Name: ___________________________________

I.

Objectives: Fill in the blanks with the correct term or terms. No erasures allowed. Two points
each.
1. The amount of gain increase or decrease necessary to make the loop gain equal to 1 where the
phase change is 180 degrees is called ______________________.
2. Class A amplifiers has a maximum efficiency of ___________________ percent.
3. When a positive feedback is added to an amplifier, it becomes a/an ______________________.
4. Amplifiers that have separate circuitry to amplify the positive and negative cycles and then
combine the cycles into one is referred to as Class ___________________ amplifiers.
5. The amplifier class to use for pulse regeneration for digital signals is class ______________________.
6. The angle of 180 degrees minus the magnitude of the angle at which is loop gain is unity is called
___________________ margin.
7. To have better stability, the amplifier to choose must have _________________ gain margin.(smaller,
bigger, zero, infinite)
8. The maximum power efficiency of a class B amplifier is ___________________ percent.
9. Generally, the power efficiency of amplifiers ______________________ going from Class A to Class D.
(gets lower, gets higher, stays the same, switches back and forth)
10. The Oscillators that doesnt use positive feedbacks are called ____________________________
oscillators.
11. Class C amplifier has an operating cycle of __________________________ of the input signal. (more than
180 degrees, less than 180 degrees, 360 degrees, 180 degrees)
12. An oscillator circuit will sustain steady-state oscillations only at frequencies for which the loop gain
(BA) is unity. This is known as ________________________ criterion.
13. The circuit to provide the other half of the signal in a Class C amplifier is called
_______________________ circuit.
14. The Barkhausen criterion is applicable to __________________.(amplifiers, filters, bode plots,
oscillators)
15. The graph to represent the frequency response of a system is called ____________________ plot.
16. The product of the gain of the Feedforward amplifier (A) and the Feeback amplifier (B) is referred to
as ________________________. (Feedback gain, Loop gain, Gain with Feedback, Amplifier gain)
17. To have maximum efficiency the operating point of a Class A amplifier must be
__________________________. (equal to the supply, one half the supply, one fourth of the supply,
greater than the supply)
18. When the amplifier is biased at a DC level above the zero base current level of Class B and above
one half the supply voltage level of Class A, the amplifier used is class _________________________. (A,
AB, B, C)
19. Going from Class A to D in amplifiers, the fidelity _____________________.(increases, decreases, stays
the same)
20. When amplification is done at the whole 360 degrees cycle of a signal, the class of the amplifier
used is _____________________.
21. Both the Magnitude and Phase Angle of the Bode Plot can be joined in one plot called
_______________________ plot.
22. The Nyquist plot of an amplifier must not cross the loop gain of 1 at 180 degrees phase shift. This is
known as ______________________ stability criterion for amplifiers.
23. The lower resonance frequency of a Crystal Oscillator is __________________ resonance.(parallel,
series, series-parallel, parallel-series)
24. A tank circuit is made up of an inductor and capacitor in __________________________. (series, parallel,
series-parallel, parallel-series)
25. The purpose of the transformer in a transformer coupled Class A amplifier is
__________________________ matching.
26. To sustain oscillation, the _________________________ criterion should be met.
27. RF Oscillators will have its Barkhausen criterion met at __________________________ frequency.
(resonance, below resonance, above resonance, antiresonance)
28. The class of amplifier to use when amplifying the carrier signal is ________________________.
29. The stability ratings of amplifiers based on the Nyquist plot based are: Gain and _________________
Margin.
30. The source of the signal in an oscillator is ________________. (input, output noise, power supply)
II.

Calculations.

1. A class B amplifier has a supply voltage of 30 Volts and driving a load of 16 Ohms.
Determine (5 points each):
a. The maximum efficiency
b. The maximum input power
c. The maximum output power
d. The power dissipated by the amplifier