ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS

1. A message signal is band limited to it is amplitude modulated by carrier signal .Find so that the
band limited of the resultant DSB-C signal is 1% of the carrier frequency.
2. For a message signal m(t)=A1 cos1t+A2cos2t ,determine
(a) Expression for AM wave in terms of modulation indexes 1 and 2.
(b) Find out the expression for overall modulation index.
3. A carrier signal of 10cos2106t is amplitude modulated by a message signal 4cos4103t with
m=0.5, antenna resistance is given by 50 .
(a) Find bandwidth, carrier power, total power, power efficiency of AM signal.
(b) Plot AM spectrum and mention its strength and frequency.
4. Find power efficiency of an AM modulator for sinusoidal and square wave as modulating signal.
Comment which modulating signal has maximum power efficiency.
5. For an AM signal, the bandwidth is 10 kHz and the highest frequency component present is 705
kHz. What is the carrier frequency used for this AM signal?
6. If the modulation index of an AM wave is changed from 0 to 1, the transmitted power will be
increased by what percentage?
7. An AM signal has the form x( t) =* 20 +2cos3000t+10cos6000t+cos2fc t where fc=105 Hz.
Find the ratio of the sidebands power to the total power.
8. An AM voltage signal s(t) with a carrier frequency of 1.15 GHz has a complex envelope
g(t)=Ac(1+m(t)), Ac =500V, and the modulation is a 1KHz sinusoidal test tone described by
m(t)=8sin(2*pi*103*t) appears across a 50 resistive load. What is the actual power dissipated
in the load?
9. A non-linear device is characterised by Vo = avi + bvi3 where vi =m(t) + cos(2*pi*f1*t). By
considering only the DSB term from vo. Find f1 such that carrier frequency of the resulting DSB
signal is 1MHz.
10. Using the message signal, m(t) = 1/(1+t2). Determine and sketch the modulated wave for the
Amplitude modulation with 50% modulation.

11. An AM modulator has output

S(t)= M cos(2 2000t)+ N cos(2 1800t). The carrier power is 200W and the modulation
efficiency is 20%. Find
(i)

Modulation index

(ii)

Values of M and N respectively.

12. An amplitude modulated signal is represented in time domain as

S(t)= 10* 1+ 0.5 cos 2 103t + 0.8 cos2(10 103)t+ 0.9 cos2(20 103)t+cos2fct
where fc= 1MHz. Find
(i)

Bandwidth of the signal.

(ii)

Power taken by component 990kHz

(iii)

Ratio PUSB/Pt

(iv)

Total power

(v)

Modulation efficiency

13. Consider a system shown in fig. Let X(f) and Y(f) denote the fourier transform of x(t) and y(t)
respectively. The ideal HPF has the cut-off frequency 10kHz.
y(t)

HPF
10KHz

x(t)
Balanced
modulator

10 KHz

Balanced
modulator

13 KHz

X(f)

f(KHz)
-3

-1

Find the positive frequencies where Y(f) has spectral peak.

14. The tone modulation (single frequency modulation) AM wave is given by

(t) = [A-5 cos100t] cos1000t. The transmission efficiency is given as 1/19. Determine
(a) . The carrier amplitude (A).
(b). Modulation index m.
15. The spectrum of sinusoidal AM signal is shown below
(t)

10
5

-110

10
5

-100

-90

(a). Determine whether signal is envelope detectable or not.

(b).what is the power efficiency of modulated signal.

90

100

110

16. The periodic signal shown below, Amplitude modulates a carrier to generate
y(t) = [A+ m(t)]cos1000t. The power efficiency of the system is measured to be 3/19. Determine.
(a) Amplitude of the carrier signal.
(b) Modulation index m.

m(t)
3

T
-3

-1

...

-3

17. Consider a triangular periodic signal shown below. It is used to generate AM signal
y(t)=[A+ m(t)] cos (t) with m= 0.8 . Determine
(a) Amplitude and power of the carrier.
m(t)

(b) Sideband power and power efficiency.

10v

T=10^-3

t
-10v

18. The efficiency of ordinary AM is defined as percentage of total power carried by the sidebands i.e,
=(Ps/Pt)*100%
where Ps= power carried by sidebands
Pt= total power of the AM signal.
a) Find for m=0.7
b) Find maximum .

19. In a DSB system the carrier is c(t)= Acos(2fct) and the message signal is given by m(t)=sinc(t)+
sinc2(t). Find the frequency domain representation and the bandwidth of the modulated signal.