Electronics — a first course

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A. Answers to questions Page 33: Extension questions.

These are the answers to numerical ‘Questions 2 Aluminium.

on ...’. There are also answers to those
questions that take only a few words. 9 4.242 V.
11 96 C.
12 2016 J.
Page 32: Questions on electricity.
13 150 J.
2 Polythene, acetate, glass, rubber. 14 Four cells.
3 Positive and negative; negative.
5 It has a large supply of free electrons.
Page 45: Questions on resistance.
8 A flow of electrons (usually).
9 A battery is made up of two or more cells. 1 3.7 A, away from the junction.
12 Zinc-carbon, zinc-chloride, lithium, or 2 0.2 A, away from the junction.
alkaline, 16 cells. Lead-acid, 12 cells. NiCad or 3 R2.
NiMH, 20 cells.
4 38.8 mA, 2.17 V, 4.65 V, 3.18 V.
13 Can produce a large current.
5 7.74 V.
14 (a) ampere, A, (b) volt, V, (c) watt, W.
6 R1: 3 V, 30 mA. R2: 3 V, 63.8 mA.
15 power = current × voltage.
7 7 mA away from junction.
16 (a) µV, (b) MW.
8 0.189 V, positive at central end.
17 1.67 A.
9 4.78 V.
18 36 mW.
10 11.95 V.
20 Live, neutral, earth.
11 2.45 V.
23 1.32 p.
12 6.28 V.
13 4.66 V.
Page 32: Multiple choice questions 14 0.78 V.
15 13.34 V.
1 B.
16 R1 = R2.
2 D.
17 R1=150 Ω, R2 = 100 Ω, or in that ratio.
3 C.
18 resistance = voltage/current, 82 Ω.
4 D.
19 24.05 Ω.
5 A.
20 80 V.
6 C.
21 76.92 Ω, 75 Ω, violet, green, black.
7 A.
23 41.7 mA.
8 B.
24 ±10% tolerance, 1980 Ω, 2420 Ω.
9 A.
10 B.
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Page 46: Multiple choice questions. Page 59: Multiple choice questions on
capacitors and inductors.
1 A.
2 C. 1 (a) T, (b) T, (c) F, (d) F, (e) T, (f) F, (g) T, (h) F,
3 D. (i) T, (j), F, (k) F.
4 A. 2 C.
5 B. 3 A.
6 A. 4 (a) T, (b) F, (c) F, (d) T, (e) T, (f) F.
7 D.

Page 60: Questions on inductors.

3 1600 turns, 100 Hz.

Page 47: Extension questions.
4 1.92 V.
1 212.6 Ω.
2 4975Ω. , 10 kΩ. Page 60: Extension questions.
3 50.8 mA, 6 V.
4 (a) 375 Ω, (b) 676367 Ω, (c) 79.82 Ω. 2 B, C = brush, D = commutator.
5 68.2 Ω. 3 Fleming’s Left-hand Rule.
6 (a) 270RG, (b) 620KJ, (c) 1K6G, (d) 2M2L. 5 4.64 V.
7 (a) brown, grey, green, no band, (b) green, 6 1125 Ω.
blue, black, gold band, (c) violet, green, yellow, 7 3.89 Ω.
silver band, (d) red, yellow, red, red band.
8 (a) 4 V, 6 V, (b) 2.4 V.
Page 75: Questions on diodes.
9 4 mA, 15R , 5R , 10R.
10 Set with 600R below and 400R above. 600R 2 Reverse bias, no current flows.
and 470R in parallel = 264R. Output = 5.96 V.
Current through load = 12.7 mA.
Page 103: Questions on sensors, transistors
and thyristors.

5 The resistance of the thermistor decreases

when temperature increases.
Page 52: Questions on capacitors.
6 Collector, base, emitter, flows out of the
1 (a) 47 000 pF = 47 nF ± 5%, (b) 390 000 pF = emitter.
390 nF ± 10%, (c) 1000 pF = 1 nF ± 5%. 8 Emitter current.
2 1820 nF or 1.82 µF. 12 470 Ω gives 21 mA.
4 Exponential curve. 15 120.
5 Use a capacitor with larger capacitance. 16 100, 0.7 V.
6 Polyester. 22 Increases by 4.5 mA.
7 Vary the overlap; vary the distance between 27 Anode, cathode, gate, cathode.
plates.

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Page 104: Multiple choice questions. 5 C.

6 C.
1 C.
7 B.
2 B.
8 A.
3 A.
9 A.
4 A.
10 C.
5 (a) T, (b) T, (c) F, (d) F, (e) T, (f) T.
11 A.
6 C.
12 B.
7 C.
13 A.
8 B.
9 A.
10 D. Page 149: Multiple choice questions.

11 D. 1 C.
12 B. 2 B..
13 B. 3 A.
14 A. 4 C.
15 C. 5 A.
16 B. 6 C.
7 A.
Page 131: Questions on systems, sensors and 8 D.
interfacing. 9 A.
1 Input, processing, output. 10 D.
8 26 400.
Page 154: Questions on logical systems.
Page 139: Questions on timing. 1 Exclusive-OR.
5 (a) 5.17 ms, (b) 24.2 µs, (c) 1137.4 s. 2 Z = A + B.

6 (a) 27 kΩ, (b) 120 Ω, (c) 510 kΩ.

8 (a) 8.06 ms, (b) 4.76 ms, (c) 3.24 ms. Page 165: Questions on logical sequences.

9 The digits of the decimal number are each

Page 139: Extension questions on timing. expressed in binary form.
10 (a) 1000101, (b) 0110 1001.
1 90%.

Page 166: Multiple choice questions.

Page 139: Multiple choice questions.
1 D.
1 B.
2 B.
2 A.
3 C.
3 A.

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4 A. 16 A.
5 C. 17 B.
6 B.

Page 171: Questions on storing data. Page 201: Questions on digital

communications.
1 binary digit, 0 or 1.
5 0.
2 16.
3 5120.
5 The temperature is not greater than 25°C.
Note that this is not the same as ’The
temperature is less than 25°C’.
6 256.
7 Writing value ‘9’ into address 6.
8 Control, data, address.
10 The input is made low to enable its action.

Page 180: Questions on programs.

9 (left) process, (right) input or output.

Page 185: Multiple choice questions.

1 D.
2 B.
3 D.
4 B.
5 D.
6 B.
7 D.
8 D.
9 B.
10 A.
11 B.
12 D.
13 C.
14 B.
15 A.

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