

(c) A virtual erect image is formed on tbe right side of lens at a distance larger than
twice tbe focal length.

(d) A virtual erect image is formed on the left side of lens at a distance larger than
twice tbe focal length.

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 28. Ozone hole is maximum over

(a) Europe

(b) Antarctica

(c) India

(d) Africa

29. Spraying of DDT produces pollution of

(a) air

(b) air and water

(c) air and soil

(d) air, water and soil

30. The first atomic bomb was thrown over

(a) Nagasaki

(b) Hiroshima

(c) Tokyo

(d) Hong Kong

31. The methane gas producing field is

(a) wheat field

(b) paddy field

(c) cotton field

(d) groundnut field

32. Find the odd one out.

(a) Ellipsoid (b) Cone

(c) Torus (d) Sphere

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 Number of the nearest neighbours for a face-centered-cubic lattice is
33.

(a) 6 (b) 8

(c) 12 (d) 10

34. Find the odd one out.

(a) 32:15 (b) 86:42

(c) 56:26 (d) 74:36

35. Which of the following pollutants can cause cancer in humans?

(a) Ozone

(b) Pesticides

(c) Mercury

(d) Lead

36. Which of the following phenomena is not a natural hazard?

(a) Chemical contamination

(b) Wildfire

(c) Lightning

(d) Landslide

37. India's contribution to total global carbon dioxide emissions is about

{a) - 3% (b) - 6%

(c) - 10% {d) - 15%

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 38. In the recently launched Air Quality Index in India which of the f<0 11 · .
not included? ' OWing po11 utants •s

(a) Carbon monoxide

(b) Fine particulate matter

(c) Ozone

(d) Chlorofluorocarbon

39. Dyslexia is associated with

(a) mental disorder

(b) behaviour disorder

(c) reading disorder

(d) writing disorder

40. Internal communication within institutions is done through

(a) LAN

(b) WAN

(c) EBB

(d) MMS

41. In a fuel cell-driven vehicle, the energy is obtained from the combustion of

(a) methane

(b) hydrogen

(c) LPG

(d) CNG

42. Which one of the following is an indication of the quality of a research journal?

(a) Impact factor

(b) h-index

(c) g-index

(d) 10-index

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43. The advantage of sampling is

(a) time-saving

(b) capital-saving

(c) increased accuracy

(d) Both (a) and (b)

44. Which of the following is a step of research design?

(a) Defining the problem and formulating a hypothesis

(b) Collecting data

(c) Drawing inferences from the data

(d) All of the above

45. Which of the following is a nonprobability sampling method?

(a) Simple random sampling

(b) Systematic sampling

(c) Cluster sampling

(d) Quota sampling

46. Reliability of a research result implies its

(a) verifiability

(b) validity

(c) uniqueness

(d) usefulness

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 47. Evaluation research is concerned with

(a) what are we doing?

(b) why are we doing?

(c) how well are we doing?

(d) None of the above

48. Communication is the transmission of

(a) information

(b) meaning

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of the above

49. 'Metal' is related to 'Sculptor' in the same way as 'Canvas' is related to

(a) Painter

(b) Cloth

(c) Colours

(d) P<ilnting

50. In the given figure if triangle represents healthy people, square represents old persons
and circle represents men, then what is the number of those men who are healthy but
not old?

r --

c ------------

(a) 3 (b) 5

(c) 4 (d) 2

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 PART-B

( Subject Specific I

1. In the given figure, a silicon is canying a constant current of 1 mA. When the
temperature of the diode is 20 •c, VD is found to be 700 mV. If the temperature rises to
40 ·c, VD becomes approximately equal to

1 mA t

(a) 740 mV (b) 660 mV

(c) 680 mV (d) 700 mV

2. Assume that the ll of the transistor is extremely large and v8 E ~ 0. 7 V, I and V. in

. . s h own m
th e CircUit "h t f
e i1gure below are c eE

+SV
2·2 Jill

(a) /c ~ 1 rnA, VeE ~4·7 V

(b) lc ~ 0·5 rnA, VeE~ 3·75 V

(c) /c ~I rnA, VeE =2·5 V

(d) /c ~ 0·5 rnA, VeE ~ 3·9 V

3. Expression A+A 'B+A 'B'C+A 'B'C'D+A 'B'CD'E would be simplified to

(a) A+A'B+CD+E

(b) A+B+CDE

(c) A+BC+CD+DE

(d) A+B+C+D+E

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 4. The magnitude frequency response of a control system is shown in figure below. The
values of ~ and w2 are respectively

26
dB~--------~0 dB/decade

20 dB}-~---{ /-20 dB/decade

10 Olj log ro

(a) 10 and 200

(b) 20 and 200

(c) 20 and 400

(d) I 00 and 400

5. A GaAs device is doped with a donor concentration of 3 x 1015 em -J. For the device to
operate properly, the intrinsic carrier concentration must remain less than 5% of the
total concentration. The maximum temperature on which the device may operate is

(a) 763 K (b) 769 K

(c) 486 K (d) 243 K

6. A I 0 V carrier is amplitude modulated by three different frequencies with amplitude of

I V, 2 V and 3 V respectively. The modulation index is

(a) 0·374 (b) 0·89

(c) 0·576 (d) 0·239

7. The drift velocity of the electron is dependent upon the

(a) electron mobility

(b) electron field

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of the above

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 s. An FM signal has a carrier swing of 100kHz when the modulating signal has a
frequency of 8 kHz. The modulation index is

(a) 6·25 (b) 12·5

(c) 7·5 (d) 15

9. In the circuit shown below, voltage VE ; 4 V. The values of a and ~ are respectively
+SV

2k.Q
100 k.Q

8kQ

-sv
(a) 0·943, 17·54 (b) 0·914, 17·54
(c) 0·914, 11·63 (d) 0·914, 10·54

10. The inverting op-amp shown in figure below has an open-loop gain of 100. The
closed-loop gain V0 / V5 is

R2=lO k.Q

R1=l kQ
v,
vo
1 - l
(a) -8 (b) -9
(c) -10 (d) -11

11. The Boolean expression AB + BC' is equivalent to

(a) A'C+BC'+AC
(b) B'C+ AC+ BC'+ A'CB
(c) AC+ BC'+ B'C+ ABC
(d) ABC+ A'BC' +ABC'+ AB'C

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 12. A p-n junction in series with a I 00 Q resistor is fo!Ward biased so that a current of
100 rnA flows. If voltage across this combination is instantaneously reversed to 10 V at
t ~ 0, then reverse current that flows through the diode at t = 0 is approximately given
by
(a) zero (b) I 00 rnA
(c) 200 rnA (d) so rnA

13. An audio amplifier is designed to have a small-signal bandwidth of 20kHz. The

open-loop low-frequency voltage gain of the op-amp is 10 5 and unity gain bandwidth is
1 MHz. What is the maximum closed-loop voltage gain for this amplifier?
(a) 500 (b) 5 x 10 6

(c) 2x 10 6 (d) so

14. Power content of each of the sidebands for 90% modulation of an AM wave having
carrier power as 800 W is
(a) !52 W (b) 132 w
(c) 142 W (d) 162 w

15. A signal m(t) ~ Scos2n lOOt undergoes frequency modulates a carrier. The resulting FM
signal is 10 cos(2n 10 5 t) + 1Ssin(2n lOOt). The approximate bandwidth of the FM signal
would be
(a) 0·1 kHz (b) I kHz
(c) 3·2 kHz (d) 100kHz

16. In the transistor amplifier circuit shown in the figure below, the transistor has the
following parameters ~DC = 60, V8 E = 0· 7 V, hw -7 ~. The capacitance Cc can be
assumed to be infinite

Find VeE under DC condition.

(a) 4·8 V (b) 5·3 v
(c)· 6·0 V (d) 6·6 v

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 The diode in the circuit has the nonlinear terminal characteristics as shown in figure
17.
below. Let the voltage be Vs ~ cos wt V.
100 Q a
In( rnA)

+
h 4
IOOQ
Vv
2V Vn(V)
0·5 0·7

The current I D is
(a) 2 · 5 (1 +cos wt) mA
(b) 5(0·5+coswt)mA
(c) 5(l+coswt)mA
(d) 5(1+0·5coswt) mA

18. BCD coded number is expressed in digit such as

(a) 1 bit (b) nibble

(c) 1 byte (d) None of these

19. Determine the values of the binary numbers in 2's complement number is 10101010.
(a) -86 (b) +86

(c) -98 (d) +98

20. Octal number equivalent to decimal number 324-987 is

(a) 640·781 (b) 815·234
(c) 70·771 (d) 504·771

21. The logic circuit given below converts a binary code YJ., y2 , y3 , y4 into
YI Y2 Y3 Y4

X] -"2 XJ X.,

(a) Gray code (b) Excess-3 code

(c) BCD code (d) Hamming code

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22. {CoCI 4 }2 - shows a deep blue colour because

(a) metal to ligand charge transfer transition

{b) ligand to metal charge transfer transition

(c) spin allowed and Laporte forbidden d-<1 transition

(d) spin allowed and Laporte allowed d-<1 transition

23. Among the three types of orbitals p, d and f

(a) both p and f orbitals have centre of symmetry

(b) both p and d orbitals have centre of symmetry

(c) only d orbitals have centre of symmetry

(d) f orbitals alone have centre of symmetry

24. The absorbance of solution having 20% transmittance is

{a) 1·301 (b) 0·301

(c) 0·699 (d) 1·699

25. Which of the following is a free radical?

(a) CO

(b) cw
(c) NO

(d) cs

26. Phosphorus is mainly extracted from

{a) sand

(b) ash

(c) bone ash

(d) fertilizer

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27. IdentifY the molecule whose rotational constant cannot be determined by spectroscopic
methods.

(a) CH 4

(b) H2

(c) C0 2

(d) HCl

28. Atmosphere contains dust particles, salt grains, pollen grains, smoke, etc., which are
collectively known as

(a) water vapour

(b) ozone

(c) aerosol

(d) CFC

29. Heavy metal pollution of water is caused by

(a) acid plants

(b) paints

(c) wood burning

(d) domestic sewage

30. What is the name of the iron containing protein that gives red blood vessels their
colour?

(a) Hemocyanin

(b) Pyrite

(c) Hemoglobin

(d) Myoglobin

31. During photosynthesis, the source of oxygen is

(a) water

(b)

(c) glucose

(d) chlorophyll

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32. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb

(a) more visible radiation than infrared

(b) visible and infrared equally

(c) more infrared radiation than visible

(d) neither visible nor infrared radiation

33. Normal blood pressure of a healthy person is

(a) 120/100

(b) 110/90

(c) 120/80

(d) 120/90

34. A rise in blood cholesterol may lead to a deposition of cholesterol on the walls of blood
vessels. This causes the arteries to lose their elasticity and get stiffened. This is called

(a) hypertension

[b) hypotension

(c) arteriosclerosis

(d) systolic pressure

35. The simplest hydrophilic moiety present in the membrane lipid is

(a) phosphate group

[b) hydroxyl group

(c) amino group

(d) glucose

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36. The medulla oblongata is a part of human

(a) heart

(b) brain

(c) liver

(d) sex organ

37. An electron is in a box 0·10 nm across, which is the order of magnitude of atomic
dimensions. The minimum energy the electron can have is

(a) 38 eV (b) !52 eV

(c) 25 eV (d) 48·5 eV

38. At what speed should a clock be moved so that it may appear to lose 1 minute in each
hour?

(a) 2·2x10 7 mjsec

(b) 8·71x10 6 mjsec

(c) 5·45x 10 7 mjsec

(d) 7·72x10 7 mjsec

39. Displacement current appears because of

(a) time-varying electric field

(b) time-varying magnetic field

(c) negative charge only

(d) positive charge only

40. How long does it take for 60·0 percent of a sample of radon (half-life : 3·8 d ) to decay?

(a) 6d (b) 8·12 d

(c) 1· 52 d (d) 5·05 d

41. The Miller indices of a set of parallel planes which make equal intercepts on the three
axes are

(a) ( 1 0 0) (b) (1 2 1)

(c) (111) (d) (1 0 1)

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42. If the penetration depth for aluminium is 16 run and 96 run at 2·18 K and 8·1 K,
respectively, the critical temperature of aluminium will be

(a) 6·11 K (b) 8·16 K

(c) 2·18 K {d) 5·15 K

43. What is the highest order spectrum which may be seen with monochromatic light of
wavelength 5000 A by means of diffraction grating with 5000 lines 1em?

(a) 2 (b) 8

{c) 4 (d) 6

44. Upon decreasing the dimension of a nanoparticle what kind of a shift is observed in the
absorption spectra of a semiconducting particle?

(a) Red shift

(b) Blue shift

(c) Green shift

(d) Violet shift

45. The resistivity of the uniformly doped n-type silicon sample is 0·5 Q-cm. lf the electron
mobility(l.tn)is I250cm 2 fV-s and the charge of an electron is I·6x10 19 , the donor
impurity concentration (N 0 ) in the sample is

(a) 2x 1016 cm- 2

(b) I x I 0 16 em 3

46. In UJT relaxation oscillator, if supply voltage is doubled, then the amplitude of the
voltage waveform across capacitor will

(a] get doubled

(b) reduce to half

(c) not change at all

(d) None of the above

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47. For an AM signal, the bandwidth is 10 kHz and the highest frequency component
present is 705 kHz. The carrier frequency used for this AM signal is

(a) 695 kHz

(b) 700 kHz

(c) 705kHz

(d) 710 kHz

48. An angle modulated signal is given as x(t); 100cosl2nfct +2sin 100nt], where
fc ; 10 MHz. The peak frequency deviation is

(a) 4000 n (b) 8000 1[

(c) 1000 (d) 8000

49. A signal is sampled at 8 kHz and is quantized using 8-bit uniform quantizer. Assuming
SNRq for a sinusoidal signal, the correct statement for PCM signal with a bit rate of R is

(a) R; 32 kbitsjs, SNRq ; 25·8 dB

(b) R;64 kbitsjs, SN~ ;49·8dB

(c) R = 64 kbitsjs, SNRq = 55·8 dB

(d) R; 32 kbitsjs, SNRq = 49·8 dB

50. An analog signal is quantized and transmitted using a PCM system. The tolerable error
in sample amplitude is 0·5% of the peak-to-peak full-scale value. The minimum binary
digits required to encode a sample is

(a) 5 (b) 6

(c) 7 (d) 8

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