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Electrical Engineering MCQ

Electrical Engineering MCQ

1. Built-in (or automatic) stabilizers work by changing ______ so that changes in gdp are reduced.

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Correct Answer: Taxes and government payouts

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2. The principle difference between point source and nonpoint source water pollution is _______.

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Correct Answer: The number of sources of pollution

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3. Pneumatic tools are powered by ________ ?

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Correct Answer: Pneumatic Tools

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4. The distance at which wi-fi signals can travel ranges typically between ____ and ____.

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Correct Answer: 100 ft, 900 ft

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5. Providing a backup power source is called __________________.

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Correct Answer: Power Redundancy

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6. A keyboard and mouse connect to a computer via either ps/2 ports or ____ ports.

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Correct Answer: USB

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7. ____ is the extent to which it is possible to implement each step in the control process.

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Correct Answer: Cybernetic feasibility

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8. Virtually all personal computers come with a(n) ____ that is used to store most programs and data.

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Correct Answer: Hard drive

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9. Users access mainframes by means of a ________, which has a display screen and a keyboard.

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Correct Answer: Terminal

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10. The primary utility or tool that is used to configure the windows environment is _______.

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Correct Answer: Control Panel

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11. The most common type of monitor is a(n) ________.

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Correct Answer: Volatile.

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12. One of the earliest uses of an electronic digital computer involved ________.

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Correct Answer: Statistical analysis of aircraft wing flutter

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13. Molex connectors are used for _______________ power.

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Correct Answer: Peripheral

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14. A printers ____ determines how many pages a printer is able to churn out.

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Correct Answer: Duty cycle

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15. A midi port is a(n) _______ pin din port.

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Correct Answer: 5

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16. ______ is the process of transferring items from a storage medium into memory.

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Correct Answer: Storage

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17. Distributed computing distributes ________.

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Correct Answer: The processing of tasks across a group of computers

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18. By next spring, rocco's ________ the best cannolis in the city for five years in a row.

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Correct Answer: Will have been making

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19. Which statement is most accurate? pre-1894, creole musicians in new orleans could ______________.

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Correct Answer: Markets can sometimes fail

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20. Head-mounted displays often use organic light emitting diode, or _____, technology.

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Correct Answer: OLED

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21. Computers use ________ language consisting of 0s and 1s.

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Correct Answer: Binary

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22. Businesses and other organizations (particularly ____ providers) have tremendous storage needs.

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Correct Answer: Cloud

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23. A _____ is an election that is part of the process for choosing presidential candidates.

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Correct Answer: Presidential primary

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24. The amperage in a series circuit is ________.

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Correct Answer: The same anywhere in the circuit

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25. When your body undergoes electric shock, the source of moving electrons is _________.

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Correct Answer: Electrons already in your body

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26. An integrated circuit embodies what is called ________ technology

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Correct Answer: Solid State

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27. A _____ is a peripheral device for recording, storing, and retrieving information.

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Correct Answer: Disk Drive

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28. The ____ cards used with mobile phones today are a special type of smart card.

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Correct Answer: SIM

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29. Cad/cam makes it possible to custom-design products to meet the needs of __________ with ________.

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Correct Answer: Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM)

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30. Plasma displays use a layered technology like lcd and ____ and look similar to lcd displays.

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Correct Answer: OLED

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31. Electrons in the filament of a lamp that carries ac have a net speed that is _________.

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Correct Answer: Zero.

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32. Conventional cd discs use ____ lasers.

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Correct Answer: Infrared

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33. All of the following are ways to avoid injuries when working on computers except ________.

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Correct Answer: Placing a monitor 12 from the eye

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34. All of the following are names for a flash drive except ________ drive.

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Correct Answer: Hard.

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35. ____ have begun to replace rom for storing system information, such as a computer's bios.

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Correct Answer: Flash memory chips

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36. A cpu is a thin wafer or _____ made up of semiconducting material, such as silicon.

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Correct Answer: Chip.

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37. Most ide or pata systems can support a maximum of ____ devices.

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Correct Answer: 4

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38. Modern power supplies have multiple _______________.

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Correct Answer: Connectors

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39. When you turn on a television, the electrical circuit _____.

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Correct Answer: Closes

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40. Underweight is defined as a body mass index below _______________ kg/m2.

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Correct Answer: 18.5

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41. The electric field inside the dome of a highly-charged van de graaff generator is _________.

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Correct Answer: Zero

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42. The average conversion energy from producers to primary consumers is _______.

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Correct Answer: 10%

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43. The amount of _____ across a resistor is proportional to its resistance.

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Correct Answer: Voltage drop

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44. Output that you can feel is called _____ output.

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Correct Answer: Haptic

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45. An electric field surrounds all _______.

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Correct Answer: All of the given answers

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46. According to ohm's law, a circuit with a high resistance _____.

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Correct Answer: Will have a low electric current

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47. The motherboard _______________________ determines the size of the board and its features.

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Correct Answer: Form-factor

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48. An electrical conductor is an element with ________ electrons in its outer orbit.

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Correct Answer: Less than 4

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49. A rewritable ____ is a replacement for a hard drive

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Correct Answer: None of the above

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50. A strategy for speeding up hard drive performance is ____

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Correct Answer: Disk caching

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51. In the control application, what supervisors measure determines to a great extent what ________.

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Correct Answer: Employees will attempt to emphasize.

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52. In a parallel circuit, the _________ is the same for every leg in the circuit.

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Correct Answer: Voltage

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53. A ____ is an electronic circuit

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Correct Answer: Voltage source

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54. A voltage source in a circuit provides electrical _________.

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Correct Answer: Pressure

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55. Data files are often called ____.

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Correct Answer: Documents

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56. Control is a(n) ____ process.

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Correct Answer: Continuous, dynamic, and cybernetic

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57. Computers gather data, which means that they allow users to ________ data.

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Correct Answer: Input

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58. A computer relies on the combination of _____ and _____ to turn input into output.

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Correct Answer: Hardware, software

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59. A ____ is the size of a character.

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Correct Answer: Byte

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60. A ____ is a separate piece of hardware containing multiple high-speed hard drives.

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Correct Answer: Storage server

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61. A ____ connects devices on a network so all the devices can access network components.

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Correct Answer: Router

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62. One potential application of ________ is to provide sight to the blind.

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Correct Answer: Biomedical chip implants

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63. Data and information that is shown on a display screen is called __________.

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Correct Answer: Softcopy.

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64. Data files are also often called ____.

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Correct Answer: Documents

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65. When three resistors are combined in series, the total resistance of the combination is __________.

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Correct Answer: Greater than any of the individual resistance values

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66. The electric resistance in a length of wire is doubled when the wire is _________.

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Correct Answer: Twice as long

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67. An electric current of 5 amperes in a wire carries _________.

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Correct Answer: 5 joules per coulomb

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68. The pointing device most likely to be found on a notebook computer is a(n) ____.

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Correct Answer: Touch pad

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69. A(n) ____ converts and executes one statement at a time while the program is running.

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Correct Answer: Interpreter

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70. Of the following choices, the best conductor is _____.

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Correct Answer: Copper

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71. A capacitor ________.

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Correct Answer: Stores electrons, passes AC, blocks DC

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72. A ____ is an electronic path over which data can travel.

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Correct Answer: Bus

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73. The _____ is a small quartz crystal located on the motherboard.

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Correct Answer: System clock

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74. To reboot a pc, hold down the ____ keys at the same time.

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Correct Answer: Ctrl, Alt, and Del

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75. The ____ is the number of colors a monitor and graphics card can display.

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Correct Answer: Bit depth

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76. Unlike disk storage, most ram is ____.

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Correct Answer: Volatile

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77. Starter motors operate on the principle that ________.

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Correct Answer: The armature rotates from a strong magnetic field toward a weaker magnetic field

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78. Resonance occurs when ____ and _____ are equal.

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Correct Answer: XL and XC

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79. Laser printers were introduced in _____ and inkjet printers were introduced in _____.

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Correct Answer: 1971; 1976

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80. Ip addresses and their corresponding ____ identify computers available through the internet.

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Correct Answer: Domain names

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81. Electronic monitoring includes __________ systems.

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Correct Answer: Closed-circuit television

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82. Elasticity is the percentage change in quantity divided by the percentage change in _______.

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Correct Answer: Quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price

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83. Control is a cybernetic process because it ____.

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Correct Answer: Has a feedback loop

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84. ____ manage the system resources of a computer so programs can run properly.

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Correct Answer: Operating systems

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85. ____ is a predefined graphic

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Correct Answer: Clip art

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86. ____ control is associated with autonomous work groups.

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Correct Answer: Concertive

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87. In a certain three-wire Y-connected generator, the phase voltages are 2 kV. The magnitudes of the line voltages are

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Correct Answer: 3,464 V

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88. Voltage is measured in

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Correct Answer: Volts

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89. Which of the following is not an electrical quantity?

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Correct Answer: Distance

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90. In a parallel RC circuit, there is 100 mA through the resistive branch and 100 mA through the capacitive branch. The total rms current is

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Correct Answer: 141 mA

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91. What is the angular difference between +j4 and –j4?

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Correct Answer: 180°

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92. An ohmmeter is connected across an inductor and the pointer indicates zero ohms. The inductor is

Answer

Correct Answer: Shorted

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93. When the current through an inductor decreases, the amount of energy stored in the electromagnetic field

Answer

Correct Answer: Decreases

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94. In a series RC circuit, when the frequency and the resistance are halved, the impedance

Answer

Correct Answer: Cannot be determined without values

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95. Resistance is measured in

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Correct Answer: Ohms

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96. In a three-phase system, the voltages are separated by

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Correct Answer: 120°

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97. In a Y-Y source/load configuration, the

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Correct Answer: Phase current, the line current, and the load current are all equal in each phase

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98. Seven thousand volts can be expressed as

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Correct Answer: 7kV

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99. The inductance of an iron-core coil decreases if

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Correct Answer: The number of turns is decreased

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100. A 6 kHz sinusoidal voltage is applied to a series RC circuit. The frequency of the voltage across the resistor is

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Correct Answer: 6 kHz

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101. Fourteen milliamperes can be expressed as

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Correct Answer: 14 mA

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102. When the frequency of the voltage applied to a series RC circuit is increased, the phase angle

Answer

Correct Answer: Decreases

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103. If you wish to increase the amount of current in a resistor from 120 mA to 160 mA by changing the 24 V source, what should the new voltage setting be?

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Correct Answer: 32V

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104. The current through a 120 mH coil is changing at a rate of 150 mA/s. The voltage induced across the coil is

Answer

Correct Answer: 18 mV

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105. When the current through an inductor is cut in half, the amount of energy stored in the electromagnetic field

Answer

Correct Answer: Is halved

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106. A 5 mH, a 4.3 mH, and a 0.6 mH inductor are connected in parallel. The total inductance is

Answer

Correct Answer: Less than 0.6 mH

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