Final Round

Electronic Circuits
(1 pt) A rule that approximates the bandwidth necessary to transmit
an angle modulated wave as twice the sum of the peak frequency
deviation and the highest modulating signal
 ANSWER
• Carson’s Rule
 Industrial Electronics
(1 pt) An interference that is an important consideration in the transmission of
pulses over circuits with a limited bandwidth and a nonlinear phase response.
 ANSWER
• Intersymbol Interference
 Logic Circuits
(1 pt) A short section of line usually short-circuited at one end used for
impedance matching.
 ANSWER
• Stub
 Basic Power Systems
(1 pt) A metal wrapped around the parabolic antenna aperture to eliminate
sidelobes interfering nearby stations.
 ANSWER
• Shroud
 Analog Communications Systems and Circuits

• It is caused by the difference in the propagation times of light rays that take
different paths down a fiber.
 Answer
• Modal Dispersion
 Digital Communications Systems and Circuits

• (1 pt) Process of increasing the electrical length of an antenna by the

addition of inductance or capacitance.
 ANSWER
• Loading
 Data Communications
• (1 pt) Decreasing co-channel interference while increasing capacity by using
directional antennas.
 ANSWER
• Sectoring
 Wireless Communications and Antenna
Systems
(1 pt) This layer is responsible for detecting and correcting errors within frames
of data and providing the flags that indicate the beginning and end of frames.
 ANSWER
• Data Link Layer
 Signals, Spectra and Signal Processing
(1 pt) an integral transform that takes a function of a real variable (in time) to a
complex variable
 Answer
• Laplace Transform
 Communication Mathematics

• (1 pt) it is a determinant used in differential equations showing linear

independence in a set of solutions
 Answer
• Wronskian
3 pts
 Principle of Communications
• A transistor RF amplifier is required to produce 15 W of carrier power when
operating from a 12 V supply. What is the load impedance as seen from the
collector?
 Answer
• 4.8 ohms
 Antenna Theory
• A TV broadcast station has a transmitting antenna located 20 m above the
ground. What is the height above the ground of the receiving antenna 30km
from the transmitter?
 Answer
• 7.8620 m
 Wireless Communications
• What power density is required to produce electric field strength of 100 V
per meter in air?
 Answer
• 26.5252 𝑊/𝑚2
 Digital Communications
• 12 voice channels are sampled at 8000 sampling rate and encoded into 8 bit
PCM word. Determine the rate of the data stream.
 Answer
• 768 kbps
 Fiber Optics
• The numerical aperture of a optical fiber is 0.35 while the refractive index of
the core is 1.55. Find the refractive index of the cladding.
 Answer
• 1.51
 Communications Mathematics
• A charge QA = -20uC is located at A (-6, 4, 7) and a charge QB = 50 uC is at
B(5, 8, -2) in free space. Find RAB
 Answer
• RAB = 11i + 4j – 9k
 Data Communications
• An asynchronous communication system uses ASCII at 9600 bits/sec with
eight bits, one start bit, one stop bit and no parity bit. Express the data rate
in words per minute. (Assume a word has five characters or letters and one
space)
 Answer
• 9600 wpm
 Signals, Spectra and Signal Processing
• Find a0 of a function f(x) = x2 from the interval –pi < x < pi.
 Answer
• 3.2899
 Telephony and Mobile Communications
• How much time is saved if we use touch tone dialing instead of pulse dialing
to call the number 784-37-42
 Answer

• 3.25 seconds
 Transmission Lines
• A loss-free line transmission line has an inductance of 263.2 nH/m and a
capacitance of 46.8 pF/m. If the generator produces a sinusoidal voltage at
3 MHz of 2V peak, determine the phase change if the line is 3 meters long.
 Answer
• 0.66 rad/m