Exam 31: Transistor Amplifiers

______________ amplifiers are often used in high frequency equipment.

Which transistor configuration provides a high voltage and power gain, but a current gain of less than one?

An emitter bypass capacitor provides a low-impedance path for dc signals between the emitter terminal and ground.

The voltage gain of an emitter follower is approximately

The biasing of a transistor deals specifically with ______________ voltages and currents.

In the CE configuration, what provides a low-impedance path for ac signals between the emitter terminal and ground?

Adding a swamping resistor to the emitter circuit increases distortion considerably.

The common-collector has a

The output impedance of a CE amplifier equals the value of the collector resistor, but does not include the load resistor.

The input signal applied to a linear amplifier should be large enough to shift the instantaneous operating point to either saturation or cutoff.

Any impedance in the emitter circuit of a CE amplifier appears greater by a factor of beta when viewed from the base.

The ratio of an ac collector current to ac base current is called the ac ______________.

The power gain of a CE amplifier equals A_V times A_i.

Which transistor configuration has the best high frequency response and also has a low input impedance that approximates the 50 ? rf-circuitry antennas?

In the ac analysis of a common-base amplifier, all coupling capacitors are treated as

When analyzing a common-emitter amplifier, it is common practice to represent the emitter diode as a(n)

The biasing of a transistor deals specifically with ac voltages and currents.

The common-base amplifier provides a high voltage and power gain, but the current gain is ______________ 1.

One way to significantly reduce the variations in A_V caused by changes in equivalent ac resistance is to add a swamping resistor in the emitter circuit.

In most cases, the emitter follower does not use biasing resistors because the