These questions will be taken entirely from Lessons 14-23. You will find a .pdf file of all Lecture and Lab handouts from these Lessons on the web page. You can search the entire pdf file for the answers.
CIE-10 Midterm 2


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1: What was the approximate PEAK-TO-PEAK voltage output of the MagLev "wall wart" power supply?
12 volts
24 volts
36 volts
48 volts
2: The maximum current for the LED in the MagLev project is
10 mA
20 mA
30 mA
40 mA
3: A 1N5240B is a
5 volt zener diode
a silicon switching diode
a bipolar transistor
a 10 volt zener diode
4: A 1N5240B is
less expensive at Mouser
less expensive at DigiKey
less expensive at Radio Shack
very expensive anywhere
5: The striped end of a diode is
the anode
the collector
the cathode
the base
6: The input to an amplifier is 350 millivolts and the output is 9.2 volts. The gain is
14 dB
28 dB
31 dB
38 dB
7: The RC time constant of a 150 kohm resistor and a 33 nanofarad capacitor is
2 microseconds
5 microseconds
5 milliseconds
10 milliseconds
8: After how many time constants do we say that the capacitor voltage is equal to the battery voltage?
1
3
5
7
9: If I have a low pass filter with a 150 kohm resistor and a 33 nanofarad capacitor, the corner frequency will be
16 Hz
32 Hz
64 Hz
128 Hz
10: An "octave" is
10 musical notes
10:1 in frequency
6 musical notes
2:1 in frequency
11: What was the corner frequency of the low pass filter in Lab 15?
80 Hz
160 Hz
320 Hz
640 Hz
12: What was the approximate -20 dB frequency of the low pass filter in Lab 15?
800 Hz
1600 Hz.
3200 Hz
6400 Hz.
13: Phase is measured in _________ and delay is measured in __________.
degrees, time
time, degrees
microseconds, radians
divisions, squirds
14: A single RC low pass filter has __________ degrees of phase shift at the corner frequency
0
22
45
135
15: The greek letter "omega" (w) is
the natural resonance of a circuit
Xc times Xl
parallel resonance
2 * pi * frequency
16: In a resonant circuit, series impedance is ___________ and parallel impedance is ____________.
high, low
low, high
inductive
capacitive
17: A 200 microhenry inductor and a 47 picofarad capacitor will resonate
1.6 MHz.
800 kHz.
160 kHz.
16 MHz.
18: An unknown inductor and a 100 nanofarad capacitor resonate at 32 kHz.
The capacitor is in series resonance
The inductor is 250 millihenries
The inductor is a J. W. Miller 5254
The question cannot be answered from the data given
19: In it's simplest form, an NPN transistor can be thought of as
two diodes in series nose-to-tail
two back to back diodes
a diode in series with a capacitor
A unipolar silicon crystal
20: To make N type material, you can dope silicon with
germanium
Group 3 elements
gallium arsenide
Group 5 elements
21: In a normally operating bipolar transistor, the B-E junction is ____________ biased and the B-C junction is ___________ biased
reverse, forward
forward, forward
forward, reverse
reverse, reverse
22: Typical beta for a 2N2222 transistor would be
5
150
400
1200
23: The collector reverse voltage breakdown in a small signal transistor is around
5 volts
15 volts
50 volts
500 volts
24: Transistors can act as
detectors or antennas
inherent voltage regulators
multipliers and dividers
amplifiers or switches
25: Collector current is 9 mA. Base current is 56 microamperes.
Beta is 160
Beta is 6.2
Gain is 24 dB
The transistor is oscillating
26: In an NPN transistor
The collector-base junction is forward biased
The emitter arrow Never Points iN
The base voltage is always 0.6 volts below the emitter
The emitter arrow points towards the base
27: Beta in small signal transistors
is constant no matter the collector current
peaks somewhere around 1 to 10 mA of collector current
is the ratio of collector to emitter currents
is measured by reverse biasing the base-emitter junction
28: A "boffin" is a
dc blocking capacitor in a power supply
microwave radar vacuum tube
British radio expert
high gain radio antenna
29: A two-port amplifier
has goesintas and goesoutas
does not need a power supply
has less output signal than input signal
is always made from PNP transistors
30: A common emitter amplifier has Rc = 470 ohms, Re = 15 ohms, and Ic = 5 mA. Voltage gain is
31
cannot be determined from data given
-30 dB
23
31: When using a "bleeder" type base bias scheme in a bipolar transistor amplifier,
bleeder configuration is not used in bipolar transistor amplifiers
bleeder resistor current is ten times base current
bleeder current is set to equal base current
bleeder current is one-tenth the base current
32: Common collector configuration has
infinite output resistance
low input resistance
high input resistance and low output resistance
good shielding between input and output
33: In lab 18, the base voltage was
1.6 volts
8.4 volts
10 volts
0 volts
34: In lab 18, the emitter voltage was
10 volts
2.2 volts
1 volt
0 volts
35: For a 2N4401 (lecture 19) the collector-emitter voltage with a collector current of 1 mA and a base current of 100 microamperes will be (use figure 16 of the curves on page 7)
10 volts
5 volts
1 volt
less than 0.1 volts
36: A "perfect" amplifier would have
zero input impedance
infinite gain
infinite output impedance
narrow bandwidth
37: In an op-amp, we stabilize the device by "throwing away gain" by the use of
positive feedback
phase inversion
instability modules
negative feedback
38: The common LF351 op-amp has an open loop gain of about
10
50,000
300,000
1,000,000
39: Using the configuration shown on page 3 of Lecture 20, with Rf = 1 Mohm, Ri = 330 kohm, and Rx = 100 kohm, the gain from input to output is
3
4
30
100
40: The (+) input on an op amp is the
positive power supply
negative power supply
inverting input
noninverting input
41: See the data sheet on the LF351 in Lab 20. The gain bandwidth is
4 MHz.
10^12 ohms
0.02%
50 Hz.
42: MOS stands for
micro-oscillating-selenium
many-old-socks
metal-oxide-semiconductor
more-of the-same
43: Field-effect transistors may be constructed
positive or negative
enhancement or depletion
n-channel or q-channel
with zero input impedance
44: The prime parameter for a FET is
beta
reverse breakdown
drain voltage
Gm or Gfs
45: The voltage gain of a FET as compared to a corresponding bipolar transistor is
about the same
higher
lower
zero
46: One way of limiting the high frequency response of an op amp is to
put a capacitor across the feedback resistor
raise the supply voltage
put a load resistor from output to ground
increase the value of the input coupling resistor
47: In lab 22, using the resistor values as shown, the gain from input to output is
4.7
21.3
22.3
Rf divided by Rload
48: One way of increasing the opamp power output is by
decreasing the opamp power supply voltage
increasing the value of the input coupling capacitor
using a bipolar emitter follower
decreasing the level of the input signal
49: The equations for determining the resistor values in an opamp bandpass filter are
not determined by the gain of the filter
such that exponential math must be used
relatively simple
relatively complex
50: 166 kilohm 5% resistors are made from
niobium
unobtanium
beryllium
plutonium

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