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Solar Radiation and Energy

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Enhance your general science knowledge with these questions on solar radiation and energy. The topics span solar thermal power plants, photovoltaic devices, and the sun's energy output. This material is useful for environmental studies and physics.

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Solar Radiation and Energy Questions

Multiple choice physics solar equipment production of electricity from solar energy solar power alternate sources of energy solar power plant solar energy and its applications renewable and non-renewable resources renewable and non-renewable sources of energy generation of electricity

How is more electricity production achieved with solar cell?

  1. Joining many solar cells.

  2. Decreasing the surface area of solar cell.

  3. Rotating solar cell in random directions.

  4. Removing clouds.
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Explanation

Solar panel uses multiple cells to add up electricity output from the system.

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Which of the following devices convert solar energy to electricity

  1. Solar Cooker

  2. Solar Cell

  3. LED

  4. Pressure cooker
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Explanation

Solar cell converts light energy of sun into electrical energy.

Solar cooker focuses heat energy of sun.
LED and pressure cooker are not related to solar energy.

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Which of the following uses solar cells?

  1. Natural satellites

  2. Water dams

  3. Artificial satellites

  4. Motor vehicle
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Explanation

Solar cells have access only to the solar energy and chemical energy (battery embedded in satellite system). However, chemical energy is limited. Hence, solar energy is the standard source of energy used in satellites.

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Which of the following materials play a key role in the functioning of a solar cell

  1. Silicon

  2. Glass

  3. Plastic

  4. All of the above
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Explanation

When light energy is incident on Si, it is converted to electricity by the principle of photovoltaic effect. GaAs, InP are other materials with similar property. 

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The cost of solar cells is

  1. decreasing exponentially

  2. decreasing slowly

  3. constant

  4. increasing
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Explanation

The cost of solar cells is reducing exponentially.

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The reflector on top of solar cooker is used to:

  1. diverge solar energy

  2. focus solar energy

  3. focus light energy

  4. reflect excess energy to surroundings
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Explanation

The reflector on the top of the solar cooker is used to focus the solar energy over the glass surface. The mirror reflects the heat energy in a confined area and increases the net input energy to the solar cooker.

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The semiconductor panel on the front of a scientific calculator is

  1. Electric Cell

  2. Solar Cell

  3. Plane mirror

  4. Convex mirror
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Explanation

Solar cells are fitted on a scientific calculator.

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Solar cell production is

  1. increasing slowly

  2. increasing exponentially

  3. constant

  4. decreasing
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Production of solar cells is increasing exponentially every year.

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What is the principle of working of solar cell

  1. photovoltaic effect

  2. green house effect

  3. Archimedes' principle

  4. Faraday's law
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Explanation

Solar cell works on the principle of photovoltaic effect according to which free electrons are produced when light of certain wavelength is incident on semiconductors.

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The reflector on top of solar cooker is adjustable because of:

  1. revolution of Earth about Sun.

  2. rotation of Earth about Sun.

  3. atmospheric profile of gases.

  4. density variation in atmosphere.
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Explanation

Rotation of Earth about the Sun causes the position of Sun to change during the day. Hence, the mirror on the top of the solar cooker needs adjusting during the day to focus the rays in a small area.

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A solar cooker works on:

  1. electrical energy

  2. magnetic energy

  3. solar energy

  4. chemical energy
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Explanation

Solar cooker is a device used to collect the solar energy in the form of heat.

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What is solar cooker?

  1. Device which uses energy of direct sunlight to cook food

  2. Device which uses energy of direct falling water to cook food

  3. Device which uses energy of direct wind to cook food

  4. Device which uses energy of direct thermal energy to cook food
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Explanation

Solar cooker is a device that uses energy from the Sun directly to cook food or warm fluids.

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How heat is generated in solar cooker to cook food?

  1. Light reflected from plane mirror concentrates solar energy inside solar cooker

  2. Light refracted from plane mirror concentrates solar energy inside solar cooker

  3. Light deflected from plane mirror concentrates solar energy inside solar cooker

  4. none
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Explanation

Concave or plain mirror are used on the top cover of the cooker. Light get reflected from these mirrors, these mirrors concentrates the light onto a point or a region where the food is kept to be cooked.

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A solar water heater cannot be used to get hot water on:

  1. a sunny day.

  2. a cloudy day.

  3. hot day.

  4. windy day.
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Explanation

Solar devices are dependent on the sunlight for the generation of electricity. For the solar device to work efficiently, sunlight with good intensity should be available. Sunlight is weak during cloudy and rainy days.