| The unit of frequency is? | ||
| Hertz | ||
| The unit of resistance is? | ||
| Ohm | ||
| The device which makes or breaks a circuit is? | ||
| Switch | ||
| The path of an electric current is known as a? | ||
| Circuit | ||
| Device which opposes the flow of electric current is known as? | ||
| Resistor | ||
| Arc Lamp was invented by? | ||
| C.F. Brush | ||
| Television was invented by ? | ||
| J.L. Baird | ||
| Transistor was invented by? | ||
| J.Bardeen, W.Shockley and W. Brattain | ||
| The unit of wavelength of light is? | ||
| Angstrom | ||
| The rate at which a body rotates around its axis is known as? | ||
| Angular Velocity | ||
| The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell is? | ||
| Anode | ||
| An ion which carries a negative charge is? | ||
| Anion | ||
| The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom is called as its? | ||
| Atomic number | ||
| An ion which carries a positive charge is? | ||
| Cat ion | ||
| The negative electrode of an electrolytic cell is? | ||
| Cathode | ||
| A device which converts light into electricity is known as? | ||
| Photo cell | ||
| Heinrich Hertz was a? | ||
| AGerman physicist | ||
| Hertz was the first to discover ? | ||
| Radio waves | ||
| 'Coherer' was discovered by? | ||
| Edouard Branly | ||
| Guglielmo Marconi was an? | ||
| Italian inventor | ||
| Marconi invented ? | ||
| The Radio | ||
| In 1901, Marconi beamed a signal from Cornwall in England to? | ||
| Newfoundland | ||
| Thomas Edison was an? | ||
| American inventor | ||
| The Diode was invented by? | ||
| Ambrose Fleming | ||
| A glass tube with two electrodes is called a? | ||
| Diode | ||
| Lee de Forest was an? | ||
| American scientist | ||
| Lee de Forest discovered the? | ||
| Triode | ||
| Radio and television transmit signals using? | ||
| Electromagnetic waves | ||
| To turn pictures into electrical signals, television Cameras rely on? | ||
| Photo-electric effect | ||
| Transistor was invented in the year? | ||
| 1948 | ||
| The first electronic components invented were the? | ||
| Thermionic valves | ||
| The inventors of transistor worked in an American company called? | ||
| Bell Telephone, Laboratories | ||
| Microchip was invented in the year? | ||
| 1958 | ||
| Microchip was invented by? | ||
| Jack Kilby | ||
| The microchip invented first was also the first? | ||
| Integrated circuit | ||
| Silicon and germanium are ideal examples of? | ||
| Semi conductors | ||
| Thermionic valves were invented in the year? | ||
| 1904 | ||
| The device which cuts down current to varying degrees is called a? | ||
| Resistor | ||
| LED stands for? | ||
| Light Emitting Diode | ||
| The first mechanical adding machine was invented in the year? | ||
| 1642 | ||
| The first mechanical adding machine was invented by? | ||
| Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician | ||
| The first computer was invented in the year? | ||
| 1834 | ||
| The first computer was invented by? | ||
| Charles Babbage | ||
| The first computer invented was called? | ||
| Analytical Engine | ||
| In the present day electronic machines, computers function as? | ||
| Artificial brains | ||
| CAD means? | ||
| Computer Aided Design | ||
| CPU stands for? | ||
| Central Processing Unit | ||
| RAM stands for? | ||
| Random Access Memory | ||
| J.J. Thomson was a? | ||
| British physicist | ||
| In 1897, J.J. Thomson discovered? | ||
| Electrons | ||
| A device used for increasing the strength of electric signal is called? | ||
| Amplifier | ||
| The height of a wave is called? | ||
| Amplitude | ||
| An electron carries a............charge. | ||
| Negative | ||
| The antiparticle of an electron is called? | ||
| Positron | ||
| The Positron carries.........charge.? | ||
| Positive | ||
| In a transistor, a base is the? | ||
| Filling in the semiconductor sandwich | ||
| The tube behind the screen in TVs and most computers is called ? | ||
| Cathode Ray Tube | ||
| A device for picking up radio signals consisting of a glass tube containing iron filings held between electrodes is? | ||
| Coherer | ||
| Generation of an electric current in a wire by moving it through a magnetic field is known as? | ||
| Electromagnetic Induction | ||
| Energy sent out through space by varying electric and magnetic fields is called? | ||
| Electromagnetic Radiation | ||
| The force which makes an electric current is called? | ||
| Electromotive Force | ||
| Coating one metal with a thin layer of another by electrolysis is called? | ||
| Electroplating | ||
| Device used for detecting static electric charge is called? | ||
| Electroscope. | ||
| Device used for measuring small amounts of electric current is called? | ||
| Galvanometer | ||
| Sound too low to be heard by humans is called? | ||
| Infrasound. | ||
| An atom that becomes positively charged by the loss of an electron or negatively charged by the gain of an electron is called an? | ||
| Ion | ||
| Conversion of alternating current to direct current is called as? | ||
| Rectification | ||
| VDU stands for? | ||
| Visual Display Unit | ||
| One Kilobyte is approximately? | ||
| 1000 bytes | ||
| DOS stands for? | ||
| Disk Operating System | ||
| WORD STAR is a popular? | ||
| Word processing | ||
| WORD STAR was developed by? | ||
| Micro pro Company | ||
| PC stands for? | ||
| Personal Computer | ||
| ALU stands for? | ||
| Arithmetic Logic Unit | ||
| The VDU and Keyboard together form a? | ||
| TERMINAL | ||
| The speed of the dot matrix printers is measured by CPS which stands for? | ||
| Characters per second | ||
| The speed of the line printers in measured by LPM which stands for? | ||
| Lines per minute | ||
| DBMS stands for? | ||
| DataBase Management System | ||
| IBM is a famous computer company. IBM stands for? | ||
| International Business Machines Corporation | ||
| ROM stands for? | ||
| Read Only Memory | ||
| The actual machine of the computer is commonly known as? | ||
| Hardware | ||
| The programs run on the computer are commonly known as? | ||
| Software | ||
| All the output which is printed on paper is called? | ||
| Hard Copy | ||
| The number of pixels on a computer.screen determines a screen's? | ||
| Resolution | ||
| A processor's speed is measured in? | ||
| Megahertz. | ||
| A software that assists the computer in performing instructions, is called as? | ||
| System software | ||
| CAM stands for? | ||
| Computer Aided Manufacturing | ||
| DPI stands for? | ||
| Dots per Inch | ||
| DTP stands for? | ||
| Desk Top Publishing | ||
| EPROM stands for? | ||
| Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory | ||
| A magnetic storage disk made out of a thin piece of plastic is called? | ||
| Floppy Disk | ||
| A pictorial representation of the step by step sequence for solving a problem is known as a? | ||
| Flow Chart | ||
| A measure of storage capacity equal to one thousand megabytes is one? | ||
| Gigabyte | ||
| A variable whose value is accessible throughout the program is called? | ||
| Global variable | ||
| A category of application software dedicated to the visual presentation of information is known as? | ||
| Graphics | ||
| A huge, worldwide network of computers that communicate with each other, allowing global communications between users is known popularly as? | ||
| Internet | ||
| KB stands for? | ||
| Kilobyte | ||
| LAN stands for? | ||
| Local Area Network | ||
| A printer which uses light to transfer the image to paper is the? | ||
| Laser Printer | ||
| Memory which retains all its contents even after the power is turned off is known as? _HERE100 | ||
| Non-Volatile Memory | ||