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JEE Main · Physics · Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits

Capacitor Filter Smoothing

JEE Main asked Capacitor Filter Smoothing once in the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, on 31 Aug 2021, Shift 2. It belongs to Semiconductor Diodes, in Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits (Physics).

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
1
in 1 shift
Years
1 of 8
First asked
2021
the only year
Pattern
Gone quiet
asked once so far

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2021. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Physics questions.

00.050.10’170’200.03’210’220’230’240’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 1 in 24 shifts · 2022: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 0 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20250 of 8
  • 20240 of 18
  • 20230 of 12
  • 20220 of 24
  • 20211 of 24
  • 20200 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Two statements is the usual form. Skill tested: conceptual.

  • Statement i/ii on rectifier filtering

Difficulty

Easy 1Medium 0Hard 0

The question was multiple choice.

Every question

The question

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 31 Aug 2021, Shift 2 · Q18Statement I : To get a steady dc output from the pulsating voltage received from a full wave rectifier we can connect a capacitor across…EasyTwo statements

Shift: 31 Aug 2021, Shift 2.

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