In: Electrical Engineering
A semiconductor diode, the forward and reverse characteristics of which can be considered ideal, is used in a half-wave rectifier circuit supplying a resistive load of 1000Ω. If the r.m.s. value of the sinusoidal supply voltage is 230 V determine: (a) the peak diode current; (b) the mean diode current; (c) the r.m.s. diode current; (d) the power dissipated in the load