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Question. 1
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Which of the following does not affect the junction capacitance of a diode?
A. the cross-sectional area of the P-N junction
B. the width of the depletion region
C. the phase of an applied ac signal
D. the reverse-bias voltage (Your Answer)
Question. 2) Unanswered
The term semiconductor arises from
A. resistor-like properties of metal oxides.
B. variable conductive properties of some materials. (Correct Answer)
C. the fact that electrons conduct better than holes.
D. insulating properties of silicon and GaAs.
Question. 3
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A CMOS integrated circuit
A. can only work at low frequencies.
B. requires very little power to function. (Your Answer)
C. requires considerable power to function.
D. can only work at high frequencies.
Question. 4) Incorrect
A semiconductor material is made into N type by
A. adding an acceptor impurity. (Your Answer)
B. adding a donor impurity. (Correct Answer)
C. injecting protons.
D. taking neutrons away.
Question. 5
Correct
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Of the following, which material allows the lowest forward voltage drop in a diode?
A. Selenium
B. Silicon
C. Copper
D. Germanium (Your Answer)
Question. 6) Correct
GaAs is
A. a compound. (Your Answer)
B. an element.
C. a mixture.
D. a gas.
Question. 7
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Avalanche voltage is routinely exceeded when a P-N junction acts as a
A. current rectifier.
B. variable resistor. (Your Answer)
C. variable capacitor.
D. voltage regulator. (Correct Answer)
Question. 8) Correct
When a P-N junction is forward-biased, conduction will not occur unless
A. the applied voltage exceeds the forward breakover voltage.
B. the applied voltage is less than the forward breakover voltage.
C. the junction capacitance is high enough.
D. the depletion region is wide enough. (Your Answer)
Question. 9
Unanswered
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If the reverse bias exceeds the avalanche voltage in a P-N junction,
A. the junction will be destroyed.
B. the junction will insulate; no current will flow.
C. the junction will conduct current. (Correct Answer)
D. the capacitance will become extremely low.
Question. 10) Correct
Selenium works especially well in
A. photocells. (Your Answer)
B. high-frequency detectors.
C. RF power amplifiers.
D. voltage regulators.
Question. 11) Correct
If an electron is considered to have a charge of 1 unit, then a hole can be considered to have
A. a charge of 1 unit.
B. no charge.
C. a charge of +1 unit. (Your Answer)
D. a charge that depends on the semiconductor type.
Question. 12) Correct
Holes flow the opposite way from electrons because
A. charge carriers flow continuously.
B. they have opposite electric charge. (Your Answer)
C. they have the same electric charge.
D. Forget it! Holes flow in the same direction as electrons.
Question. 13
Correct
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Of the following substances, which is the most commonly used semiconductor?
A. Germanium
B. Galena
C. Silicon (Your Answer)
D. Copper
Question. 14) Correct
Which of the following is not an advantage of semiconductor devices over vacuum tubes?
A. Smaller size
B. Lower working voltage
C. Lighter weight
D. Ability to withstand high voltage spikes (Your Answer)
Question. 15
Correct
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A disadvantage of MOS devices is the fact that
A. the charge carriers move fast.
B. the material does not react to ionizing radiation.
C. they can be damaged by electrostatic discharges. (Your Answer)
D. they must always be used at high frequencies.
Question. 16) Incorrect
Which of the following does not result from adding an acceptor impurity?
A. The material becomes P type.
B. Current flows mainly in the form of holes.
C. Most of the carriers have positive electric charge. (Your Answer)
D. The substance acquires an electron surplus. (Correct Answer)
Question. 17
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minus to plus.
plus to minus. (Your Answer)
P-type to N-type material.
N-type to P-type material.
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Question. 1
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Of the following substances, the best conductor is
A. air. (Your Answer)
B. copper. (Correct Answer)
C. iron.
D. salt water.
Question. 2) Correct
An isotope
A. is electrically neutral.
B. has positive electric charge.
C. has negative electric charge.
D. can have either a positive or negative charge. (Your Answer)
Question. 3
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An electrical insulator can be made a conductor
A. by heating it.
B. by cooling it.
C. by ionizing it. (Your Answer)
D. by oxidizing it.
Question. 4) Correct
If an EMF of 1 volt is placed across a resistance of 2 ohms, then the current is
A. half an ampere. (Your Answer)
B. 1 ampere.
C. 2 amperes.
D. impossible to determine.
Question. 5
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The atomic weight of an element is approximately determined by
A. the number of neutrons.
B. the number of protons. (Your Answer)
C. the number of neutrons plus the number of protons. (Correct Answer)
D. the number of electrons.
Question. 6) Incorrect
Of the following substances, the worst conductor is
A.
B.
C.
D.
Question. 7
Correct
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A backward-working electric motor, in which mechanical rotation is converted to electricity,is best
described as
A. an inefficient, energy-wasting device.
B. a motor with the voltage connected the wrong way.
C. an electric generator. (Your Answer)
D. a magnetic field.
Question. 8) Correct
An ion
A. is electrically neutral.
B. has positive electric charge.
C. has negative electric charge.
D. can have either a positive or negative charge. (Your Answer)
Question. 9
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Movement of holes in a semiconductor
A. is like a flow of electrons in the same direction.
B. is possible only if the current is high enough.
C. results in a certain amount of electric current. (Your Answer)
D. causes the material to stop conducting.
Question. 10) Correct
The volt is the standard unit of
A. current.
B. charge.
C. electromotive force. (Your Answer)
D. resistance.
Question. 11) Correct
A fluctuating magnetic field
A. produces an electric current in an insulator.
B. magnetizes the earth.
C. produces a fluctuating electric field. (Your Answer)
D. results from a steady electric current.
Question. 12) Correct
A coulomb
A.
B.
C.
D.
Question. 13
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The atomic number of an element is determined by
A. the number of neutrons.
B. the number of protons. (Correct Answer)
C. the number of neutrons plus the number of protons. (Your Answer)
D. the number of electrons.
Question. 14) Correct
If a material has low resistance, then
A. it is a good conductor. (Your Answer)
B. it is a poor conductor.
C. the current flows mainly in the form of holes.
D. current can flow only in one direction.
Question. 15
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A molecule
A. can consist of a single atom of an element. (Your Answer)
B. always contains two or more elements.
C. always has two or more atoms.
D. is always electrically charged.
Question. 16) Correct
In a compound,
A. there can be a single atom of an element.
B. there must always be two or more elements. (Your Answer)
C. the atoms are mixed in with each other but not joined.
D. there is always a shortage of electrons.
Question. 17
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A stroke of lightning
A. is caused by a movement of holes in an insulator.
B. has a very low current.
C. is a discharge of static electricity. (Your Answer)
D. builds up between clouds.
Question. 18) Correct
Visible light is converted into electricity
A.
B.
C.
D.
in a dry cell.
in a wet cell.
in an incandescent bulb.
in a photovoltaic cell. (Your Answer)
Question. 19
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Suppose there is an atom of oxygen, containing eight protons and eight neutrons in thenucleus, and
two neutrons are added to the nucleus. What is the resulting atomic weight?
A. 8
B. 10
C. 16
D. 18 (Your Answer)
Question. 20) Correct
In a battery, chemical energy can sometimes be replenished by
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Question. 1
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In the output of a full-wave rectifier,
A. half of the ac input wave is inverted.
B. the effective voltage is less than that of the ac input wave. (Your Answer)
C. the effective voltage is the same as that of the ac input wave. (Correct Answer)
D. the effective voltage is more than that of the ac input wave.
Question. 2) Incorrect
Approximately how much current can a 2-kW generator reliably deliver at 117 V?
A. 17 mA (Your Answer)
B. 234 mA
C. 17 A (Correct Answer)
D. 234 A
Question. 3
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A current of 25 A is most likely drawn by
A. a flashlight bulb.
B. a typical household. (Your Answer)
C. a utility power plant.
D. a small radio set.
Question. 4) Correct
A resistor has a value of 300 . Its conductance is
A. 3.33 mS. (Your Answer)
B. 33.3 mS.
C. 333 S.
D. 0.333 S.
Question. 5
Correct
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A circuit breaker is rated for 15 A at 117 V. Approximately how much power does this represent?
A. 1.76 kW (Your Answer)
B. 1760 kW
C. 7.8 kW
D. 0.0078 kW
Question. 6) Incorrect
You are told that an air conditioner has cooled a room by 500 Btu over a certain period oftime. What is
this amount of energy in kWh?
A. 147 kWh
B. 14.7 kWh
C. 1.47 kWh (Your Answer)
D. 0.147 kWh (Correct Answer)
Question. 7
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A span of wire 1 km long has a conductance of 0.6 S. What is the conductance of a span ofthis same
wire that is 3 km long?
A. 1.8 S
B. 0.6 S
C. 0.2 S (Your Answer)
D. More information is necessary to determine this.
Question. 8) Correct
A low voltage, such as 12 V,
A. is never dangerous.
B. is always dangerous.
C. is dangerous if it is ac, but not if it is dc.
D. can be dangerous under certain conditions. (Your Answer)
Question. 9
Correct
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Of the following energy units, the one most often used to define electrical energy is
A. the Btu.
B. the erg.
C. the foot-pound.
D. the kilowatt-hour (Your Answer)
Question. 10) Correct
A positive electric pole
A. has a deficiency of electrons.
B. has fewer electrons than the negative pole. (Your Answer)
C. has an excess of electrons.
D. has more electrons than the negative pole.
Question. 11) Incorrect
Which of the following units can represent magnetic flux density?
A. The volt-turn
B. The ampere-turn (Your Answer)
C. The gauss (Correct Answer)
D. The gauss-turn
Question. 12) Correct
A ferromagnetic material
A. concentrates magnetic flux lines within itself. (Your Answer)
B. increases the total magnetomotive force around a current-carrying wire.
C. causes an increase in the current in a wire.
D. increases the number of ampere-turns in a wire.
Question. 13
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The frequency of common household ac in the United States is
A. 60 Hz. (Your Answer)
B. 120 Hz.
C. 50 Hz.
D. 100 Hz.
Question. 14) Incorrect
In the output of a half-wave rectifier,
A. half of the ac input wave is inverted.
B. the effective voltage is less than that of the ac input wave. (Correct Answer)
C. the effective voltage is the same as that of the ac input wave. (Your Answer)
D. the effective voltage is more than that of the ac input wave.
Question. 15
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An EMF of 1 V
A. cannot drive much current through a circuit.
B. represents a low resistance.
C. can sometimes produce a large current. (Your Answer)
D. drops to zero in a short time.
Question. 16) Correct
Half-wave rectification means that
A. half of the ac wave is inverted.
B. half of the ac wave is cut off. (Your Answer)
C. the whole ac wave is inverted.
D. the effective voltage is half the peak voltage.
Question. 17
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A coil has 500 turns and carries 75 mA of current. The magnetomotive force is
A. 37,500 At.
B. 375 At.
C. 37.5 At. (Your Answer)
D. 3.75 At.
Question. 18) Correct
A piece of wire has a conductance of 20 S. Its resistance is
A. 20 .
B. 0.5 .
C. 0.05 . (Your Answer)
D. 0.02 .
Question. 19
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A potentially lethal electric current is on the order of
A. 0.01 mA.
B. 0.1 mA.
C. 1 mA.
D. 0.1 A. (Your Answer)
Question. 20) Incorrect
Which of the following units can represent magnetomotive force?
A. The volt-turn
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Question. 1
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The change in the direction of a compass needle, when a current-carrying wire is brought near, is called
A. electromagnetic deflection. (Correct Answer)
B. electrostatic force.
C. magnetic force. (Your Answer)
D. electroscopic force.
Question. 2) Incorrect
A utility meters motor speed depends directly on
A. the number of ampere-hours being used at the time.
B. the number of watt-hours being used at the time.
C. the number of watts being used at the time. (Correct Answer)
D. the number of kilowatt-hours being used at the time. (Your Answer)
Question. 3
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An important advantage of an electromagnet-type meter over a permanent-magnet meter is the fact
that
A. the electromagnet meter costs much less.
B. the electromagnet meter need not be aligned with the earths magnetic field. (Your Answer)
C. the permanent-magnet meter has a more sluggish coil.
D. the electromagnet meter is more rugged. (Correct Answer)
Question. 4) Correct
Which of the following is not a function of a fuse?
A. To ensure there is enough current available for an appliance to work right(Your Answer)
B. To make it impossible to use appliances that are too large for a given circuit
C. To limit the amount of power that a device can draw from the electrical circuit
D. To make sure the current drawn by an appliance cannot exceed a certain limit
Question. 5
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Which of the following will not normally cause a large error in an ohmmeter reading?
A. A small voltage between points under test
B. A slight change in switchable internal resistance
C. A small change in the resistance to be measured (Correct Answer)
D. A slight error in the range switch position (Your Answer)
Question. 6) Correct
One important advantage of an electrostatic meter is the fact that
A. it measures very small currents.
B. it can handle large currents.
C. it can detect and indicate ac voltages as well as dc voltages. (Your Answer)
D. it draws a large current from a power supply.
Question. 7
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Ammeter shunts are useful because
A. they increase meter sensitivity. (Your Answer)
B. they make a meter more physically rugged.
C. they allow for measurement of large currents. (Correct Answer)
D. they prevent overheating of the meter movement.
Question. 8) Correct
A thermocouple
A. gets warm when dc flows through it. (Your Answer)
B. is a thin, straight, special wire.
C. generates dc when exposed to visible light.
D. generates ac when heated.
Question. 9
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Suppose a certain current in a galvanometer causes the compass needle to deflect by 20 degrees, and
then this current is doubled while the polarity stays the same. The angle of the needle deflection will
A. decrease.
B. stay the same. (Your Answer)
C. increase. (Correct Answer)
D. reverse direction.
Question. 10) Correct
A. electromagnetic deflection.
B. electrostatic force. (Correct Answer)
C. magnetic force. (Your Answer)
D. electroscopic force.
Question. 17
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In order to measure the power-supply voltage that is applied to an electrical circuit, a voltmeter should
be placed
A. in series with the circuit that works from the supply.
B. between the negative pole of the supply and the circuit working from the supply.
C. between the positive pole of the supply and the circuit working from the supply.
D. in parallel with the circuit that works from the supply. (Your Answer)
Question. 18) Incorrect
A utility meters readout indicates
A.
B.
C.
D.
voltage.
power. (Your Answer)
current.
energy. (Correct Answer)
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Question. 1
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Suppose a 1-k resistor will dissipate 1.05 W, and you have a good supply of 1-W resistors ofvarious
ohmic values. If theres room for 20 percent resistance error, the cheapest solution is to use
A.
B.
C.
D.
Question. 2) Incorrect
Proper biasing in an amplifier circuit
A. causes it to oscillate. (Your Answer)
B. prevents an impedance match.
C. can be obtained using a voltage divider network. (Correct Answer)
D. maximizes current flow.
Question. 3
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Suppose a resistor is rated at 3.3 k 5%. This means it can be expected to have a valuebetween
A. 2970 and 3630 .
B. 3295 and 3305 .
C. 3135 and 3465 . (Your Answer)
D. 2.8 k and 3.8 k.
Question. 4) Incorrect
An advantage of a rheostat over a potentiometer is the fact that
A. a rheostat can handle higher frequencies. (Your Answer)
B. a rheostat is more precise.
C. a rheostat can handle more current. (Correct Answer)
D. a rheostat works better with dc.
Question. 5
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Suppose a carbon-composition resistor has the following colored bands on it: gray, red,yellow. This unit
can be expected to have a value within approximately what range?
A. 660 k to 980 k (Correct Answer)
B. 740 k to 900 k (Your Answer)
C. 7.4 k to 9.0 k
D. The manufacturer does not make any claim.
Question. 6) Correct
A resistor has a value of 680 , and you expect that it will have to draw 1 mA maximumcontinuous
current in a circuit youre building. What power rating is good for this application,but not needlessly
high?
A. 14 W (Your Answer)
B. 12 W
C. 1 W
D. 2 W
Question. 7
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A bleeder resistor
A. is connected across the capacitor in a power supply. (Your Answer)
B. keeps a transistor from drawing too much current.
C. prevents an amplifier from being overdriven.
D. optimizes the efficiency of an amplifier.
Question. 8) Incorrect
A metal-film resistor
A. is made using a carbon-based paste. (Your Answer)
B. does not have much inductance. (Correct Answer)
C. can dissipate large amounts of power.
D. has considerable inductance.
Question. 9
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A transistor can be protected from needless overheating by
A. a current-limiting resistor. (Your Answer)
B. bleeder resistors.
C. maximizing the drive.
D. shorting out the power supply when the circuit is off.
Question. 10) Correct
What type of resistor, or combination of resistors, would you use as the volume control in astereo
compact-disc (CD) player?
A. A set of switchable, fixed resistors
B. A linear-taper potentiometer
C. An audio-taper potentiometer (Your Answer)
D. A wirewound resistor
Question. 11) Correct
Suppose a carbon-composition resistor has the following colored bands on it: red, red, red,gold. This
indicates a resistance of
A. 22 .
B. 220 .
C. 2.2 k. (Your Answer)
D. 22 k.
Question. 12) Incorrect
Carbon-composition resistors
A. can handle gigantic levels of power.
B. have capacitance or inductance along with resistance.
C. have essentially no capacitance or inductance. (Correct Answer)
D. work better for ac than for dc. (Your Answer)
Question. 13
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Suppose a sound changes in volume by 13 dB. If the original sound power is 1.0 W, what isthe final
sound power?
A. 13 W (Your Answer)
B. 77 mW
C. 50 mW (Correct Answer)
D. There is not enough information given here to answer this question.
Question. 14) Incorrect
The sound from a portable radio is at a level of 50 dB. How many times the threshold ofhearing is this,
in terms of actual sound power?
A. 50 (Your Answer)
B. 169
C. 5000
D. 100,000 (Correct Answer)
Question. 15
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What type of resistor, or combination of resistors, would you use as the meter-sensitivitycontrol in a test
instrument, when continuous adjustment is desired?
A. A set of switchable, fixed resistors
B. A linear-taper potentiometer (Correct Answer)
C. An audio-taper potentiometer
D. A wirewound resistor (Your Answer)
Question. 16) Incorrect
A package of resistors is rated at 56 10%. You test them with an ohmmeter. Which ofthe following
values indicates a reject?
A. 50.0 (Correct Answer)
B. 53.0
C. 59.7
D. 61.1 (Your Answer)
Question. 17
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The actual resistance of the component described in the previous question can be expected tovary
above or below the specified ohmic value by up to what amount?
A.
11
in a radio-frequency amplifier.
in a circuit where a noninductive resistor is called for.
in a low-power radio-frequency circuit.
in a high-power dc circuit. (Your Answer)
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Question. 1
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In a common emitter circuit, the gain bandwidth product is
A.
B.
C.
D.
Question. 2) Correct
The greatest possible amplification is obtained in
A. a common emitter circuit. (Your Answer)
B. a common base circuit.
C. a common collector circuit.
D. more than one of the above.
Question. 3
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The output is in phase with the input in
A. a common emitter circuit. (Your Answer)
B. a common base circuit.
C. a common collector circuit.
D. more than one of the above. (Correct Answer)
Question. 4) Incorrect
The input is applied to the collector in
A. a common emitter circuit.
B. a common base circuit. (Your Answer)
C. a common collector circuit.
D. none of the above. (Correct Answer)
Question. 5
Correct
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Suppose that the input signal to a transistor amplifier results in saturation during part of thecycle. This
produces
A. the greatest possible amplification.
B. reduced efficiency. (Your Answer)
C. avalanche effect.
D. nonlinear output impedance.
Question. 6) Correct
In many cases, a PNP transistor can be replaced with an NPN device and the circuit will dothe same
thing, provided that
A. the power supply or battery polarity is reversed. (Your Answer)
EC.
EB relative to EC. (Your Answer)
IB.
more than one of the above. (Correct Answer)