GEAS Q&A COMPILATION PART 1 1. What material has a body-centered cubic crystalline structure? ANS. CHROMIUM 2.

What material has a packed crystalline structure? ANS. ZINC hexagonal closed-

15. What

refers to the number (atoms) per unit volume? ANS. MOLECULAR DENSITY 16. What is the atom? ANS. 10^-14 m approximate

of

nuclei

radius

of

an

3. What is an elementary particle that has no charge, has zero rest mass and travels at the speed of light? ANS. NEUTRINO 4. What particle one up quarks ANS. NEUTRON consists of two down and

17. What is the process electrons? ANS. IONIZATION

of gaining

or losing

18. How many protons, neutrons and electrons are in the carbon isotope 14C6? ANS. 6 PROTONS, 6 ELECTRONS AND 8 NEUTRONS 19. One mole of electron has a charge equal to __ C. ANS. 96,500 20. What is the characteristic sign of magnetic susceptibility of ferromagnetic material? ANS. POSITIVE 21. Heavy atoms have more __ than __. ANS. NEUTRONS, PROTONS 22. What is otherwise known as retentivity of magnetic materials? ANS. REMANENCE 23. What is the process in which hydrogen is changed into helium inside the sun and makes the sun shine? ANS. FUSION 24. What is the other electron? ANS. NEGATRON term for negative the

5. What particle consists of two up and one down quarks? ANS. PROTON 6. What particles have to about 0.1 amu? ANS. MESONS rest masses ranging

7. What particles include mu particle and the neutrino? ANS. LEPTONS 8. What are the particles proton and the neutron? ANS. BARYONS 9. What is the most ingredient in copper? ANS. ZINC

the

electron,

the

that

include

the

common

alloying

10. What alloy of nickel has 15 to chromium and has high electrical resistance? ANS. NICHROME 11. What alloy of nickel has 40 to 60% copper used in thermocouple? ANS. CONSTANTAN

20%

25. What is the reciprocal of atomic mass unit in grams? ANS. AVOGADROS NUMBER 26. What is the value of unified atomic mass unit (amu)? ANS. 1.660 x 10^-27 kg 27. What term describes the numeric measure of the polarization or displacement of electrons in atoms or molecules of a dielectric? ANS. ELECTRIC SUSCEPTIBILITY 28. What is the individual angular momentum of the neutron, proton and electron? ANS. h/4pi

12. What alloy of nickel used in thermostats with low or zero thermal expansion? ANS. INVAR 13. Silicon becomes an extrinsic semiconductor with electrons as the majority carrier when doped with what material? ANS. ANTIMONY 14. What material is used by magnet as the magnetic material? ANS. HARDENED STEEL permanent

GEAS Q&A COMPILATION PART 2 1. What is the partly shadow called? ANS. PRENUMBRA illuminated part of a

12. Law that created the National Information Technology Council. ANS. E.O. 469 13. What law created the MTRCB? ANS. P.D. 1986 14. Which of the following is considered the first instance of government regulation of radio technology? ANS. RADIO ACT OF 1910 15. Which among the Philippine Congressional Issuances provides for the installation, operation and maintenance of public telephones and/or public calling stations each municipality in the Philippines? ANS. R.A. 6849 16. Effectivity of R.A. 9292. ANS. MAY 27, 2004 17. R.A 9292 was approved by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on what date? ANS. APRIL 17, 2004 President

2. What temperature scale using absolute zero as the zero point with scale divisions the same as Centigrade scale? ANS. KELVIN SCALE 3. The term standard temperature refers to the temperature of O C ANS. MELTING ICE, 0

4. What refers to the temperature of boiling

water under the pressure of exactly O C? of mercury or 100 ANS. STEAM POINT 760mm

in

5. What refers to an electromagnetic waves shorter than visible light but longer than xrays? ANS. ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT 6. The force between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of their magnitudes and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. ANS. COULOMBS LAW OF ELECTROSTATICS 7. The force between two magnetic poles is directly proportional to the strengths of the poles and inversely proportional to the square of their distance apart. ANS. COULOMBS LAW OF MAGNETISM 8. The emission of electrons from metal in a vacuum is known as _____. ANS. EDISON EFFECT a heated

18. Policy guidelines for compulsory interconnection of authorized public telecommunications carrier in the Philippines. ANS. E.O. 59 19. What E.O. regulates the operation of CATV systems in the Philippines? ANS. E.O. 205 20. The law governing the regulation of radio communications in the Philippines is ___. ANS. ACT 3846

21. What

9. Which of the following is the policy guidelines to govern the operations of cable TV in the Philippines? ANS. E.O. 436 10. What law is about the vesting of jurisdiction, control and regulation over the Philippine Communications Satellite Corporation with NTC? ANS. E.O. 196 11. The executive order signed by former President F. Ramos last March 1998 providing the national policy in the operation and use of international satellite communications in the Philippines. ANS. E.O. 467

is the maximum fine for violation of R.A. 3846, an act regulating radio stations and radio communications in Philippines? ANS. P 4,000 22. The process used to separate liquids due to the difference in their boiling point. ANS. DISTILLATION 23. Sublimation is the direct transfer from the ____ state. ANS. SOLID TO GASEOUS 24. When solid materials intermolecular forces _____. ANS. DECREASE melt, the

any the

25. The change from gaseous to liquid state is known as ____. ANS. CONDENSATION

GEAS Q&A COMPILATION PART 3 1. Who said to be the scientific method? ANS. GALILEO GALILEI founder of the

ANS. SPECIFIC HEAT 15. According to the kinetic theory of gases, the pressure of a gas is given by the expression p=2E/3V, where E is the total ___. ANS. KINETIC ENERGY OF THE MOLECULES

2. The international system of units (SI) has how many base units? ANS. 7 3. Physical properties of matter include ___. ANS. COLOR, FORM, DENSITY BOILING POINT 4. The 18 elements potassium (K) krypton (Kr) are found in group periodic table. ANS. 4 5. Chemical concentration are most expressed as ANS. PPM OR PARTS PER MILLION 6. Hydrogen makes up roughly the universes visible mass? ANS. 90%

16. N molecules, each of mass m of gas A and

2N molecules, each of mass 2m of gas B are contained in a vessel at temperature T. The mean square of the velocity of molecules of 2 gas B is v and the mean square of x component of the velocity of gas A is w 2 . The ratio w 2 /v 2 is __. ANS. 2/3 17. With the propagation of a longitudinal wave through a material medium the quantities transmitted in the propagation direction are __ and __. ANS. ENERGY, LINEAR MOMENTUM of 18. Among air, water, vacuum and iron, which medium does sound travels the fastest? ANS. IRON 19. The speed of waves travelling along stretched rope will increase when the rope is __. ANS. STRETCHED BY A HEAVIER LOAD 20. If the stem of a vibrating tuning pressed against a tabletop, __ will increase. ANS. LOUDNESS 21. The phenomenon decrease in __. ANS. AMPLITUDE of dumping results a

AND

through __ of

the

often

what

7. What are the parts of opposite theory? ANS. OXIDATION AND REDUCTION 8. Iron can form how many ions? ANS. 2 9. Frederick Soddy named isotopes from the Greek word iso meaning __. ANS. SAME PLACE 10. Transmutation occurs when the nucleus of an element is ___. ANS. HIT BY PARTICLES OF ANOTHER ELEMENT 11. At sea level, a weight at __. ANS. EQUATOR body will have minimum

fork is

in

22. Echo is formed as a result of __ of sound. ANS. REFLECTION 23. A speed of Mach 2 is approximately equal to __ miles per hour. ANS. 1360

12. If the Earth shrinks, what will be the effect on the value of the acceleration due gravity? ANS. IT WILL INCREASE. 13. If there were a small gravitational effect, then what force undergo a change? ANS. ARCHIMEDES UPLIFT

to

24. Polarized light is passed through a Polaroid. On viewing through the Polaroid, we find that when the Polaroid is given one full rotation about the reflection of light, we observed the intensity is ___. ANS. TWICE MAXIMUM AND TWICE ZERO 25. Ray optics is valid when characteristic dimensions are __ the wavelength of light. ANS. MUCH LARGER THAN

14. On a sunny day at the beach, the sand gets so hot and the water stays relatively cool is due to the difference in __ of water and sand.