On a quiz my professor wanted to know the percent of the input voltage cycle that the diode conducts for the following circuit, where the graph represents output voltage versus input voltage. For this case, the correct procedure was to use the conduction angle formula and divide the result by 2 * pie. What if the circuit was a full-wave rectifier? Would you simply divide by pie instead?:
Conduction angle: SquareRoot( (2 * RippleVoltage) / (Max Output Voltage) )
Conduction angle: SquareRoot( (2 * RippleVoltage) / (Max Output Voltage) )