In the opamp circuit shown, the Zener diodes Z1 and Z2 clamp the output voltage V_o to +5 V or -5 V. The switch S is intially closed and is opened at time t = 0

The time t = t_{1 (in seconds) at which Vo changes state is _____.}

A speech signal is sampled at 8 kHz and encoded into PCM format using 8 bits/sample. The PCM data is transmitted through a baseband channel via 4-level PAM. The minimum bandwidth (in kHz) required for transmission is _________.

Consider random process $$X(t) = 3V(t) - 8$$, where $$V$$ $$(t)$$ is a zero mean stationary random process with autocorrelation $${R_v}\left( \tau \right) = 4{e^{ - 5\left| \tau \right|}}$$. The power of $$X(t)$$ is _______.

A discrete memoryless source has an alphabet $$({a_1},\,{a_2},\,{a_3},\,{a_4})\,$$ with corresponding probabilities$$\left( {{1 \over 2}\,\,,{1 \over 4},\,{1 \over 8},\,\,{1 \over 8}\,} \right)$$. The minimum required average codeword length in bits to represent this source for error-free reconstruction is__________________________