ENT 162 Analog Electronics

Assignment:
Topic: Power Amplifiers, Amplifier Frequency response, Thyristor, Operational
Amplifier
Due Date: 29 March 2010 (Monday)
Power Amplifiers
1. Explain Class B operation.
2. Describe crossover distortion and its cause.
3. Calculate the voltage gain and power gain shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1
4. Refer to the class AB Amplifier shown in Figure 2 operating with a single power
supply.
a. Solve the dc parameters VB(Q1), VB(Q2), ICQ, VCEQ (Q1), VCEQ (Q2).
b. Assuming the input voltage is 10 V pp, calculate the power delivered to the
load resistor.

Figure 2.
 5. A certain class C amplifier transistor is on for 10 percent of the input cycle. If Vce(sat) =
0.18 V and Ic(sat) = 25 mA, calculate the average power dissipation for maximum
output.

Amplifier Frequency Response

6. Explain why the coupling capacitors do not have a significant effect on gain at
sufficiently high-signal frequencies.
7. Calculate the Miller input and Miller output capacitance shown in Figure 3 and
Figure 4.

Figure 3

Figure 4

8. A certain amplifier exhibits an output power of 5 W with an input power of 0.5 W.

Solve the power gain in dB.
 9. Determine the critical frequencies associated with the low-frequency response of
the BJT amplifier shown in Figure 5. Identify the dominant critical frequency. Sketch
the Bode plot.

Figure 5

10. Determine the bandwidth of the amplifier shown in Figure 5.

Thyristor
11. Explain how an SCR is used to control current.
12. Explain the turn on and turn off operation of an SCS in terms of its transistor
equivalent.
13. In a certain UJT, rB1’ = 2.5 kOhm and rB2’ = 4 kOhm. Calculate the intrinsic standoff
ratio.
14. Sketch the voltage waveform across R1 shown in Figure 6 in relation to the input
voltage waveform.

Operational Amplifier
15. Derive the expression of inverting and noninverting amplifiers.
16. A noninverting amplifier has an Ri of 1.0 KOhm and Rf of 100 kOhm. Calculate Vf and
B if Vout = 5 V.