Rankers Physics
Topic: Semiconductor Physics
Subtopic: P-N Junction Diode and its applications

A sinusoidal voltage of peak value 200 volt is connected to a diode and resistor R in the circuit shown so that half-wave rectification occurs. If the forward resistance of the diode is negligible compared to R, the r.m.s. voltage across R is approximately : Image related to
200
100
100/√2
283

Solution:

RMS voltage for half wave rectifier is Vmax/2 = 100 Volt

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