If the Control Voltage Pin of a 555 Timer Is

question 9

Multiple Choice

If the control voltage pin of a 555 timer is connected to ground through a ____, the on time will be  shorter and the off time will remain the same.

• A) triac
• B) diac
• C) semiconductor
• D) resistor

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Definitions:

Tabula Rasa

(Latin.) In Locke, the “blank tablet” metaphor of the mind, in opposition to the doctrine that there are innate ideas. In other words, the mind is a “blank” at birth, and everything we know must be “stamped in” through experience.

Innate Ideas

Innate Ideas are concepts or knowledge presumed to be present in the mind at birth, not derived from experience but innate in the human mind.

John Locke

A 17th-century English philosopher known for his work in political philosophy, empiricism, and social contract theory.

Two-Worlds Assumption

The philosophical concept that reality is divided into two distinct realms or worlds, such as the physical and the spiritual, or the empirical and the ideal.