Puny diode rectifier
Electricity and Magnetism
Level
2
A single diode rectifier is shown here, if we graph the voltage across the diode, what would this voltage look like?
A
C
B
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1 solution
If we consider the polarization is forward there will be a negligible voltage drop on the diode and a positive voltage drop on the load; if the polarization is reversed, there is no current on the load, so all the voltage is on the diode. Graph B represents this behavior while graph C represents the voltage on the load.