MCQ Bank
Select the correct statement:
- A) Blue light has a higher frequency than x rays
- B) Radio waves have higher frequency than gamma rays
- C) Ultraviolet light has a longer wavelength than infrared
- D) Gamma rays have higher frequency than infrared waves
In US the electricity standards are:
- A) 120 Volts and 60 Hertz
- B) 120 Volts and 50 Hertz
- C) 100 Volts and 50 Hertz
- D) 230 Volts and 50 Hertz
Which of the following have the greatest wavelength?
- A) Ultraviolet
- B) Radio waves
- C) Gamma rays
- D) Infrared
Which of the following is usually taken to make the core of a transformer?
- A) Hard iron
- B) Copper
- C) Aluminum
- D) Soft iron
In a vacuum, the conduction current is __________:
- A) Infinity
- B) Undetermined
- C) Zero
- D) Unity
We desire to make an LC circuit that oscillates at 100 Hz using an inductance of 2.5H. We also need a capacitance of:
- A) 1 F
- B) 100μF
- C) 1μF
- D) 1mF
Potentiometer can be used as
- A) Galvanometer
- B) Potential divider
- C) Ammeter
- D) Ohm meter
Inductive reactance XL of an inductor is:
- A) 2πfL
- B) πfL
- C) 4πfL
- D) 2πL
The graphical representation of Ohm’s law is:
- A) Hyperbola
- B) Straight line
- C) Parabola
- D) Ellipse
A transformer is employed to:
- A) Obtain a suitable D.C. voltage.
- B) Convert A.C. into D.C.
- C) Obtain a suitable A.C. voltage.
- D) Convert D.C. into A.C.
In the context of capacitors, how is energy related to the electric field strength?
- A) Energy is directly proportional to the electric field strength
- B) Energy is unrelated to the electric field strength
- C) Energy is inversely proportional to the electric field strength
- D) Energy is proportional to the square of the electric field strength
If potential difference across two plates of a capacitor is doubled, then energy stored in it will be:
- A) Four times
- B) Two times
- C) Eight times
- D) Remains same
The primary of a 3:1 step-up transformer is connected to a source and the secondary is connected to a resistor R. The power dissipated by R in this situation is P. If R is connected directly to the source it will dissipate a power of:
- A) P
- B) P/3
- C) P/9
- D) 3P
What does Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction state regarding induced EMF?
- A) The induced EMF is directly proportional to the magnetic field strength.
- B) The induced EMF is independent of the magnetic flux.
- C) The induced EMF is directly proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux.
- D) The induced EMF is directly proportional to the magnetic flux.
If velocity of a conductor moving through a magnetic field B is made zero then motional emf is:
- A) -v/LB
- B) -vBL
- C) Zero
- D) -BL/v
Power of an electric generator of voltage (V) and driving current (I) through an appliance is:
- A) I/Q
- B) VR
- C) IR
- D) V2/R
According to Coulomb's law, as the distance between two charges increases:
- A) The force becomes zero
- B) The force decreases
- C) The force remains constant
- D) The force increases
Electromagnetic waves were experimentally discovered by:
- A) Einstein
- B) Hertz
- C) Maxwells
- D) Ampere
The lenz’s law refers to:
- A) Potential difference
- B) Induced potential
- C) Motional emf
- D) Induced current
A charge Q is moving with a velocity (v) parallel to a magnetic field (B) . Force on the charge due to magnetic field is:
- A) Constant
- B) Maximum
- C) Minimum
- D) Zero