MODULE 7 ELEC ANSWER

1. If two waves have the same frequency and same phase, the composite wave, Has a magnitude equal to the sum
of the two originals
2. Which of the following does not affect the inductance of a coil, The diameter of the wire
3. Air works well as a dielectric mainly because it, Has low loss
4. Shifting the phase of an ac sine wave by 90 degrees is the same thing as, Moving it to the left by ¼ cycle
5. High voltage is used in long distance power transmission because The I2R losses is lower
6. The purpose of the I in a PIN diode is to, Minimize diode loss
7. Transient suppression minimizes the chance of, Diode failure
8. A BJT circuit can provide the greatest/ most amplification, Common Emitter
9. The current consists mainly of holes when JFET, Common Emitter
10. A JFET circuit essentially never has, A forward-biased PN junction
11. Which bipolar amplifier type has some distortion in the signal wave with collector
Class AB2
current during, but not at all, of the cycle.
12. The frequency at which a crystal oscillator function is determined mainly by, The thickness of the crystal
13. A radio-frequency oscillator usually, Has most or all of its energy at a
single frequency
14. Acoustic feedback in a public address system, Serves no useful purpose
15. In an AND gate, the output is high Only when all inputs are high
16. In an exclusive OR gate, the output is high, Only when the inputs have
opposite logic gates
17. When a semiconductor is reversed biased with a large enough voltage, it will conduct.
Avalanche effect
This is because of,
18. In a rectifier diode, current flows for approximately how much of the ac cycle, 180
19. A silicon crystal consists of, Eight valence electron, four of its
own and four shared
20. If a certain Zener diode has a Zener voltage of 3.6V, it operates in, Zener Breakdown
21. Once in saturation, a further increase in base current will, Not affect the collector current
22. In a voltage divider biased npn transistor, the upper voltage-divider resistor (the one The transistor goes to cutoff
connected to VCC) opens,
23. Drain current in the constant-current area increases when, The gate-to-source bias voltage
decreases
24. A TMOSFET is a special type of a/an, EMOSFET
25. The peak current of class A power amplifier can deliver to a load depends on a, Quiescent Current
26. Crossover distortion is a problem for, Class B Amplifier
27. The maximum efficiency of a Class AB amplifier, Is slightly less than a class B
28. The power dissipation of a Class C amplifier is normally, Very low
29. The frequency at which an amplifier’s gain is 1, Unity gain frequency
30. An SCR differs from a 4-layer diode because, It has a gate terminal
31. The SCS differs from the SCR because, It has two gate terminals
32. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a UJT, Bilateral conduction
33. Which of the following characteristic does not necessarily apply to an Op amp, Low power
34. Of the valued listed, the most realistic value for open loop gain of an op amp is, 100,000
35. The purpose of offset nulling is to, Zero the output error voltage
36. Phase shift through an op-amp is caused by, The internal RC circuits
37. Noise on the input of a comparator can cause to, Change back and forth erratically
between the states
38. When you apply a triangular waveform to the input of a differentiator, the output is, A square waveform
39. To make a basic instrumentation amplifier, it takes, Three op amps and seven resistors
40. Typically , an instrumentation amplifier has an external resistor used for, Setting the voltage gain
41. The three parts of a basic isolation amplifier are, Input, output and power
42. The stage of most isolation amplifiers are connected by, Transformers
43. The characteristic that allows an isolation amplifier to amplify small signal voltages in
CMRR
the presence of much greater noise voltage is its,
44. In an OTA, the transconductance is controlled by, Bias current
45. The operation of a logarithmic amplifier is based on, The logarithmic characteristics of a
PN junction
46. The damping factor of a filter is set by, The negative feedback circuit
47. Sallen-Key filters are, Second-order filters
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48. When the low-pass and a high-pass filter are cascaded to get a band-pass filter the Greater than critical frequency of
critical frequency of the low-pass filter must be, the high-pass filter
49. The Wien-bridge oscillator’s positive feedback circuit is, A lead-lag circuit
50. In a Wien-bridge oscillator, if the resistance in the positive feedback circuit are Increases
decreased, the frequency,
51. The operation of a relaxation oscillator is based on, The charging and discharging of a
capacitor
52. Which of the following is not an input or output of the 555 timer, Clock
53. When the two inputs of a multiplier are connected together, the device operates as a, Squaring circuit
54. The main purpose of a current limiting regulator is, Protection of the regulator from
the surge current
55. The forward breakover voltage of a silicon is, Approximately 0.6V
56. In an RL circuit, as the ratio of inductive reactance to resistance, XL/R, decreases, the Decreases
phase angle,
57. A common-base circuit is commonly employed as: A radio-frequency power amplifier
58. Most useful characteristic curve, Output characteristic curve
59. A circuit used for voltage equalization during ON-OFF switching action of SCRs in series, Snubber circuit
60. Generally in ac generators, The electromagnets or permanent
magnets (magnetic fields) are
rotated with respect to the
stationary armature winding
61. It consists of a single coil rotated in a magnetic field and produces an ac voltage, Elementary generator
62. Substance, which generates a voltage when exposed to light, Photovoltaic material
63. A junction between two conductors that exhibits electrical characteristics under Thermoelectric junction
condition of changing temperature,
64. Generation of voltage in a generator can only happen when, There is a relative motion between
conducting wires and magnetic
lines of force
65. Two essential parts in rotating generators, Electro/permanent magnets and
armature winding
66. Generally, in dc generators, The armature winding is rotated
with respect to a stationary
magnetic field produce by
electromagnets or permanent
magnets
67. A dc generator whose excitation is produced by a winding connected to its own positive
Self-excited shunt generator
and negative terminals,
68. Which is true regarding Alternators, High-speed alternators are smaller
than low speed
69. Description used for generators trying to self-adjust its parameters before paralleling Jogging
with on line generators,
70. In Electrical power distributions, what insulator is generally used, Porcelain
71. In choosing a motor for a particular application, what characteristic you should
Speed-torque
consider?
72. In the case of load regulation, When the load changes, the
output voltage stays constant
73. What is the electronic instrument capable of showing on screen and maybe on print, Spectrum analyzer
relative spacing of transmitters carriers, their sidebands and harmonics,
74. A push-pull amplifier that uses npn and pnp transistors to amplify the positive and Complementary-symmetry
negative cycles respectively, amplifier
75. A multistage transistor amplifier arranged in a conventional series manner, the output Cascaded amplifier
of one stage is forward coupled to the next stage,
76. A two-stage transistor amplifier in which the output collector of the first stage provides
Cascode amplifier
input to the emitter of the second stage. The final output is then taken from the
collector of the second stage.
77. An operational amplifier must have at least how many usable terminals? 5
78. The change in input offset current due to temperature change Input offset current drift
79. The reason why slight difference between the input bias current occurs in op amps is
Input offset voltage
due to the unsymmetrical circuit component parameters. This unsymmetrical condition
also produces a difference in input voltage called what?
80. The magnitude of the op-amps input offset voltage before it can classified as a low- 0.2mV
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 input offset voltage op-amp.
81. The most popular op-amp packages are the metal can, 8-pin DIP, and the SMT, Metal can
which of these corresponds to TO-99,
82. What term applied to the use of two or more generators to supply a common load? Parallel operation
83. Synchronous type of ac motor, Uses a dc-generator to supply dc-
excitation to the rotating field
84. In DC motors, when does severe arcing happens? During starting
85. When a low-pass and a high-pass filter are cascaded to get band-pass filter, the critical Greater than the critical frequency
frequency of the low-pass must be, of the high-pass filter
86. The purpose of installing thyristors across the incoming power lines to speed the Protect the drive circuits from high
control system, voltage transient surges
87. What is the purpose of using a differential synchro instead of a regular synchro, Differential synchros can handle
more signals and also perform
addition and subtraction functions
88. A FET which have a wide and short effective channel, VMOS
89. The basic difference of a series regulator and shunt regulator, Type of sample circuit
90. Early version of Field effect transistor where the limited control of current carriers near
the surface of a semiconductor bars/films are obtained by external electric field applied Fieldistor
transversely.
91. This is a bridge for measuring very low resistance. The arrangement of the bridge
Kelvin double bridge
reduces the effects of contact resistance, which causes significant error when such low
resistances are connected to conventional resistance.
92. Given: differential-mode voltage gain = 20000: Common mode voltage gain = 10: What
2000
is CMRR?
When evaluating the noise
93. When do you need a noise generator? characteristic of an amplifier
94. A type of oscilloscope that enables to display for a long period for analysis. The display
Storage Oscilloscope
is through flood gun.
By the charge present at the
95. ……….How does electric field established? reversed bias junction
Make both feedback and input
96. What resistor combination will provide lesser noise of the op amp? resistances as small as possible
97. Commonly use at the output of an op amp, Complementary amplifier
98. A simplified version of capacitance bridge where the unknown capacitance is compared
Schering bridge
to the standard capacitance. It is also use for testing electrolytic capacitor…..
99. A four arm bridge where the two ratio arm are replaced by 100cm Manganin with
Slider wire bridge
uniform cross section and provides a slider.
100. Generally MOSFET has a lower power handling capability. To increase MOSFET power,
Wide and short
the channel is made,

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