History
The precursor to the transistor.
What are Vacuum Tubes?
The amount of terminals that a transistor has.
How many are Three?
Name one of the three terminals (prongs) of the transistor.
What is collector?
OR
What is base?
OR
What is emitter?
Give an example of where transistors are used.
What are (appliances, computers, smart phones, vehicles, robots, streetlights...)
Transistors were originally manufactured in this material.
What is Germainium?
The place where the transistor was invented.
What is Bell Laboratories?
One of the functions of a transistor.
What is amplification of currents?
OR
What is switching between an on and off state?
The two functions of a transistor.
What is amplification and switching?
What the transistor has allowed us to do (Name one).
What is extremely powerful computing to run virtual simulations, games, advanced calculations
The digital transistor integrates what two components?
What is a resistor and a transistor?
One of the people who created the transistor.
Who is William Shockley ?
OR
Who is Walter Brattain ?
OR
Who is John Bardeen?
These are the two types of transistors.
(1000 pts if you tell us the full names, not the acronym!)
What are BJT and FET?
OR
What are Bipolar Junction Transistor and Field Effect Transistor?
True or False: Transistors can switch the current powering electronics on and off.
True
The transistor plays a big role in the development of these things (name one).
What is (science, technology mathematics, engineering and overall, the advancement of the human race).
What does System.out.println do?
What is output a string
The very first transistor type.
What is the bipolar junction transistor?
The most common transistor.
What is MOSFET?
What the base controls.
What is the amplifiction of current?
The size of a transistor.
What is microscopic?
Name a primitive type, object type and how many memory boxes they take up.
What is (byte, short, int, long, float, double, char, boolean) and (String, Scanner). One box, and two boxes respectively.
Why the gold standard for transistors' manufacturing is silicon.
Why it can withstand heat higher than 180°F?
What MOSFET stands for.
What is Metal Oxide Silicon Field Effect Transistor?
Explain how current flows through a transistor (You can use the kitchen sink analogy).
The base works like a tap handle, the collector is like the pipe that feeds into the tap, and the emitter is like the opening where water pours out.
OR
The Base controls the amount of current, the collector is the part that transfers the current over to the emitter and the emitter is where the current flow out of.
The number transistors that can fit in a CPU (hint: not an exact number).
AND
The size of said CPU (hint: not an exact number).
You could fit billions of transistors on a single CPU, something that is less than 5 centimeters by 5 centimeters.
The pieces of a variable declaration.
What are types and identifiers?