General exam question G7C12
Subelement G7, PRACTICAL CIRCUITS· Group G7C
What is the frequency above which a low-pass filter’s output power is less than half the input power?
- A.Notch frequency
- B.Neper frequency
- C.Cutoff frequency (correct answer)
- D.Rolloff frequency
WhyThe cutoff frequency is the frequency above which a low-pass filter's output power is less than half the input power. A low-pass filter's cutoff frequency is defined as the point above which the filter's output power has fallen to less than half the input power (the -3 dB point), marking the practical edge of the passband, answer C. Notch frequency describes a band-reject filter's rejection point, Neper frequency is a different logarithmic unit not used this way, and rolloff describes how steeply attenuation increases beyond cutoff rather than the cutoff point itself, so A, B, and D are wrong.
Published 2026-08-28 · Last updated 2026-08-28 · Question text is verbatim from the 2023-2027 NCVEC Element 3 pool (public domain); the explanation above is original writing, see our methodology.
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