This document contains questions about electrical engineering concepts and devices used to measure various electrical properties such as frequency, power, and motion. It asks about the effects of electric currents on the human body, instruments like frequency counters, wavemeters, spectrum analyzers and their uses. Other questions cover topics like tachometers, strobotacs, bolometers, generators, amplidynes, MOSFETs and photocells.
This document contains questions about electrical engineering concepts and devices used to measure various electrical properties such as frequency, power, and motion. It asks about the effects of electric currents on the human body, instruments like frequency counters, wavemeters, spectrum analyzers and their uses. Other questions cover topics like tachometers, strobotacs, bolometers, generators, amplidynes, MOSFETs and photocells.
This document contains questions about electrical engineering concepts and devices used to measure various electrical properties such as frequency, power, and motion. It asks about the effects of electric currents on the human body, instruments like frequency counters, wavemeters, spectrum analyzers and their uses. Other questions cover topics like tachometers, strobotacs, bolometers, generators, amplidynes, MOSFETs and photocells.
This document contains questions about electrical engineering concepts and devices used to measure various electrical properties such as frequency, power, and motion. It asks about the effects of electric currents on the human body, instruments like frequency counters, wavemeters, spectrum analyzers and their uses. Other questions cover topics like tachometers, strobotacs, bolometers, generators, amplidynes, MOSFETs and photocells.
subjected to a current of 40 to 100 mA, 60 Hz, frequencies in the microwave range? AC or 160 to 300 mA, DC? A. Frequency counter A. Respiratory failure B. Bolometer B. Perception C. Cavity wavemeter. C. Reflex action D. Absorption wavemeter D. Mascular inhibition View Answer: View Answer: 9. What is the process of matching an 2. What probable effect on the human body if unknown signal with a locally generated signal subjected to a current of over 100 mA, 60 Hz, of the same frequency obtained from a AC or 300 mA, DC? calibrated high-precision oscillator? A. Respiratory failure A. Frequency counting B. Fatal B. Zero beating C. Reflex action C. Beating D. Mascular inhibition D. Mixing View Answer: View Answer: 3. What refers to the jarring, shaking sensation 10. What device that sweeps over a band of you receive from contact with electricity? frequencies to determine what frequencies are A. Respiratory failure being produced by a specific circuit under test B. Electric shock and the amplitude of each frequency component? C. Fatal A. Frequency counter D. Mascular inhibition B. Bolometer View Answer: C. Cavity wavemeter 4. Mechanical rotation frequency is measured using a device called ______. D. Spectrum analyzer A. frequency counter View Answer: B. frequency meter 11. What is commonly used for the analysis of waveforms generated by electronic equipment? C. accelerometer A. Frequency counter D. tachometer B. Cavity wavemeter View Answer: C. Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope (CRO or O- 5. Electrical-output frequencies of ac SCOPE) generators can be measured by ______. D. Bolometer A. vibrating-reed devices or tuned circuits View Answer: B. accelerometer 12. What is device used to measure C. frequency meter frequencies above the audio range? D. tachometer A. Frequency counter View Answer: B. Cavity wavemeter 6. Audio frequencies can be measured by a C. Bolometer process known as ______. D. Electronic Frequency Counter A. frequency counting View Answer: B. zero beating 13. What are calibrated resonant circuits used C. beating to measure frequency? D. mixing A. Frequency counter View Answer: B. Wavemeters 7. What is another term for zero beating? C. Cavity wavemeter A. Frequency counting D. Spectrum analyzer B. Heterodyning View Answer: C. Beating 14. What is the difference in frequency D. Mixing between the oscillator frequency and the View Answer: unknown frequency? A. Beat frequency B. lF 21. What instrument is used for measuring C. Image frequency radio frequency (rf) power? D. Signal frequency A. Thermocouple ammeter View Answer: B. Strobotac 15. The rotation frequency of recording devices C. Barretter and teletypewriter motors can be measured by D. Thermistor the use of a ______. View Answer: A. Tachometer 22. When using strobotac, at what speed is B. Oscilloscope “flicker” becomes a problem because the C. Frequency counter human eye can retain successive images long D. Stroboscope enough to create the illusion of continuous motion? View Answer: A. 600 rpm 16. What is an instrument that allows you to view rotating or reciprocating objects B. 500 rpm intermittently and produces the optical effect C. 1200 rpm of a slowing down or stopping motion? D. 300 rpm A. Tachometer View Answer: B. Oscilloscope 23. What is the approximate life of the C. Frequency counter strobotron lamp if used at flashing speeds of D. Stroboscope less than 5,000 rpm? View Answer: A. 250 hours 17. What is an electronic flash device in which B. 500 hours the flash duration is very short, a few C. 1200 hours millionths of a second and can measure very D. 300 hours rapid motion? View Answer: A. Tachometer 24. What is the approximate life of the B. Strobotac strobotron lamp if used at flashing speeds of C. Frequency counter more than 5,000 rpm? D. Stroboscope A. 250 hours View Answer: B. 500 hours 18. What is a combination of watch and C. 100 hours revolution counter? D. 300 hours A. Chronometric tachometer View Answer: B. Frequency counter 25. What are used as filters for the passage or C. Strobotac rejection of specific frequencies? D. Stroboscope A. Tuned circuits View Answer: B. Filter circuits 19. What type of bolometer is characterized by C. Band pass filter an increase in resistance as the dissipated D. High pass filter power rises? View Answer: A. Chronometric tachometer 26. An elementary, single coil, dc generator B. Strobotac will have an output voltage with how many C. Barretter pulsations per revolution? D. Stroboscope A. One View Answer: B. Two 20. What type of bolometer is characterized by C. Three decrease in resistance as the power increases? D. Four A. Chronometrictachometer View Answer: B. Strobotac 27. How many commutator segments are C. Barretter required in a two-coil generator? D. Thermistor A. One View Answer: B. Two C. Three A. The single-gate MOSFET. D. Four B. The four-gate MOSFET. View Answer: C. The dual-gate MOSFET. 28. How can field strength be varied in a D. The dual-drain MOSFET. practical dc generator? View Answer: A. By varying the input voltage to the field 35. What is the purpose of the spring or wire coils around the leads of a new MOSFET? B. By varying the output voltage to the field A. To prevent damage from static electricity. coils B. To prevent damage from dynamic C. By increasing the number of field windings electricity. D. By decreasing the number of field windings C. To prevent damage from intense pressure. View Answer: W 29. Are dc generators that are designed to act D. To prevent damage from intense as high-gain amplifier? temperature. A. Amplidynes View Answer: C. Dynamos 36. What is a typical light-to-dark resistance B. Synchros ratio for a photocell? D. Servos A. 1:1000 View Answer: B. 1:10000 30. The power output of the amplidynes may C. 1:2000 be up to _______ times larger than the power D. 1:20000 input to its control windings. View Answer: A. 100,000 37. What semiconductor device produces B. 10,000 electrical energy when exposed to light? C. 1,000 A. Photoelectronic cell D. 100 B. Photovoltaic cell View Answer: C. Photoelectric cell 31 .What generators have both series field D. Optoelectronic device windings and shunt field windings? View Answer: A. Universal generator 38. The UJT has how many PN junctions? B. Series-wound dc generator A. One C. Parallel-wound dc generator B. Two D. Compound-wound dc generators C. Three View Answer: D. Four 32. The substrate of an N-channel MOSFET is View Answer: made of what material? 39. The area between base 1 and base 2 in a A. P-type material UJT acts as what type of common circuit B. N-type material component? C. Intrinsic material A. Variable inductor D. Extrinsic material B. Variable capacitor View Answer: C. Variable resistor 33. In a MOSFET, which element is insulated D. Fixed resistor from the channel material? View Answer: A. The source terminal 40. The sequential rise in voltage between the B. The gate terminal. two bases of the UJT is called what? C. The substrate terminal. A. A voltage spike D. The drain terminal. B. A voltage gradient View Answer: C. A voltage peak 34. What type of MOSFET can be D. A voltage surge independently controlled by two separate View Answer: signals? 41 .What is the normal current path for a UJT? A. From base 1 to the emitter. C. During positive alternation only. B. From base 1 to base 2. D. During negative alternation only. C. From base 2 to the emitter. View Answer: D. From input to output. 48. What type of bias is required to cause an View Answer: LED to produce light? 42. What is one of the primary advantages of A. Forward bias the FET when compared to the bipolar B. Reverse bias transistor? C. Either A or B A. Low input impedance. D. Neither A or B B. High input impedance. View Answer: C. Low output impedance. 49. When compared to incandescent lamps, D. High output impedance. what is the power requirement of an LED? View Answer: A. Very high 43. The SCR is primarily used for what B. High function? C. Very low A. The SCR is primarily used for amplifying. D. Low B. The SCR is for both switching and View Answer: amplifying. 5O. The varactor displays what useful electrical C. The SCR is primarily used for switching property? power on or off. A. Variable resistance D. The SCR is for any electronic application. B. Variable capacitance View Answer: C. Variable inductance 44. When an SCR is forward biased, what is D. Variable frequency needed to cause it to conduct? View Answer: A. A drain signal. 51. When a PN junction is forward biased, what B. A source signal. happens to the depletion region? C. A anode signal. A. The depletion region decreases. D. A gate signal. B. The depletion region increases. View Answer: C. The depletion region disappears. 45. What is the only way to cause an SCR to D. The depletion region remains the same. stop conducting? View Answer: A. The forward bias must be reduced below the 52. When the reverse bias on a varactor is minimum conduction level. increased, what happens to the effective B. The forward bias must be increased above capacitance? the minimum conduction level. A. Capacitance increases. C. The forward bias must be equal to the B. Capacitance decreases. minimum conduction level. C. Capacitance remains the same. D. The reverse bias must be reduced below the minimum conduction level. D. Temperature coefficient increases. View Answer: View Answer: 46. The TRIAC is similar in operation to what 53. In a reverse biased PN-junction, which device? current carriers cause leakage current? A. SCS A. The majority carriers. B. UJT B. The minority carriers. C. SCR C. The majority and minority carriers. D. DIAC D. Either the majority or minority carriers. View Answer: View Answer: 47. When used for ac current control, during 54. The action of a PN-junction during which alternation of the ac cycle does the breakdown can be explained by what two TRIAC control current flow? theories? A. During both alternations. A. Zener effect and avalanche effect. B. With only one alternation. B. Zener and flywheel effects. C. Avalanche and flywheel effects A. Analog D. Zener and Miller effects. B. Digital View Answer: C. Special 55. Which breakdown theory explains the D. General action that takes place in a heavily doped PN- View Answer: junction with a reverse bias of less than 5 62. In a general-purpose computer, the ability volts? to perform a wide variety of operations is A. Miller effect achieved at the expense of what capabilities? B. Avalanche effect A. Speed and accuracy C. Zener effect B. Speed and memory capacity D. Flywheel effect C. Speed and efficiency View Answer: D. Speed and versatility 56. The plate voltage of a tube will vary 126 View Answer: volts when a 3-volt ac signal is applied to the 63. All analog computers are what type of control grid. What is the gain of this tube? computers? A. 32 A. Special-purpose B. 42 B. Electromechanical C. 52 C. Mechanical D. 62 D. First generation View Answer: View Answer: 57. lf the mu of a tube is 85 and the signal at 64. What are analog computers designed to the control grid is 4 volts ac, the plate voltage measure? will vary by what amount? A. Electrical quantities A. 340 V B. Physical quantities B. 120 V C. Natural quantities C. 240 V D. Continuous electrical or physical conditions. D. 220 V View Answer: View Answer: 65. Early analog computers were what type of 58. The suppressor grid is added to a tetrode devices? to reduce what undesirable characteristic of A. Mechanical or electromechanical tetrode operation? B. Solid state type A. Primary emission C. Vacuum type B. Secondary emission D. Electrical C. Tertiary emission View Answer: D. Quaternary emission 66. What are computers called that combine View Answer: the functions of both analog and digital 59. What type of bias requires constant current computers? flow through the cathode circuit of a triode? A. Versatile computers A. Anode biasing B. Hybrid computers B. Fixed biasing C. Anadigi computers C. Cathode biasing D. Mainframe computers D. Self biasing View Answer: View Answer: 67. What is the temperature range within 6O. How are computers classified? which a disk will operate? A. Technology A. 10 to 50 degrees Celsius B. Data they handle B. 10 to 15 degrees Celsius C. Purpose C. 20 to 60 degrees Celsius D. All of the choices D. 50 to 100 degrees Celsius View Answer: View Answer: 61. Mechanical computers are considered to be 68. What is the most basic type of filter? of what type? A. The capacitor filter B. Inductor filter B. Positive feedback C. LC filter B. Unwanted feedback D. Mechanical filter D. Negative feedback View Answer: View Answer: 69. What is the range of values usually chosen 76. A negatively charge atom is sometimes for a choke? called ______. A. From 20 to 100 H A. electron B. From 1 to 20 H B. cation C. From 1 to 10 H C. anion D. From 10 to 20 H D. ion View Answer: View Answer: 7O. What is the ripple frequency of a full-wave 77. If the magnitude of the potential difference rectifier with an input frequency of 60 Hz? is generated by a single conductor passing A. 120 Hz through a magnetic field, which of the B. 240 Hz following statements is false? C. 60 Hz A. The potential difference depends on the speed with which the conductor cuts the D. 360 Hz magnetic field. View Answer: B. The potential difference depends on the 71. A standard programming language of the length of the conductor that cuts the magnetic U.S. defense department similar to Pascal. field. A. Ada C. The potential difference depends on the B. BASlC magnetic field density that is present. C. C + + D. The potential difference depends on the D. RPG diameter of the conductor that cuts the View Answer: magnetic field. 72. The electron tube replaces what View Answer: component in an electron tube voltage 78. What is the internal resistance of a 9 V regulator? battery that delivers 100 A when its terminals A. Variable inductor are shorted? B. Variable capacitor A. 0.09 Ω C. Variable resistor B. 11 Ω D. Transistor C. 1.0 Ω View Answer: D. 90 Ω 73. Which of the following is referred to as View Answer: organized data? 79. Which of the following statements is true? A. Source A. An ideal current source cannot be in parallel B. Information with a short circuit. C. Input B. An ideal voltage source can be in parallel with an open circuit. D. Output C. An ideal current source can be in series with View Answer: an open circuit. 74. What is the common mode rejection ratio D. An ideal voltage source cannot be in series of an ideal differential amplifier? with an ideal current source. A. Infinity View Answer: B. Unity 80. What is the average power dissipated by C. Less than unity an electric heater with resistance of 50 Ω D. Zero drawing a current of 20sin (30t) A? View Answer: A. 0 kW 75. The type of feedback used to improve the B. 10 kW fidelity of an amplifier and to increase its C. 14.14 kW frequency response. D. 20 kW A. Fidelity feedback View Answer: 81. What measurements are required to C. Frequency determine the phase angle of a single-phase D. Period circuit? View Answer: A. The power in watts consumed by the circuit. 88. Lines of flux that do not follow the intended B. The frequency, capacitance and inductance. path. C. The power in watts, voltage and current A. Flux loss D. The resistance, current and voltage. B. Leakage flux View Answer: C. lnductance leakage 82. The conductance and inductive D. Hysteresis loss susceptance of a circuit have the same View Answer: magnitude. What is the power factor of the 89. What consists of elements inseparably circuit? associated and formed on a single substrate? A. 1 A. Micro-circuit B. 0.707 B. Integrated circuit C. 0.5 C. Module D. 0.866 D. PCB View Answer: View Answer: 83. A circuit has a resonant frequency of 455 90. What determines whether a substance is kHz and a bandwidth of 57.2 kHz. Find the Q an insulator or a conductor? of the circuit. A. Number of protons A. 795 B. Number of photons B. 79.5 C. Number of valence electrons C. 0.795 D. Number of neutrons D. 7.95 View Answer: View Answer: 91. What do you call the space between and 84. A semiconductor logic output which pulls around charged bodies? neither to a high nor a low voltage state. A. Magnetic field A. Logic 1 B. Electromagnetic field B. Floating state C. Electromotive field C. Logic 0 D. Electrostatic field D. Limbo View Answer: View Answer: 92. What electrical quantity is measured by a 85 An intrinsic semiconductor has some holes watt-hour meter? in it at room temperature. What causes these holes? A. Current A. Doping process B. Energy B. ionization C. Voltage C. Thermal energy D. Power D. Radiant flux View Answer: View Answer: 93. What do you call the process of converting chemical energy into electrical energy in a cell? 86. Refers to a field surrounding electrons and protons at stationary period indicating a stored A. Electron flow energy. B. Polarization A. Magnetic field C. Electrolysis B. Electron field D. Electrochemical action C. Electrostatic field View Answer: D. Electrodynamic Held 94. A transformer has 500 turns in the primary View Answer: and 1500 in the secondary. Assuming no losses, if 45 V is applied to the primary what is 87. The time required to complete one cycle of the voltage developed in the secondary? a waveform. A. 13.5 V A. Wavetime B. 180 V B. Wavelength C. 135 V D. 90 V View Answer: 95. What do you call the maintenance of oscillation in a circuit in the intervals between pulses of excitation energy? A. Auto-oscillation B. Damping C. Flywheel effect D. Feedback View Answer: 96. A 15 µC point charge is located on the y- axis at (0, 0.25). A second charge of 10 µC is located on the x-axis at (0.25, 0). lf the two charges are separated by air, what is the force between them? A. 0.0982 N B. 0.341 N C. 10.79 N D. 33.93 N View Answer: 97. What is energy of motion called? A. Potential energy B. Kinematics C. Pneumatics D. Kinetic energy View Answer: 98. A fully charged lead-acid battery will indicate a specific gravity reading between. A. 1.175 to 1.200 B. 1.200 to 1.225 C. 1.225 to 1.250 D. 1.275 to 1.300 View Answer: 99. An effect about microwave oscillation that occurs in a small block of N-type gallium arsenide when a constant DC voltage above a critical value is applied to contact on opposite faces. A. Gunn effect B. Mossbauer effect C. Edison effect D. Miller effect View Answer: 100. What is the most influential factor in the switching speed of saturated bipolar transistor? A. Charge storage C. hfe B. Collector current D. hie