Electronics Worksheet: Components and Ohm’s Law Test
Remember (Find the topic, use the formula): Find the topic and the formula: V = I × R, I = V ÷ R, R = V ÷ I, P = V × I, units = W × h ÷ 1000. Change mA to A and kΩ to Ω before using a formula. Check: put your answer back into the formula.
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- 1.🧮 Adding another resistor in series makes the total resistance … (a) stay the same (b) bigger (c) smaller (d) zero
- 2.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands white, yellow, red. What is its value (in ohms)?
- 3.🧾 One “unit” on an electricity bill is … (a) 1 watt (b) 1 ampere (c) 1 volt (d) 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh)
- 4.⚡ A home appliance on the 230 V mains takes 0.5 A. What is its power (in watts)?
- 5.🔺 A current of 0.25 A flows through an 8 Ω resistor. What is the voltage across it (in volts)? =
- 6.True or false: how much a part resists is measured in ohms (Ω). (a) True (b) False
- 7.🧾 A 50 W appliance runs for 2 hours. How many units (kWh) of electricity does it use? =
- 8.🧮 Two equal 470 Ω resistors are joined in parallel. What is the total resistance (in ohms)?
- 9.🧾 A 60 W filament bulb is swapped for a 9 W LED lamp that gives about the same light. Both would run for 7 hours. How many watt-hours (Wh) are saved?
- 10.⚡ A device works on 6 V and takes 0.2 A. What is its power (in watts)? =
- 11.⚡ A device works on 6 V and takes 1.5 A. What is its power (in watts)? =
- 12.💡 A red LED (it uses 2 V) is joined with a 300 Ω resistor to a 5 V supply. What current flows (in mA)?
- 13.🧾 Which lamp gives the same light for the least power? (a) an oil lamp (b) an LED lamp (c) a candle (d) a filament bulb
- 14.🔺 A current of 0.1 A flows through a 4 Ω resistor. What is the voltage across it (in volts)? =
- 15.🧩 A capacitor in a circuit can … (a) store charge briefly (b) measure heat (c) make light (d) spin a wheel
- 16.🔺 A current of 50 mA flows through a 470 Ω resistor. What is the voltage across it (in volts)? =
- 17.🔺 A 6.25 V supply is joined across a 250 Ω resistor. What current flows (in milliamperes, mA)?
- 18.🧩 Which part changes electrical energy into movement? (a) an LED (b) a motor (c) a fuse (d) a resistor
- 19.⚡ A 0.75 W device works on 1.5 V. What current does it take (in amperes)? =
- 20.🔺 A current of 0.5 A flows through a 20 Ω resistor. What is the voltage across it (in volts)? =
- 21.🌈 Which colour bands (1st digit, 2nd digit, multiplier) mark a 950 Ω resistor? (a) white-green-brown (b) green-white-brown (c) white-green-black (d) white-green-red
- 22.⚡ A 7.5 W device works on 5 V. What current does it take (in amperes)? =
- 23.True or false: an LDR senses how bright it is. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🔺 A current of 20 mA flows when 10 V is joined across a resistor. What is its resistance (in ohms)?
- 25.🌈 A resistor has the colour bands grey, grey, orange. What is its value in kilo-ohms (kΩ)? =
- 26.🧮 A 2.25 V battery is joined to 3 Ω and 6 Ω resistors in series. What current flows (in amperes)? =
- 27.Which of these is measured in amperes (A)? (a) the push of a cell (b) energy used each second (c) resistance (d) current
- 28.🔺 A current of 20 mA flows through a 150 Ω resistor. What is the voltage across it (in volts)? =
- 29.⚡ A home appliance on the 230 V mains takes 1 A. What is its power (in watts)?
- 30.🔺 A current of 1.5 A flows through a 3 Ω resistor. What is the voltage across it (in volts)? =
- 31.📏 In the water-pipe picture of a circuit, current is like … (a) the water pressure (b) the pipe colour (c) the flow of water (d) a narrow pipe
- 32.🔺 A current of 1.5 A flows through a 6 Ω resistor. What is the voltage across it (in volts)? =
- 33.🔺 In the V-I-R triangle, how do we find I? (a) I = V ÷ R (b) I = R ÷ V (c) I = V + R (d) I = V × R
- 34.True or false: on an LED, the longer leg is the anode (+). (a) False (b) True
- 35.📏 How many ohms (Ω) is 5.9 kΩ?
- 36.💡 On an LED, is the longer leg the anode (+) or the cathode (−)? (a) anode (+) (b) cathode (−)
- 37.What does a fuse do? (a) has coloured bands (b) blows if current is high (c) lets current go one way (d) beeps for an alarm
- 38.📏 How many kilo-ohms (kΩ) is 6500 Ω? =
- 39.📏 How many kilo-ohms (kΩ) is 5700 Ω? =
- 40.Which of these is measured in volts (V)? (a) current (b) power (c) the push of a cell (d) resistance
Answer key
- bigger
- 9400
- 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh)
- 115
- 2
- True
- 0.1
- 235
- 357
- 1.2
- 9
- 10
- an LED lamp
- 0.4
- store charge briefly
- 23.5
- 25
- a motor
- 0.5
- 10
- white-green-brown
- 1.5
- True
- 500
- 88
- 0.25
- current
- 3
- 230
- 4.5
- the flow of water
- 9
- I = V ÷ R
- True
- 5900
- anode (+)
- blows if current is high
- 6.5
- 5.7
- the push of a cell
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