Energy Conversion Quiz
April 1963 Popular Electronics

April 1963 Popular Electronics   Table of Contents Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

This quiz from Popular Electronics magazine challenges (not too much, though) your knowledge of energy conversion in common devices. A few of them might be unfamiliar to people born after about 1990, but even so, you've probably seem them all at some point, especially if you are a regular RF Cafe visitor (meaning you're probably smart). It won't be giving anything away by telling you that item B is a heater that screws into a light bulb socket, and item F is a phonograph stylus. Robert P. Balin constructed many quizzes of this kind in the 1960s and 70s. A complete list of all the Popular Electronics Quizzes is lower on this page.

Energy Conversion Quiz

By Robert P. Balin

	Energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but only changed from one form to another. Some electrical and electronic devices do their jobs by changing energy from one form (heat, light, chemical, magnetic, etc.) to another useful form. See if you can match the devices (A-J) shown here with the input and out­put forms of energy (1-10) listed below.

See answers below.

Popular Electronics published many quizzes over the years (as did a few other magazines to a lesser extent) - some really simple and others not so simple. Robert P. Balin created many of the quizzes. This is a listing of all I have posted thus far.

Energy Conversion Quiz Answers

1  H Battery

2  C Lamp

3  I Thermocouple

4  G Loudspeaker

5  J Phototube

6  A Motor

7  E Microphone

8  B Heating element

9  F Phonograph cartridge

10  D Tape recorder head

Posted November 20, 2019(original 3/5/2014)