MODULE 2

Question
Sl. No. Question
Marks
1 What are the transistor parameters that vary with the temperature? 2
2 What is a Q-point? 2
3 What are the types of biasing? 2
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What are all the factors that affect the stability of the operating point? 2

5 Why is voltage divider bias commonly used in amplifier circuit? 2

6 Define the stability factors. 2
7 What is Thermal runaway? Explain briefly. 2
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Based on the transistor configuration how amplifiers are classified. 2

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Write the Hybrid parameters equations for transistor amplifier in low 2
frequency operation?

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Derive relationship between α and β. 2
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What are the advantages of hybrid parameters? 2

12 What is meant by unity gain frequency, fT?

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What is meant by 3-dB upper cut-off frequency, f β ? 2

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What is meant by gain-bandwidth product of an amplifier ? 2

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What is load line? Explain it’s significance. 2

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What is the desired position of the Q-point for a minimum distortion and 2
why?
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Define the hybrid-parameters for a basic transistor circuit in any 2
configuration.

18 What are the dependent and independent variables in a common emitter

transistor configuration. Explain with circuit diagram. 2
19 In a voltage-divider-bias circuit, R1 = 82 kΩ, R2 = 16kΩ, RL = 2.2 kΩ, Re
= 750 Ω , VCC = 22V, VBE =0.7V and β= 100. Determine the operating 2
point. (Neglect Ico).
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What is a tuned amplifier? In which range of frequewncies are tuned 2
amplifiers used?

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What are audio, video and radio frequency amplifiers? Which among them 2
are tuned and which are untuned?

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An n-p-n transistor is used as a CE amplifier and has a collector-to-base 2
arrangement. Given, β = 99, VBE = 0.7V, Vcc = 12V, RL = 2kΩ, and RB =
100kΩ. Find out the values of the three stability factors.

23 An n-p-n transistor with α = 0.98 is operated in the CB configuration. If

the emitter current is 3 mA and the reverse saturation current is IC0 = 10 2
µA, what are the base current and the collector current?

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The mid-band voltage gain of an RC-coupled amplifier is 150. The gain is 2
50 at a frequency of 40Hz and 60 at a frequency of 500Hz. Find the
bandwidth of the amplifier.

25 What is the function of blocking and bypass capacitors in a BJT amplifier?

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QB Question
Question
Sl. No. Marks
1 Define biasing of BJT and explain need for biasing. 5
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4 A Ge transistor with β = 49 is connected in a self-biasing arrangement. Given,
Vcc = 10V, RL = 1kΩ, VCE = 5V, Ic = 4.9 mA, VBE = 0.3V. The stability factor S
is desired to be 10. Obtain the values of R1, R2 & RE.

6 In a collector-to-base bias circuit RL = 1.5kΩ, RB = 150kΩ, Vcc = 10V, VBE =

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0.7V, β = 50. Calculate Ic neglecting Ico.
7 In a collector-to-base bias circuit RL = 1.5kΩ, RB = 150kΩ, Vcc = 10V, VBE =
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0.7V, β = 50. If β is doubled what is the effect on Ic?
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12 How h-parameters can be determined from transistor characteristic curve. Explain

with example. 5
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Draw the circuit of a fixed-bias circuit and derive the expressions of the stability 5
factors for fixed bias configuration.

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Explain the voltage divider bias and derive expressions for Q-point parameters of 5
BJT amplifier.

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Define amplification, gain, frequency response, bandwidth & input and output 5
impedance as applicable to amplifier.

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An Amplifier has an open-loop gain of 100 and its lower and upper-cut-off
frequency of 100 Hz and 100 kHz respectively, a feedback network with a
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feedback factor of 0.99 is connected to the amplifier. What are the new lower-and
upper-cut-off frequencies ?

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Sl. No. Question
Marks
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3 In the CE amplifier circuit of figure below, R1, = 72 kΩ, R2 = 8kΩ, RL = 10
2kΩ, Re = 700Ω, Rc = 2 kΩ, and Vcc = 15 V, Assume β= 120 and VBE = 0.7
V. (i) Draw the dc load line and find the Q-point. (ii) Draw the ac load line.
(ii) If the input ac signal vi, has the amplitude of l mV, find the amplitude of
the output voltage V0. Take the input resistance of the amplifier, Rin= 1.5 kΩ.
All the capacitors act as ac shorts.

4 In the fixed-bias circuit of a transistor, Vcc =15 V, RB = 300 kΩ, and RL = 10

2kΩ. If β= 100, Ico = 20 nA and VBE = 0.7 V, determine IB, Ic and VCE. Also,
find the stability factor of the Q-point with respect to Ico.
5 A CE transistor amplifier is characterized by hie = 2 kΩ, hre = 2 x 10-4, hfe = 10
50, and hoe = 20x 10-6A/V. If the load resistance is 4kΩ and the source
resistance is 200Ω determine the input resistance, the output resistance, and
the voltage, current and power gains.
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What are the diode compensation techniques used for bias stability? Explain 10
with neat diagrams.

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Derive expressions for the input impedance, output impedance, voltage gain 10
and current gain of the common emitter amplifier in terms of h- parameters for
the fixed bias condition?
8 Find the transistor currents in the circuit of Fig. (a) and the Q-point in the
circuit of Fig. (b). In both the cases, assume Ico <<Ic, β= 100, and VBE= 0.7 10
V. What is the role of C in Fig. (b)?

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For the transistor amplifier shown in following figure, R1 = 10 k Ω , R2 = 5 k 10
Ω , RC = 1 k Ω , RE = 2 k Ω and RL = 1 k Ω.

(i) Draw dc load line (ii) Determine the operating point

(iii) Draw ac load line.

Assume VBE = 0.7 V.

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For the following transistor amplifier circuit, determine:

(a) AC emitter resistance re. 10

(b) Input impedance, Zi.
(c) Output impedance, Zo.
(d) Voltage gain, Av.
(e) Current gain, Ai
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Determine the cutoff frequencies for the network below using the following
parameters: Cs = 10 µF, CE = 20 µF, CC = 1 µF R1 = 40 Kohm, R2 = 10 Kohm,
RE = 2 Kohm, RC = 4 Kohm, RL = 2.2 Kohm, β = 100, ro = ∞, VCC = 20 V
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