UNIT-I: AMPLITUDE MODULATION

Objective Type Questions

1. The process of varying the parameters of high frequency signal according to low-
frequency signal is ___
2. The Bandwidth of Amplitude Modulation is ___
a) ωm b) ωm/2 c) ωm/4 d)2 ωm
3. The total transmitted power of Amplitude Modulation is ___
4. The efficiency of AM is ___
5. The AM is useful for ___
6. The disadvantage of AM is ___
7. By suppressing carrier component from AM wave, we have ___
a) SSB b) VSB c) DSB-SC d) None
8. The most useful detection method for the Detection of Modulating signal from AM is ___
9. AM is compared with following FM technique
a) NBFM b) WBFM c) Both d) None
10. If the Modulation index ‘m’ of AM is 0.4 then what is the % of Modulation is ___
a) 50% b) 80% c) 20% d) 40%
11. Two modulating signals are modulated simultaneously with modulation indices 0.4 and
0.6 then the resultant Modulation index of AM is ___.
a) 0.72 b) 0.73 c) 0.5 d) 0.6
12. The condition for AM is ___
a) Modulation index is greater than one b) Modulation index is less than one
c) Modulation index is equal to one d) modulation index is less than or equal to
one
13. The percentage of Modulation of AM is 60% what is the Modulation index
a) 0.3 b) 0.6 c) 0.4 d) 0.2
14. The modulation index AM with carrier voltage Vc and modulating Voltage Vm is ___
a) Ka Vm/Vc b) Ka Vc/Vm c) Ka Vm d) Ka Vc
15. The carrier and modulating signals are Ac cos ωct and Am cos ωct the AM signal is ___
a) Ac(1+m cos ωct) b)Ac (1+M cosm t) cos ωct
c) Am(1+ m cos ωct)cos ωmt d)Am ( 1 + m cos ωmt) cos ωct

16. The unit of Ka is ___

17. The disadvantage of AM is ___
a) excess bandwidth and less transmitted power
b)les bandwidth and high transmitted power
c) excess bandwidth and high transmitted power
d) lesss bandwidth and less transmitted power
18. The modulation need for ___
 a) frequency translation b) reduced the antenna size
c) for efficient transmission d) all
19. Amax and Amin are Maximum and Minimum values of envelope of the Modulated wave
then the modulation index of AM is ___
a)Amax +Amin/Amax+Amin. b) Amax + Amin / Amax.
c)Amax – Amin/Amax + Amin d)A max – Amin/ Amax
20. If the Modulation index is M then the ration of total sideband power to the total power in
the Modulated wave is ___
a)M2/ (2+M2) b)M2 /(1 +M2) c)M2 /(2-M2) d)M2 / (1-M2)
21. The total power in the two side-frequencies of the resulting AM wave is only ___ of the
total power in the modulat3ed wave.
22. The recovering of Modulating signal from Modulated signal is called as ___
23. With modulation index ‘m’ is the upper side frequency of lower – side band frequency
power is ___
24. The unmodulated carrier Amplitude is Ac and Modulating signal is m(t) then Modulated
carrier Amplitude is ___
a) m2 Ac2 b) m2 Ac2/8 c) m2 Ac2/2 d) m2 Ac2/4
25. The total radiated power due to AM with modulation index ‘m’ and carrier power ‘Pc’ is
___
a)Pc (1+m2 /4) b)Pc (1 + m2 /2) c) Pc(1+m2) d)Pc(1+m2 /8)
26. The Amplitude Modulated signal is Ac(1 + 0.2cosωmt) cosωct, the modulation index of
AM is ___
a)20% b)40% c) 80% d)60%
27. Low power AM Modulators are ___
28. A carrier is simultaneously modulated by two sine waves with modulation indicates of
0.3 and 0.6 of the carrier power is 10Kw, the total modulated power will be ___
29. For a signal amplitude Modulated to a depth of 100% by a sinusoidal signal the power is
___ as power of un-modulated carrier.
a) 1.5 time b)2 times c)same d)√2 times
30. AM is used for ___
a) Short – radio wave Propagation b) Medium-radio wave Propagation
c) long – radio wave Propagation d) a&b
31. P r o d u c t m o d u l at ors a r e u s e d i n ___
( a) A M - FC ( b ) PM ( c ) D S B - S C ( d ) F M

32.The transmission Band width of DSB is ___

a) ωm b)2ωm c) ωm/2 d) ωm/4
33. The DSB-SC Modulation is used for ___
34. The ring modulator is used for which type a modulation ___
a)AM B)SSB C)DSB-SC D)VSB
35. The DSB-SC expression with carrier signal c(t) and modulating signal m(t) is ___
 36. The Balance Modulator generates the ___
a)SSB B) DSB-SC C) AM D)VSB
37. Frequency translation of DSB are ____
a)fc±fm b)fc –fm c) fc +fm d)fc + 2 fm
38. The power saving due to suppression of carrier in AM Modulated wave is
a)66.6% b)33% c) 44% d)100%
39. The saving in power in a DSB-SC system modulated at 80% is ____
a) 75.16% b)75.36% c)75.56% d)75.76%
40. In a low level modulation AM system, the following amplifiers can be used ____
a)Linear amplifiers. b) Harmonic generators
c) Class ‘c’ power amplifier d) Class B tuned amplifiers
41. The radiated power of AM-Transmitter is 10Kw the power in the carrier for modulation
index of 0.6 is a ____
a) 8.2Kw b) 8.47 Kw c) 9.26 Kw d) 9.6 Kw
42. The choice of the product RC is an envelope detector using a diode and an R-C circuit is
govern ed by ___
a) Both lowest and highest modulation frequencies.
b)Only the dept5h of modulation
c) The depth of modulation and the lowest modulation frequency. D) None.
43. In a higher level modulation AM system the following amplifiers can be used.
a) Linear amplifiers. b) Harmonic generations
c) Class ‘C’ power amplifier d) Class B tuned amplifiers

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 UNIT-II: SSB MODULATION

Objective type questions

1.The bandwidth of VSB is ___
a) fm-fv b) fm + fv c)fm ±fv d) none

2. For Television signal broad casting the following modulation is useful

a) SSB b)DSB-SC c)VSB d)AM

3. For generation of SSB which method is very useful

a) Filter method b)Phase Method C) Weavers Method d)None

4. SSB is used for ___ communication

5. The bandwidth of SSB is ___
a) ωm b) 2 ωm c) ω m/2 d) ωm/4
6. The carrier and modulating signals are Ac cos ωct and Am cos ωmt then SSB signal is
a) ½. Ac Am Cos ωct b) Ac Am cos (ωc + ωm)t
c) 1/2. Ac Am cos ωmt d) ½. Ac Am cos (ωc + ωm)t
7. The power saving due to SSB is ___
8. The total transmitted power due to SSB with Modulation index ‘ma’ and carrier power Pc is __
9. The carrier signal frequency is 100KHz and modulating signal frequency 1 KHz the upper
sideband frequency is ___
a) 100 KHz b) 101KHz c) 99 KHz d) 98 KHz
10. The carrier signal frequency is 100 KHz and modulating signal frequency 1 KHz then the
upper sideband frequency is____
a) 100 KHz b)101 KHz c)99 KHz d) KHz
11. For detection of modulating signal from SSB and VSB which type of detection is widely
useful __
12. Application of SSB is___
13. In VSB vestigial band is useful for ___
14. SSB system is used for ___
a) Short-wave transmission b) Long-wave transmission
c)Medium-wave transmission d) None.
15. In VSB vestigial side band is increased to the width of full side band then we have
a) SSB b) DSBSC C) AM d) NBF
16. In VSB vestigial side band is increased to the width of full side band then we have
a) SSB b) DSBSC C)AM d) NBF
17. Weaver’s method for the generation of SSB is combination of ___ and ___
18. VSB is expressed as ___
19. SSB can be used to transmit
a) two side bands b) one side band
c) one side band and vestigial side band d) Vestigial side band
 20. VSB can be used to transmit
a) two side bands b) one side band
c) one side band and vestigial side band d) Vestigial side band
21 DSB can be used transmit
a) two side bands b) one side band
c) one side band and vestigial side band d) Vestigial side band
22. VSB can be used to transmit
a) audio signal b)vedio signal c) both d) neither ‘a’ nor ‘b’
23. The total bandwidth of VSB is 5.5KHz , then modulation signal bandwidth is 5 KHz then
the vestigial band is ___
a)1KHz b) 0.5KHz c)1.5KHz d)2KHz
24. The total bandwidth of SSB is 5 KHz, then modulation signal bandwidth is ___
a)5 KHz b) 10KHz c) 15 KHz d) 20 KHz
25. The amplitude of the side band of SSB with carrier amplitude Ac and modulating
amplitude signal is Am
a) Ac Am b) c) d)
26. If you want to extract lower side band from DSB, the frequency range of filter is ___
a) fc –fm ≤ f ≤ fc b) fc ≤f ≤ fc + fc c) fc ≤ f ≤ fc – fm d) fc +fm ≤ f ≤ fc
27. If you want extract upper side band from DSB, the frequency range of filter is
a) fc –fm ≤ f ≤ fc b) fc ≤f ≤ fc + fc c) fc ≤ f ≤ fc – fm d) fc +fm ≤ f ≤ fc

ANSWERS
1)b 2) c 3)b 4) line 5) a 6) d 7) 83.3% 8) 9)b
communication
10)c 11)coherent 12)for 13) audio 14)c 15)b 16)a 17) filter and 18) Ac m(t)
detection frequency signal phase method
multiplexing cosωct -
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ωc t
19)b 20)c 21)a 22)c 23)b 24)a 25)c 26)a 27)b