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CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS
Q1 Can there be a hole current in the connecting wires of a diode circuit?
Q 2 Why is Zener diode always reverse-connected across the supply?
Q 3 What is the difference between ordinary diode and Zener diode?
Q4 Why is the output frequency of a full wave rectifier twice the Input Frequency?
Q 5 What is the basic condition for the proper function of transistor as an amplifier?
Q6 Why is the base of a transistor made thin and lightly doped?
Q7 A transistor has low input impedance and high output impedance Why?
Q 8 What will happen to base current if the base of the transistor is Made thick?
Q9 Why are most of the transistors npn and not pnp?
Q10 Why is collector of a transistor made wider than emitter and base?
Q11 what causes a transistor to be damaged?
Q12 why do we prefer germanium diodes in low voltage applications
Q13 Can emitter and collector of a transistor can be interchanged .?
Q14 Can two p-n junction diode placed back to back work as p-n-p transistor.?
Q15 Name the p-n junction diode which emit spontaneous radiations when forward
biased?
Q16 Can we measure the potential barrier of a p-n junction by putting a sensitive
voltmeter across its terminals?
Q17 Why base region is made then and slightly doped?
Q18 Which device is used as voltage regulator?
Q19 How does the collector current change in the junction transistor if the
base region is of larger width?
Q.20 Why s a potential barrier created as soon as the p-n junction formed?
Q.21 Change of 0.2mA in the base current causes a change of 5mA in the
collector current for a common emitter amplifier.
(i) Find the A.C. Current gain of the transistor?
(ii) If the input resistance 2k ohm and its voltage gain is 75. Calculate the wave
resistor used in the circuit?
Q22 Zener diodes have higher dopant densities as compared to ordinary p-n junction
diodes. How does it affect the(i)Width of the depletion layer? (ii) Junction field?
Q23 Input signals A and B are applied to the input terminals of the dotted box set-up
shown here. Let Y be the final output signal from the box. Draw the wave forms of
the signals labelled as C1 and C2 within the box, giving (in brief) the reasons for
getting these wave forms. Hence draw the wave form of the final output signal Y.
Give reasons for your choice. What can we state (in words) as the relation
between the final output signal Y and the input signals A and B ?

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Q24 Using a suitable combination from a NOR, an OR and a NOT gate, draw circuits to
obtain the truth table given
below:

25 An unknown input (A) and the input (B) shown here, are used as the two inputs in a
NAND gate. The output Y, has the form shown below. Identify the intervals over
which the input A must be low.

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