MAHINDRA UNIVERSITY
École Centrale School of Engineering
Fall 2021
Program: B. Tech. Branch: EEE Year: III Semester: I
Communication Theory I (EE302)
Tutorial 5
Questions:
Q. 1. From the display of an AM envelope on an oscilloscope, the measured values of Vmax and
Vmin are 150 mV and 70 mV peak-to-peak respectively. Compute the value of amplitude modulation
index, ma and percent modulation, Ma .
Q. 2. An AM broadcast station transmitter has a carrier power output of 40 kW. Compute the
total AM power that would be produced with 80% modulation.
Q. 3. An AM signal is found has a peak unmodulated carrier voltage, Vc = 100 V, a load resistance,
RL = 50 ω, and a modulation index, ma = 1. Determine the following:
a. Carrier power Pc .
b. The total sideband power PSB .
c. Total power of the modulated AM signal.
d. Sketch the power spectrum.
Q. 4. The antenna current of an AM transmitter is 8 A when only the carrier signal is transmitted.
It increases to 8.93 A when the carrier signal is modulated by a sinusoidal signal. Find the percent
modulation.
Q. 5. An amplitude modulator has output
s(t) = A cos(400πt) + B cos(360πt) + B cos(440πt). (Eq.1)
The carrier power is 100 W and the transmission power efficiency η = 40%. Compute A, B and the
modulation index ma . (Hint: Recall the math expression of AM signal.)
Q. 6. An AM signal is applied to the system in Fig. 1. Assume that each of these cascaded
subsystems are ideal in behaviour and ma vm (t) ≤ 1, ∀t and message signal vm (t) is bandlimited to
[−W, W ] and that the fc >> 2W . Find if this system can be considered as an AM demodulator.
Figure 1: AM signal as an input to an ideal squarer, low pass filter and square rooter system.
Q. 7. A composite wave c(t) constructed as c(t) = Ac cos(2πfc t + φ) + Ac m(t) cos(2πfc t), where
the first term is a non-coherent carrier wave and the second one is a DSB-SC wave. This composite
wave is applied to an ideal envelope detector. Find the resulting detector output for
a. φ = 0.
c. φ 6= 0 and 2|m(t)| << Ac .
Q. 8. In the system shown in fig. 2 if the input signal A is an SSB-SC wave then express the signals
B, C, D, E. Verify if this system can be termed as SSB-SC demodulator.
Figure 2: Processing of a SSB-SC signal.
Q. 9. For the message signal m(t) shown in Fig. 3 compute the transmission power efficiency η in
terms of the amplitude sensitivity ma , A1, A2, and T . We can assume T >> 1/fc . The message is
periodic with period T, has zero-mean, and is AM modulated, i.e.
s(t) = A(1 + ma m(t)) cos(2πfc t) (Eq.2)
Figure 3: Message signal.
Q. 10. The figure below is used for some processing of a DSB-SC wave.
Figure 4: Processing of DSB-SC wave.
Solve the below problems:
a. Write down expressions for various fi (t) and f (t).
b. Give some appropriate name to this circuit.
Q. 11. Consider a modulating wave m(t) such that (1 + ma m(t)) > 0 for all t. Assume that
the spectrum of m(t) is zero for |f | > W . The AM modulated wave s(t) is applied to a series
combination of an ideal full-wave rectifier and an ideal low-pass filter. Compute the time-domain
output v(t) of the lowpass filter.
