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State True/False for the following statements.

1. The response of a filter can be identified by its passband.

2. A filter pole is the cutoff frequency of a filter.

3. A single-pole filter has one RC circuit.

4. A single-pole filter produces a roll-off of -25 dB/decade.

5. A low pass filter can pass a dc voltage.

6. A high-pass filter passes any frequency above fc.

7. The critical frequency of a filter depends only on R and C values.

8. The band-pass filter has two critical frequencies.

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State True/False for the following statements.

9. The quality factor of a band-pass filter is the ratio of bandwidth to the center frequency.

10. The higher the Q, the narrower the bandwidth of a band-pass filter.

11. The order of a filter is the number of poles it contains.

12. In an RC high-pass filter, the output is taken across the resistor.

13. The roll-off rate of a basic RC filter is 20 dB per decade.

14. Critical frequencies are also called –3 dB frequencies.

15. A band-pass filter rejects frequencies between the lower and upper critical frequencies and
passes all others.
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Short Answers Questions

1. Name the basic parts of an active filter.

2. What determines the bandwidth of a low-pass filter?

3. What limits the passband of an active high-pass filter?

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4. How are the Q and the bandwidth of a band-pass filter related? Explain how the selectivity is
affected by the Q of a filter.

5. How many poles does a second-order low-pass filter have? How many resistors and how many
capacitors are used in the frequency-selective circuit?

6. What is the primary purpose of cascading low-pass filters?

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7. How does a high-pass filter differ from the low-pass configuration?

8. To increase the critical frequency of a high-pass filter, would you increase or decrease the
resistor values?

9. If three two-pole high-pass filters and one single-pole high-pass filter are cascaded, what is
the resulting roll-off?
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10. What determines selectivity in a band-pass filter?

11. One filter has a Q =5 and another has a Q = 25. Which has the narrower bandwidth?

12. A certain BPF has a center frequency of 15 kHz and bandwidth of 1kHz. Determine Q and
classify the filter as narrowband or wideband.
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1. Calculate the cutoff frequency of a first-order low- 2. Calculate the cutoff frequency of the high-pass
pass filter in the circuit of Figure 1 filter circuit in Figure 2.
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3. Calculate the lower and upper cutoff frequencies of the bandpass filter circuit in Figure 3.
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4. A non-inverting active low pass filter has a gain of 10 with the input resistance of the amplifier,
Ri = 1kΩ. The cut-off frequency or corner frequency of the filter is 159Hz.
Calculate the values of
• feedback resistor, Rf of the amplifier.
• input capacitance of the filter if the input impedance of the filter is assumed to be 10kΩ
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7. State the order of the filters in Figure 7
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7. State the order of the filters in Figure 7
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7. State the order of the filters in Figure 7
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13. Using a block diagram format, show how to implement the following roll-off rates using 1st
order and 2nd order low pass filters.
i. -60dB/decade
ii. -100dB/decade
iii. -40dB/decade
iv. -120db/decade