Basic Electrical theory

Basic Electrical theory

  • >90%

    Votes: 16 21.6%

  • 80-89%

    Votes: 25 33.8%

  • 70-79%

    Votes: 17 23.0%

  • 60-69%

    Votes: 8 10.8%

  • <60%

    Votes: 5 6.8%

  • I would rather not discuss it, now where did I put that book?

    Votes: 3 4.1%
  • Total voters
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My idea of basic is certainly different.

For example I am at a loss to understand how it helps a person wiring basic run of the mill buildings to know the scientific definition of 'light' or 'chemical'.
 
iwire said:
My idea of basic is certainly different.

For example I am at a loss to understand how it helps a person wiring basic run of the mill buildings to know the scientific definition of 'light' or 'chemical'.
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I agree, and I thought their definitions were bizarre.
They weren't really definitions, e.g. the answer to
"define: chemical" is just something that has to
do with chemicals -- it isn't the definition of
"chemical." Some of the questions like this seemed
to measure how good one is at taking tests, not
how much one knows about electricity.

I thought it was kind of fun, though.
 
iwire said:
My idea of basic is certainly different.

For example I am at a loss to understand how it helps a person wiring basic run of the mill buildings to know the scientific definition of 'light' or 'chemical'.
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The quiz is generated from a large bank of questions, those 7 questions are based from the 7 ways to generate a voltage question that is covered in all basic electrical theory courses (At least that I have ever seen), it is a staple question, is it practical, no not really.

light and chemical are 2 ways to generate a voltage. I dont like the way they word the questions either, the whole define _______-makes it confusing. But the idea is to know all of the ways a voltage can be produced, and that is hard to do in a multiple choice format.
 
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The questions were not good questions and some were just what is the closest to right not what is right. For example Light is emmitted when the electrons are reentering thier orbits this is when the photons are emitted This was not even close to what was on that test. It was stil interesting to take .
 
zbang said:
And... the quiz is a Flash app, not proper HTML. Unless you allow flash from untrusted sources, you don't take the quiz. Since I don't, I won't. (Insert various rants about really bad web page design here)
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The company is Megger
 
brantmacga said:
i would take it, but the writing was about 1mm tall. I couldn't read any of it.
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I had the same problem. When I enlarged the window
by dragging the corner, the font got larger as well.
 
rexowner said:
I had the same problem. When I enlarged the window
by dragging the corner, the font got larger as well.
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You could buy a pair of cheater glasses at a drugstore. I am fast aproaching the half century mark and now understand why they make those things.
 
iwire said:
My idea of basic is certainly different.

For example I am at a loss to understand how it helps a person wiring basic run of the mill buildings to know the scientific definition of 'light' or 'chemical'.
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I agree unless your working on photo electrical sensor systems.
 
if sally was walking west on the carpet with wool socks on at 3 miles an hour and jeffy was walking east on the carpet at 4 miles an hour, how many corn flakes did each one eat for breakfast?

I hate word questions, missed the definitions, must need more coffee.

kinda fun though. :)
 
I got all the diagram questions and one definition wrong:rolleyes: the chemical one I think,.. the math ones I guessed

Average ,... huh ....well I guess there are worse things to be....:smile:
 
I only took the first the section ....Basic Electricity

Scored a 72.
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This was without cracking a book or using a calculator.
How does that compare?

My biggest problem was the circuit diagrams.
I have a hard time with Ohm's Law from memory..I need the wheel.

steve
 
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