1. When matching polarity connections have been made and the potential difference (PD) is above 0.7 V, the diode is considered to be:
2. In a power supply diagram, which block indicates a smooth dc output?
3. If a 169.7 V half-wave peak has an average voltage of 54 V, what is the average of two full-wave peaks?
4. What is the current through the LED?
5. The characteristic curve for the complex model of a silicon diode shows that
6. Since diodes are destroyed by excessive current, circuits must have:
7. A diode for which you can change the reverse bias, and thus vary the capacitance is called a
8. A filtered full-wave rectifier voltage has a smaller ripple than does a half-wave rectifier voltage for the same load resistance and capacitor values because:
9. Testing a good diode with an ohmmeter should indicate
10. The peak inverse voltage (PIV) across a nonconducting diode in a bridge rectifier equals approximately:
11. What is the current through the diode?
12. Electrons in the outermost orbit or shell of an atom are called
13. Shunting the ac component away from the load is the task of a:
14. A pn junction allows current flow when
15. What is the current through the zener diode?
16. When a diode is forward biased, the voltage across it
17. Why is heat produced in a diode?
18. The arrow in the schematic symbol of a diode points to
19. The diode schematic arrow points to the:
20. When checking a diode, low resistance readings both ways indicate the diode is:
21. In a diode schematic, the anode is represented by a(n):
22. An IC regulator receives an overload; it will:
23. With full-wave rectification, current through the load resistor must be:
24. A characteristic curve is the result of a current versus voltage plot of diode activity, which begins at the: