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Coulomb
  • 1. How many microcoulombs of charge are typically involved in static electricity from rubbing materials together?
A) A few microcoulombs
B) A few kilocoulombs
C) A few coulombs
D) A few milliampere-hours
  • 2. What is the typical charge that travels through a lightning bolt?
A) Around 10800 C
B) Around 5 kC
C) Around 1400 mA⋅h
D) Around 15 C, but can be up to 350 C for large bolts
  • 3. How much charge travels through a typical alkaline AA battery from fully charged to discharged?
A) About 10800 C
B) About 350 C
C) About 15 C
D) About 5 kC = 5000 C ≈ 1400 mA⋅h
  • 4. How much charge can a typical smartphone battery hold?
A) 5000 C ≈ 1400 mA⋅h
B) 350 C
C) 15 C
D) 10800 C ≈ 3000 mA⋅h
  • 5. Who is the coulomb named after?
A) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
B) Michael Faraday
C) James Clerk Maxwell
D) Albert Einstein
  • 6. When was the coulomb officially approved as a unit of electric charge?
A) 1908 by the IEC
B) 1878 by the British Association for the Advancement of Science
C) 1948 by the IEC
D) 1881 by the International Electrical Congress
  • 7. What was the coulomb part of before becoming the modern coulomb?
A) The imperial system
B) The metric system
C) The EMU system of units
D) The SI system
  • 8. What was the coulomb called before it became the modern coulomb?
A) Absolute coulomb or abcoulomb
B) International coulomb
C) Reproducible coulomb
D) EMU coulomb
  • 9. When was the 'international coulomb' introduced?
A) 1878 by the British Association for the Advancement of Science
B) 1881 by the International Electrical Congress
C) 1948 by the IEC
D) 1908 by the IEC
  • 10. What happened to the set of 'reproducible units'?
A) It was abandoned in 1948
B) It became the modern coulomb
C) It was introduced in 1908
D) It was approved in 1881
  • 11. How was the volt originally defined?
A) As the unit of electric current
B) As the unit of electromotive force
C) As the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power
D) As the unit of electric charge
  • 12. Approximately how many elementary charges are in one coulomb?
A) 9.648533212×104 e
B) 1.036×10−5 mol × NA e
C) 3.3356×10−10 e
D) 6.241509×1018 e
  • 13. What was the coulomb previously defined in terms of?
A) The charge of one mole of elementary charges
B) The capacitance of a capacitor
C) The force between two wires
D) The Avogadro number
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