Section-A
SINGLE AND MULTISTAGE AMPLIFIERS:
Classification of amplifiers, distortion in amplifiers, frequency response of an amplifier,
step response of an amplifier, pass-band of cascaded stages, RC-coupled amplifier, low
frequency response of RC coupled stage, effect of an emitter bypass capacitor on low
Frequency response, multistage CE amplifier .
FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS :
Feedback concept, transfer gain with feedback, general characteristics of negative
feedback amplifiers, input resistance, output resistance, voltage series feedback, current
series feedback, current shunt feedback, voltage shunt feedback.
Section-B
OSCILLATORS:
Sinusoidal oscillators, Barkhausen criteria, R-C phase shift oscillator, general form of
oscillator circuit, wien-bridge oscillator, crystal oscillator.
Section-C
POWER AMPLIFIERS:
Class A, B, and C operations; Class A large signal amplifiers, higher order harmonic
distortion, efficiency, transformer coupled power amplifier, class B amplifier : efficiency
& distortion; class A and class B push-pull amplifiers; class C power amplifier.
OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS :
Ideal and practical operational amplifiers, inverting and non-inverting amplifier,
differential amplifier, emitter coupled differential amplifier, transfer characteristics of a
differential amplifier, offset error : voltage and current, common mode rejection ratio
(CMRR) .
Section-D
LINEAR APPLICATIONS OF OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS :
Scale changer, phase shifter, adder, voltage to current converter, current to voltage
converter, DC voltage follower, Bridge amplifier, AC coupled amplifier, AC voltage
follower, Integrator, differentiator.
NON-LINEAR APPLICATIONS OF OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS :
Comparators, sample & hold circuits, Logarithmic amplifier, anti-log amplifier,
logarithmic multiplier, waveform generators , Miller & Bootstrap sweep generators,
regenerative comparator (Schmitt Trigger), multivibrators, ADC.