ASSIGNMENT
1. What is responsible for the current to flow?
a) Protons B. Electrons C. Nucleus D. Protons and Electrons
2. Which of the following will happen in a transformer when the number of secondary turns is
greater than the number of primary turns?
A. The voltage gets stepped up B. The voltage gets stepped down C. The power gets stepped up.
D. The power gets stepped down
3. Which of the following type of circuits in electrical engineering cannot be analyzed using
Ohm’s law?
A. Unilateral B. Bilateral c. Linear D. Conductors
4. When a fourth resistor is connected in series with three resistors, the total resistance
A. increases by one-fourth B. increases C. decreases D. remains the same
5. A string of five series resistors is connected across a 6 V battery. Zero voltage is measured
across all resistors except R3. The voltage across R3 is
A. 0 V B. 1.2 V C. 6 V D. 0.6 V
6. A certain series circuit consists of a 1/8 W resistor, a 1/4 W resistor, and a 1/2 W resistor. The
total resistance is 1200. If each resistor is operating in the circuit at its maximum power
dissipation, total current flow is
A. 0.027A B. 2.7A C. 1.9 A D. 0.240 A
7. Which of the following series combinations dissipates the most power when connected across
a 120 V source?
A. one 220 resistor B. two 220 resistors C. three 220 resistors D. four 220 resistors
8. Two resistors are in series: a 5.6 k resistor and a 4.7 k resistor. The voltage drop across the 5.6
k resistor is 10 V. The voltage across the 4.7 k resistor is
A. 8.39 V B. 10 V C 2.32 V D. 0 V
9. Three 680 resistors are connected in series with a 470 V source. Current in the circuit is
A69 mA B. 230 mA C. 23 mA D. 690 mA
10. If a 24 V and a 6 V battery are series opposing, the total voltage is
A. 30 V B. 24 V C. 18 V D. 0 V
11. A resistor is connected across a 50 V source. What is the current in the resistor if the color
code is red, orange, orange, silver?
A. 2 Ma 2.2 mA 214 mA 21.4 mA
12. When an additional resistor is connected across an existing parallel circuit, the total
resistance
A. remains the same B. decreases by the value of the added resistor C. increases by the value of
the added resistor D. decreases
13. When a 1.6 k resistor and a 120 resistor are connected in parallel, the total resistance is
A. greater than 1.6 k B. greater than 120 but less than 1.6 k C. less than 120 but greater than 100
D. less than 100
14. Six resistors are in parallel. The two lowest-value resistors are both 1.2 k. The total resistance
A. is less than 6 k B. is greater than 1.2 k C is less than 1.2 k D. is less than 600
15. Current flows in a circuit when
A. a switch is opened B. a switch is closed C. the switch is either open or closed D. there is no
voltage
16. The minimum resistance value for a blue, gray, red, silver resistor is
A. 12 C. 6,120 C 6,800 D 6,460
17. The colored bands for a 4,700-ohm resistor with a ten percent tolerance are
A. yellow, violet, red, gold B yellow, violet, orange, gold C. yellow, violet, red, silver Dorange,
violet, red, silver
18. Three 10 k resistors are connected in series. A 20-k resistor is connected in parallel across
one of the 10 k resistors. The voltage source is 24 V. The total current in the circuit is
900 A B. 9 mA C. 90 mA D. 800 A
19. Three 10 k resistors are connected in series. A 20 k resistor is connected in parallel
across one of the 10 k resistors. The voltage source is 24 V. The total current in the circuit is
A. 900 A
B. 9 mA
C. 90 mA
D. 800 A
20. A certain voltage divider consists of three 1 k resistors in series. Which of the following
load resistors will have the least effect on the output voltage?
A. 1 M
B. 100 k
C. 1 k
D. 330
21. he parallel combination of a 470 resistor and a 1.5 k resistor is in series with the parallel
combination of five 1 k resistors. The source voltage is 50 V. The percentage of the load
current through any single 1 k resistor is
A. 25%
B. 20%
C. 100%
D. 50%
22. The internal resistance of a 20,000 ohm/volt voltmeter set on its 5 V range is
A. 20,000
B. 100,000
C. 200,000
D. 1,000,000
23. Two 1.2 k resistors are in series and this series combination is in parallel with a 3.3 k
resistor. The total resistance is
A. 138
B. 1,389
C. 5,700
D. 880
24. When converting 7,000 nA to microamperes, the result is
A. 0.007 µA
B. 0.7 µA
C. 700 µA
D. 7 µA
25. The number of kilowatts in 135 milliwatts is
A. 1.35 × 10–4 kW
B. 135 × 10–3 kW
C. 0.0135 kW
D. 0.00135 kW
26. The number 4.4 × 106 ohms expressed using a metric prefix is
A. 4 k
B. 4.4 k
C. 4 M
D. 4.4 M
27. The number of microamperes in 2 milliamperes is
A. 2 µA
B. 20 µA
C. 200 µA
D. 2,000 µA
28. When converting 0.16 mA to microamperes, the result is
A. 16 µA
B. 160 µA
C. 1,600 µA
D. 0.0016 µA
29. Which of the following is not an electrical quantity?
A. voltage
B. current
C. distance
D. power
30. If 750 µA is flowing through 11 k of resistance, what is the voltage drop across the
resistor?
A. 8.25 V
B. 82.5 V
C. 14.6 V
D. 146 V
31. The formula to find I when the values of V and R are known is
A. I = VR
B. I = R/V
C. V = IR
D. I = V/R
32. A resistor is connected across a 50 V source. What is the current in the resistor if the color
code is red, orange, orange, silver?
A. 2 mA
B. 2.2 mA
C. 214 mA
D. 21.4 mA
33. How much resistance is required to limit the current from a 12 V battery to 3.6 mA?
A. 3.3 k
B. 33 k
C. 2.2 k
D. 22 k
34. What is the voltage source for a circuit carrying 2 A of current through a 36 resistor?
A. 1.8 V
B. 18 V
C. 7.2 V
D. 72 V
34. How much voltage is needed to produce 2.5 A of current through a 200 resistor?
A. 50 V
B. 500 V
C. 80 V
D. 8 V
35. When there is 12 mA of current through a 1.2 k resistor, the voltage across the resistor is
A. 14.4 V
B. 1.4 V
C. 100 V
D. 10 V
36. Calculate the power in the 20-ohm resistance.
A. 2000kW
B. 2kW
C. 200kW
D. 2W
37. A current of 5A flows in a resistor of 2 ohms. Calculate the energy dissipated in 300 seconds
in the resistor.
A. 15kJ
B. 15000Kj
B. 1500J
C. 15J
38. Calculate the power across each 20-ohm resistance.
A. 1000W, 1000W
B. 0W, 500W
C. 1000kW, 1000kW
D. 500kW, 500kW
39. Calculate the power across each 10-ohm resistance.
A. 1000kW, 1000kW
B. 1kW, 1kW
C. 100W, 100W
D. 100kW, 100kW
40. The unit of electrical charge is the
A. coulomb
B. joule
C. volt
D. watt