SATYAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, ARALVOIMOZHI ECE IV-SEMESTER REVISION QUESTIONS ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS II 2 MARK QUESTIONS REVISION

I 1) What happens to the input resistance based on the type of feedback in an amplifier? 2) What are the steps to be carried out for the complete analysis of a feedback amplifier? 3) What is frequency stability of an oscillator? 4) Draw the equivalent circuit of crystal and give the expression for series and parallel resonant frequency. 5) Draw the ideal response and actual response of tuned amplifier. 6) What is neutralization? What is its need? 7) What is the disadvantage of using diode as shunt element in clipper circuit? 8) Why monostable multivibrator is called as delay circuit? 9) Define displacement error? 10)What is blocking oscillator? What are the applications of blocking oscillator? REVISION II

1) Define sensitivity and desensitivity of gain in feedback amplifiers. 2) State the nyquist criterion to maintain the stability of negative feedback amplifier. 3) How is amplifier stability achieved in wienbridge oscillator? 4) Draw miller oscillator circuit. 5) What are the differences between single tuned and synchronously tuned amplifier? 6) Where is the Q-point placed in a class C type amplifier? What are its applications? 7) How does a diode act as a comparator? 8) Draw the response of a transistor to a pulse and mark all the delays which affect the switching speed. 9) Draw the equivalent circuit of pulse transformer. 10)What is the function of time base circuit? REVISION III (PROBLEMS)
1) A voltage series feedback amplifier has a voltage gain with

feedback as 83.33 and feedback ratio as 0.01. Calculate the voltage gain of the amplifier without feedback.
2) An amplifier has a voltage gain of 1000. With negative

feedback, the voltage gain reduces to 10. Calculate the fraction of the output that is fed back to the input.
3) In RC phase shift oscillator, if R1=R2=R3=200K and

C1=C2=C3=100pF, find the frequency of the oscillator.

4) A crystal has the following parameters L=0.5 H, C=0.05 pF and mounting capacitance is 2pF. Calculate its series and parallel resonant frequencies.
5) An inductor of 250H has Q=300 at 1MHz. Determine Rs

6) Why a LC tank circuit does not produce sustained oscillations. How can this is overcome? 7) Distinguish symmetrical and asymmetrical triggering. 8) Define clamper. Why it is called as DC restorer? 9) Draw the circuit diagram of a negative voltage clamper and plot its output for a sinusoidal input. 10)State relation between rise time and fH. Also sketch response of low pass RC filter for pulse input. 11)Draw a clipper circuit which clips all voltages above +2V. 12)Define slope error in sweep generators. 13)Define sweep time and flyback time with respect to a voltage time base signal. 14)State the role of commutating capacitors in bistable multivibrator. 15)List the different methods available for generation of ramp waveforms.
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and Rp of inductor. 6) A tuned amplifier has its maximum gain at a frequency of 2MHz and has a bandwidth of 50kHz. Calculate the Qfactor. 7) A parallel resonant circuit has an inductance of 150 H and a capacitance of 100pF. Find the resonant frequency.
8) Determine the value of capacitors to be used in an astable

multivibrator to provide a train of pulse 2s wide at a repetition rate of 75kHz with R1=R2=10K. 9) Design an integrator to integrate square wave of 1kHz.
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Write the equation used to determine sweep frequency of a UJT relaxation oscillator. Calculate the frequency with R=100k, C=0.4F and intrinsic stand off ratio 0.57 EXTRA QUESTIONS 1) Mention the conditions for a circuit to maintain oscillation. 2) Define piezoelectric effect.
3) Define gain-bandwidth product of a tuned amplifier.

What is the major advantage of simple ramp generator and how this is solved?

4) Define tuned amplifier. 5) Define loaded and unloaded Q. 16 MARK QUESTIONS REVISION I

1) Explain the four types of negative feedback topologies with neat diagram and make a comparison of them. 2) Explain Hartley, Colpitt and clapp oscillator. Derive its frequency of oscillation. 3) Explain RC phase shift oscillator with neat circuit diagram. Derive its frequency of oscillation. Give the amplifier gain and feedback network gain to sustain oscillator operation. 4) What is the need for neutralization? Explain Hazeltine and modified Hazeltine neutralization. 5) Define class-C amplifier. Sketch a tuned class-C amplifier with an LC tank circuit as load. Derive its efficiency. 6) With neat circuit diagram, explain the working of astable multivibrator. Derive its on time. Draw the base and collector signals. 7) With neat circuit diagram, explain the working of a Schmitt trigger circuit. Draw the corresponding waveforms. 8) Explain Miller and Bootstrap time base sweep generator with circuit diagram and waveform. Derive for its output voltage. Also draw the circuit of a current time base generator. Explain the working of the circuit with associated waveforms. 9) Describe the working of UJT relaxation oscillator.

closed loop gain, distortion, noise, input resistance and output resistance. 2) Explain weinbridge oscillator with neat circuit diagram. Derive its frequency of oscillation. Give the amplifier gain and feedback network gain to sustain oscillator operation. 3) With equivalent circuit of single tuned amplifier derive the gain as a function of frequency. Derive the cut off frequencies. 4) With neat circuit diagram, explain the working of monostable multivibrator. Derive its on time. Draw the base and collector signals. 5) With neat circuit diagram, explain the working of bistable multivibrator. Derive its on time. Draw the base and collector signals. 6) With neat circuit diagram, explain monostable(triggered) blocking oscillator with base and emitter timing. Draw necessary wave forms. 7) Derive the bandwidth of a synchronous tuning system with three single tuned amplifiers. Assume bandwidth of individual stage is 10 kHz.

REVSION III (PROBLEMS) 1) An amplifier has a midband gain of 125 and a bandwidth 250 kHz. (1) If 4% negative feedback is introduced, find the new bandwidth and gain. (2) If the bandwidth is restricted to 1 MHz, find the feedback ratio.

REVISION II 1) Give the block diagram of feedback amplifier and discuss the effect of negative feedback with respect to bandwidth,

2) An RC coupled amplifier has a voltage gain of 1000,

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f1=50Hz, f2=200kHz and a distortion of 5% with feedback. Find Avf, BWf when =0.01 is applied.
3) An amplifier with negative feedback give an output of

12.5 V with an input of 1.5V. when feedback is removed, it requires 0.25 V input for the same output. Find (1) the value of voltage gain without feedback. (2) value of feedback factor. 4) A crystal has the following parameters: L=0.5 H, Cs=0.06pF, Cp=1pF and R=5k. find the series and parallel resonant frequencies and corresponding Qfactor of the crystal.
5) A colpits oscillator is designed with C1=100pF and

A uni-junction transistor with =0.62 is used in a relaxation oscillator circuit with R = 5k and C = 0.05 F. (1) Determine the period and frequency of oscillation. (2) Determine the new value of R, which must be changed in order to obtain a frequency of oscillation of 50 Hz. (3) If C is increased by a factor of 10, how the value of R changes, if the frequency is to be 50 Hz. The diode controlled astable blocking oscillator has the parameters Vcc=10V, VB=0.5 V, n=2, R=1.5k, Rf=10,Vr=9 V, L=3mH and C=100pF. Calculate the frequency of oscillation and duty cycle. (optional)

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C2=7500pF. The inductance is variable. Determine the range of inductance values, if the frequency of oscillation is to vary between 950 kHz and 2050 kHz.
6) Calculate the component values of a monostable

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multivibrator developing an output pulse of 140 s duration. Assume hFEmin = 20, Ic(sat)=6mA. Vcc=6V, VBB=-1.5V 7) Design an astable multivibrator circuit to generate a 1 kHz square wave. The supply voltage is 5 V and collector current is to be 2 mA. (assume hfe = 70)
8) Design a schmitt trigger for UTP = 5 V, LTP = 3V, I C2

= 2mA and Vcc = 12 V. Draw the designed circuit and hysteresis characteristics. (Assume hfe = 100)
9) Design a UJT saw tooth generator for the given

data. Draw the designed circuit and o/p waveform VBB = 20 V, = 0.6, f = 10kHz, RBB = 10 K.