YANGON TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Nationalities Youth Resource Development Degree College A.G.T.I (Year-IIT) First Semester Examination Electronics Engineering (EcE-31031) Applied Electronics Date: 8.9.2022 Time : 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Section A Answer All Questions. 1. Choose the correct answer for each question. (20 marks) (1) A certain common-emitter amplifier has a voltage gain of 100. If the emitter bypass capacitor is removed, (@) the voltage gain will decrease (®) the cireuit will become unstable (©) the voltage gain will increase (2) Asmall-signal amplifier (@) always has an output signal in the mV range (b) goes into saturation once on each input cycle (©) uses only a small portion of its load line 3) Inacertain emitter-follower circuit, the current gain is 50. The power gain is approximately (@) SOA, &) 5 ©1 (4) A differential amplifier (@) has one output (b) is used in op-amps (©) has one input and one output (5) If the de emitter current in a certain transistor amplifier is 3 mA, the approximate value of rz is (a) 3k. (b) 3Q (© 833 (©) When a differential amplifier is operated single-ended, Page 1 of7M @) 0). (10) ay (12) (13) (@) one input is grounded and a signal is applied to the other (®) the output is grounded (©) both inputs are connected together Ina common-source amplifier, the output voltage is (a) in phase with the input - (6) taken atthe source, (©) 180 out of phase with the input Ina certain Common-Source amplifier, Rp = 1.0 kQ, Rs = 560 Q, and Vo = 10 V, and gn= 4500 is. If the source resistor is completely bypassed, the voltage gainis (@ 45 (b) 45 (© 450 For a small-signal operation, an n-channel JFET must be biased at (a) Vos=0V (®) _ Vasiom< Vos <0V (©) Vescom _ Vos ACS amplifier has a load resistance of 10 k Q and Rp = 8202. If gm= 5 mS and Vin= 500 mV, the output signal voltage is (@) 1.89V (b) 2.05 V ©3Vv ‘Two FET amplifiers are cascaded. The first stage has a voltage gain of 5 and the second stage has a voltage gain of 7. The overall voltage gain is (a) Dependent on the second stage loading (b) 12 © 35 ‘An amplifier that operates in the linear region at all times is (@) Class. A (b) Class AB (©) Class B The efficiency of a power amplifier is the ratio of the power delivered to the load to the (@) power from the de power supply Page 2 of 7as) as) (16) (7) (1s) as) (20) (b) input signal power (©) power dissipated in the last stage The maximum efficiency of a class A power amplifier is (a) 50% (b) 25% (©) 79% ‘The output of a certain two-supply class B push-pull amplifier has a Voc 0f 20 V. Ifthe load resistances the value of fqn is (a) O4A ve. (b) 4ma (©) 40mA ‘The high-frequency response of an amplifier is determined in part by (@) the gain-bandwidth product (b) the bypass capacitor (©) the intemal transistor capacitances An amplifier has the following critical frequencies: 1.2 kHz, 950 Hz, 8 kHz, and 8.5 kHz. The bandwidth is (a) 7300 Hz (b) 6800 Hz (©) 7050 Hz Ideally, the midrange gain of an amplifier (a) remains constant with frequency (b) decreases with frequency (©) increases with frequency The Miller input capacitance of an amplifier is dependent, in part, on (a) the input coupling capacitor (b) the voltage gain (©) the bypass capacitor In the midrange of an amplifier’s bandwidth, the peak output voltage is 6 V. At the lower critical frequency, the peak output voltage is, (a) 382 (b) 848V () 424V Page 3 of 7(a) ® (a) (b) Scetion B Answer Any Four Questions. Determine the signal voltage at the base of the transistor in Figure 1. This (5 marks) circuit is the ac equivalent of the common -emitter amplifier with a 10 mV rms, 300 Q signal source and /p= 3.80 mA. For the amplifier in Figure 2, (15 marks) (Determine the de collector voltage. (ii) Determine the ac collector voltage. (ii) Draw the total collector voltage waveform and the total output voltage waveform. Figure 2 A certain cascaded amplifier arrangement has the following voltage gains: (5 marks) Ay = 10, Aya = 15, and 4ys = 20. What is the overall voltage gain? Also express each gain in decibels (dB) and determine the total voltage gain in dB. In Figure 3 for the common-emitter amplifier, Voc= 12 V, Re=1.0kQ (15 marks) Page 4 of 74. @) and re= 5 Q. For the darlington emitter-follower, Ri = 10k Q, Rp = 22k Q, Re = 22 Q, Ri = 8 Q, Vec = 12 V, and Boc = Bac = 100 for each transistor. (j) Determine the voltage gain of the common-emitter amplifier. (ii) Determine the voltage gain of the darlington emitter-follower. (iii) Determine the overall voltage gain and compare to the gain of the common-emitter amplifier driving the speaker directly without the darlington emitter-follower. Partial diagram of common- emitter amplifier Datlington emiter-fllower Figure 3 ‘What is the total output voltage for the unloaded amplifier in Figure 42 (12 marks) For this particular JFET, Joss is 12 mA and Vosion) is -3 V. Page 5 of 70) 6. (a) Determine the minimum voltage gain and input resistance of the amplifier (8 marks) in Figure 5. Vpp is negative because itis a p-channel device. The value of ° 8m is 20018 at minimum from the transistor's data sheet. we Yop -15V Figure 5 Determine the voltage gain.and the power gain of the class A power (20 marks) amplifier and then determine the efficiency of the power amplifier in Figure 6. Assume Be(o1)= Bac(or)= 200 and Bacioy= 50. Figure 6 For an input RC circuit in a certain amplifier, Ris = L.OkQ and C,=1 F. (8 marks) Neglect the source resistance. (i) Determine the lower critical frequency. (ii) What is the attenuation of the input RC circuit at the lower critical frequency? Page 6 of 7(ii)IF the midrange voltage gain of the amplifier is 100, what is the gain at the lower crit ical frequency? (b) Derive the input RC circuit for the BIT amplifier in Figure 7. Also (12 marks) determine the critical frequency. The transistor’s data sheet provides the followit Bac =125, Cre=20pF and Cy.=2.4pF. dae eeoueE nd of Questions***# tire Rata Page 7 of 7