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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Second Semester B. Tech - ELC
Continuous Assessment I – January 2025
23ELC112Electronic Devices and Circuits
Duration: 20 Minutes Maximum: 10 Marks
1. Find the applied voltage on a forward biased diode if the current is 1mA and reversesaturation current
is 10-10A. Temperature is 25°C and takes ideality factor as 1.5.
a) 0.658V
b) 0.726V
c) 0.526V
d) 0.618V
2. For the series diode configuration given in the figure, determine VD, VR, and ID.
a) 0.7V, 5.7V and 2mA
b) 0.7V, 4.3V and 3.5mA
c) 0.7V, 4.3V and 1.95mA
d) 0.7V, 5.7V and 5mA
3. Determine the maximum wattage rating of the diode.
a) 320mW
b) 1.6mW
c) 32mW
d) 160mW
4. An a.c. voltage of peak value 20 V is connected in series with a silicon diode and load resistance of
500 Ω. find (i) peak current through diode (ii) peak output voltage if the diode is assumed to be ideal?
a) 40mA, 20V
b) 37.8mA, 18.9V
c) 35mA, 15V
d) 40mA, 10V
5. The Zener diode has a breakdown voltage of 50V. Supply voltage varies from 80V to 120V. What are
the minimum and maximum Zener currents with Rs= ?
a) 6mA, 14mA
b) 1mA, 9mA
c) 5mA, 12mA
d) 4mA, 11mA
6. Calculate the Zener current for the voltage regulator circuit with a Zener voltage of 5.6 V.
a) 6mA
b) 7.2mA
c) 17mA
d) 10mA
7. If the output of a voltage regulator varies from 15 to 14.7 V between the minimum and maximum load
current, the load regulation is
a) 0
b) 1%
c) 2%
d) 5%
8. In a half wave rectifier, the sine wave input is 50sin50t. If the load resistance is of 1K, then average
DC power output will be?
a) 3.99W
b) 2.5W
c) 0.25W
d) 0.699W
9. If the peak voltage on a centre tapped full wave rectifier circuit is 5V and diode cut in voltage is 0.7.
The peak inverse voltage on diode is_________
a) 4.3V
b) 9.3V
c) 5.7V
d) 10.7V
10. A full wave rectifier uses load resistor of 1500Ω. Assume the diodes have Rf=10Ω, Rr=∞. The voltage
applied to diode is 30V with a frequency of 50Hz. Calculate the AC power input.
a) 368.98mW
b) 275.2mW
c) 145.76mW
d) 456.78mW