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How is an amplifier's bandwidth measured?

  • A.By measuring the rise time of a step and inverting it
  • B.By sweeping until the output becomes visibly distorted
  • C.By finding the frequencies where the gain is 3 dB down
  • D.By finding the frequency where the phase reaches ninety degrees

Answer: C

Bandwidth is conventionally the interval between the two frequencies at which the gain has fallen three decibels from its passband value. The ninety-degree phase point sits well beyond the break, rise time gives the bandwidth only through a known factor and only for a single-pole response, and distortion is unrelated to the roll-off. A definition fixed by convention rather than by physics still has to be applied exactly, or two measurements of the same amplifier will not agree.

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