23-Mechatronics-A2 Circuits and Electronics
Worked solutions to 2 past sittings (2018–2019), 22 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Equivalent resistance (2 sittings): December 2019 Q1 · December 2018 Q1
- First-order RC switching transient (2 sittings): December 2019 Q3 · December 2018 Q3
- Gain (2 sittings): December 2019 Q8 · December 2018 Q9
- Laplace-domain solution (2 sittings): December 2019 Q6 · December 2018 Q6
- Maximum power transfer (2 sittings): December 2019 Q4 · December 2018 Q4
Questions by sitting
December 2019
- Question 1: Ladder network — equivalent resistance and branch voltage
- Question 2: Node-voltage equations with a dependent source
- Question 3: First-order RC switching transient
- Question 4: AC bridge — Thévenin equivalent and maximum power transfer
- Question 5: Superposition in an AC parallel network
- Question 6: Second-order series RLC switching, Laplace-domain solution
- Question 7: Part B — Electronics
- Question 8: Common-source MOSFET amplifier — bias design and gain
- Question 9: Slew-rate-limited unity-gain follower
- Question 10: CMOS inverter voltage transfer characteristic
- Question 11: Op-amp/diode circuits — output waveform sketches
December 2018
- Question 1: Bridge network — equivalent resistance, current, power
- Question 2: Superposition theorem
- Question 3: First-order RC switching transient
- Question 4: Thévenin equivalent with a dependent source, maximum power transfer
- Question 5: AC nodal analysis and power supplied by a source
- Question 6: Second-order RLC switching, Laplace-domain solution
- Question 7: Op-amp T-feedback network — output offset and small-signal gain
- Question 8: Full-wave diode-bridge rectifier with capacitive filter
- Question 9: Common-gate MOSFET amplifier — gain, input and output resistance
- Question 10: Enhancement-load NMOS inverter — voltage transfer characteristic
- Question 11: BJT bias-point analysis, five sub-circuits