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Question
If you drop a 5 when rounding a number, you are using the
Options
A. round-to-even rule
B. significant digit rule
C. round-off rule
D. retained digit rule
Correct Answer
round-to-even rule
Quantities and Units problems
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1. What is the current through the diode?
Options
A. 1 mA
B. 0.975 mA
C. 0.942 mA
D. 0.0 mA
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Correct Answer: 1 mA
2. What is wrong with this circuit?
Options
A. The zener is open.
B. The zener is shorted.
C. nothing
D. not enough data
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Correct Answer: The zener is open.
3. What circuit activity may shift a characteristic curve so that diode operating points are different?
Options
A. higher power (heat)
B. higher resistance
C. lower voltage
D. lower current
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Correct Answer: higher power (heat)
4. A characteristic curve is the result of a current versus voltage plot of diode activity, which begins at the:
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A. 3rd quadrant
B. current plot
C. graph origin
D. voltage plot
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Correct Answer: graph origin
5. With a 12 V supply, a silicon diode, and a 370-ohm resistor in series, what voltage will be dropped across the diode?
Options
A. 0.3 V
B. 0.7 V
C. 0.9 V
D. 1.4 V
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Correct Answer: 0.7 V
6. Another name for "fundamental units" is
Options
A. base units
B. atoms
C. the metric system
D. letter symbols
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Correct Answer: base units
7. Pico is what relation to micro?
Options
A. one-tenth
B. one-hundredth
C. one-thousandth
D. one-millionth
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Correct Answer: one-millionth
8. Dividing 24 × 10
11
by 3 × 10
4
equals
Options
A. 8 × 10
4
B. 8 × 10
7
C. 8 × 10
11
D. 8 × 10
15
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Correct Answer: 8 × 10
7
9. Which of the following is expressed in engineering notation?
Options
A. 470 × 10
5
B. 82 × 10
?2
C. 9.1 × 10
?6
D. 14.7 × 10
8
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Correct Answer: 9.1 × 10
?6
10. A measure of the repeatability of a measurement of some quantity is
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A. error
B. precision
C. accuracy
D. significant
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Correct Answer: precision
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