Topic: Electronic Circuit Analysis

1.In amplifiers ______ coupling produces minimum

interference with frequency response.

 direct (Correct Answer)

2. The gain of an amplifier with feedback is given by which of

the following relations?

 A / (1 - αA) (Your Correct Answer)

3. Ideal op-amp requires no input current, but real op-amp

needs a very small input current called input bias current. At
both inputs, the bias currents have a slight difference. What do
you call this difference?

 input offset current (Correct Answer)

4. The non-inverting and inverting inputs of an op-amp have

an input voltage of 1.5 mV and 1.0 mV, respectively. If the op-
amp has a common-mode voltage gain of 10 and a differential-
mode gain of 10,000, what is its output voltage?

 5.0125 V (Correct Answer)

5. AF amplifier can amplify frequencies in the range:

 15 Hz to 15 kHz (Correct Answer)

6. For sustaining oscillations in a feedback amplifier, the loop

gain should be:

 greater than one (Your Correct Answer)

7. By using which of the following methods the frequency

stability in an oscillator can be achieved?

 By incorporating a tuned circuit (Your Correct Answer)

8. A 20-Vdc power supply was found to have a ripple voltage
of 2 Vrms when supplying 1.5 amps load. Calculate its percent
ripple.

 10.00% (Correct Answer)

9. Calculate the closed-loop voltage gain of an inverting

amplifier having a feedback and an input resistance of 100 k?
and 10 k?, respectively.

 10 (Correct Answer)

10. A good op-amp has a:

 very high input resistance (Correct Answer)

11. The crystal oscillator frequency is very stable due to

______ of the crystal.

 high Q (Correct Answer)

12. An amplifier of class AB means its output signal is between

the output of class B and A, such that it varies from 180?(class
B) to 360?(class A). How about its efficiency?

 It is always as efficient as class A (25%). (Your Correct

Answer)

13. What do we mean by internally compensated op-amps?

 Op-amps with internal frequency compensation capacitor

to prevent oscillation. (Correct Answer)

14. The output offset voltage of an op-amp is (are) due to:

 input offset current and input offset voltage are correct

(Correct Answer)
15. Op-amp parameter(s) that is important in large signal dc-
amplification.

 slew rate (Correct Answer)

16. Low frequency response of amplifier is mainly limited by

______ capacitor.

 bypass (Correct Answer)

17. In most voltage regulators, what is used as a voltage

reference element?

 zener diode (Correct Answer)

18. For high density ICs involving many op-amps, what

packaging is suitable?

 SMT (Correct Answer)

19. Which class of amplifiers that is intended for pulse

operation?

 class D (Correct Answer)

20. The load resistance in voltage amplifiers:

 should be as large as possible (Your Correct Answer)

21. A multivibrator having two stable state:

 bistable (Your Correct Answer)

22. A circuit usually containing two transistors or tubes in an

RC-coupled amplifier, the two active devices switch each other
alternately on and off.

 Multivibrator (Correct Answer)

23. The fundamental requirement for oscillations in an
amplifier is:

 positive feedback from output to input (Correct Answer)

24. ______ contributes to harmonics distortion in amplifiers.

 Non-linearity in active device (Correct Answer)

25. How can we minimize the effect of the input offset current
and input offset voltage at the output offset voltage?

 by making the feedback resistance small (Correct

Answer)

26. The magnitude of the op-amps input offset voltage before

it can be classified as a low-input offset voltage op-amp.

 0.2 mV (Correct Answer)

27. ________ is a major characteristics of an IC:

 size (Your Correct Answer)

28. In amplifiers the main source of harmonic distortion is:

 non-linearity in active device (Correct Answer)

29. In case of audio amplifiers which of the following

distortions is least objectionable?

 Phase distortion (Correct Answer)

30. The transistor configuration used at the output

complementary stage of most op-amps:

 common collector (Correct Answer)

31. The maximum output voltage rate of change of an op-
amp.

 slew rate (Correct Answer)

32. Where does the Q-point of a class C amplifier is

positioned?

 below cutoff region (Correct Answer)

33. What cause(s) the well-adjusted output offset voltage of

op-amps to change?

 change in operating temperature

 component aging
 variations in supply voltage
 all of these (Correct Answer)

34. An amplifier basically constructed from two transistors and

whose output is proportional to the difference between the
voltages applied to its two inputs.

 differential amplifier (Correct Answer)

35. For a power supply with a peak-to-peak ripple voltage of 5

Vpp, determine its rms ripple.

 1.44 Vrms (Correct Answer)

36. The ______ oscillator uses tapped capacitors in the tuned

circuit.

 Colpitts (Correct Answer)

37. A load draws 1 A current from a 10-V regulated power

supply. Calculate the power dissipated by the regulator if it has
an input voltage of 16 V

 6 Watts (Your Correct Answer)

38. The signal handling capacity of an amplifier will be high
when the operating point is selected.

 in the middle of the active region (Correct Answer)

39. Calculate the dc-voltage at the output of a half-wave

rectifier with a 12Vrms input.

 5.4 V (Correct Answer)

40. The distributed amplifier utilizes ______ to increase

bandwidth.

 transmission lines (Correct Answer)

41. A Class-B push-pull amplifier suffers from distortion which

is:

 crossover (Correct Answer)

42. An amplifier has the following percent harmonic

distortions; D2=10%, D3=5% and D4=1%. What is the
amplifier %THD?

 11.22% (Your Correct Answer)

43. Calculate the peak-to-peak ripple voltage of a 20 V full-

wave power supply with a filter capacitor C = 220 uF, when
delivering a load current of 50 mA.

 2.0 Vpp (Correct Answer)

44. Dual-in-line or DIL package is designated as:

 TO-116 (Correct Answer)

45. The frequency at which the open-loop gain of an op-amp is

0.707 times its value at very low frequency:
  break frequency (Your Correct Answer)

46. The output of a class-B amplifier:

 consists of positive half-cycles only (Your Correct

Answer)

47. Basically, which class of amplifiers has the least distortion?

 class A (Correct Answer)

48. A modified version of UPS, wherein the power-line itself is

used as a backup to the system.

 standby power supply (Correct Answer)

49. When one input of the op-amp is connected to ground and

the other is to the signal source, its operation is called:

 single-ended input (Correct Answer)

50. Transistor arrangement that operates like a darlington but

uses a combination of pnp and npn transistors instead of both
npn.

 feedback pair (Correct Answer)