Circuits MCQ

Thermocouple is a

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Correct Answer: Temperature transducer

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What is a junction?

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Correct Answer: Contact or connection between two or more wires or cables.

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What is the unit of work and energy?

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Correct Answer: Joule

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What does JFET stand for?

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Correct Answer: "junction field effect transistor"

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What is a Jack?

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Correct Answer: Socket or connector into which a plug may be inserted.

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What is insulation resistance?

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Correct Answer: Resistance of insulating material

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What is the definition of insulating material?

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Correct Answer: Material that will prevent the flow of current due to its chemical composition.

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What is an insulating material?

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Correct Answer: A material that prevents the flow of current due to its chemical composition.

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What does it mean when a material is insulated?

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Correct Answer: When a non conducting material is used to isolate conducting materials from one another.

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What is input impedance?

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Correct Answer: Opposition to the flow of signal current at the input of a circuit or load.

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What is the name of the heat radiation whose frequencies are above the microwave frequency band and below red in the visible band?

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Correct Answer: Infrared

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What is the primary function of an inductor?

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Correct Answer: To introduce inductance into a circuit

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What is the main reason for wrapping the conductor into a coil?

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Correct Answer: To concentrate the magnetic lines of force

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What is the state of a material called when it emits light after being heated?

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Correct Answer: Incandescence

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What is impedance?

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Correct Answer: The total opposition to the flow of current offered by a circuit

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What is the full form for IGFET?

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Correct Answer: Insulated gate field effect transistor

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What is an IC voltage regulator used for?

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Correct Answer: To hold the output voltage of a power supply constant over a wide range of load variations.

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What does IC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Integrated circuit

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What does Hertz measure?

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Correct Answer: Frequency

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What is the unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second?

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Correct Answer: Hz (Hertz)

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What is the basic unit of inductance?

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Correct Answer: Henry

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What does a half wave rectifier do?

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Correct Answer: Converts AC to pulsating DC by eliminating either the negative or the positive alternation of each input AC cycle.

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What does a ground do in an electrical circuit?

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Correct Answer: A ground is used as the common wiring point or reference in a circuit.

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What is the metric prefix for 1 billion?

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Correct Answer: Giga

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What is a generator?

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Correct Answer: A device used to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy.

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What does FF stand for in the context of Flip Flops?

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Correct Answer: Flip Flop

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What is an abbreviation for Flip Flop?

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Correct Answer: FF

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What is a filter?

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Correct Answer: A network consisting of capacitors, resistors and/or inductors used to pass certain frequencies and block others.

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What is the main purpose of a filter in a network?

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Correct Answer: To pass certain frequencies and block others.

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What is a filament?

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Correct Answer: A thin thread of carbon or tungsten which produces heat or light with the passage of current.

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What does a filament produce with the passage of current?

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Correct Answer: Heat or light

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What does FET stand for?

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Correct Answer: Field effect transistor

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What is the abbreviation for Field effect transistor?

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Correct Answer: FET

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What carrying information between two points?

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Correct Answer: Fiber optics

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What is the information that is conveyed by the fiber optics?

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Correct Answer: Laser's light output

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What are ferrites used for?

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Correct Answer: To make electromagnets

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What is a ferrite?

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Correct Answer: A compound composed of iron oxide, a metallic oxide and ceramic.

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What is a ferrite-core inductor?

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Correct Answer: An inductor wound on a ferrite core.

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What is an inductor wound on a ferrite core?

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Correct Answer: Ferrite-core inductor

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What is a ferrite bead?

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Correct Answer: Ferrite composition in the form of a bead

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What is the purpose of a ferrite bead?

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Correct Answer: To increase the inductance of a wire

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What is the main advantage of Ferrite?

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Correct Answer: Eddy current losses are low at high frequencies

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What is the full name for the element Fe?

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Correct Answer: Iron

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What is the name of the transistor in which there are no charge carriers in the channel when the gate source voltage is zero?

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Correct Answer: Enhancement-mode MOSFET

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What is the emitter?

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Correct Answer: The semiconductor region from which charge carriers are injected into the base of a bipolar junction transistor.

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What is the purpose of the core in an electromagnet?

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Correct Answer: It provides an easy path for the magnetic lines of force.

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What is a capacitor having an electrolyte between the two plates called?

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Correct Answer: Electrolytic capacitor

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What is electric polarization?

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Correct Answer: A displacement of bound charges in a dielectric when placed in an electric field.

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Electrical current produced by the movement of free electrons is known as?

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Correct Answer: Electron flow

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What is the direction of electron flow?

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Correct Answer: Opposite to that of current

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What is an electron?

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Correct Answer: A subatomic particle of an atom with a negative charge that orbits the positively-charged nucleus.

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What is electric charge also known as?

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Correct Answer: A static charge.

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What is electric charge?

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Correct Answer: Electric energy stored on the surface of a material.

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What causes an eddy current?

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Correct Answer: Moving through a non-uniform magnetic field

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What is a DIAC?

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Correct Answer: A diode that conducts elecrical only after its breakover voltage has been reached.

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What is the time for collector current to reach 10% of its maximum value in a BJT switching circuit?

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Correct Answer: Delay time

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What is the logarithmic representation of gain or loss?

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Correct Answer: Decibel - (dB)

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What is a Decade?

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Correct Answer: A frequency factor of ten

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What is a dead short?

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Correct Answer: Short circuit having zero resistance

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What is the full form of DC?

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Correct Answer: Direct Current

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What is DC power supply?

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Correct Answer: Any source of DC power for electrical equipment.

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What is a DC load line?

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Correct Answer: A graph representing all possible combinations of voltage and current for a given load resistor in an amplifier.

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What does the abbreviation "DC" stand for?

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Correct Answer: Direct Current

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What is the connected configuration of two bipolar junction transistors called?

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Correct Answer: Darlington pair

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What is Damping?

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Correct Answer: Reduction in magnitude of oscillation due to energy being dissipated as heat.

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What is the unit of damping?

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Correct Answer: Reduction in magnitude of oscillation

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What does the abbreviation "DAC" stand for?

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Correct Answer: Digital to analog converter

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What is the definition of a center tap?

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Correct Answer: Midway connection between the two ends of a winding

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What is a Cathode?

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Correct Answer: A negatively charged electrode

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What is a carbon resistor made of?

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Correct Answer: Carbon granules mixed with a binder

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What is a carbon resistor?

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Correct Answer: A resistor of fixed value made by mixing carbon granules with a binder which is molded and then baked.

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What causes a change in resistance in a carbon microphone?

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Correct Answer: Pressure variation in carbon granules

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What is a carbon-film resistor?

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Correct Answer: Device made by depositing a thin carbon film on a ceramic form.

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What is a capacitor?

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Correct Answer: An electronic component having capacitive reactance.

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What is the basic unit of capacitance?

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Correct Answer: Farad

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What is capacitance?

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Correct Answer: The ability of a capacitor to store an electrical charge.

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What is calibration?

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Correct Answer: To adjust the correct value of a reading by comparison to a standard.

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What does "CAD" stand for?

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Correct Answer: "computer aided designs"

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What does the abbreviation "CAD" stand for?

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Correct Answer: Computer aided designs

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What is a cable?

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Correct Answer: A group of two or more insulated wires

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Which among the following is not a characteristic of a Bipolar junction transistor?

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Correct Answer: Three terminal device

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What is a Bipolar junction transistor?

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Correct Answer: A three terminal device in which emitter to collector current is controlled by base current.

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What is the base of a binary number system?

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Correct Answer: 2

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What is the name given to a number system having only two symbols?

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Correct Answer: Binary

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What does DC voltage applied to a device to control its operation mean?

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Correct Answer: Bias

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What is Bias?

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Correct Answer: A DC voltage applied to a device to control its operation.

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What is a baud?

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Correct Answer: A unit of signaling speed equal to the number of signal events per second

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What does a battery convert energy to?

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Correct Answer: Electrical

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What is a battery?

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Correct Answer: A DC voltage source containing two or more cells that convert chemical energy to electrical energy.

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What is the base?

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Correct Answer: The region that lies between the emitter and collector of a bipolar junction transistor (BJT).

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Which of the following is not a part of a transistor?

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Correct Answer: Base

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What does the abbreviation BW stand for?

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Correct Answer: Bandwidth

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What does bandwidth refer to?

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Correct Answer: The numerical difference between upper and lower frequencies of a band of electromagnetic radiation

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Which of the following is NOT a part of a band-stop filter?

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Correct Answer: F1

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What is the main purpose of a band-pass filter?

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Correct Answer: To pass a band of frequencies between a lower cut-off frequency (f1) and a higher cut-off frequency (f2)

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What is a balanced bridge?

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Correct Answer: Condition that occurs when a bridge circuit is adjusted to produce a zero output.

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Voltage with no polarity

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Correct Answer: A voltage with alternating polarity

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What does BJT stand for?

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Correct Answer: Bipolar junction transistor

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What is active region?

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Correct Answer: The region of BJT operation between saturation and cutoff used for linear amplification.

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What does an active filter use?

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Correct Answer: An amplifier

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What is an active component?

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Correct Answer: A component that changes the amplitude of a signal between output and input.

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What does an active component do?

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Correct Answer: Changes the amplitude of a signal between output and input.

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What does AC stand for in AC power supply?

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Correct Answer: Alternating Current

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What does AC load line represent?

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Correct Answer: AC output voltage and current for an amplifier

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What is an AC load line?

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Correct Answer: A graph representing all possible combinations of AC output voltage and current for an amplifier.

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What is an AC generator?

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Correct Answer: A device that transforms mechanical energy into AC electrical power.

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What does AC/DC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Equipment that will operate from an AC or DC power source.

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What does AC coupling do?

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Correct Answer: Passes an AC signal while blocking a DC voltage.

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What does AC coupling stand for?

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Correct Answer: Circuit that passes an AC signal while blocking a DC voltage.

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What does AC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Alternating current

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