Basic Circuits
Binary
AOI
Universal Gates
Pop Culture Trivia from when Mr. Mehr was in High School
100

This component stores electrical energy in an electric field and is characterized by its capacitance.

What is a capacitor?

100

This is the base of the binary number system.

What is 2?

100

This type of logic gate outputs true only if all its inputs are true.

What is an AND gate?

100

This type of logic gate outputs false only when all its inputs are true.

What is a NAND gate?

100

This animated film featuring a green ogre and his adventures with a talking donkey was the highest-grossing film of 2004.

What is Shrek 2?

200

This law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points and inversely proportional to the resistance.

What is Ohm's Law?

200

These are the two digits used in the binary number system.

What are 0 and 1?

200

This type of logic gate outputs true if at least one of its inputs is true.

What is an OR gate?

200

This type of logic gate outputs true only when all its inputs are false.

What is a NOR gate?

200

 This social media platform, co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, was launched in 2004 and initially targeted college students.

What is Facebook?

300

This component restricts the flow of electric current and is characterized by its resistance.

What is a resistor?

300

The decimal equivalent of the binary number 1010.

What is 10?

300

This type of logic gate outputs the inverse of its input.

What is a INV gate?

300

This graphical method is used to simplify Boolean expressions and minimize the number of logic gates needed.

What is Karnaugh mapping?

300

This artist's album Confessions was one of the best-selling albums of 2004, featuring hits like "Yeah!" and "Burn."

Who is Usher?

400

In Ohm's Law, this variable represents the voltage in the equation ( V = IR ).

What is ( V ) (voltage)?

400

The result of adding the binary numbers 1101 and 101.

What is 10010?

400

This Boolean operation is performed by an AND gate.  

What is multiplication (or AND)?

400

This gate is known as a universal gate because any other logic gate can be constructed using only this type of gate.

What is a NAND gate?

400

This reality TV show, starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, premiered in 2004 and followed their adventures in rural America.

What is The Simple Life?

500

This type of circuit has only one path for current to flow through all components.

What is a series circuit?

500

This binary number represents the decimal number 15.

What is 1111?

500

This poetic phrase describes the application of DeMorgan's Theorems in circuit simplification

Break the line, change the sign

500

In a Karnaugh map, this term refers to 1s that can be combined to simplify a Boolean expression.

What is a grouping or a cluster?

500

This iconic flip phone, released by Motorola in 2004, became a cultural phenomenon and a must-have gadget.

What is the Motorola Razr?