MODULE 8 ELECTRONICS ANSWERS

1. Phase angle if the inductive reactance is the same as the resistance in an RL

45 degrees
circuit:
2. As the size of the plates in a capacitor increases, all other things being equal: Xc decreases negatively
3. As the frequency of ac increases in a coil, the reactance: Gets largely positive
4. True power divided by apparent power Power Factor
5. In vector diagram, the distance from the center of the graph represents: Peak Amplitude
Depends on the construction of
6. The characteristic impedance of a transmission line:
the line
7. Allows the lowest forward voltage drop in a diode Germanium
8. Avalanche voltage is routinely exceed when a P-N junction acts as a: Voltage regulator
9. An unimportant factor concerning the frequency at which a P-N junction will
Reverse Current
work effectively is:
10. If the output wave in a circuit has the same shape as the input wave, then: The circuit is linear
11. The capacitance of a varactor varies with: Reverse Voltage
12. A device that commonly oscillates: A Gunn diode
13. Coherent radiation is produced by a: Laser diode
14. A photodiode, when not used as a photovoltaic cell, has: Reverse bias
15. Designed to provide high power at low voltage Full wave, center-tap
16. Part of power supply immediately preceding the regulator is: The Filter
17. Transresistance of an amplifier is the ratio of: Output voltage to Input current
18. A JFET may work better than a bipolar transistor in: A radio receiver
19. Range of input impedance in JFET 1 MΩ to several hundred MΩ
The input signal is stronger than
20. A gain of -15 dB in a circuit means that:
the output signal
21. A resistor between the base of an NPN bipolar transistor & the positive supply
Provide Proper bias
voltage is used to:
22. Amplifier classes that generally needs most driving power Class B
23. With class A, the output signal should be: Unclipped
24. A tapped coil is used in a(n): Hartley Oscillator
25. A continuously variable signal is recovered from a signal having discrete states
A D/A conveter
by:
26. Type of component which is generally not practical for fabrication for IC: Inductor
27. A typical audio recording tape thickness is: 1 mil
28. In a junction FET, the control electrode is usually the: Gate
The filament serves as the
29. In a tube with a directly heated cathode:
cathode
30. In a tube with a cold cathode: There is no filament
31. Tube with three grids: Pentode
32. A heptode tube has: Five grids
The achievable power output
33. In a magnetron, as the frequency is increased :
decreases
34. A klystron is noted for its: High achievable output power
35. The largest possible decimal number that can be represented by 6 binary digits
63
is:
36. Voltage that represents a 1 in positive logic: 4V
37. Voltage that represents a 1 in negative logic: 0V
38. If X & Y are both high, X NOT Y: LOW
39. Possible input combinations of a four input logic circuit (WXYZ): 16

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40. Frequency Synthesizer makes use of: A divider
41. A diode can be used as a frequency multiplier because of its: Nonlinearity
42. Frequency multiplication is possible with a semiconductor diode because diode
Non-Linear
is:
43. The extent to which an oscillator maintains a constant frequency is called it: Stability
A high-power radio-frequency
44. A vacuum tube would most likely be found in:
linear amplifier
45. In a radio frequency power amplifier using a vacuum tube, stability can be
enhanced by using a circuit in which of the following electrode is at RF ground Control grid
potential
46. A device consisting of a receiver and transmitter in the same box is called a: Transceiver
47. Platter is a: Part of a hard drive
48. Thermal shutdown occurs in an IC regulator if: Internal temperature is too high
49. In a power supply, resistors are sometimes connected in series with the diodes Protect the diodes against surge
in order to: currents
50. One way to keep interelectrode capacitance to a minimum is to: Keep wire leads short
Is slanted with respect to the
51. The axis of geomagnetic field:
rotational axis
52. Resistivity of wire can be specified in: Ohm per meter
53. A dc voltage divider network is made using: Resistors
54. A diode that can be used as a variable capacitance is a: Varactor
55. The approximation that distorts digital signals the least is the: Bessel
56. If n = 10, the approximation with the fastest rolloff in the transition region is: Elliptic
has Lowpass, high pass, band
57. State-variable filter:
pass
58. Id is always 1/4 of Idss as long as Vgs is ____ of Vp : 1/2
59. ac Emitter current is eqaul to the ac base current multiply by: ac Current gain
60. Range of transconductance (gm) values 1000 uS to 5000 uS
61. A law states that the polarity of the induced voltage will oppose the change in
Lenz' Law
magnetic flux causing the induction
62. The ability of a mechanically stressed ferromagnetic wire to recognize rapid
Weigand Effect
switching of magnetization when subjected to a dc magnetic field
63. An LF157A is a: BiFET Op Amp
64. The output waveform of a 555 timer is: Rectangular
65. Astable 555 timer has: 0 stable states
66. The open-loop cutoff frequency of a 741C is controlled by Compensating capacitor
67. 741C uses: Discrete resistors
68. An audio amplifier operates in the frequency range of: 20 Hz to 20 kHz
69. Advantage of ac over dc: Easily step up or down
70. 6 2nd order stage & 1 1st order stage is: Order 13
71. In common emitter configuration, the output is _____ out of phase with the
180°
input:
Input and output are 180° out of
72. Negative voltage gain in Common Emitter indicates that:
phase
73. Uses to correct for limited GBW: Predistortion
Differential input and differential
74. The typical input stage of an op amp has a: output / Differential input and
single-ended output?
75. The output is proportional to the difference between the voltages applied to
Differential Amplifier
the two inputs:
76. For maximum peak-to-peak output voltage, the Q point should be: At the center of the ac load line

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77. An E-MOSFET with its gate connected to its drain is an example of: Active load
78. With active-load switching, the upper E-MOSFET is a: Two-terminal device
79. The input signal used with a JFET analog switch should be: small
80. The pulse width out of a one-shot multivibrator increases when the: Timing capacitance increases
81. When Q decreases in a Colpitts oscillator, the frequency of oscillation: decreases
82. The unity-gain frequency equals the product of closed-loop voltage gain and
Closed-loop cutoff frequency
the
83. A second-order all-pass filter can vary the output phase from: 0-360°
84. Technique used for sinusoidal ac analysis in transistor circuit: Small- to Large-Signal
85. At the lower or upper cutoff frequency, the voltage gain is: 0.707 Amid
because the image frequency
86. A low in not practical for single- receiver: would be too close to the
incoming signal frequency
87. The all-pass filter is sometimes called a: Delay equalizer
88. The distortion in an Emitter Follower is usually: Very Low
diagonal with respect to the tape
89. A video recording tape in image-signal track :
edges
90. When Q is greater than 1, a bandpass filter should be built with: MFB stages
91. In an ac amplifier using an op amp with coupling and bypass capacitors, the
Minimum
output offset voltage is:
92. When slew-rate distortion of a sine wave occurs, the output: Appears triangular
Two times either collector
93. The tail current of a diff amp is:
current
Is usually less than the load
94. The ac emitter resistance of an emitter follower:
resistance
Almost totally insensitive to
95. The Q point of a VDB circuit is:
changes in current gain
it is not a cause to worry; it
96. If load impedance is too high:
cannot be too high
97. Capacitor values in oscillator circuits depend on: Frequency signal
98. Single output multiple input Universal Logic Module
99. The bandwidth of lowpass filter Capture Range
100. The collector voltage of a VDB circuit is not sensitive to changes in the: Current gain
101. The Q point of TSEB does not depend on the: Current gain

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