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Diode Exercises

This document contains 18 exercises related to diode and rectifier circuits. The exercises involve determining if diodes are forward or reverse biased, calculating voltages and currents in various rectifier configurations, sizing filter capacitors and determining ripple factors, analyzing zener diode characteristics and designing zener regulator circuits. The exercises provide practice with analyzing and calculating key parameters for common power supply and voltage regulation circuits.

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Diode Exercises

This document contains 18 exercises related to diode and rectifier circuits. The exercises involve determining if diodes are forward or reverse biased, calculating voltages and currents in various rectifier configurations, sizing filter capacitors and determining ripple factors, analyzing zener diode characteristics and designing zener regulator circuits. The exercises provide practice with analyzing and calculating key parameters for common power supply and voltage regulation circuits.

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Diode Exercices

Exercice 1 :
1. Determine whether each silicon diode in figure 1.1 , and figure 1.2 is forward biased or
reserve-biased
2. Determine the voltage across each diode, assuming the practical model
3. Determine the voltage across each diode, assuming an ideal model

Figure 1.1 Figure 1.2

Exercise 2:
1. Draw the output voltage waveform for each circuit in Figure 2.1, figure 2.2 and include
the voltage values

Figure 2.1 Figure 2.2

2. What is the peak inverse voltage across each diode in Figure 2.1 and 2.2
3. Calculate the average value of a half-wave rectified voltage with a peak value of 200 V
4. What is the peak forward current through each diode in Figure 2.1 and 2.2

Exercise 3:
A power-supply transformer has a turns ratio of 5:1. What is the secondary voltage if the primary
is connected to a 120 V rms source?
Exercise 4:
Determine the peak and average power delivered to RL in Figure 4.1:
Figure 4.1

Exercise 5:
Consider the circuit in figure 5.1

Figure 5.1
1. What type of circuit is this?
2. What is the total peak secondary voltage?
3. Find the peak voltage across each half of the secondary.
4. Sketch the voltage waveform across RL.
5. What is the peak current through each diode?
6. What is the PIV for each diode?
Exercise 6:
Calculate the peak voltage across each half of a center-tapped transformer used in a full-wave
rectifier that has an average output voltage of 120 V.
Exercise 7:
What PIV rating is required for the diodes in a bridge rectifier that produces an average output
voltage of 50 V?

Exercise 8:
The rms output voltage of a bridge rectifier is 20 V. What is the peak inverse voltage across the
diodes?
Exercise 9:
A certain rectifier filter produces a dc output voltage of 75 V with a peak-to-peak ripple voltage
of 0.5 V. Calculate the ripple factor.

Exercise 10:
A certain full-wave rectifier has a peak output voltage of 30 V. A 50 F capacitor-input filter is
connected to the rectifier. Calculate the peak-to-peak ripple and the dc output voltage developed
across a 600Ω load resistance.
Exercise 11:
What value of filter capacitor is required to produce a 1% ripple factor for a full-wave rectifier
having a load resistance of 1.5 kΩ ? Assume the rectifier produces a peak output of 18 V.
Exercise 12:
A full-wave rectifier produces an 80 V peak rectified voltage from a 60 Hz ac source. If a 10µF
filter capacitor is used, determine the ripple factor for a load resistance of 10 kΩ

Exercise 13:
1. Determine the peak-to-peak ripple and dc output voltages in Figure 14.1. The transformer
has a 36 V rms secondary voltage rating, and the line voltage has a frequency of 60 Hz.
2. Refer to Figure 14.1 and draw the following voltage waveforms in relationship to the
input waveforms: VAB, VAD, and VCD. A double letter subscript indicates a voltage from
one point to another.
3. If the no-load output voltage of a regulator is 15.5 V and the full-load output is 14.9 V,
what is the percent load regulation?
4. Assume a regulator has a percent load regulation of 0.5%. What is the output voltage at
full-load if the unloaded output is 12.0 V?

Figure 14.1
Exercise 14:
A zener has an impedance of 15 Ω What is its terminal voltage at 50 mA if VZ = 4.7 V at IZ = 25
mA?
Exercise 15:
When the reverse current in a particular zener diode increases from 20 mA to 30 mA, the zener
voltage changes from 5.6 V to 5.65 V. What is the impedance of this device?
Exercise 16:
Determine the minimum input voltage required for regulation to be established in Figure 16.1.
Assume an ideal zener diode with IZK = 1.5 mA and VZ = 14 V.

Figure 16.1

Exercise 17 :
To what value must R be adjusted in Figure 17.1 to make IZ =40 mA? Assume VZ = 12 V at 30
mA and ZZ = 30 Ω.

Figure 17.1
Exercise 18 :
A loaded zener regulator is shown in Figure 18.1. VZ = 5.1 V at IZ = 49 mA, IZK = 1 mA , ZZ = 7
Ω, and IZM = 70 mA. Determine the minimum and maximum permissible load currents.

Figure 18.1

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