Self-Test

1. Frequency response is a graph 4. At the lower or upper cutoff 7. If the voltage gain is 10, the
of voltage gain versus frequency, the voltage gain is decibel voltage gain is
a. Frequency a. 0.35Av(mid) a. 6 dB c. 40 dB
b. Power gain b. 0.5Av(mid) b. 20 dB d. 60 dB
c. Input voltage c. 0.707Av(mid) 8. If the voltage gain is 100, the
d. Output voltage d. 0.995Av(mid) decibel voltage gain is
2. At low frequencies, the cou- a. 6 dB c. 40 dB
pling capacitors produce a 5. If the power gain doubles, b. 20 dB d. 60 dB
decrease in the decibel power gain
increases by 9. If the voltage gain is 2000, the
a. Input resistance decibel voltage gain is
a. A factor of 2 c. 6 dB
b. Voltage gain a. 40 dB c. 66 dB
b. 3 dB d. 10 dB
c. Generator resistance b. 46 dB d. 86 dB
d. Generator voltage
6. If the voltage gain doubles, 10. Two stages have decibel volt-
3. The stray-wiring capacitance the decibel voltage gain age gains of 20 and 40 dB. The
has an effect on the increases by total ordinary voltage gain is
a. Lower cutoff frequency a. A factor of 2 a. 1
b. Midband voltage gain b. 3 dB b. 10
c. Upper cutoff frequency c. 6 dB c. 100
d. Input resistance d. 10 dB d. 1000
11. Two stages have voltage gains 15. If you want to improve the 18. In a BJT amplifier circuit, in-
of 100 and 200. The total deci- high-frequency response of an creasing the value of Cin and
bel voltage gain is amplifier, which of these ap- Cout will
a. 46 dB c. 86 dB proaches would you try? a. Decrease Av at low
b. 66 dB d. 106 dB a. Decrease the coupling frequencies
capacitances b. Increase Av at low frequencies
12. One frequency is 8 times an- b. Increase the emitter-bypass c. Decrease Av at high
other frequency. How many capacitance frequencies
octaves apart are the two
c. Shorten leads as much as d. Increase Av at high
frequencies?
possible frequencies
a. 1 c. 3
d. Increase the generator
b. 2 d. 4 resistance 19. Input-coupling capacitors in
FET circuits
13. If f 5 1 MHz and f2 5 10 Hz, the
16. The voltage gain of an amplifier a. Are normally larger than in BJT
ratio f/f2 represents how many
decreases 20 dB per decade circuits
decades?
above 20 kHz. If the midband b. Determine the high-frequency
a. 2 c. 4 voltage gain is 86 dB, what is cutoff value
b. 3 d. 5 the ordinary voltage gain at c. Are normally smaller than in
20 MHz? BJT circuits
14. Semilogarithmic paper means
that a. 20 c. 2000 d. Are treated as ac opens
a. One axis is linear, and the b. 200 d. 20,000
20. On FET data sheets, Coss is
other is logarithmic
b. One axis is linear, and the 17. In a BJT amplifier circuit, C’e is a. Equal to Cds 1 Cgd
other is semilogarithmic the same as b. Equal to Cgs 2 Crss
c. Both axes are semilogarithmic a. Cbe c. Cibo c. Equal to Cgd
d. Neither axis is linear b. Cib d. Any of the above d. Equal to Ciss 2 Crss