MUTARE POLY ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT
FEC INNOVATION BASED ASSIGNMENT Date: 12/04/26
TITLE:Design a single stage BJT common emitter voltage
amplifier with potential divider bias and capacitor coupling.
Section A: Amplifier knowledge
Answer the following questions
(a)Dfine the terms:
(i)Amplifier (2)
(ii)bandwidth (2)
(ii)Cutoff frequency (2)
(iv)Q- factor (2)
(v)Negative feedback (2)
(b)List any ways of classifying amplifiers (10)
(c)Give the methods of coupling amplifiers (6)
(d)State the advantages of using gain in d
capacitor transformer direct
Frequency responds
cost
Space and weight
Impedance matching
Section B
(a)Find the gain in dB: (i)voltage gain of 30 (3)
(ii)power gain of 100 (3)
(b)An amplifier has a voltage gain of 15dB. If the input signal
is 0,8V, find the output voltage (4)
(c)Inan amplifier the maximum voltage gain is 2000 and
occurs at 2kHz. It falls to 1414 at 10kHz and [Link]:
(i)bandwidth (3)
(ii)lower cutoff frequency (3)
(iii)upper cutoff frequency (3)
(iv)draw the frequency – gain response curve (4)
(d)A power amplifier supplies 50W to an 8Ω [Link]:
(i)ac output voltage (3)
(ii)ac output current (3)
(e)Write the expression for efficiency (3)
Section C
(a)Draw the circuit diagram of the BJT amplifier (10)
(b)List the function of each of the components (7)
(c)For the amplifier explain how circuit stability is achieved
(5)
(d)Describe thermal runaway using a block diagram (5)