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    This document contains 12 multiple choice questions about electric circuits and current. The questions cover calculating current from charge and time, comparing charge transferred by different batteries, calculating the number of electrons that strike a TV screen, relating elementary charge to current, and calculating total charge from current and time.

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    This document contains 12 multiple choice questions about electric circuits and current. The questions cover calculating current from charge and time, comparing charge transferred by different batteries, calculating the number of electrons that strike a TV screen, relating elementary charge to current, and calculating total charge from current and time.

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    Name: Period:

    Circuits-Current
    1. What is the current through a wire if 240 coulombs of 6. If 10 coulombs of charge are transferred through an
    charge pass through the wire in 2.0 minutes? electric circuit in 5.0 seconds, then the current in the
    1. 120 A circuit is
    2. 2.0 A 1. 0.50 A
    3. 0.50 A 2. 2.0 A
    4. 0.0083 A 3. 15 A
    4. 50 A
    2. A 1.5-volt, AAA cell supplies 750 milliamperes of
    current through a flashlight bulb for 5.0 minutes, 7. A charge of 30 coulombs passes through a 24-ohm
    while a 1.5-volt, C cell supplies 750 milliamperes of resistor in 6.0 seconds. What is the current through
    current through the same flashlight bulb for 20 min- the resistor?
    utes. Compared to the total charge transferred by the 1. 1.3 A
    AAA cell through the bulb, the total charge trans- 2. 5.0 A
    ferred by the C cell through the bulb is 3. 7.5 A
    1. half as great 4. 4.0 A
    2. twice as great
    3. the same 8. The diagram below shows two resistors, R1 and R2,
    4. four times as great connected in parallel in a circuit having a 120-volt
    power source. Resistor R1 develops 150 watts and re-
    3. The current traveling from the cathode to the screen sistor R2 develops an unknown power. Ammeter A in
    in a television picture tube is 5.0 × 10-5 ampere. How the circuit reads 0.50 ampere.
    many electrons strike the screen in 5.0 seconds?
    1. 3.1 × 1024 electrons
    2. 6.3 × 1018 electrons
    3. 1.6 × 1015 electrons
    4. 1.0 × 105 electrons

    4. Charge flowing at the rate of 2.50 × 1016 elementary


    charges per second is equivalent to a current of
    1. 2.50 × 1013 A
    2. 6.25 × 105 A
    3. 4.00 × 10-3 A Calculate the amount of charge passing through re-
    4. 2.50 × 10-3 A sistor R2 in 60 seconds. [Show all work, including the
    equation and substitution with units.]
    5. The current through a lightbulb is 2.0 amperes. How
    many coulombs of electric charge pass through the
    lightbulb in one minute?
    1. 60 C
    2. 2.0 C
    3. 120 C
    4. 240 C

    9. What is the current in a wire if 3.4 × 1019 electrons


    pass by a point in this wire every 60 seconds?
    1. 1.8 × 10-18 A
    2. 3.1 × 10-11 A
    3. 9.1 × 10-2 A
    4. 11 A
    APlusPhysics: Circuits-Current CIR.A1 Page 125
    Name: Period:

    Circuits-Current
    10. The current in a wire is 4.0 amperes. The time re-
    quired for 2.5 × 1019 electrons to pass a certain point
    in the wire is
    1. 1.0 s
    2. 0.25 s
    3. 0.50 s
    4. 4.0 s

    11. An MP3 player draws a current of 0.120 ampere from


    a 3.00-volt battery. What is the total charge that
    passes through the player in 900 seconds?
    1. 324 C
    2. 108 C
    3. 5.40 C
    4. 1.80 C

    12. A net charge of 5.0 coulombs passes a point on a con-


    ductor in 0.050 second. The average current is
    1. 8.0 × 10-8 A
    2. 1.0 × 10-2 A
    3. 2.5 × 10-1 A
    4. 1.0 × 102 A

    Page 126 CIR.A1 APlusPhysics: Circuits-Current

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