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Associate Degree Programmes

Semester 2, 2019-20

Open-book Test - Question Paper

Course Code : CCIT 4076

Course Title : Introduction to Engineering

Schedule : 9 Apr 2020

Time Allowed : 0900 – 2100

Total Marks : 100 marks

Instructions to Candidates
• This Question Paper has 9 pages
• Put ALL answers in the Formatted answer sheets provided.
• ALL questions must be answered in English.
• Answers on the question paper will not be marked.

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Section A True or False Questions [10] (1M per question)

1. Engineering uses technological, scientific, and mathematical knowledge to solve practical

problems.

2. Fresh water, fancy food and healthy living are the biological wants for human beings.

3. Teamwork is the example of academic dishonesty.

4. Ethics fits into engineering through professional responsibility.

5. Acceleration is measured as the rate of the change of displacement.

6. An accelerating charge produces electromagnetic waves (radiation)

7. Like charges experience repulsive force and opposite charges attract each other.

8. Gravity is the mutual attraction of mass. It’s never repulsive.

9. A set of sample values represented in bits is a digital signal.

10. Time domain representation only plots the amplitudes of the various harmonics.

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Section B Multiple Choice Questions [10] (1M per question)
1. Which of the following is a SI base unit of Temperature?
A) Kelvin
B) Degree Celsius
C) Fahrenheit
D) Calorie

2. Which of the following is the unit of kinetic energy?

A) kgms-2
B) kgm-2s-2
C) kgm2s-2
D) kgm2s-3

3. Which of the following descriptions is for the component of Fundamental Canons in

Engineering Code of Ethics?
A) It articulates the basic components of ethical engineering.
B) It clarifies in detail for the Obligations of ethics in engineering.
C) It elaborates the Rules of Practice.
D) None of above.

4. How much power does it take to lift 30 kg up 4 meters in 2 seconds?

(g = 9.81 ms-2)
A) 192.2 Watts
B) 372.6 Watts
C) 588.6 Watts
D) 1177.2 Watts

5. Find the speed if an object has a mass of 1 kg and with kinetic energy of 1 J.
A) 0.45 ms-1
B) 1.41 ms-1
C) 1.97 ms-1
D) 2.82 ms-1

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 6. Televisions and Oscilloscopes use electron beams steered by ______ to light up phosphorescent
screen at specified points.
A) electromagnetic field
B) electric field
C) magnetic field
D) none of the above

7. ________states that a changing magnetic field produces an electric current in a loop surrounding
the field.
A) Coulomb’s law
B) Static Electricity principle
C) Faraday’s law
D) none of the above

8. Which of the following descriptions about electromagnetism is incorrect.

A) A magnet has a south pole and north pole.
B) Like poles repel while unlike poles attract.
C) Electromagnet is a coil with a soft iron core which is magnetized to make the
field stronger.
D) The strength of an electromagnet can be increased by decreasing the current.

9. The process of converting discrete-time continuous valued signal into discrete-time discrete
binary data in bit is known as:
A) Sampling
B) Quantization
C) Discretion
D) Processing

10. The time period of continuous-time sinusoidal signal is given by _________.

A) T = 2π /ω
B) T = 2π /3ω
C) T = π /ω
D) T = π /2ω

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Section C Short and Long Question [80]

Question 1 [10]

a) Fill in the following table for identifying various disciplines for STEM. [4]
Professional people Duties
in the disciplines
Apply science and math to designs.

Create our designed world.

Investigate our natural world.

Use numbers and symbols to solve problems.

b) List 4 ethical issues that engineers may encounter for the use of nuclear power. [4]

c) Compare the differences between multiple submissions and surrogate of academic fraud. [2]

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Question 2 [20]

A car starting from rest accelerates at a constant rate of 5.00 ms-2 on a straight line.

s = 30.5 m
s=0m
u = 0 ms-1

(a) (i) What is the speed of the car after it has travelled 30.5m? [4]

(ii) How much time has elapsed? [4]

(b) A car of mass 2000 kg moves to the right and collides a lorry at rest on a road. The mass of the
lorry is 3000 kg. After the collision, the car and the lorry are locked together and move to the right
at a speed of 2 ms-1. What was the speed of the car just before the collision? [4]

(c) A ball is thrown vertically upwards with initial speed 10 ms-1 from the edge of a roof of height H
= 20 m. (g = 9.81 ms-2) (Take downward direction to the ground as negative.)

(i) How long does it take for the ball to hit the ground? [4]

(ii) At what velocity does it hit the ground? [4]

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Question 3 [14]

The proton and electron of a hydrogen atom are separated (on average) by a distance of 5.3x 10-11 m.
(k = 8.99 x 109 Nm2/C2)
(G = 6.67 x 10-11 Nm2/kg2)
(Proton has a charge +q of +1.6 x 10-19C and the mass of proton is 1.67 x 10-27 kg)
(Electron has a charge -q of -1.6 x 10-19C and the mass of electron is 9.11 x 10-31 kg)
(Remark: ignore all the forces due to earth.)

(a)(i) Find the magnitude of the electric force, Fe, and find the magnitude of gravitational force, Fg,
that each particle exerts on the other. [4]

(ii) Find the ratio of the electric force Fe to the gravitational force Fg. [2]

(b) Calculate the magnitude of the acceleration caused by the electric force of the proton on the
electron and the gravitational acceleration [4].

(c) A charge q of 6µC receives a force F of 4 x 10-2 N in an electric field. What is the magnitude of
the electric field strength? [4]

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Question 4 [20]

Consider the analog signal

𝑥𝑎 (𝑡) = 2 sin(2000𝜋𝑡) + 4 sin(5000𝜋𝑡) + 6 sin(8000𝜋𝑡)

(a) Draw the frequency domain representation of the signal xa(t). [6]

(b) What is the fundamental frequency (in Hz)? [2]

(c) We would like to create a new analog signal

xb (t)=12 sin(5000πt) + 18 sin(8000πt)

Design a filter to create signal xb(t) from xa(t). Draw the frequency domain representation of the
filter and give the name of the type of filter that used in this case. [5]

(d) If we sample the analog signal xb(t) by 3 x Nyquist Rate and 3 bits of quantization is used. How
many data (in bits) are required to store 2 minutes of such analog signal. [4]

(e) During the digitization process in (d), which operation will create a loss of the signal? Justify
your answer. (Loss of signal means you cannot recover the original signal after the operation). [3]

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Question 5 [16]

Write Octave commands for each of the following questions.

(a) Write Octave commands for solving the function below: [4]
y=x-3sin(3𝜋x2), when x = 5.

(b) Create a plot for (x-y) graph, such that x is an Octave vector with n elements ranged from 0 to 2𝜋
inclusively and y = cos(2x+3). [4]

(Remark: n = abc, where abc is the last 3 digits of your student ID.)
• E.g. If your student ID is xxxxx120, n = 120.
• E.g. If your student ID is xxxxx004, n = 4.
• E.g. If your student ID is xxxxx010, n = 10.

(c) (i) Construct a matrix A where: [2]

1 2 5
5 4 1
𝐴=[ ]
2 4 10
9 7 1

(ii) Construct a matrix B from A in (c)(i) above where B takes only the columns of 2 and 3 and
the rows from 2 to 4 [1]

1 2 −3 1 2 3 4
(d) (i) Let A = [2 4 0 ] and B = [0 −2 −4 6], construct the two matrices. [4]
1 1 1 1 −1 0 0

(ii) Write the Octave command to find F for the product of A and B from (d)(i). [1]

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