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Analogue Electronics module quiz: analogue signals, the potential divider, capacitor-resistor time delays and transistor switching (O-Level Electronics) quiz

13questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What is the defining feature of an analogue signal?

  2. A waveform on an oscilloscope completes one full cycle in 2.0 ms2.0\ \text{ms}. What is its frequency?

  3. In a potential divider, the output voltage taken across R2 is given by which equation?

  4. A 12 V12\ \text{V} supply feeds a divider with R1=2.0 kΩR_1 = 2.0\ \text{k}\Omega and R2=4.0 kΩR_2 = 4.0\ \text{k}\Omega. What is the output across R2?

  5. What happens to the time delay if the resistance in a capacitor-resistor charging circuit is increased?

  6. In a sensor-driven transistor switch, what turns the transistor on?

  7. To make a lamp switch on automatically in the dark using an LDR in a potential divider, the divider output feeding the transistor base must do what as the light level falls?

  8. A capacitor of larger value is used in a time-delay circuit, with the resistor unchanged. What is the effect?

  9. What is the amplitude of a sinusoidal waveform?

  10. Why is a base resistor used between a sensor divider and a transistor base?

  11. Two equal resistors form a potential divider across a 9.0 V9.0\ \text{V} supply. What is the output voltage at the midpoint?

  12. Which of these is an example of an analogue quantity?

  13. If the LDR is moved from the bottom to the top of a potential divider (swapping with the fixed resistor), what changes?