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