Circuit Lab MPMS 2018-2019 Science Olympiad Test
Name: _____________________
1. Which of the following colors is not in the standard resistor color coding chart?
a) Indigo
b) Silver
c) Red
d) Black
2. What equation represents Ohm’s Law?
a) P = IE
b) E = IR
c) Given R1 and R2 , Rt =
( R1R2 ) / ( R1 + R2 )
d) none of the above
3. What is the resistance of a resistor with color bands in order, from left to right, Green
Brown Violet Gold ?
a) 49*107 Ω
b) 39*107 Ω
c) 51*107 Ω
d) none of the above
4. An ampere is the base unit of
a) electric current
b) electric voltage
c) electric resistance
d) none of the above
5. An ohm is the base unit of
a) electric current
b) electric voltage
c) electric resistance
d) none of the above
Circuit Lab MPMS 2018-2019 Science Olympiad Test
6. Given the circuit shown, the equivalent resistance would be:
a) 2Ω
b) 8Ω
c) 42Ω, or 16Ω
d) none of the above
7. Do you feel like you need this extra credit yet?
a) Yes
b) No
c) YES
d) Kind of
8. Given the circuit shown, the equivalent resistance would be:
a) R/3
b) 3R
c) R3
d) none of the above
9. The current that flows out the circuit is equivalent to:
a) Half the current that went into the circuit
b) The current that went into the circuit minus the total resistance
c) The voltage
d) none of the above
10. Using the images provided, answer the following question.
To convert from the delta configuration to the wye configuration, you could use which of
the following equations?
a) R1 = (RbRc) / (Ra + Rb + Rc)
b) R3 = (RaRb) / (Ra + Rb + Rc)
c) both A and B
d) none of the above
Circuit Lab MPMS 2018-2019 Science Olympiad Test
11. Using the image provided, determine the equivalent
resistance Req across terminals (a, b).
a) 2kΩ
a) 4kΩ
b) 6kΩ
c) none of the above
12. What does Coulomb’s Law state?
a) Coulomb’s Law states that the magnitude of the electrostatic force of attraction/repulsion between
two point charges is directly proportional to the product of the magnitudes of charges and
inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
b) Coulomb’s Law states that the sum of all voltages around any closed loop in a circuit must equal
zero.
c) Coulomb’s Law states that things that are negatively charged and things that are positively
charged pull on (attract) each other.
d) Coulomb’s Law states that you should actually study for Science Olympiad.
13. Short Response: Name at least three sources of static electricity (not examples, sources.)
a) ______________________________________________________________________________
b) ______________________________________________________________________________
c) ______________________________________________________________________________
14. Using the image provided, find the current.
a) 2
b) 4
c) 16
d) none of the above
Circuit Lab MPMS 2018-2019 Science Olympiad Test
15. Given that the current is 4 and the resistance is 10, what is the voltage?
a) 14
b) 40
c) 6
d) none of the above
16. Which is usually considered as the most dangerous of the two, AC or DC?
a) AC
b) DC
c) They are both equally hazardous
d) Neither of them are hazardous at all
17. Find the equivalent resistance of the circuit shown.
a) 30.9Ω
b) 31.9Ω
c) 32.9Ω
d) none of the above
18. Use source transformations to simplify the following circuit to a parallel-connected current
source and resistance.
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E
Circuit Lab MPMS 2018-2019 Science Olympiad Test
19. What kind of problem does this circuit
represent, and what concept is used to solve it?
a) White box problem, Coulomb’s Law
b) Black box problem, Thevenin/Norton
c) Classic box problem, the “right hand rule” of
physics
d) none of the above
20. What is the usual waveform of an AC current?
a) tangent line
b) cosine wave
c) sine wave
d) none of the above
21. How would you describe the waveform of a DC current?
a) randomly alternating
b) periodically alternating
c) unidirectional
d) none of the above
22. One Word Open Response: Express voltage in SI base units, in its SINGULAR form.
23. One Word Open Response: Express charge in SI base units, in its SINGULAR form.
24. One Word Open Response: Express capacitance in SI base units, in its SINGULAR form.
25. One Word Open Response: Express power in SI base units, in its SINGULAR form.
Circuit Lab MPMS 2018-2019 Science Olympiad Test
26. In 1873, Frederick Guthrie discovered what circuit component when he observed that a
grounded piece of white-hot metal would discharge a positively, but not a negatively,
charged electroscope?
a) Transformer
b) Diode
c) Resistor
d) none of the above
27. A wheatstone bridge is used to measure an unknown _____________.
a) Electrical Resistance
b) Electrical Voltage
c) Electrical Current
d) none of the above
28. One Word Open Response: Current is marked through what symbol in circuit diagrams?
29. One Word Open Response: Voltage is marked through what symbol in circuit diagrams?
30. Short Response: a) Why are currents usually marked as traveling from positive to negative?
b) Why is this not completely accurate?
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