EXCEL GEAS 1 COACHING 15.

What refers to the number of nuclei

(atoms) per unit volume?
1. What material has a body-centered cubic ANS. MOLECULAR DENSITY
crystalline structure?
ANS. CHROMIUM 16. What is the approximate radius of an
atom?
2. What material has a hexagonal closed- ANS. 10-14 m
packed crystalline structure?
ANS. ZINC 17. What is the process of gaining or losing
electrons?
3. What is an elementary particle that has no ANS. IONIZATION
charge, has zero rest mass and travels at the
speed of light? 18. How many protons, neutrons and
ANS. NEUTRINO electrons are in the carbon isotope 14C6?
ANS. 6 PROTONS, 6 ELECTRONS AND 8
4. What particle consists of two down and NEUTRONS
one up quarks
ANS. NEUTRON 19. One mole of electron has a charge equal
to __ C.
5. What particle consists of two up and one ANS. 96,500
down quarks?
ANS. PROTON 20. What is the characteristic sign of the
magnetic susceptibility of ferromagnetic
6. What particles have rest masses ranging material?
… to about 0.1 amu? ANS. POSITIVE
ANS. MESONS
21. Heavy atoms have more __ than __.
7. What particles include the electron, the ANS. NEUTRONS, PROTONS
mu particle and the neutrino?
ANS. LEPTONS 22. What is otherwise known as retentivity of
magnetic materials?
8. What are the particles that include the ANS. REMANENCE
proton and the neutron?
ANS. BARYONS 23. What is the process in which hydrogen is
changed into helium inside the sun and
9. What is the most common alloying makes the sun shine?
ingredient in copper? ANS. FUSION
ANS. ZINC
24. What is the other term for negative
10. What alloy of nickel has 15 to 20% electron?
chromium and has high electrical resistance? ANS. NEGATRON
ANS. NICHROME
25. What is the reciprocal of atomic mass unit
11. What alloy of nickel has 40 to 60% copper in grams?
used in thermocouple? ANS. AVOGADRO’S NUMBER
ANS. CONSTANTAN
26. What is the value of unified atomic mass
12. What alloy of nickel used in thermostats unit (amu)?
with low or zero thermal expansion? ANS. 1.660 x 10-27 kg
ANS. INVAR
27. What term describes the numeric measure
13. Silicon becomes an extrinsic of the polarization or displacement of
semiconductor with electrons as the majority electrons in atoms or molecules of a
carrier when doped with what material? dielectric?
ANS. ANTIMONY ANS. ELECTRIC SUSCEPTIBILITY

14. What material is used by permanent 28. What is the individual angular momentum
magnet as the magnetic material? of the neutron, proton and electron?
ANS. HARDENED STEEL ANS. h/4pi

29. What defines the total energy of the
electron?
ANS. PRINCIPAL QUANTUM NUMBER
30. What quantum number defines the
direction of electron’s angular momentum
vector?
ANS. MAGNETIC QUANTUM NUMBER
31. What quantum number defines the
magnitude of the electron’s angular
momentum vector?
ANS. AZIMUTHAL QUANTUM NUMBER
32. What is the other term for azimuthal
quantum number?
ANS. ORBITAL QUANTUM NUMBER
33. What quantum number defines the spin
angular momentum vector?
ANS. SPIN QUANTUM NUMBER
34. What is the principal quantum number of
Q shell?
ANS. 7
35. What is the maximum number of electrons
in S subshell?
ANS. 2
36. “Electron orbits are discrete non-radiating
and the electrons may not remain between
these orbits”. What is this statement called?
ANS. FIRST POSTULATE OF NIELS BOHR
37. How many postulates did Niels Bohr
formulate to support his atomic theory?
ANS. 4
38. How many free electrons are there in
every cubic inch of silver?
ANS. 1.68 x 1024
39. What material increases very slightly in
resistance with a rise in temperature?
ANS. ALLOY
40. The charge to mass ratio of a proton.
ANS. 9.5791 x 107 C/kg
41. What term is applied to the amount of
energy required to transfer electrons, ions,
molecules, etc from the interior of one
substance across an interface boundary into
an adjacent substance or space?
ANS. WORK FUNCTION
42. What material has atoms or ions of known
position and repetitive structure?
ANS. CRYSTALLINE
43. What lattice displays all the atoms or ions
in the crystal?
ANS. NON-BRAVAIS LATTICE
44. What is an atom with more or less than its
normal number of electrons?
ANS. ION
45. What determines the valence of an atom?
ANS. NUMBER OF ELECTRONS IN THE
OUTER SHELL
46. What is a combination of two or more
atoms?
ANS. MOLECULES
47. What is a substance which cannot be
reduced to simpler substance by chemical
means?
ANS. ELEMENT
48. The universe is composed of what main
parts?
ANS. ENERGY AND MATTER
49. What determines whether the substance is
a conductor or an insulator?
ANS. NUMBER OF VALENCE ELECTRONS
50. The shell that has the most number of
electrons is the __ shell.
ANS. N
51. What is produced by the orbital or spin
moments of electrons, or both as well as by
moments of free electrons?
ANS. PARAMAGNETISM
52. What is otherwise known as “Electronic
Commerce Act or E-commerce act of the
Philippines”?
ANS. R.A. 8792
53. What does ICT stands for?
ANS. INFORMATIONS &
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
54. How many fundamental substances are
there in nature?
ANS. 92
55. What theory states that matter can be
converted into energy and vice versa?
ANS. EINSTEIN’S THEORY
56. What law states that “For a set of equal
energy orbitals, each orbital is occupied by
one electron before any orbital has two ANS. CHEMICAL BONDING
electrons”?
ANS. HUND’S RULE 71. What bonding occurs in which the
attractive forces result from the exchange
57. What alloy possesses practically constant interaction of the electron gas with the ionic
resistance at all temperatures? lattice?
ANS. EUREKA ANS. METALLIC BONDING

58. What material has atoms or ions of known 72. What bonding results from attractive
positions and repetitive structure? forces between positive and negative ions or
ANS. CRYSTALLINE between pairs of opposite charged ions?
ANS. ELECTROSTATIC BONDING
59. What element is the third best conductor
of electricity? 73. When an electron acquires enough
ANS. GOLD additional energy from an external source, it
can leave the valence shell and becomes a
60. What is the least conductor of electricity? free electron and exists in what is known as
ANS. NICHROME __.
ANS. CONDUCTION BAND
61. The atomic weight of an element equal to
__ in the nucleus. 74. What is produced by electron spins in
ANS. NO. OF PROTONS + NO. OF antiparallel pairs in closed electronics shells?
NEUTRONS ANS. DIAMAGNETISM

62. What are particles called as nucleons? 75. What solid is made of crystal grains of
ANS. PROTONS AND NEUTRONS different sizes?
ANS. POLYCRYSTALLINE
63. What do you call nuclei with the same
atomic numbers but different atomic weights? 76. What is the range of state in the free-
ANS. ISOTOPES energy spectrum of a solid in which electrons
can move freely?
64. What specifies the shell in which an ANS. CONDUCTION BAND
electron is located?
ANS. PRINCIPAL QUANTUM NUMBER 77. What solid material which most of the
atoms or ions are randomly placed?
65. What specifies the direction of spin of an ANS. AMORPHOUS
electron on its own axis?
ANS. SPIN QUANTUM NUMBER 78. How is the negative charge created in a
neutral body?
66. What is the diameter of the atomic ANS. … EXCESS ELECTRONS
nucleus?
ANS. BETWEEN 10-15 TO 10-16 m 79. What is the curie temperature of an iron
magnet?
67. What gives an element its identity? ANS. 770OC
ANS. ATOMIC NUMBER
80. What is the temperature coefficient of
68. What is the smallest particle of an element annealed copper?
that retains the characteristics of that ANS. 0.00393 PER OC
element?
ANS. ATOM 81. What is the inferred absolute zero
temperature of annealed copper?
69. What bonding occurs when molecules are ANS. -234.5OC
formed, giving each atom an outer shell of
eight atoms? 82. What is one of the crystalline atoms
ANS. VAN WAALS BONDING occupying an interstitial site where no atom
should exist?
70. What bonding occurs when the total ANS. SELF-INTERSTITIAL ATOM
energy of an aggregate is less with atoms
near each other than separated?
83. What crystalline structure has
coordination number of 12?
ANS. FACE-CENTERED CUBIC
84. What crystalline structure has a packing
factor of 0.52?
ANS. SIMPLE CUBIC
85. What crystalline structure has
coordination number of 6?
ANS. BODY-CENTERED CUBIC
86. What crystalline structure has a packing
factor of 0.74?
ANS. FACE-CENTERED CUBIC
87. What characteristic of an atom in an ionic
compound is the number of closest (touching)
atoms?
ANS. COORDINATION NUMBER
88. How many atoms in a cell in a simple
cubic crystalline structure?
ANS. 1
89. Conductivity of a 99.5% pure aluminum.
ANS. 63%
90. What is a neutral defect of ionic lattices
consisting of two vacancies (one cation and
one anion)?
ANS. SCHOTTKY DEFECT
a
97. What term is … tend to attract electrons to
form a chemical bond?
ANS. ELECTRONEGATIVE
98. What is any two electrons functioning or
regarded as functioning in concert, especially
two electrons shared by two atoms joined by
a covalent bond?
a ANS. ELECTRON PAIR
99. What is the charge of an electron?
ANS. 1.602 x 10-19 COULOMBS
100. What term is used to tend to
attract electrons to form a chemical bond?
ANS. ELECTRONEGATIVE
101. What decay decreases the number
of both protons and neutrons by two and may
result in a stable nucleus?
ANS. ALPHA DECAY
102. What electron emission in which
gamma radiation may be emitted to decrease
the binding energy?
ANS. - BETA DECAY
103. What electron emission is when the
nucleus has too many few neutrons, a proton
transforms into a neutron with a positron
emission?
ANS. + BETA DECAY

91. What is considered as the most common 104. Group 1A in the periodic table are
type of crystal defect? elements known as:
ANS. LINE DEFECT ANS. ALKALI METALS

92. What is the percent conductivity of pure 105. Group 2A in the periodic table are
annealed copper wire? elements known as:
ANS. 102.1% ANS. ALKALINE EARTH METALS

93. What is the conductivity of a 99.9% pure 106. Noble gases are in what group in
gold? the periodic table?
ANS. 72.6% ANS. 8A

94. What is the conductivity of a pure 107. Why are noble gases called inert
annealed silver wire? gases?
ANS. 108.8% ANS. BECAUSE THESE GASES ARE
BELIEVE THAT THEY CANNOT UNDERGO
95. What is the difference between the kinetic CHEMICAL REACTION
energy of the electron and the electrostatic
potential energy of the electron-nucleus 108. What metal has the lowest boiling
combination? temperature?
ANS. BINDING ENERGY ANS. MERCURY

96. An electron is a subatomic particle in the 109. Halogens belong to what group in
lepton family having a rest mass of: the periodic table?
ANS. 9.1066 x 10-28 grams ANS. 7A
 123. Period 3 in the periodic table has
110. What halogen is greenish-yellow how many elements?
gas? ANS. 8
ANS. CHLORINE
124. Period 4 in the periodic table has
111. What halogen is bluish-black solid how many elements?
that gives off purple fumes when heated? ANS. 18
ANS. IODINE
125. The last row in the periodic table is
period 6 has how many elements?
112. All halogens will form compound ANS. 32
with what group of metals?
ANS. GROUP 1A AND GROUP 2A
126. The elements to the left and to the
113. Compounds containing halogen and right of the central gap in the periodic table
one other element (except oxygen) are are called ___.
called: ANS. MAIN GROUP ELEMENTS
ANS. HALIDE
127. Elements in the central gap of the
114. What metals are the softest among periodic table are called ___.
the metals? ANS. TRANSITION METALS
ANS. ALKALI METALS
128. Elements in the central gap are
115. Why is the reason why alkali ___.
metals are protected from water, air, and ANS. ALL METALS
most other substances?
ANS. BECAUSE ALKALI METALS ARE 129. The elements in the sixth period of
EXTREMELY REACTIVE the periodic table between lanthanium and
hafnium are called ___.
116. What metal have melting point of ANS. LANTHANIDES
20OC and is liquid on warm day?
ANS. CESIUM 130. The elements of the seventh period
are known as ___.
117. Magnesium reacts to water only ANS. ACTINIDES
when the water is:
ANS. BOILING 131. The lanthanides were once called
___.
118. Alkali metals react with what ANS. RARE EARTHS
element to form salts?
ANS. CHLORINE 132. What is the most notable property
of actinides?
119. Alkali metals react strongly with ANS. THEY ARE ALL RADIOACTIVE
water to form ___.
ANS. HYDROGEN GAS 133. The number of occupied electron
shells in an atom is ___ the number of its
120. Solutions of compound of alkali element’s period.
metals are called __. ANS. THE SAME AS
ANS. HYDROXIDE
134. The effective nuclear charge of any
121. There are how many elements in main group element is __ the group number.
the first period in the top row of the periodic ANS. EQUAL TO
table?
ANS. 2 135. Cations are __ their parent atoms.
ANS. SMALLER THAN
122. Period 2 in the periodic table has
how many elements? 136. Anions are ___ they parent atoms.
ANS. 8 ANS. LARGER THAN
137. What is the most electronegative deg to that required to raise the unit mass of
number? water 1 deg at some specific temperature is
ANS. FLOURINE the __ of the material.
ANS. SPECIFIC HEAT
138. What are often times referred as
electronegative? 150. What is the mass in pounds equal
ANS. METALS to the molecular weight?
ANS. POUND MOL
139. Refers to the number of chemical
bonds an atom will usually form. 151. One pound mol of oxygen is __
ANS. VALENCE OR VALENCE NUMBER pounds.
ANS. 32
140. Defined as the amount of
substance that contains as many formula 152. At the same pressure and
units as there are atoms in exactly 12 g of temperature, the volume of 1 mol is:
the most common isotope of carbon. ANS. THE SAME FOR ALL PERFECR GASES
ANS. MOLE
141. The statement of policy of the R.A.
9292 is __ of the implementing rules and 153. “1 mol of any perfect gas contains
regulation. the same number of molecules”. This is
ANS. RULE I known as:
ANS. AVOGADRO’S PRINCIPLE
142. The composition of the board of
electronics engineers is found in what rule of 154. Avogadro’s number is ___
the IRR of the R.A. 9292? molecules per lb-mol.
ANS. RULE II ANS. 2.73160 x 1026

143. Rule III of IRR of the R.A. 9292 is: 155. For pure substances, the heat
ANS. EXAMINATION, REGISTRATION effects accompanying changes in state of
AND LICENSURE constant pressure are known as __.
ANS. LATENT EFFECTS
144. To become a member of the board
of electronics engineers, he/she must be in 156. With a ___, there is no interchange
active practice of the electronics engineering of matter between system and surroundings.
profession for at least __ continuous years. ANS. CLOSED SYSTEM
ANS. 10
157. With ___, there is interchange of
145. To become a member of the board matter between system and surroundings.
of electronics engineers, he/she must be a ANS. OPEN SYSTEM
citizen and resident of the Philippines for at
least __ consecutive years. 158. In thermodynamics, any change
ANS. 5 that the system may undergo is called ___.
ANS. PROCESS
146. According to Section 3 of Rule I of
the IRR of R.A. 9292, the accredited 159. In thermodynamics, any process or
professional organization for electronics series of processes in which the system
engineers is the: returns to its original condition or state is
ANS. INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS called a __.
ENGINEERS OF THE PHILIPPINES, INC. ANS. CYCLE

147. What is the SI unit of heat? 160. The first law of thermodynamics is
ANS. JOULE the:
ANS. LAW OF CONSERVATION OF
148. What represents the total useful ENERGY
energy of a substance?
ANS. ENTHALPY 161. What law of thermodynamics
states that conversion of heat tow work is
149. The ratio of the amount of heat limited by the temperature at which
transferred to raise unit mass of a material 1 conversion occurs?
ANS. SECOND LAW OF 173. What is the specific heat capacity
THERMODYNAMICS of water in kJ/kg-OC?
ANS. 4.19
162. One pound mol of any perfect gas
occupies a volume of ___ ft3 at 32OF and 1 174. The __ of a substance is the
atm. amount of heat needed to turn 1 kg of the
ANS. 359 substance at its melting point from the solid
to the liquid state.
163. The __ is a modification of the ANS. HEAT OF FUSION
ideal gas law which is sometimes useful at
high pressures. 175. What is the heat of fusion of
ANS. VAN DER WAALS EQUATION OF water?
STATE ANS. 335 kJ/kg

164. What is the universal gas constant 176. The __ of a substance is the
in kJ/mol-K? amount of heat needed to turn 1 kg of the
ANS. 8.314 substance at its boiling point from the liquid
to the gaseous state.
165. A substance whose specific volume ANS. HEAT OF VAPORIZATION
or density is constant is called a/an:
ANS. INCOMPRESSIBLE SUBSTANCE 177. At atmospheric pressure, what is
166. The state beyond which there is no the heat of vaporization of water?
distinct vaporization process is called: ANS. 2260 kJ/kg
ANS. CRITICAL POINT
178. The process of directly changing
167. What is the transfer of energy from from solid to vapor state or vice versa is
the more energetic particles of a substance to called __.
the adjacent less energetic ones as a result of ANS. SUBLIMATION
interaction between particles?
ANS. CONDUCTION 179. What is the mixture of the
material’s ability to conduct heat?
168. What is the transfer of energy ANS. THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
between a solid surface and the adjacent fluid
that is in motion and it involves the combined 180. The larger the thermal conductivity
effects of conduction and fluid motion? of the material, the:
ANS. CONVECTION ANS. FASTER THE HEAT TRANSFER

169. What is the transfer of energy due
to the emission of electromagnetic waves or
photons?
ANS. RADIATION
170. “The net change in the total energy
of the system during a process is equal to the
difference between the entering and the total
energy leaving the system during that
process.” This is known as:
ANS. ENERGY BALANCE
171. What device is used to increase the
pressure of a fluid by slowing it down?
ANS. DIFFUSER
172. A device where two moving fluid
streams exchange heat without mixing.
ANS. HEAT EXCHANGER
181. What is the ratio of the thickness
of the material to the thermal conductivity?
ANS. THERMAL RESISTANCE
182. What refers to the heating of the
earth’s atmosphere not by direct sunlight but
by infrared light radiated by the surface and
absorbed mainly by atmospheric carbon
dioxide?
ANS. GREENHOUSE EFFECT
183. What process is during which a
system remains under constant pressure?
ANS. ISOBARIC
184. A process in which the temperature
of the substance that undergoes a change of
some kind stays constant?
ANS. ISOTHERMAL
185. What consists of a cylinder that is
filled with an ideal gas and as a movable
piston at one end?
ANS. CARNOT ENGINE

186. Carnot engine uses what process?

ANS. ISOTHERMAL AND ADIABATIC
PROCESSES

187. The ___ of substance is the energy

radiated when 1 kg or 1 cu. m of it is
completely burned.
ANS. HEAT OF COMBUSTION

188. A device that converts heat into

mechanical energy or work.
ANS. HEAT ENGINE

189. One curie = ____disintegration per

volume.
ANS. 3.70 x 1010

190. What consists of a large cylindrical

box, shaped like a pill box, placed between
the points of a huge electromagnet and used
for accelerating charged particles?
ANS. CYCLOTRON
191. An analytical technique used when
the reaction between the standard solution
and the substance to be analyzed is low.
ANS. BACK TITRATION