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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

CHAPTER 10 AMPLIFIER FREQUENCY RESPONSE

CHAPTER 10
AMPLIFIER FREQUENCY RESPONSE


1. The frequency at which the output power drops to one-half of its midrange value
Corner frequency

2. At the critical frequencies the output voltage is 70.7% of its midrange value. What is the value of voltage gain in dB?
-3 dB

3. What is the other term for lower critical frequency?
All of the above

4. The condition where the gain is down 3 dB is logically called _________ of the amplifier response
-3 dB point

5. The upper and lower dominant critical frequencies are sometimes called
Half-power frequencies

6. A characteristic of an amplifier in which the product of the voltage gain and the bandwidth is always constant when the roll-off is -20 dB/ decade.
Gain-bandwidth product

7. Critical frequencies are values of frequency at which the RC circuits reduce the voltage gain to ____________ of its midrange value.
70.7%

8. An octave of frequency change is a ________ -times change
2

9. Which of the following has no effect on the low-frequency response?
Internal transistor capacitances

10. What is the gain that occurs for the range of frequencies between the lower and upper critical frequencies?
Midrange gain
11. Which of the following is not a method in frequency response measurement?
Roll-off measurement

12. If the voltage gain is less than one, what is the value of the dB gain?
Negative

13. A plot of dB voltage gain versus frequency on semilog graph paper
Bode plot

14. The critical frequency at which the curve “breaks” into a -20dB/decade drop
Lower break frequency

15. The change in gain or phase shift over a specified range of input signal frequencies
Frequency response

16. A unit of logarithmic gain measurement and is commonly used to express amplifier response
Decibel

17. The lower and upper critical frequencies of an amplifier can be determined using the _____________ method by applying a voltage step to the input of the amplifier and measuring the rise and fall times of the resulting output voltage
Step-response method

18. The coupling an bypass capacitors of an amplifier affect the _________ frequency response: high or low
Low

19. The internal transistor capacitances affect the _________ frequency response: high or low
High

20. Two frequency response measurement
Frequency/amplitude and step

21. The Miller input and output capacitances for a BJT inverting amplifier depends on
Voltage gain

22. When dB is negative, it is usually called_______
Attenuation

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