Communications 1

Quiz 1- Communications Circuit

1st Quarter, 2010-11

SET B

I. IDENTIFICATION (2 pts. Each) 19. What is the phase angle of an LC circuit at resonance? 0 b. What are the lowest and highest Quality factor
1. Convert -60dBm to watts, and dBµ. degree if series resistance is 10 Ω?
20. Current through L or C at parallel resonance can be
1x10 9 W higher from the line current by how much? Q 1 L
Q min   70.71
 30 dB  R C max
2. What is the voltage gain in dB at Cut-off? -3 dB II.ENUMERATION (1 pt. Each)
1-4 Characteristics of a Parallel Resonant Circuit 1 L
3. If the fundamental frequency is 20Hz, what is the value of Q max   223.61
the 4th octave? 160 Hz  Maximum resistance R C min
4. The ability of a resonant circuit to sustain electron  Minimum current c. What is the lowest and highest Bandwidth?
oscillation is known as ________. flywheel effect  Maximum power
fr _ min
5. Another term for cut-off frequency. critical frequency or  unity power factor BWmin   15.91 kHz
corner frequency or boundary frequency or half  0 degree power angle Q min
power frequency or –3 dB frequency  Resistive circuit
6. The range of frequencies with attenuated output. Stop 5-8 Characteristics of a Series Resonant Circuit
fr _ max
BWmax   15.92 kHz
band  Minimum resistance Q max
7. Above resonance, impedance of parallel LC circuit  Maximum current
appears ____________. Capacitive 2. (10 pts.) A series resonant circuit whose L= 212µH,
 Maximum power C=53pF, and Rs= 40Ω is connected to a 1mV source.
8. What is the output power at cut-off? 0.50 of the  unity power factor
maximum output power Calculate
 0 degree power angle a. Total Impedance, Z
9. A type of filter that passes frequencies on which it is
9-10 Two ways to improve selectivity of a filter. Z  40 
tuned and a few adjacent frequencies but attenuates
 increase order or higher order
those higher and lower. Bandpass filter b. Current, I
 increase quality factor
10. A type of filter that has faster transition but has variations V
on the passband and stopband. Chebyshev filter I  25 A
III. PROBLEM SOLVING Z
11. An ac circuit with maximum current and power at
1. (12 pts) A variable capacitor has a minimum C of 20pF c. Voltage across L
resonance. Series resonant circuit
12. What is the maximum voltage gain of a wien-bridge filter?
and a maximum C of 200pf, if it is connected across a 1 L
100µH coil. Q  50
1/3 R C
13. What is the net reactance at resonant frequency? 0 a. What are the lowest and highest values of
14. What is the net reactance at the cut-off frequency? frequency at which it will be resonant? VL  VQ  50 mV
Equals the resistance of the circuit (X=R) 1 d. Voltage across C
15. True or False. The resonant frequency an LC circuit is the fr _ min   1.125 MHz Vc  VQ  50 mV
frequency where X=R True 2  LC max
e. Bandwidth
16. What is the output voltage at cut-off? 0.707 V out max 1
17. What is the maximum gain in dB of passive filters? 0 dB fr _ max   3.56 MHz
2  LC min
18. At what amplitude is bandwidth of a tuned circuit usually
measured? 0.707 V omax or 0.50 P omax
 1 k  10
fr   1.50 MHz
2  LC k 1
R A  R G  2 R c  2 RF  R 4  Zo  1.22 k
f k 1
BW  r  30.03 kHz
Q Zo k2  1
RB  RD  2 RE  R7   4.95 k
2 k
3. (5 pts.) Design/Draw an RL high pass filter for a resistance of 150Ω and a gain of 0.707 at a
frequency equal to 16 kHz.  2 pts for drawing, 3 pts for L
k- derived Equations

 k 1 
R1  ZO  k  1 R5  Z O  
 k 
 1   k 
1 R 2  ZO   R6  ZO  
L  1.49 mH  k 1   k 1 
2 fc
R  k 1  Z  k2 1 
R3  ZO   R7  O  
4. Determine the input impedance, and the insertion loss in dB of
(18 pts)  k 1 2  k 
a T-pad whose shunt arm is 450Ω and series arm of 300Ω with the
 k 1  k 
following terminating impedances: R 4  ZO   R 8  2 ZO  2 
 k 1   k 1 
ZL Zin I.L(dB)

300Ω 557.14 Ω 6.37

600Ω 600 Ω 4.77

1200Ω 646.15 Ω 3.68

5. (14 pts.) Given the circuit below, determine the resistances R A to RG required if the
characteristic impedance is 1000 Ω and an insertion loss of 60dB.

three Pi-type pads

IL for each pad = 20 dB