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Question #529Basic Electricity and Electronics
What electrical component is used to disconnect electrical circuits?
- Zener Diode
- switch ✓ Correct answer
- inductor
- resistor
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Question #530Basic Electricity and Electronics
What electrical component is used to protect other circuit components from current overloads?
- Fuse ✓ Correct answer
- Capacitor
- Inductor
- switch
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Question #531Basic Electricity and Electronics
Which electronics component allows current to flow in only one direction?
- Resistor
- Fuse
- Diode ✓ Correct answer
- Capacitor
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Question #532Basic Electricity and Electronics
Which of these components can be used as an electronic switch or amplifier?
- Diode
- Potentiometer
- Transistor ✓ Correct answer
- Inductor
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Question #538Basic Electricity and Electronics
Which of the following electronic components can amplify signals?
- Transistor ✓ Correct answer
- Variable resistor
- Electrolytic capacitor
- Diode
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Question #541Basic Electricity and Electronics
What are the names of the two electrodes of a diode?
- Plus and minus
- Source and drain
- anode and cathode ✓ Correct answer
- Base and emitter
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Question #542Basic Electricity and Electronics
How much power is being applied in a circuit when the applied voltage is 13.8 volts DC and current is 10A
- 138 Watts ✓ Correct answer
- 0.7 Watts
- 23.8 Watts
- 3.8 Watts
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Question #543Basic Electricity and Electronics
What is the resistance of a circuit that draws 4A from a 12-volt source?
- 3ohms ✓ Correct answer
- 16 ohms
- 43 ohms
- 8 ohms
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Question #545Basic Electricity and Electronics
How is an ammeter usually connected to a circuit?
- In series with the circuit ✓ Correct answer
- In parallel with the circuit
- In quadrature with the circuit
- In phase with the circuit
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Question #546Basic Electricity and Electronics
What electrical component is used to oppose the flow of current in a DC circuit?
- Inductor
- Resistor ✓ Correct answer
- Voltmeter
- Transformer
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Question #547Basic Electricity and Electronics
Which of the following does not change in a transformer ?
- Current
- Voltage
- Frequency ✓ Correct answer
- All the above
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Question #548Basic Electricity and Electronics
A transformer core is laminated to
- reduce hysteresis loss
- reduce eddy current losses ✓ Correct answer
- reduce copper losses
- reduce all above losses
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Question #549Basic Electricity and Electronics
A transformer cannot raise or lower the voltage of a D.C. supply because
- there is no need to change the D.C. voltage
- a D.C. circuit has more losses
- Faraday's laws of electromagnetic induction are not valid since the rate of change of flux is zero ✓ Correct answer
- none of the above
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Question #550Basic Electricity and Electronics
An ideal transformer is one which has
- no losses and magnetic leakage ✓ Correct answer
- interleaved primary and secondary windings
- a common core for its primary and secondary windings
- core of stainless steel and winding of pure copper metal e) none of the above
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Question #551Basic Electricity and Electronics
When the turns ratio of a transformer is 20 and the primary ac voltage is 12 V, the secondary voltage is
- 120v
- 12v
- 240v ✓ Correct answer
- 440v
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Question #554Basic Electricity and Electronics
What is the term that describes a transistor’s ability to amplify a signal?
- Gain ✓ Correct answer
- Forward resistance
- resistance
- impedance
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Question #555Basic Electricity and Electronics
What component is commonly used to change 230V AC house voltage to a lower AC voltage for other uses?
- Variable capacitor
- transformer ✓ Correct answer
- Transistor
- Diode
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Question #557Basic Electricity and Electronics
Which of the following is used together with an inductor to make a tuned circuit?
- Resistor
- Zener diode
- Potentiometer
- Capacitor ✓ Correct answer
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Question #558Basic Electricity and Electronics
A semiconductor is said to be doped when small quantities of the following are added
- electrons
- protons
- ions
- impurities ✓ Correct answer
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Question #560Basic Electricity and Electronics
Which of the following circuits demodulates FM signals?
- Limiter
- Discriminator ✓ Correct answer
- Product detector
- Phase inverter
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