TSA MIDDLE SCHOOL TECH BOWL with Verified Solutions 2024/2025

TSA MIDDLE SCHOOL TECH BOWL with Verified Solutions 2024 Through what nuclear process does an atom bomb work? - Answer -Nuclear Fission What is the range over which a picture is focused? - Answer -Depth of Field What is the unit of electrical power? - Answer -Watt What is a terminal device which permits current to flow in only one direction? - Answer -Diode In 1911, Kammerlingh Onnes discovered what electrical device? - Answer -Superconductor What is a charge in motion referred to as? - Answer -Current What electrical item is calculated by the product of the resistance times the current squared. - Answer - Power An intrinsic conductor is also known as what? - Answer -Semiconductor Which Italian scientist developed the battery? - Answer -Alessandro Volta What charges are at rest? - Answer -Electrostatic DC and AC stand for what? - Answer -Direct current and Alternating Current P-type semiconductors have an abundance of what kind of charge carriers? - Answer -Positive Who forst discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism by deflecting a compass point with an electric current? - Answer -Hans Christian Oersted What is a charged atom called? - Answer -Ion An alternator generates what by rotating a loop of wire between the poles of a permanent magnet? - Answer -Current In logic circuits, if one input is on and the other input is off, what is the result of an OR gate? - Answer - On Who invented the transistor in 1948? - Answer -Bell Laboratories What is the metal strip in a DC motor that picks up the current? - Answer -Commutator What is the unit of measurement by which electrical bills are calculated? - Answer -Kilowatt-HourWhat is the process of adding impurities to a crystal? - Answer -Doping Which scientist discovered electromagnetic induction? - Answer -Michael Faraday What is created when a current goes through a wire? - Answer -Magnetic Field What is the storage of electrical charge? - Answer -Capacitance What besides switching circuits perform repetitive? - Answer -Digital Integrated Circuits Which scientists discovered that lighting is a form of electricity? - Answer -Benjamin Franklin What is a positively charged ion? - Answer -Cation What is the unit of capacitance? - Answer -Farad What electrical component us responsible for the miniaturization of electronic equipment? - Answer - Integrated Circuits What is the time of a capacitor to charge or discharge dependent on in a circuit? - Answer -Resistance What year was the first space shuttle launched? - Answer -1981 Which federal organization describes its mission as protecting the electromagnetic spectrum? - Answer - FCC What of a diode is the maximum current that a device can conduct for a partial cycle of operation? - Answer -Peak Rectified Current What is an electronic component capable of charge from response in an external signal? - Answer -Active Device Metal conducts electricity better when it is what? - Answer -Colder What kind of coil produces high voltage from a low one? - Answer -Induction In logic gates, if one input i