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151.

A diode can have a very high forward resistance.

Answer» Forward resistance of diode is low.
152.

The ideal characteristics of a stabilizer is

Answer» A stabilizer must give constant output voltage. This is possible only if internal resistance is low.
153.

In figure, transistor β = 100 and LED voltage when it is conducting is 2 V. Then the base current which saturates the transistor is

Answer» .
154.

In figure the dc emitter current of each transistor is about

Answer» Total . It divides equally between the two transistors.
155.

The input voltage for starting oscillations in an oscillator is caused by

Answer» The amplifier in the oscillator amplifies the noise voltages. However phase shift around the closed loop is zero at only one frequency. Therefore, only this frequency appears at output.
156.

The current flowing in a certain P-N junction at room temperature is 2 x 10 Amp. When a large reverse biased voltage is applied. Calculate the current flowing when 0.1 volts is applied.

Answer»
157.

Values of V at 20°C for an ideal P-N diode

Answer» .
158.

In figure which diode will conduct and what will be the value of V?

Answer» Since battery connected to anode of D, is of 5 V it is forward biased. D1 and D3 are reverse biased. Output voltage is 5 V.
159.

A CB amplifier has I = 3.5 mA, = 0.98 and R = 600 Ω. The input impedance

Answer» . Input impedance of CB amplifier equals re .
160.

For the amplifier circuit of figure, the parameters of transistor are = 25 Ω, = 0.999, = 10 Ω. The voltage gain is

Answer» It is a common base circuit .
161.

In figure, V = + 30 V, R = 200 kΩ and R = 100 kΩ. If V = 0.7 V, the voltage a cross R =

Answer» .
162.

For the circuit in figure the output wave shape is

Answer» It is a biased limiter circuit. During positive half clipping is at 5 V due to battery.
163.

In figure V =

Answer» .
164.

In figure, I = 4 mA. Then V =

Answer» VS = 4 x 10-3 x 1.5 x 10-3 = 6 V.
165.

For the circuit of figure the critical frequency is

Answer» The two resistances are in parallel. Critical frequency = .
166.

The current through R is(If β = 99, V = 0.74 V)

Answer» IE = 1 mA, VBE = 0.7V, β = 99, IC = aIE, IC = β, IB 1 = IB = 0.01 mA. 0.1 mA.
167.

A transistor with = 0.9 and I = 10 μA is biased so that I = 90 μA. Then I will be

Answer» IEQ = ICQ + IBQ = 910 μA + 90 μA 990 μA.
168.

In a CE amplifier drives a low load resistance directly the result will be

Answer» Low load resistance means high current and hence over loading.
169.

For CE amplifier of figure, the slope of ac load line is

Answer» For ac, RL and RC appear in parallel. Hence .
170.

For high frequencies a capacitor like

Answer» . If w is very high, XC, is nearly zero.
171.

Which component is allowed to pass through it by a choke filter?

Answer» XL is zero for dc.
172.

In an amplifier the stray capacitances assume impedance at low frequencies

Answer» Stray capacitances assume importance at high frequencies because .
173.

In CE amplifier the base current is very high.

Answer» Base current is small.
174.

A transistor has a maximum power dissipation of 350 mW at an ambient temperature of 25°C. If derating factor is 2 mW/°C, the maximum power dissipation for 40°C ambient temperature is

Answer» Derating improves reliability but does not affect maximum power dissipation.
175.

An amplifier has open loop gain of 100, input impedance 1 kΩ and output impedance 100 Ω. If negative feedback with β = 0.99 is used, the new input and output impedances are

Answer» Input impedance with feedback = (1 kΩ) (1 + 100 + 0.99) = 100 kΩ. Output impedance with feedback = .
176.

In a BJT amplifier the power gain from base to collector is 4000. The power gain in dB is

Answer» Gain in dB = 10 log (4000).
177.

In figure, secondary winding has 40 turns. For maximum power transformer to 2 ohm resistance the number of turns in primary is

Answer» .
178.

The output voltage waveform of a CE amplifier is fed to a dc coupled CRO. The trace on the screen will be

Answer» Due to direct coupling between output and CRO both dc and ac output voltage will appear on screen of CRO.
179.

In an RC phase shift oscillator, the total phase shift of the three RC lead networks is

Answer» Each RC network gives 60° phase shift.
180.

In the circuit of figure β = 100 and quiescent value of base current is 20 μA. The quiescent value of collector current is

Answer» IC = βIB = 2 mA.
181.

In a CE amplifier circuit the dc voltage between emitter and ground

Answer» Since dc is flowing through emitter resistance, dc voltage cannot be zero.
182.

A buffer amplifier should have

Answer» So that it can couple high impedance source to low impedance load and maximum power can be transferred.
183.

A second order active bandpass filter can be obtained by cascading LP second order filter having higher cut off frequency with a second order HP filter having lower cut off frequency provided

Answer» If fOL is less than fOH, a passband will exist from fOL to fOH .
184.

In figure the approximate voltages of

Answer» Base voltage = . Emitter voltage = - 8 + 0.7 = - 7.3 V.
185.

The open loop gain of an amplifier is 50 but likely to decrease by 20% due to various factors. If negative feedback with β = 0.1 is used, the change in gain will be about

Answer» The stabilisation of gain is one of the advantages of closed loop system.
186.

In the graphical analysis of CE amplifier circuit, the upper end of load line is called

Answer» Current is maximum at saturation point.
187.

A full wave rectifier supplies a load of 1 kΩ. The a.c. Voltage applied to the diodes is 220 - 0 - 220 Volts rms. If diode resistance is neglected, then Average d.c. Voltage

Answer» .
188.

An R-C coupled amplifier has mid-frequency gain of 200 and a frequency response from 100 Hz to 20 kHz. A negative feedback network with β = 0.2 is incorporated into the amplifier circuit, the Bandwidth will be

Answer» B.W. = fH' - fL' .
189.

A difference amplifier using op-amp has closed loop gain = 50. If input is 2 V to each of inverting and non-inverting terminals, output is 5 mA. Then CMRR =

Answer» .
190.

The coupling capacitor in amplifier circuits

Answer» Capacitor is open-circuit for dc.
191.

In figure if C is replaced by short circuit then R will be

Answer» If C is short circuited then, by using KCL and KVL,
192.

An transistor has a Beta cutoff frequency of 1 MHz, and a common emitter short circuit low frequency current gain β of 200. It unity gain frequency and the alpha cut off frequency respectively are

Answer» .
193.

In figure if the transistor is cut off, the collector voltage is equal to

Answer» Since transistor is cut off, IC = 0 and VC = VCC .
194.

If input frequency is 50 Hz, the frequency of output wave in a full wave diode rectifier circuit is

Answer» There are two output waves for one input wave.
195.

A class A transformer coupled power amplifier is to deliver 10 W output. The power rating of transistor should not be less than

Answer» Efficiency is 50%. Therefore input is 20 W.
196.

A bridge diode circuit using ideal diodes has in input voltage of 20 sin ω volts. The average and rms values of output voltage are

Answer» .
197.

In the circuit of figure = 8 V and = 0. Which diode will conduct (Assume ideal diodes)?

Answer» Since only v1 is positive and more than 0.7 V only D1 will conduct.
198.

For an transistor connected as shown in the figure V = 0.7 volts. Given that reverse saturation current of the junction at room temperature 300K is 10A, the emitter current.

Answer» IE = aIE + ICBO and approximated. But a is not given in the question. It is not possible to find.
199.

The dc output voltage of the circuit is

Answer» This is half wave Rectifier, because in +ve cycle both the diode will be in forward biased. For +ve cycle, Vo max = Imax. Req 2.59 x 10-3 x 1.66 x 103 4.299 volt.
200.

A voltage doubler circuit is fed by a voltage V sin ω. The output voltage will be nearly 2 V only if

Answer» If load resistance is large, current would be low and voltage drop would be low.