EXERCISE (CHAPTER 2)

1. Calculate the average value of a half wave rectified voltage with a peak value of 200V.
2. Determine the peak and average power delivered to RL in Figure 1.

Figure 1
3. Consider the circuit in Figure 2
(a) What type of circuit is this?
(b) What is the total peak secondary voltage?
(c) Find the peak voltage across each half of the secondary.
(d) Sketch the waveform across RL
(e) What is the peak current through each diode?
(f) What is the PIV for each diode?

Figure 2

4. A certain full wave rectifier has a peak output voltage of 30V. A 50µF capacitor-input
filter is connected to the rectifier. Calculate the ripple factor for a load resistance of
600Ω.
5. What value of filter capacitor required to produce 1% ripple factor for a full wave
rectifier having a load resistance of 1.5kΩ. Assume the rectifier produces a peak output
of 18V.
6. Determine the ripple factor of Bridge rectifier in Figure 3. The transformer has a 36Vrms
secondary voltage rating and the line voltage has a frequency of 60Hz.

Figure 3

7. Assume a regulator has a percent load regulation of 0.5%. What is the output voltage at
full load if the unloaded output is 12V?
8. Determine the output waveform for the circuit in Figure 4.

Figure 4
9. Determine the output voltage waveform for each circuit below.

(a) (b)
 (c) (d)

(e) (f)
Figure 5

10. Determine the RL voltage waveform for each of the circuit in Figure 6.

(a)

(b)
 (c)
Figure 6
11. Draw the output voltage waveform for each circuit in Figure 7.

(a)

(b)
Figure 7
12. Determine the output waveform for each circuit in Figure 8.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)
Figure 8