MODULE 3 REVIEW QUESTIONS – CHAPTERS 1-8

1. What are the electrical charges of atoms, molecules, protons, neutrons, electrons,
ions?
2. What is called a valence shell?
3. What is the type of energy that electrons in shells have?
4. Which shell is called a valence shell? What is the importance of it?
5. What are the types of ions and how they are created?
6. What is a conductor and what is an insulator?

7. How is static electricity created?

8. Describe Coulomb’s law of charges and explain the unit of charge
9. What is an electric field and how it is created?
10. Explain conduction in solids, liquids, gases and vacuum.

11. What is the difference between conventional current flow and electron flow?
12. What is the definition of current? Give the formula and the unit of measurement.
13. What is resistance and what is conductance? How can they be calculated? (give the
formulas).
14. When do we say that a conductor has a resistance of 1 ohm?
15. What is potential difference?
16. What is electromotive force?
17. What is voltage?

18. What is the principle of operation of the thermocouple?

19. How is voltage produced in a battery?
20. How is voltage produced by magnetism? What are the fundamental conditions to
produce voltage by magnetism?

21. What is the basic structure of a battery (plates, electrodes, electrolyte, movement of
electrons?
22. What is the difference between primary and secondary cells?
23. What is the total voltage and the total capacity of cells connected in series and in
parallel?
24. What is the electrolyte in NiCd and in Lead Acid batteries?
25. What is the definition of electrochemical action?
26. What is internal resistance of a battery and how it affects its operation?
27. Why are thermocouples color coded?
28. What are the characteristics of a Type K thermocouple? (materials, color coding,
range of measurement).
29. How much voltage is produced by a type K thermocouple per degree C?
30. What is the operation of photovoltaic cells?

31. Describe Ohm’s Law for voltage, current, resistance (use formula for simple
problems).
32. Resistance in series and in parallel (calculation).
33. Current in series circuits and in parallel circuits.
34. Voltage in series and in parallel circuits (voltage drop).
35. Describe Kirchhoff’s voltage law and current law.
36. What is an open and a closed/short circuit? What is the resistance of each?

37. Factors affecting resistance

38. What is resistivity?
39. Operation of rheostats/potentiometers
40. Operation of a Wheatstone bridge.
41. What is the operation of a positive/negative temperature coefficient resistor?
42. What is a thermistor?

43. What is the definition of electrical power and its unit of measurement?
44. Explain the formula for the calculation of power
45. What is a components power rating?
46. What is the relationship between power, work, and energy?