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20 Questions AM (Revised)
20 Questions AM (Revised)
Citations:
- https://www.sanfoundry.com/avionics-questions-answers-amplitude-modulation-
modulation-index/ Sanfoundry MCQ
a) True*
b) False
c) Both
d) No answer
2. What is the line connecting the positive and negative peaks of the carrier waveform called?
a) Peak line
b) Maximum amplitude ceiling
c) Modulation index
d) Envelope*
a) Zero line
b) Carrier peak line*
c) Modulated peak line
d) Un-modulated peak line
4. What happens when the amplitude of the modulating signal is greater than the amplitude of
the carrier?
a) Decay
b) Distortion*
c) Amplification
d) Attenuation
a) Modulator*
b) Transmitter
c) Receiver
d) Duplexer
7. The ratio between the modulating signal voltage and the carrier voltage is called?
a) Amplitude modulation
b) Modulation frequency
c) Modulation index*
d) Ratio of modulation
8. What is the percentage of modulation if the modulating signal is of 7.5V and carrier is of 9V?
a) 100
b) 91
c) 83.33*
d) 0
10. What is the condition for greatest output power at the transmitter without distortion?
Solution:
12. Which of the following modulating signal voltage would cause over-modulation on a carrier
voltage of 10v?
a) 9.5
b) 9.99
c) 10
d) 12*
13. What is the modulating signal voltage if the maximum and the minimum voltages on the
wave was observed to be 5.9v and 1.2v respectively?
a) 2.35v*
b) 2.12v
c) 1.85v
d) 3.21v
Solution:
16. If an AM radio station increases its modulation index, you would expect:
a. single-carrier
b. suppressed-carrier*
c. sideband-carrier
18. If the modulating frequency of a carrier wave varies between 700Hz and 7KHz, find it’s
bandwidth?
a) 10 KHz
b) 23 KHz
c) 17.3 KHz
d) 12.6 KHz*
Solution:
19. A 400W carrier wave is modulated to a depth of 65%. Find the total power of modulated wave?
a) 512.5W
b) 493W
c) 484.5W*
d) 609.6W
Solution:
20. If modulation index of an AM wave is increased from 1.5 to 2, then the transmitted power
________
a) remains same
b) increases by 20%
c) increases by 41%*
d) increases by 50%
Solution:
= 0.41 x 100
= 41%