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Course Title: Engineering Physics Lab Course code: 21PH109

ENGINEERING PHYSICS LAB


VIVA QUESTIONS
1. Energy gap of a semiconductor
1) What is a semiconductor? What are the different types?
2) The electrical conductivity increases with rise of temperature in
semiconductors whereas it decreases in conductor, why?
3) What is an energy gap?
4) What is junction voltage? Why does it decrease with increase in temperature?
5) Why current is kept constant during the experiments?
6) What are the specials features of a semiconductor?
7) What are the differences between the conductors and semiconductors?
8) Explain why resistance decreases with increase in temperature in a
semiconductor?
9) What are the advantages of semiconductors device?
10) What are the applications of semiconductors device?
11) What are direct and indirect band gap semiconductors?

2. Hall effect
1) What is Hall effect?
2) Why semiconductor is preferred to see Hall effect?
3) Explain the term mobility of charge carriers.
4) What is Hall coefficient?
5) Explain how Hall coefficient is used to determine the mobility of charge
carriers.
6) What is meant by carrier concentration?
7) Why the probe current is kept constant throughout the experiments?
8) What is the purpose of magnetic field in this experiment?
9) Why magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the current direction?
10) Why the magnetic pole gap is adjusted to 1cm?
11) What are the applications of Hall effect?

3. Transistor characteristics
1. What is a transistor? What is its basic action?
2. What are the differences between emitter, base and collector of a transistor?
3. What are the three basic transistor connection modes?
4. Why EB junction is forward biased and CB reverse biased?
5. Explain the V-I curves of input and output characteristics.
6. Define current gain or current amplifications of a transistor.
7. Mention any two difference between diode and a transistor?
8. What do you mean by modes of configuration?
9. Which region of the transistor is very highly doped?

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10. How is emitter region different from collector?


11. What is the direction of conventional current through the body of an NPN
transistor?
12. What is the relation between transistor currents?

4. Laser – Determination of wavelength by diffraction


1) What is a laser?
2) How laser light is different from the ordinary light
3) What is population inversion?
4) What is pumping?
5) What is meant by the term coherency?
6) What is diffraction?
7) What is the condition for diffraction?
8) What is a grating?
9) What happens to the diffraction pattern when the distance between slits within
the grating is increased?
10) What happens to the diffraction pattern when the number of slits within the
grating (with same grating spacing) is reduced?

5. Zener diode experiment:


1) What is a Zener diode? How it is different from rectifier diode?
2) What is a potential barrier? why the barrier is made thin in this diode?
3) What is forward and reverse biasing? Explain I-V characteristics of a Zener
diode.
4) What is cut off or knee voltage?
5) Explain why below knee voltage no current flows and above, there is sudden
increase in the current
6) What is Zener breakdown voltage? Why there is sudden increase in the current
at breakdown voltage?
7) Why Zener diode is normally used in the reverse biased condition?
8) What are the differences between Zener diode and junction diode?
9) Mention an application of a Zener diode?
10) What property of the Zener diode makes it to use for voltage regulation?
11) What is a diode?
12) What do you mean by doping?
13) What is the main application of a Zener diode?

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6. Solar cell
1) How does the voltage change when the distance between a bright light and a
solar cell is varied?
2) How does the current change when the distance between a bright light and a
solar cell is varied?
3) How does the power change when the angle between the light and the solar cell
is varied?
4) Does the color of the light affect the voltage and current of the solar cell?
5) Does the area illuminated affect the voltage and current of the solar cell?
6) What is the difference between solar cell and a photodiode?
7) What are the types of semiconductor materials used for solar cell?
8) What is Dark current?
9) What is the difference between solar photovoltaic and solar hot water system?
10) What is the response time of photo cell?
11) What is solar cell?
12) What is fill factor?
13) What you mean efficiency of solar cell?

7. Photoelectric effect
1) What is photo electric effect? What nature of light does the photoelectric effect
exhibit?
2) What is stopping potential? Why does it increase with increase in frequency or
decrease in wavelength of incident radiation?
3) What is the use of colour filter in the experiments?
4) What is work functions and threshold frequency?
5) Explain Einstein’s photoelectric effect?
6) What is the relationship between stopping potential and kinetic energy of the
liberated electrons?
7) What are the conditions required to exhibit a photoelectric effect by a cathode?

8. Charging and discharging of a capacitor


1) What is a capacitor? what it consists of?
2) What is the unit of capacitance?
3) Define time constant of an RC circuits?
4) Define half time constant?
5) What are the factors that determine the capacitance of a capacitors?
6) What are dielectrics? Why are dielectric used in capacitors?
7) What is charging and discharging of a capacitor?
8) Give an expression for the energy stored in a capacitor
9) Mention few applications of ac capacitors

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9. Ultrasonic interferometer
1) What are ultrasonic waves? Why they are not audible?
2) What are the methods by which ultrasonic waves are produced?
3) What is piezoelectric effect? Name some piezoelectric crystals.
4) What is resonance? How it is employed in this setup to produce ultrasonic?
5) Whether this instrument works on AC signals or DC signals?
6) What is a stationary or standing wave? What are the conditions to occur?
7) In interferometer, while turning micrometre, current changes from minimum to
maximum and comes back to minimum, why?
8) Why do you take the distance between two successive maximum current as 𝜆/2?
9) Mention few applications of ultrasonic waves?

10. Series and parallel resonance


1) Define resonance. What is the condition for resonance for an LCR series
circuit?
2) How the RLC series circuit behaves for the frequencies above and below the
resonant frequencies.
3) Define resonant frequency
4) Define Q factor
5) Define Bandwidth.
6) Give the relationship between
a) Band width, resonant frequency and quality factor
b) Resonant frequency and half power frequencies
c) Quality factor in terms of R, L and C
7) Explain the characteristics of series resonance
8) Explain the characteristics of parallel resonance.
9) Define inductance.
10) What is the function of A.F. oscillator?
11) What is resonance frequency?
12) Why should maximum value of current be divided by √2 for finding bandwidth?
13) What is the importance of series and parallel resonance circuits?

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