Resistor Function Quiz
January 1962 Popular Electronics

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Resistor Function Quiz

By Robert P. Balin

Resistors find more uses in electronic equipment than any other component. See if you can match the functions of the resistors listed at right with the letters (A through I) representing their applications in the diagrams at left.

	1 Current limiting resistor   ___
	2 Damping resistor   ___
	3 Ballast resistor   ___
	4 Filter resistor   ___
	5 Self-bias resistor   ___
	6 Isolation resistor   ___
	7 Range resistor   ___
	8 Parasitic suppressor   ___
	9 Bleeder resistor   ___

See answers below.

Popular Electronics published many quizzes over the years - some really simple and others not so simple. Robert Balin created many of the quizzes. This is a listing of all I have posted thus far.

Resistor Quiz Answers

1   D
2   C
3   E
4   H
5   A
6   I
7   G
8   B
9   F

Posted May 1, 2019     (original 9/17/2012)