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The document covers various aspects of Amplitude Modulation (AM) in analog communications, including principles, expressions, and calculations related to modulation index, sideband power, and detection methods. It includes long and short answer questions that explore the theory, applications, and types of AM systems, as well as practical problems involving calculations and sketches of AM signals and their spectra. Additionally, it discusses the need for modulation and its advantages in communication systems.

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Unit-I Question Bank

The document covers various aspects of Amplitude Modulation (AM) in analog communications, including principles, expressions, and calculations related to modulation index, sideband power, and detection methods. It includes long and short answer questions that explore the theory, applications, and types of AM systems, as well as practical problems involving calculations and sketches of AM signals and their spectra. Additionally, it discusses the need for modulation and its advantages in communication systems.

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ANALOG COMMUNICATIONS

UNIT-I
Long Answer Questions:
1. a) What is the principle of Amplitude modulation? Derive expression for the AM wave
and draw its spectrum.
b) A modulating signal of 2cos5000t is amplitude modulated over a carrier signal of
5cos20000t. Find the modulation index, LSB and USB frequencies, bandwidth and the ratio
of Side Band Power to the Total Power of AM wave.
2. a) Draw and Describe an expression for AM wave and sketch its frequency spectrum.
b) A tone modulated AM-signal with a modulation index of “m” and base band signal
Frequency of m is detected using envelope detector, whose time constant is RC, for Effective
demodulation, show that (1/RC) ≥ [m wm/(√1-m2 )].
3. a) Determine η and the percentage of the total power carried by the sidebands of the AM
wave for tone modulation when (i) µ= 0.5 and (ii) µ = 0.3.
b) Describe the operation of envelope detector for AM.
4. a) List Application of different AM systems?
b) For an AM DSBFC wave with peak unmodulated carrier voltage Vc=10Vp, a load
resistance RL= 10 Ω and a modulation coefficient m = 1. Determine i) Power of carrier,
upper and lower side band ii) Total power of modulate wave iii) Total sideband power iv)
Draw the spectrum.
5. a) Show that the scheme shown in Fig. 1 can demodulate the AM signal
[A+m(t)]cos(2Πfct)

b) Sketch the AM signal [A+m(t)]cos(2Πfct) for the periodic message signal with period 2 sec
given by

m(t)= {−11, 0<t <1


,1<t <2
6. a) A carrier wave of frequency 10 MHz and peak voltage of 10 V is amplitude modulated
by a 5 kHz sine wave of amplitude 6 V. Calculate the modulation index and sketch the one-
sided spectrum of the modulated wave.
b) Explain the square law detection of AM signals.
7. a) Draw one cycle of an AM wave and calculate the modulation index in terms of Vmax
and Vmin.
b) An amplitude modulated signal represented in time domain as 4Cos (1800Πt) + 10Cos
(2000Πt) + 4Cos (2200Πt). Sketch the spectrum and calculate the band width and total
power?
8. a) What is the need for modulation? Explain.
b) For the baseband signal 𝑚(𝑡) = cos (1000𝜋𝑡), sketch the spectrum of 𝑚(𝑡) and the
spectrum of AM wave. Assume: 𝑐(𝑡) = cos (10000𝜋𝑡).
9. a) Derive the necessary expressions, waveforms, and spectrums for Amplitude Modulation
(AM). Explain AM for an arbitrary baseband signal m(t).
b) The output power of an AM transmitter is 1 kW when sinusoidally modulated to a depth of
100%. Calculate the power in each sideband when the modulation depth is reduced to 50%.
10. a) The RMS antenna current of an AM transmitter is 10 A when unmodulated and 12 A
when sinusoidally modulated. Calculate the modulation index.
b) Define communication and explain its basic block diagram. Discuss modern
communication systems.
11. a) Describe the operation of square law modulator for AM.
b) Describe the operation of switching modulator for AM.

Short Answer Questions:


1.What is modulation. Why is modulation required?
2. Define is modulation index?
3. Describe the detection of AM wave using a) square law detector b) envelope detector
4. Compare Square law detector with envelope detector?
5. Why is frequency translation required?
6. What is envelope distortion?
7. List the various types of modulations?
8. Compare different AM systems?
9. List Application of different AM systems?
10. As related to AM, what is over modulation, under modulation and 100% modulation?
11. Explain the need of modulation in communication system with one example.
12. Define amplitude modulation
13. Draw the block diagram of analog communication system.
14. What is Amplitude modulation? Define modulation index of an AM
15. As related to AM, what is over modulation, under modulation and 100% modulation? And
determine the depth of the modulation for AM transmitter which radiates 9kW without
modulation and 10.125kW after modulation.
16. What is the need for modulation? Explain the main advantages of modulation?
17. Define modulation index and percentage modulation.

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