Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices & Applications
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Chapter 16, Problem 21ST
The process of changing a half-wave or a full-wave rectified voltage to a constant dc voltage is called
- filtering
- ac to dc conversion
- damping
- ripple suppresion
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