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PANAPAKAM, CHENNAI 601 301 DEPARTMENT OF ECE QUESTION BANK Year/Sem: 2nd / III Subject name: Electronic Circuits I Subject code: EC2205 UNIT- I TRANSISTOR BIAS STABILITY PART- A
1. What are the transistor parameters that vary with the temperature? 2. What is Bias? What is the need for biasing? 3. What do you understand by DC & AC load line? 4. What is the meant by operating point Q? 5. What are the types of biasing? 6. What are all the factors that affect the stability of the operating point? 7. Define stability factor S. 8. What are the disadvantages of collector feedback bias? 9. Why voltage divider bias is commonly used in amplifier circuit? 10. Define the stability factors S and S. 11. Give the stability factor S for the fixed bias circuit. 12. Give the stability factor S for the Voltage divider bias circuit. 13. Why fixed bias circuit is not used in practice? 14. What are all the compensation techniques used for bias stability? 15. Why the input impedance of FET is more than that of a BJT? 16. How FET is known as Voltage variable resistor? 17. List the advantages of Fixed bias method. 18. How self-bias circuit is used as constant current source? 19. What is Thermal runaway? 20. What are the consideration factors that are used for the selection of an operating point for an FET amplifier? 21. Write the different types of FET biasing circuits. 22. What is meant by stabilization? 23. Draw the fixed bias single stage transistor circuit. 24. How can collector current be stabilized with respect to ICO variations? 25. What is the condition for thermal stability? 26. Define thermal resistance. 27. Why do you fix the operating point in the middle of the load line? 28. What is meant by compensation technique?

PART B
1. What is meant by BJT? Explain in detail about the Configurations of BJT. [16] 2. (i) What is the need for biasing ? [2] (ii)Define the Stability factor S, S and S. [4] (iii)Explain about the variation of quiescent point . [10] 3. (i) Explain the fixed bias method and derive an expression for the stability factor. [8] (ii) Explain the voltage divider bias method and derive an expression for the stability factor.[8] 4. Explain the different types of biasing circuits.[16] 5. (i) Explain the circuit which uses a diode to compensate for changes in VBE and in ICO.[12] (ii) Discuss the operation of thermistor compensation. [4] 6. Discuss the various techniques of stabilization of Q-point in a transistor.[16]

7. i) What is meant by bias stability? What factors affect BJT biasing? ii)With the help of neat diagram explain the voltage divider biasing method for JFET 8. (i)Compare the CE CB and CC configurations of BJT. [10] (ii)Give the advantages of self bias over other types of biasing.[6] 9. Explain the bias compensation techniques.[16] 10. Draw a self (voltage divider) bias and derive all the stability factor S, S, S. [16]

UNIT II- MIDBAND ANALYSIS OF SMALL SIGNAL AMPLIFIERS PART- A

1. What is an amplifier? 2. What is small signal amplifier? 3. What is a Darlington connection in the amplifiers? 4. Define Common Mode Rejection Ratio. 5. What is meant by Differential Amplifier? 6. What are the salient features of hybrid parameters? 7. What are the methods of improving CMRR? 8. Why hybrid parameters are called so? Define them. 9. What is meant by bootstrapping? 10. List the four differential amplifier configurations 11. Write the gain equation of inverting amplifier. 12. Draw the small signal equivalent circuit of FET. 13. What do you meant by bisected network. 14. What is common mode voltage swing? 15. Draw the darlington connection using complementary transistors. 16. Explain Millers theorem. 17. Write the hybrid parameters equation for transistor amplifier. 18. Draw a CB amplifier and its equivalent circuit. 19. What are the limitations of h parameter? 20. Why Re is replaced by a constant current bias in a differential amplifier? 21. Why is bootstrapping technique called so? 22. Why capacitive coupling is used to connect a signal source to an amplifier? 23. How does input impedance increase due to darlington connection?

24. Draw the circuit diagram of a darlington emitter follower. 25. With small signal equivalent circuit derive the input impedance of CB amplifier.

PART B

1. Draw the circuit of a common source FET amplifier & explain its operation? 2. Briefly explain the operation of a Darlington emitter follower and also derive an expression for its performance measures? 3. What is a differential amplifier? Explain its working in common mode operation. Obtain its AC equivalent circuit & drive the expression for voltage gain? 4. Draw the circuit diagram of a differential amplifier. Explain the operation in difference mode and common mode? 5. What are the methods to improve the CMRR of differential amplifier? Detail any two of them. 7. i) Explain with circuit diagram the boot strapped Darlington emitter follower. ii) Draw the circuit diagram of self-bias circuit using CE configuration and explain how it stabilizes operating point. 8. Draw the small signal hybrid model of CE amplifier and derive the expression for its AI .AV ,RI and RO. 9. For the CC transistor amplifier circuit, find the expressions for input impedance and voltage gain. Assume suitable model for transistor. 10.i) Discuss the working of a basic emitter coupled differential amplifier circuit. (ii) Compare CB, CE and CC amplifiers.

UNIT-III FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF AMPLIFIERS

PART- A 1. Define the frequency response of an amplifier. 2. Define lower and upper cut off frequencies of an amplifier. 3. Draw a hybrid- model for a BJT. 4. What is the relationship between bandwidth and rise time? 5. What are the high frequency effects? 6. If the rise time of a BJT is 35 nano seconds, what is the bandwidth that can be obtained using this BJT? 7. Explain the usefulness of the decibel unit. 8. Define the term bandwidth of an amplifier? 9. State various capacitances in the hybrid model? 10. Define the term bandwidth of an amplifier? 11. Why it is not possible to use the h- parameters at high frequencies? 12. What do you mean by the half power or 3 db frequencies? 13. Draw the hybrid model of a transistor in the CE configuration. 14. Why N channel FET have a better response than P channel FET?

15. Define fT and f . 16. Write the over all lower cut off frequency of multistage amplifier. 17. Write the relation between sag and lower cutoff frequency. 18. For an amplifier midband gain is 100 and lower cutoff frequency is 1khz. Find the gain of an amplifier at frequency of 20Hz. 19. Write the over all higher cut off frequency of multistage amplifier. 20. Draw the low frequency simplified h-parameter model of an amplifier with a unbypassed emitter resistor. 21. Give the expressions for gain bandwidth product for voltage and current. 22. Discuss the effect of bypass capacitor on frequency response of amplifier. 23. What is the significance of Octaves and Decades in frequency response? 24. Draw the high frequency equivalent circuit of a BJT. 25. Give the equation of overall upper and lower cut-off frequencies of multistage amplifier.

PART B
1. Derive the expression for the CE short circuit current gain of transistor at high frequency . 2. i)What is the effect of Cbe on the input circuit of a BJT amplifier at High frequencies? (8) ii)Derive the equation for gm which gives the relation between gm, Ic and temperature. (8) 3. i) Draw the high frequency hybrid model for a transistor in the CE configuration and explain the significance of each component. (12) ii) Define alpha cut off frequency. (4) 4. i) Define f,f and fT and state the relation between f and fT(8) ii) Explain the significance of octaves and decades. (8) 5. Define unity gain frequency. Obtain the necessary relation using transistor frequency response. 6. Using hybrid model for CE amplifier. Derive an expression for its short circuit current gain. 7. Explain the operation of low frequency response CE amplifier. 8. Explain the high frequency analysis of BJT amplifiers. 9. Derive the general expression for frequency response of multistage amplifiers. 10. i) Discuss the frequency response of multistage amplifiers. Calculate the overall upper and lower cut-off frequencies.[10]

UNIT- IV LARGE SIGNAL AMPLIFIERS

PART- A

1. List the classification of large signal amplifiers. 2. What is class AB operation? 3. Define conversion efficiency of a power amplifier. What is its value for class Cpower amplifier? 4. What is crossover distortion? How it can be eliminated?

5. Define the following modes of operation (a) class AB (b) class C 6. What is meant by Harmonic distortion? 7. What is class D amplifier? 8. What is the drawback of class B amplifier? How is this minimized? 9. State the merits of using push pull configuration. 10. Define conversion efficiency of a power stage. 11. Define thermal resistance in the context of power amplifier. 12. What are the types of class B amplifier? 13. List the advantages of transformer coupled amplifier. 14. Draw a quasi complimentary symmetry power amplifier? 15. What is the advantage of using the output transformer for a class A amplifier? 16. What is the disadvantage of transformer coupled class A amplifier? 17. What is theoretical maximum conversion efficiency of class A power amplifier? 18. What is distortion in power amplifiers? 19. What is the use of heat sink?. 20. Define thermal resistance. 21. What is distortion in power ampliiers? 22. Draw the circuit of class-D amplifier. 23. Compare the efficiency of class A, B, C, AB. 24. What is a heat sink? Give its advantages. 25. Define class C operation of power amplifiers.

PART B
1. i)Draw a neat circuit diagram of push-pull class-B amplifier. Explain its working.(8) ii) For the transformer coupled class A power amplifier circuit derive the expression for its efficiency. (8) 2. Prove that the maximum efficiency of class B amplifier is 78.5%. and that of Class A type is 50%. 3. Draw the circuit of push pull class B power amplifier coupled using transformers and explain the operation. Prove that all the even harmonics get eliminated. What is the assumption made for this? 4. i) Compare class A, class B and class C power amplifier in their performance and efficiency. (10) ii) Give the design procedure for heat sinks. (6) 5. i) Explain complementary symmetry class B power amplifier and derive its efficiency (10) ii) Explain class D power amplifier with necessary sketches. (6) 6. Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of a complementary symmetry class b amplifier? 7. With the help of neat diagram. Explain the characteristics of class A amplifier and also derive an expression for its efficiency and figure of merit. 8. Explain about class C, class D and class S amplifier. 9. Describe the distortion in power amplifier and the methods to eliminate the same. 10. Explain in detail about the operation of a transformer coupled power amplifier.

UNIT-V RECTIFIERS AND POWER SUPPLIES PART- A 1.What is a power supply? 2.What are all the subsystems in a power supply? 3.What is the function of rectifier? 4.What is rectifier? 5.What is halfwave rectifier? 6.Write down the average DC voltage across the load in a half-wave rectifier circuit. 7.Define ripple factor. 8.What is meant by peak inverse voltage? 9.What is meant by rectifier efficiency? 10.What is full-wave rectifier? 11.Write down the ripple factor and efficiency of the full-wave and half wave rectifier circuits. 12.What are all the drawbacks of a full wave rectifier? 13.What are all the advantages of bridge rectifier circuit? 14.What is the average DC output voltage obtained in the bridge rectifier circuit, and full wave rectifier circuit? 15.What are all the disadvantages of half wave rectifier? 16.Define transformer utilization factor of a rectifier circuit. 17.What is filter circuit? 18.What are all the different types of filters? 19.How ripples are minimized in the capacitor filters? 20.What are all the advantages and disadvantages of capacitor filters? 21. Draw the full wave bridge rectifier circuit. 22. Compare half-wave and full-wave rectifier. 23.What are the advantages of SMPS? 24.What is a voltage multiplier? 25.What is a bleeder resistor?

PART B
1. Derive the expressions for the rectification efficiency, ripple factor, transformer utilization factor, form factor and peak factor of (i) half wave rectifier (ii) full wave rectifier. (Marks 16) 2. Explain the operation of (i) Voltage multiplier (Marks 8) ii) Switched mode power supply. (Marks 8) 3. Write notes on Rectifiers 4. Explain in detail about Zener diode 5. Briefly describe about Power control using SCR. 6. Explain in detail about the classification of powe supplies. 7. Explain about analysis for Vdc ad ripple voltage with C,L,LC and CLC filters. 8. Discuss about the electronically regulated d.c power supplies.