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Investigating the Transistor: A hands on activity. You will be assembling a one transistor amplifier circuit, making it operational, then taking measurements to determine the Current Gain and Voltage Gain and finally, if time, Observing the operation with low frequency AC.
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Investigating the Transistor:A hands on activity. You will be • assembling a one transistor amplifier circuit, • making it operational, then • taking measurements to determine the Current Gain and Voltage Gain and finally, if time, • Observing the operation with low frequency AC.
Assembly • Place each component, except the thermistor, through its corresponding holes in the card, • Ensure correct orientation.
Assembly • Twist together wires that are to be joined, • Connect the thermistor remotely to the card by wires with alligator clips, • Connect the power supply to the card by wires as well.
Operation • Set power supply to 9V, LED should go on. • Cool thermistor with the ice block in the bag, the LED should go off.
Measurements Current Gain
+Red LED 680 Thermistor Swinburne 2,200 Transistor 680 - Black -ve collector base emitter Measurements Current Gain • Determine Base and Collector currents by measuring voltage drop across the 2200 ohm and the top 680 ohm resistors respectively. • Graph values and find gradient of graph. Collector Base
Measurements Voltage Gain
+Red LED 680 Thermistor Swinburne 2,200 Transistor 680 - Black -ve Measurements Voltage Gain • Measure the Base voltage between the Base and the Ground, • Measure the Collector Voltage between the Collector and the Ground, • Graph values and find gradient of graph. Collector Base
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