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Electronics Tutorial

1. What do the letters NTC and PTC stand for with regards to passive components?
2. What is a varistor and what is it used for?
3. A capacitor is constructed from two conductive metal plates 30cm x 50cm which are
spaced 6mm apart from each other, and uses dry air as its only dielectric material.
Calculate the capacitance of the capacitor.
4. Describe the formation of N-type material
5. How is a PN junction created?
6. Explain the differences between a centre tapped full wave rectifier and a full wave
bridge rectifier.
7. What is the mean output current from both the half wave and full wave rectifiers.
8. What use is a Zener diode? Draw the characteristics of the zener diode
9. For an NPN transistor in common emitter mode, draw and explain the static and
output characteristics. Show which region is the cut-off, saturation and active.
10. What are the functions of the base, emitter and collector load resistors in common
emitter amplifier?
11. What is a UJT? Explain the basic operation.
12. With reference to the diagram below, R = 2KOhms, RL = 5Kohms, Vz = 12V and the
supply voltage Ei = 27V. Calculate the current through the Zener diode.

13. Explain the difference between an SCR, a Diac and a Triac.


14. Define an op-amp. Describe the purposes of he inverting and non-inverting inputs.
15. What is the function of a summing op-amp?
16. What is a 2’s compliment of a binary number?
17. Draw the truth table of a half-adder?
18. Draw the basic structure of a MOSFET.
19. What is the difference between a JFET and Bipolar Junction Transistor?
20. What are the two types of MOSFET?
22. Use a Karnaugh Map (K-Map) to simply the following Boolean expression: -
D= AB C+ A BC + A B C+ A B C+ ABC
23. Use a K-Map to simplify the following Boolean expression: -
Y =B+ A C + AC
24. Explain the difference between synchronous and non-synchronous circuit.
25. Explain the operation of a J-K Flip flop.
26. In general, a shift register can be used in anyone of four different ways. Name them.
27. Explain the following memories
i) RAM
ii) ROM
iii) PROM
iv) EPROM
28. Draw a block diagram of a microcomputer system and explain the function of each
block.
29. Add the binary numbers: 1100112 to 1011012
30. Find the 1’s complements of the following binary numbers:
a) 10110010110 b) 01101001101 c) 01110
31. What are 2's complements of the following binary numbers?
a) 10110010110, b) 01101001101, c) 01110
32. Convert the following binary numbers into their equivalent hexadecimal numbers:-
(a) 1101 0111 (b) 1010 0110 (c) 1001 1110(d) 1100 1111
33. Convert the following Hexadecimal numbers into their equivalent binary numbers
a) 23DH, b) 344CH, c) AAB5H, d) 7D2H

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