After reading sections 10.1, 10.3 and 10.4, you should be able to answer to the following questions.

1. Read PP. 667-669.
2. What does the junction temperature mean?
3. What is the typical maximum allowed temperature for silicon devices?
4. What is the definition of the thermal resistance?
5. Read section 10.3, except the Example 10.5
6. What is a class-A amplifier?
7. What is the maximum output swing of a class-A emitter follower (Fig. 10.11b)?
8. When is the average power of a device is the product of the average current and the average voltage?
9. What is the definition of efficiency of an amplifier?
10. Read PP. 562-563 (related to Figs. 9.7, 9.8)
11. Derive the transfer characteristics v_o vesus v_s given in Fig. 9.8.
12. Read PP. 689-690
13. What is a class-B amplifier?
14. How the biasing in Fig. 10.19 help to improve the performance of class-B amplifiers?
15. What is the shortcoming with the biasing in Fig. 10.19?