VI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS I QUESTION BANK

UNIT III LARGE SIGNAL AMPLIFIERS PART A 1. What is meant by Harmonic Distortion in Power Amplifiers? 2. What is Crossover Distortion? And how to minimize it? 3. What are the advantages of Push Pull amplifiers? 4. What is conversion efficiency in power amplifiers? 5. What are the drawbacks of Class C power amplifier? 6. What are the classifications of power amplifier? 7. Define Amplitude Distortion. 8. Why power transistors provided with heat sinks? 9. How is crossover distortion minimized in Class B push pull amplifier? 10. What is the purpose of tuned circuit in Class C amplifier? 11. What is complementary symmetry amplifier? 12. Compare Class D and Class S amplifier? 13. What is thermal resistance? 14. Define Phase Distortion. 15. List the applications of MOSFET power amplifiers. PART B Explain a transformer coupled Class A power amplifier with a neat diagram and obtain the expression for efficiency and a figure of merit. Explain a Class B power amplifier with a neat diagram and obtain an expression for efficiency. Explain Class B push pull amplifier. With a help of suitable diagram derive an expression for the efficiency of Class C amplifier. Explain with neat diagram about MOSFET power amplifier. Calculate the efficiency of transformer coupled Class A power amplifier whose turns ratio is 4:1. The signal at the base of the amplifier is 2mA. A Class B push pull amplifier derives load of 16 connected to the secondary of ideal transformer. The supply voltage is 25V. if the number of turns in the primary is 200 and secondary is 500, Calculate maximum power output, dc power input, efficiency and maximum power dissipation per transistor.

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UNIT IV POWER SUPPLIES PART A 1. What is Line regulation and Load regulation? 2. What is TUF? 3. Define the ripple factor HWR an FWR. 4. Compare the performance of HWR and FWR. 5. What are the advantages of voltage regulator? 6. What are the advantages of SMPS over conventional regulators? 7. What are the limitations of Zener regulator? 8. Why simple capacitive filter not suitable for heavy loads? 9. Define Form factor and Peak factor. 10. What is advantage of fold back current limiting? 11. What is bleeder resistor? 12. Define critical inductance. 13. What are swinging choke? 14. Distinguish between series and shunt regulator. 15. The power supply has 1% voltage regulation and an open circuit voltage of 48V dc. Calculate the full load voltage. PART - B Derive the expression for output voltage, average output, efficiency, PIV and TUF for full wave bridge rectifier. Explain with neat sketch about SMPS with wave forms. Design the Zener regulator for the following specification. V0=8V, Vin=10 12V. RL=10K. Assume that Zener diode is ideal. Explain about the power control using SCR.

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