Short Answer Questions:

Unit 1
1. What is peaking?
2. What do you mean by linear wave shaping?
3. What is the relation between rise time and upper 3-db frequency?
4. What are upper 3 db frequency, lower 3-db frequency, and band width of Low
pass and high pass circuits?
5. Define rise time and tilt.
6. What is the relation between lower 3-db frequency and % tilt in the high pass
circuit?
7. Define transmission error?
8. Show that high pass RC network act as a differentiator.
9. Show that low pass RC network act as an Integrator.
10. What are the conditions for perfect compensation, over compensation, and under
compensation?
Long Answer Questions:
Unit 1
11. Explain the operation of a low pass RC circuit excited by a Square wave input.
12. Explain the operation of of a low pass RC circuit excited by a step input and also
determine rise time.
13. Explain the response of High-pass RC circuit for square wave input and obtain
expression for % tilt?
14. Explain the response of High-pass RC circuit for step signal as input.
15. Explain about attenuators. What are the conditions for compensation.
16. Discuss about application of attenuator as a CRO probe.
17. Discuss the output of RLC series circuit for step input.
18. Explain RL circuit response for step input?
19. Explain the response of high pass circuit for ramp input and obtain expression for
transmission error.
20. Draw the output response of low pass and high pass RC circuit to the pulse input
for different values of RC.
21. Derive the output expression for ramp input in case of Low pass RC circuit and
derive the expression for transmission error.

Short Answer Questions:

Unit 2
1. What do you mean by single ended clipping and double ended clipping?
2. What do you mean by nonlinear wave shaping?
3. Compare between comparator and clipping circuit.
4. Construct the circuit diagram of two independent levels Clipper.
5. Summarize clamping circuit theorem.
 6. Discuss the effect of source resistance and diode resistances on clamping circuits.
7. How many nonlinearities exist in a transistor, and when these nonlinearities
occur?
8. How many nonlinearities exist in a diode, and when these nonlinearities occur?
9. Explain practical clamping circuit
10. What is Synchronized clamping?
11. Show diode as a switch.

Long Answer Questions:

Unit 2

12. Illustrate the operation of shunt positive clipper with and without reference
voltage
13. Illustrate the operation of positive Clamper for a sine wave as input signal.
14. Illustrate the operation of negative Clamper for a sine wave as input signal.
15. Illustrate the operation of double diode clipper and sketch waveform for sinusoidal input.
16. Explain about transistor clipper.
17. Discuss about Comparator and applications of voltage comparator.
18. Discuss about switching times of a diode with neat diagrams
19. State and prove clamping circuit theorem
20. Explain about practical clamping circuit with neat circuit diagrams.
21. Explain the effect of diode characteristics on clamping voltage.