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Concepts of Science, Test #3
Chapter 11
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Undergraduate 1
02/19/2013

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Which of the following does not determine the physical properties of materials?
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pH
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Transistors have contributed a lot to the information age through their use as
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switches
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Which kind of strength describes a material ability to withstand twisting
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shear
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A superconductor can be described as having electrons that
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can move freely without losing energy.
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Which of the following exits at very low temperatures?
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superconductor
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One important characteristic of some semiconducting devices is that they
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allow electricity to flow in only one direction
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Moore's law
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applies to ever-increasing information capacity of computer
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Which phrase describes electrical resistance
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inverse of electrical conduction
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The information in a computer is stored and manipulated by
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transistors
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What does the CPU do?
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Stores magnetically oriented particles on a disk.
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What is the Turing test?
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a test for artificial intelligence
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A silicon semiconductor will transmit electrical current
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be electrons and holes
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Integrated circuits contributed most directly to
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the miniaturization of computers
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Which material would have the strongest compressive strength?
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ream of copier paper
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Which of the following is a good conductor
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ocean water
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If you start a current flowing in a super conduction wire that is kept cold, and then remove the power source, the
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current would continue to flow
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How is a microchip an improvement over a transistor?
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A microchip incorporates thousands of transistors in one integrated circuit designed for a specific function
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In order for a computer to become more like a human bran it would need
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to have more interconnections
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A nerve cell is to a brain as a what is to a computer
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transistor
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Which of the following can be communicated by using only a series of "yes-or-no" questions?
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a digital photograph, a telephone number, and entire set of encyclopedia, how to color a rainbow (all the above)
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Which of the following has the least information content?
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one second of a telephone conversation
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Semi-conduction diodes are used in solar photovoltaic cells because
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electrons in semiconductors are loosely bound to atoms, and therefore can be easily transmitted as a current.
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Magnets are usually found in all of the following except for
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water faucets
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Which of the following statements best describes a characteristic of most composite materials?
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Composite materials are stronger than their components
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Doping is a process that adds
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-phosphorus ions to the crystalline structure of silicon
-aluminum ions to the crystalline structure of silicon
-any minor impurity to an element or compound
-a positive or negative charge to the lattice of a crystal
-(all of the above)
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Which of the following can be communicated by using only a series of "yes-or-no" questions?
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-a digital photograph
-telephone number
-an entire set of encyclopedia
-how to color a rainbow
-(all of the above)
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[image]
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Yellowhammer
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