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Name:______________________ Person Number:____________________ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering MAE334 - Introduction to Instrumentation and Computers Midterm Examination October 18, 2001 Closed Book and Notes For each question, choose the best answer and place a mark corresponding to that answer on the machine scoring form. Be sure you put your name and 8-digit person number on both the questionnaire and the scoring sheet. Failure to turn in this questionnaire with your name and student number on it along with the answer sheet will result in a grade of ZERO. Fill in circle 1 under GRADE OR EDUCATION on side two of your answer sheet (and fill in your name, person number). Waveforms can be broadly classified into these 3 types: Periodic, aperiodic and static Stationary, ergodic and nondeterministic Static, dynamic and nondeterministic None of the above The slope of the static calibration curve is known as the: Response function Time constant Static sensitivity None of the above The degree of conformity of a measure to a standard is know as the: Precision Accuracy Sensitivity Resolution The average error in a series of repeated measurements of the same static input will quantify the: Sensitivity error. Resolution error. Bias error. Standard deviation. When sampling a complex periodic signal, the length of the data record should be an integral multiple of the period: to be able to Fourier transform and inverse transform the signal. to be able to determine the exact period of the signal. to avoid leakage in the Fourier transform. to avoid signal aliasing. The Fourier transform of a continuous signal: Maps the time domain to the frequency domain. Provides frequency amplitude and phase angle information. Is a continuous function. All of the above. A discrete digital representation of a signal is always less precise than the original input signal. True False Quantization refers to the fact that A/D conversion process require