Let’s see how much you’ve picked up with these experiments and the reading – answer as best as you can. (No peeking at the answers until you’re done!) You can also print these out and jot down your answers in your science notebook.
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1. What is a bit?
2. What is a nibble?
3. What is a byte?
4. What is a logic gate?
5. What is a truth table?
6. If we have a NAND gate with both inputs low, what is the output?
7. If we have an OR gate with both inputs low, what is the output?
8. If we have a NOR gate with both inputs low, what is the output?
9. What is a pull-down resistor?
10. What is a pull-up resistor?
11. How many gates are required to build a digital oscillator?
12. What is a SR Latch?
13. What is an inverter?
14. What is a D type Flip Flop?
15. What is switch bounce?
16. How can we solve switch bounce?
17. What is a seven segment display?
18. Why do we use seven segment displays?
19. What is a binary coded decimal counter?
20. What does a binary coded decimal to seven segment display IC do?
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