Electronic Properties Pre-assessment

Before learning about electronic properties, you will complete a short pre-assessment below. This will help us understand what you as students learn through this unit. Research also shows that it actually helps learning to do some sort of assessment before starting learning. Try to answer the questions in Exercise 13.1.1 as best you can. Please answer them without looking up any information. The point is for us (and also for you) to be able to see what you knew before the unit so we can compare it to what you learned afterwards.

Exercise 13.1.1: Electronic-properties pre-assessment
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  1. What is an electric field? What happens to a charged particle in an electric field?

  2. Define voltage, current, and resistance. How are they related?

  3. What does it mean if a material is an electrical conductor? What determines if a material is an electrical conductor or not?

  4. What is a semiconductor?