The encapsulation of transistor is necessary for
A. Preventing radio interference
B. Preventing photo-emission effects
C. Avoiding loss of free electrons
D. Mechanical ruggedness
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In deriving ac equivalent circuit for an amplifier circuit we short circuit
A. All resistors
B. All transistors
C. All inductors
D. All capacitors
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Thermal runaway is not possible in FET because as the temperature of FET increases
A. The mobility decreases
B. The transconductance increases
C. The drain current increases
D. None of the above
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The direction of induced e.m.f. can be found by
A. Laplace's law
B. Lenz's law
C. Fleming's right hand rule
D. Kirchhoff s voltage law
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In an iron cored coil the iron core is removed so that the coil becomes an air cored coil. The inductance of the coil will
A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Remain the same
D. Initially increase and then decrease
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A crack in the magnetic path of an inductor will result in
A. Unchanged inductance
B. Increased inductance
C. Zero inductance
D. Reduced inductance
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Consider the following statements:
A clamper circuit
1. adds or subtracts a dc voltage to or from a waveform.
2. does not change the shape of the waveform.
3. amplifies the waveform.
Which of the statements give above are correct?
Of these statements
A. 1 & 2 are correct
B. 1 & 3 are correct
C. 2 & 3 are correct
D. 1, 2 & 3 are correct
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Class-B amplifier has less efficiency compared to
A. Class-A
B. Class-AB
C. Class-C
D. Class-A, Class-AB and Class-C
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In a MOSFET operating in the saturation region, the channel length modulation effect causes
A. An increase in the gate-source capacitance
B. A decrease in the transconductance
C. A decrease in the unity-gain cut-off frequency
D. A decrease in the output resistance
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A two stage capacitor coupled CE amplifier has stages having a voltage gain of 100 each. It is known that the gain of each stage drops by 3 dB at lower cutoff frequency. What is the overall gain of the multistage amplifier at lower cutoff frequency?
A. 74 dB
B. 34 dB
C. -74 dB
D. -34 dB
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A Darlington stage is shown in the figure is, if the trans-conductance Q
1 is g
m1 and Q
2 is g
m2 , then the overall trans-conductance gm is given by
A. gm1
B. 0.5 gm1
C. gm2
D. 0.5 gm2
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The input V
i to the circuit shown in figure below is a square wave of amplitude ±1 V and frequency 100 Hz.
Assuming ideal components, the peak-to-peak amplitude of the output V
0 is:
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Which type of negative feedback is used to improve performance of current amplifier?
A. Current shunt feedback
B. Voltage shunt feedback
C. Current series feedback
D. Voltage series feedback
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For 555 astable multivibrator, if C = 0.01 µF, RA = 10 kΩ, RB = 50 kΩ, the frequency and the duty cycle will be nearly.
A. 1.6 kHz and 54.5%
B. 1.3 kHz and 54.5%
C. 1.6 kHz and 46.5%
D. 1.3 kHz and 46.5%
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The hybrid-pi model is used for:
A. analysis of BJT for feedback
B. analysis of BJT for large signal
C. analysis of BJT at low frequency
D. analysis of BJT at high frequency
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Consider an inverting amplifier with a feedback resistor R2 = 10 kΩ and an op-amp with parameters; AoL = 105 and Ri = 10 kΩ. Assuming the output resistance R0 of the op-amp is negligible, the closed-loop input resistance at the inverting terminal of an inverting amplifier will be nearly:
A. 0.4 Ω
B. 0.2 Ω
C. 0.1 Ω
D. 0.05 Ω
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A source follower (using a FET) usually has a voltage gain which is
A. Slightly less than unity, but positive
B. Greater than +1
C. Exactly unity but negative
D. About -10
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In the Hybrid-pi model for the BJT small signal analysis, rπ denotes
A. Input resistance
B. Trans conductance
C. Output resistance
D. Trans impedance
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For the circuit shown in figure, the transistor parameters are V
BE = 0.7 V , β = 99. If V
C is to be set at 7.5 V, the required value (in kΩ) of R
B is
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Which one of the following is a wide band amplifier?
A. RF amplifier
B. IF amplifier
C. Video amplifier
D. AF amplifier
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