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  • 1. Which device can measure electric current without breaking the circuit?
A) Shunt resistors
B) Hall effect current sensor transducers
C) Galvanometer
D) Ammeter
  • 2. What is the process called where electric current through a conductor produces heat?
A) Resistive cooling
B) Ohmic heating
C) Thermal conduction
D) Joule heating
  • 3. Who first studied the phenomenon of Joule heating?
A) Michael Faraday
B) Thomas Edison
C) Nikola Tesla
D) James Prescott Joule
  • 4. What is the relationship between power, current, and resistance in Joule's Law?
A) P ∝ I/R
B) P ∝ IR
C) P ∝ I²R
D) P ∝ R/I
  • 5. What unit of energy is named after the scientist who studied Joule heating?
A) Volt
B) Joule
C) Watt
D) Ampere
  • 6. What is the SI unit of power equivalent to?
A) One ampere per second
B) One joule per second
C) One volt per second
D) One watt per second
  • 7. In an electromagnet, what happens when the electric current is switched off?
A) The coil becomes a permanent magnet
B) The coil loses its magnetism immediately
C) The coil's magnetism increases
D) The coil retains its magnetism
  • 8. What phenomenon occurs when a changing magnetic field is applied to a conductor?
A) Electromotive force (EMF) is induced
B) The conductor loses its magnetic properties
C) The conductor becomes a permanent magnet
D) The conductor generates heat
  • 9. What can be generated when an electric current flows in a conductor at radio frequencies?
A) Infrared waves
B) Microwaves
C) Radio waves
D) Ultraviolet waves
  • 10. In metallic solids, what flows to constitute an electric current?
A) Positrons
B) Electrons
C) Protons
D) Neutrons
  • 11. In which direction does conventional current flow in metals?
A) Same as the electron movement
B) Opposite to the electron movement
C) In a circular pattern around the electron movement
D) Perpendicular to the electron movement
  • 12. What type of particles can constitute an electric current in a vacuum?
A) A beam of ions or electrons
B) Photons
C) Protons only
D) Neutrons only
  • 13. In a lead-acid electrochemical cell, what flows in the opposite direction to negative sulfate ions?
A) Negative electrons
B) Negative hydronium ions
C) Positive hydronium ions
D) Positive sulfate ions
  • 14. What type of current is entirely composed of flowing ions in ice?
A) Photonic current
B) Thermal current
C) Magnetic current
D) Electric current
  • 15. What is the direction of conventional current in conductors where charge carriers are positive?
A) Random with respect to the charge carriers
B) Opposite to the charge carriers
C) Same as the charge carriers
D) Perpendicular to the charge carriers
  • 16. What is the effect of electric current on the magnetic field around a wire?
A) It produces a magnetic field
B) It has no effect on the magnetic field
C) It cancels the magnetic field
D) It reverses the magnetic field
  • 17. Which device uses a shunt resistor to measure current?
A) Hall effect sensor
B) Devices at the circuit level
C) Galvanometer
D) Transformers
  • 18. What is the speed at which radio waves travel?
A) Speed of light
B) Speed of sound
C) Speed of an electron
D) Speed of a proton
  • 19. What is the conventional direction of current flow defined as?
A) Direction of negative charge flow
B) Direction of positive charge flow
C) Direction of neutron flow
D) Direction of electron flow
  • 20. How is the reference direction of current typically indicated on a circuit schematic diagram?
A) By a power source symbol
B) By an arrow
C) By a voltage source symbol
D) By a resistor symbol
  • 21. In which unit is electric current measured in the SI system?
A) Ampere (A).
B) Volt (V).
C) Watt (W).
D) Ohm (Ω).
  • 22. Who formulated Ampère's force law?
A) André-Marie Ampère.
B) Michael Faraday.
C) James Clerk Maxwell.
D) Benjamin Franklin.
  • 23. What is the base unit for electric current in the International System of Quantities (ISQ)?
A) Ampere.
B) Watt.
C) Volt.
D) Ohm.
  • 24. What is the usual waveform of an AC power circuit?
A) Sawtooth wave
B) Triangular wave
C) Sine wave
D) Square wave
  • 25. Which of the following can produce direct current?
A) Alternating current systems
B) Eddy currents
C) Electromagnetic waves
D) Batteries
  • 26. How can alternating current be converted to direct current?
A) Using a rectifier
B) Using a capacitor
C) Using an inductor
D) Using a transformer
  • 27. What is an example of a natural observable electric current?
A) Radio waves
B) Overhead power lines
C) Lightning
D) Eddy currents
  • 28. What are the units of Q and t in the equation I = Q / t?
A) Amperes and coulombs.
B) Seconds and volts.
C) Volts and ohms.
D) Coulombs and seconds, respectively.
  • 29. What process occurs when the electric field in a gas approaches the breakdown value?
A) Avalanche breakdown
B) Thermionic emission
C) Field electron emission
D) Proton conduction
  • 30. What is formed when free electrons and positive ions are present in sufficient quantities in a gas?
A) Insulator
B) Dielectric
C) Plasma
D) Solid electrolyte
  • 31. What can a perfect vacuum normally behave as?
A) A dielectric
B) A plasma
C) A perfect insulator
D) A conductor
  • 32. What causes thermionic emission in metals?
A) High electric field
B) Cosmic rays
C) Thermal energy exceeding the metal's work function
D) Radioactive decay
  • 33. Who discovered superconductivity and in what year?
A) Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911
B) Ernest Rutherford in 1911
C) Niels Bohr in 1913
D) Albert Einstein in 1905
  • 34. What is the critical temperature in the context of superconductivity?
A) The temperature below which a material exhibits zero electrical resistance
B) The temperature at which a material becomes a perfect conductor
C) The temperature at which a material loses all magnetic properties
D) The temperature at which a material becomes an insulator
  • 35. What is the approximate energy band gap that divides semiconductors from insulators?
A) Roughly 0.1 eV
B) Roughly 10 eV
C) Roughly 4 eV
D) Roughly 1 eV
  • 36. What principle requires an electron to be lifted into a higher state when moving in a covalent bond?
A) The Heisenberg uncertainty principle
B) The principle of conservation of energy
C) The principle of charge neutrality
D) The Pauli exclusion principle
  • 37. In AC power lines, how do electromagnetic waves propagate?
A) Only within the wires
B) Through the space between the wires
C) Through the ground
D) Through the air only
  • 38. What is the ratio of the speed of the electromagnetic wave to the speed of light in free space called?
A) Electromagnetic ratio
B) Velocity factor
C) Drift velocity
D) Wavefront speed
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