Kent Justin D.

Rizon X-
Archimedes

Assignment

Answer the following questions:

1. What discrete electric component can act/function as an insulator? Diode

2. What discrete electric component can act as an electronic switch? Transistor
3. What discrete electric component can act as an amplifier? Transistor
4. What discrete electric component can act like a one-way valve to electric component?
Diode
5. What discrete electric component can function as a rectifier? Diode
6. What microelectronic semiconductor device has been responsible for many of the
exciting developments in electronic in recent years? Integrated Circuits
7. What discrete electric component converts the ac into a dc output? Diode
8. What device produce alternating current and voltages and the main electronic part of
digital watches, clocks, counter and other timers? Oscillators
9. What enables the equipment require to be made incredibly small and cheaply?
Microelectronics
10. What electric component led to the creation of the first integrated circuit (IC)? Transistor
11. In what method is information represented by a train of electrical pulses which are
described by the binary number system such as 1s or 0s? Digital Method
12. In what method is information represented by a continuous range of voltages (on
currents) between 0 and a maximum? Analogue Method
13. Of which binary function gives microprocessors the ability to perform many tasks, from
simple word processing to video editing? Transistor
14. What is the heart of every communication transmitter? Oscillators
15. What integrated circuit (IC) is the simplest? Logic Gate
16. What integrated circuits are the “brain” of pocket calculators? Digital ICs
17. What integrated circuits include amplifier-type circuits of many kinds for both audio and
radio frequencies? Linear ICs
18. Of which binary function gives microprocessors the ability to perform many tasks, from
simple word processing to video editing? Transistor
19. What logic/gate circuit acts in the same way as when two switches are place in series?
AND Gate
20. What gate is the result when an AND gate is combined with a NOT gate? NAND Gate
21. What electric component is NOT gate? Transistor
22. What logic gate is the result of combining an OR gate with a NOT gate? NOR Gate
23. What device is digital system? CD Player
24. What device is an analog system? Tape Player or Record Player
25. In what logic gate/circuit that an output of logic 1 will be obtained when either inputs A or
B are logic 1, or if both inputs are logic 1; otherwise, the output is logic 0? It operates like
a circuit with two switches placed in parallel? OR Gate