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This document defines key concepts in electronic communications and noise analysis. It covers topics like decibels, modulation, frequency conversion, noise sources, noise factor, and thermal noise calculations. The document also includes practice problems calculating things like power ratios, wavelengths, noise power, noise figure, and signal-to-noise ratios. The goal is to build understanding of fundamental electronic communications systems principles and how to analyze noise in those systems.

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Tomasi Questions

This document defines key concepts in electronic communications and noise analysis. It covers topics like decibels, modulation, frequency conversion, noise sources, noise factor, and thermal noise calculations. The document also includes practice problems calculating things like power ratios, wavelengths, noise power, noise figure, and signal-to-noise ratios. The goal is to build understanding of fundamental electronic communications systems principles and how to analyze noise in those systems.

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1-1. Define electronic communications.

1-3. Define decibel.

1-5. What is the difference between a positive and a negative decibel?

1-7. What are the three primary components of an electronic communications system?

1-9. What arc the two basic types of electronic communications systems?

1-11. What are the three properties of a sine wave that can be varied? Name the types of modulation
that result from each.

1-13. Describe the terms frequency up-conversion and frequency down-conversion.

1-15. Briefly describe the ITU's frequency band designations.

1-17. Define information capacity.

1-19. Define electrical noise.

1-21. What is meant by the terms external noise and internal noise?

1-23. What is meant by the term man-made noise? Give several examples.

1-25. Define thermal noise and describe its relationship to temperature and bandwidth.

1-27. List and describe the two most significant forms of correlated noise.

1-29. Describe the term interference and list several sources.

1-31. Define noise factor and noire figure and describe their significance.

PROBLEM SOLVING

1-1. Convert the following absolute power ratios to dB:

a. 5 0. 15 c. 25 d. 125 e. 2000 f. 10,000 g. 100.000

1-3. Convert the following decibel values to absolute ratios:

a. 26 dB 0. 2 dB. c. 43 dB d. 56 dB

1-5. Convert the following powers to dBm:

a. 0.001 µW b. 1 pW, 2 X 10-15 W C. I.4 X 10-16 W

1.7. Given a three-stage system comprised of two amplifiers and one filter with an input of P in= 0.01 mW
and absolute power gains of Ap1= 200, A p2 = 0.1. and Ap3= 1000. Determine:

a. The input power in dBm


b. Output power (Pout) in watts and dBm

c. The dB gain of each of the three stages

d. The overall gain in dB

1-9. Determine the combined power when a signal with a power level of 10 dBm is combined with a
second signal with a power level of 8 dBm.

1-11. Determine the wavelengths for the following frequencies:

a. 50 MHz b. 400 MHz c. 4 GHz d. 100 GHz

1-13. What is the effect on the information capacity of a communications channel if the bandwidth, is
halved? Doubled?

1-15. Convert the following temperatures to Kelvin: a. 17°C b. 27°C c. —17°C d. —50°C

1-17. Determine the bandwidth necessary to produce 8 x 10 7 watts of thermal power at a temperature
of 17°C.

1-19. For a nonlinear amplifier with sine wave input frequencies of 3 kHz and 5 kHz, determine first
three harmonics present in the output for each input frequency and the cross-product frequencies
produced for values of m and n of I and 2.

1-21. Determine the voltage ratios in dB for the following input and output voltages (assume equal input
and output resistance values):

a. Vin= 0.001 V, Vout = 0.01 V b. Vin = 0.1 V, Vout = 2 V c. Vin = 0.5 V, Vout = 0.25 V d. Vin = I V, Vout = 4 V

1-23. Determine the overall noise factor and noise figure for three cascaded amplifiers with the
following parameters:

A1= 3 dB

A2 13 dB

A3 = 10 dB

NF10 = 10 dB

NF2 = 6 dB

NF3 = 10 dB

1-25. For an amplifier operating at a temperature of 27°C with a bandwidth of 20 kHz, determine

a. The total noise power in watts and dBm.

b. The rms noise voltage (Vn) for a 50- internal resistance and a 50-load resistor.
1-27. Determine the noise figure for an equivalent noise temperature of 1000 K (use 290 K for the
reference temperature).

1-29. Determine the noise figure for an amplifier with an input signal-to-noise ratio of 100 and an output
signal-to-noise ratio of 50.

1-31. Calculate the input signal-to-noise ratio for an amplifier with an output signal-to-noise ratio of 16
dB and a noise figure of 5.4 dB.

1-33. Determine the thermal noise voltages for components operating at the following temperatures,
bandwidths, and equivalent resistances:

a. T = —50°C, B = 50 kHz, and R =50 

b. T= 100°C, B = 10 kHz. and R = 100 

c. T = 50°C, B = 500 kHz, and R = 72 

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