Module: ELEC 27 Total questions: 100 Total recorded: 101

Question Answer
1. Typical Resistivity of insulators 1 x 10 ^ 9 to 1 x 10 ^25
2. Typical Resistivity of conductors 1 x 10 ^ -6 to 1 x 10 ^ -4
3. Typical Resistivity of semiconductors 1 x 10 ^ -4 to 1 x 10 ^ 9
4. Forward biasing a PN junction diode Reduces its barrier potential
5. Reverse biasing a PN junction diode Increases its barrier potential
6. Which of the following is a natural InP
intrinsic semiconductor?
7. The arrow in a transistor symbol Hole flow
indicates?
8. Resistance of a CB configuration goes From low resistance to high resistance
9. What is this theory insert meaning of Substitution Theory
substitution theory here
10. Superposition theory is only applicable in Linear and bilateral
devices that are?
11. Peak inverse voltage of a diode is 1000V
12. Forward break over value of a silcon 600A
diode rectifier is
13. If inductors are used as heating coils, they All in Parallel
are placed in what arrangement in order
to be heated at maximum?
14. A small increase in the internal resistance Small Decrease in voltage gain
of an amplifier corresponds to?
15. Transistor early effect uses what principle Base narrowing
16. The main current in a normally biased Drift current
NPN transistor is
17. The source voltage of a half wave rectifier Vm
circuit is Vm the maximum value of the
voltage across the diode is?
18. A half wave rectifier works only for? Less than half of the cycle
19. A full wave rectifier works for? Half of the cycle
20. What will happen if the operating point The output will show distortions
was moved closer to the cut-off region
21. What must be done to increase the The recombination of electrons and holes must
current passing through a PN junction decrease
22. Why must the emitter be heavily doped? In order to give out maximum power
23. Transformer coupled class A amplifier has 50%
an efficiency of?
24. The Q point is located in the center of the So that only small dc voltage is needed
dc load line?
25. The output of a common emitter circuit Out-of-phase
is?
26. A zener diode has? A negative resistance
27. It points to the address of the next Program counter
 instruction to be run?
28. Which element has transition Lead
temperature of 72.6K
29. What is the conductivity of annealed 108.8%
silver?
30. What is the conductivity of 99.99% gold 72.6%
31. Which of the following is not usually used Blue
to label potentiometer?
32. 1 Kwh is equal to? 850kcal
33. Which resistor is most effective in high Film Type
frequencies?
34. What will happen to the output signal if The output might be driven intro thermal runaway
the operating point is in the saturation
region?
35. What is the conductivity of 99.95% 63%
aluminum?
36. Improper biasing causes Distortion in the output signal
37. Potentiometer always Yellow
counterclockwise limit
38. Potentiometer always clockwise limit Green
39. Potentiometer Wiper Red
40. Transformer coupling of class A amplifiers Efficiency
is done to increase
41. The most noticeable effect of a small Increase in ICEO
increase in temperature in a CE arranged
transistor is?
42. PNP transistor with normal bias The emitter-base junction is forward biased and
the collector-base junction is reversed biased
43. In a PNP transistor electron flows into The collector and base leads
44. The emitter current in a junction Designated at ICO
transistor is
45. Transistor terminal voltage is positive if The terminal is more positive than the common
terminal
46. Conductivity of pure annealed copper 102.1%
47. The space charge region In a junction Fixed donor and acceptor
diode contains charges that are called
48. Common Emitter arrangement of Medium input resistance high output resistance
transistor has
49. If PN junction bias voltage is increased Only after the forward bias exceeds the potential
from zero to a higher value current flow barrier
increase rapidly due to a small value of
voltage
50. If PN junction bias voltage is increased If Minority carriers are enough to cause an
from zero to a higher value current flow avalanche breakdown
increase rapidly and will result to a small
value of voltage
51. The main difference of an NPN transistor
and a PNP transistor is that
52. Beta plot
53. High resistance of reversed bias is due to
54. Minority Carriers crossing the junction
depends on
55. Which of the following types of resistor is
not used for frequencies above 50kHz
56. The emitter of an PNP transistor is more
heavily doped that the base
57. Volt ampere plot in Common Base
58. The register that holds the location of the
current instruction being executed
59. Capacitance of a PN junction
60. Capacitance of a reversed bias PN
junction
61. Transistor terminal is positive if
62. A small increase in collector reverse bias
voltage will
63. Class of superconductor with transition
temperature at 30K
64. Which of the following does not refer to
the number of instructions per second
65. The Quiescent state of a transistor is
66. CE Volt ampere plot
67. Avalanche occurs
68. Temperature at which there is a complete
absence of molecular motion
69. It is a high level language that is function
oriented that is capable for low level
machine control
70. A Principal node is
71. The difference of a mesh current and a
branch current is
72. In a CE transistor current gain, the
collector voltage is held constant so that
73. ICBO
74. Silicon is doped with ____ in order to
have electrons as its majority carriers
75. Transistor action
76. In an unbiased PN junction in equilibrium
current is
77. In reverse saturation current
The emitter injects the region with holes in PNP
and with electrons in NPN
VCB vs IC with constant IB
Large change in collector voltage causing little
change in collector current
The magnitude of the potential barrier
Wirewound
So that the flow across the region is due to the
holes
VCB vs IC for constant IE
Instruction Register
Increases as reverse bias decreases
Depends mainly on the reverse saturation current
Electron flows out of the terminal
Increase collector current
First Class
Interrupt
When no signal is applied at input
VCB vs IC with constant IB
If reverse bias exceeds certain value
Absolute zero
C Language
A junction where branch currents can recombine
and divide
A mesh current is an assumed current and a
branch current is an actual current and mesh
current does not divide at a branch point
Changes in collector current is due to change in
base current
Increases with temperature
Antimony
Base region should be narrow
Zero, because of equal but opposite direction of
carriers crossing the junction
Only minority carriers are crossing the region
78. In a PN junction if the current is zero The number of majority carriers equals the
number of minority carriers crossing
79. CE input volt ampere plot VCB vs IB with constant VCE
80. ICBO flows In the collector and base leads
81. ICEO is Collector current with base current equals zero
82. In a forward biased PN junction Only majority carriers is injected into the region
83. In PN junction holes diffuse from P region The concentration of holes are greater in the P
to N region because region than in the N region
84. Compared to CB, CE has Higher current amplification
85. Water heater requires 1000kWh to be 1333kWh
heated if there is 25% of energy loss the
total energy must be equal to
86. A round wire increase from gauge 1 to 40 The diameter and are decreases
87. LED uses Reverse bias junction
88. Positional barrier at PN junction is due to Fixed donor and acceptor
89. Diode barrier potential offers opposition The majority carriers
only to
90. Signal handling capacity of an amplifier is If the operating point nears operating point
high
91. ICBE Flows in reverse direction to the collector with the
emitter open
92. The increase of formation of holes and Thermal carrier generation
free electrons with an increase in
temperature
93. Which has more resistance 100m no 12 100m no 12 aluminum wire
copper wire or 100m no 12 aluminum
wire
94. DC load line Has a negative slope
95. Positive swing clips the output Towards the cutoff region
96. If positive voltage signal is applied to a The collector voltage becomes less positive
base of a normally biased NPN
97. The emitter of a normally biased Has low resistance
transistor
98. If the collector dissipation is zero the Q Class B
point increases with excitation in
99. If a KVL is taken not in the complete loop Is the sum of voltages form the start point to the
the total voltage end point
100. Which of the following is not true The valence and conduction band of an intrinsic
about 0K semiconductor overlaps
101. Aluminum has a transition 1.2K
temperature of