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BE -3/4 I Semester 2016

PDC Assignment Unit 2
Date of Issue:-20/08/2016
Date of Submission:-01/09/2016
1. A circuit that removes positive or negative parts of waveform is called
a. c
c. diode clamp
l
d. limiter
a
m
p
e
r
b. c
l
i
p
p
e
r
2. A circuit that adds positive or negative dc voltage to an input sine
wave is called
a. c
c. diode clamp
l
d. limiter
a
m
p
e
r
b. c
l
i
p
p
e
r
3. Voltage multipliers are circuits best
used to produce
a. low voltage and low current
b. low voltage and high current

c. high voltage and low

current
d. high voltage and high
current

4. Half wave voltage multiplier can provide any degree of voltage

multiplication by cascading diodes and capacitors.
a. o
oubler
n
b. only tripler
l
y
d

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c. a
n

5. The circuit given in

the figure is:
a. positive clipper
b. negative clipper

y multiplication
d. none of the above

c. dual clipper
d. either (a) or (b)

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7. In the above figure D1
turns on when
a. Vi is more
positive than V1
b. Vi is less than V1

8. In the given Figure D2 turns

on when
a. Vi is more positive than
V1
b. Vi is less positive than
v1

9. A voltage tripler circuit uses

a. 2 diodes and 2
capacitors
b. 3 diodes and 3
capacitors

c. Vi is between V1 and
V2
d. none of the above

is more
negative
than V2 is
less
negative
than V2

c. 2 diodes and 3
capacitors
d. 3 diodes and 2
capacitors

10. A voltage doubler circuit is fed by a voltage Vm Sin t. The

output voltage will be nearly 2 Vm only if
a. load resistance is small
b. load resistance is large
c. load resistance neither small nor large
d. either (a) or (c)

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Answer the following Questions

1. Sketch the shape of the output voltage waveform for this
clipper circuit, assuming an ideal diode with no forward
voltage drop:

Vout

)
2.

Sketch the shape of the output voltage waveform for this

clipper circuit, assuming an ideal diode with no forward
voltage drop:

Vout

(i
d
e
al
di
o
d
e)
3.

Design a clipper circuit that clips any portion of the input

AC waveform below +4 volts:

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R

Clamper
t
circuits are sometimes referred to as DC
restorer circuits. Explain why. Does a clamper circuit
change the shape of a voltage waveform, like a clipper
circuit does? Explain why or why not.?
5. Write Difference between series and shunt clipper.
6. Write difference between positive and negative clamper.
4.