After conducting experiment 7 entitled “Feedback Amplifier”, we were
able to gather the following data and results: Based from the gathered values on the DC Voltages table, we can say that the circuit is properly biased since the base-emitter is forward biased and the base-collector is in reverse bias. From comparison of AC Gain Values on table 7-1b, we can say that the circuit without a Series Feedback has higher AC gain value than the circuit with a Series Feedback, this is because the circuit without a Series Feedback has a higher voltage output. The ac gain of the circuit with a series feedback amplifier is decreased significantly since some of the output signal has been transferred to the input signal. The circuit without series feedback amplifier has a lower cut-off frequency. The circuit with a series feedback amplifier has the higher cut-off frequency. The shunt capacitances limit the high-frequency response of the amplifier, thus the presence of the resistor R2 indicates that the amplifier uses shunt feedback. With the highest and lowest cut-off, greater range of frequency was observed. It increased the bandwidth of the amplifier. The second part consist of a shunt feedback amplifier, comparing the effect of series feedback amplifier, there is a decrease on ac gain on the circuit with a Shunt Feedback. A circuit with a shunt feedback on the frequency response is the same with the series feedback, although with shunt feedback, lower ac gain was observed in the cut-offs. Higher gain in the circuit without shunt, lower cut off frequency is on the shunt and higher cut off frequency is on the with shunt. For the graphs, there is a 180degree phase inversion on the input and output for both series and shunt feedback. Conclusion
After conducting the experiment entitled Feedback Amplifier and
gathering data and results, the following can be concluded: For a circuit, we can determine that the amplifier uses a series feedback by observing the component present, whereas for this part a bypass capacitor is located at the emitter side of the transistor. While to determine that the amplifier uses a shunt feedback, it was observed that a resistor is directly connected from the input to the output. When a series feedback is connected on the circuit, the ac gain decreased significantly since some of the output signal has been transferred to the input signal, thus output voltage is lower for a circuit with a series feedback resulting to a lower ac gain value. This is also the same for a shunt feedback. The result of feedback on the upper frequency response of an amplifier is that it increased greatly. The effect of feedback on the lower frequency is that it decreased so greatly to the point that the bandwidth is almost equivalent to the upper cut-off frequency. The application of feedback in an amplifier resulted to an increase in the operating bandwidth for both series and shunt feedback amplifiers. But shunt feedback amplifier yields greater operating bandwidth in comparison with that of a series feedback amplifier.