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What type of cable is needed to connect the function/signal generator directly to the Digital Signal Oscilloscope (DSO)?

Consider the following voltage divider circuit. What are the minimum and maximum possible values of Vout if Vin is 10V and R1 is 5 ohms?   

Dr. Beck has placed a JFET in his circuit in an attempt to use it as a voltage-controlled resistor, but is having problems. He has connected the drain pin to the rest of the circuit, the source pin to ground, and the gate pin to a 200mV source. What does Dr. Beck need to do to fix his circuit issues?   

An active peak-hold circuit has a 15 kΩ resistance in parallel with a 0.1 μF capacitor for the storage element. An output load of 10 kΩ is added to the peak-hold circuit. What is the time constant of the circuit? Please provide your answer in milliseconds.

An op-amp summer circuit is shown in the figure below, fed with supply voltages of +/- 15 V.  If V1 is a 5 V DC signal and V2 is a 10 V DC signal, what is the output voltage VOUT? Enter your answer in units of Volts.   

  The input x(t) shown below is filtered through an IDEAL LPF with f0=3Hz. What will the filtered output signal y(t) look like? a.)   b.)   c.)  d.)  

In the linear, or “triode” region, varying the gate-source voltage, VGS, varies the resistance between the drain and the source terminals of a JFET.

What purpose do the 100 ohm decoupling resistors serve on the power rails?

How would you determine the threshold voltage of a JFET?

The oscilloscope’s ________________feature let us view the frequency domain content of an input signal.