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Which arrangement gives the cleanest sine output?

  • A.Astable multivibrator with cross-coupled transistors
  • B.Colpitts allowed to clip against the supply rails
  • C.Unijunction relaxation oscillator with an RC timing network
  • D.Wien bridge with gentle amplitude control

Answer: D

A Wien bridge whose amplitude is regulated by a lamp or a slow control loop never clips, so the output stays a clean sine with distortion in the hundredths of a per cent. A multivibrator and a unijunction produce square and sawtooth waveforms by construction, and a clipping Colpitts carries strong harmonics. The limiting mechanism decides the purity, so a topology plus its amplitude control has to be named together before any distortion figure means anything.

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