161. Once the active medium is excited, the first photons of light are produced by which physical process?

A. Blackbody radiation
B. Spontaneous emission
C. Synchrotron radiation
D. Planck’s oscillation
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Spontaneous emission is what you see with most “glow in the dark” toys. You excite the toy by exposing it to bright light, then the toy glows in the dark by spontaneously emitting photons as the excited atoms relax back down to their normal state.

164. In which decade were the first successful diode and triode vacuum tubes invented?

A. 1800s
B. 1880s
C. 1890s
D. 1900s
✅ The correct answer is option D.
In 1904, John Ambrose Fleming invented the first practical electron tube called the ‘Fleming Valve’, which is a diode rectifier. In 1906, Lee de Forest invented the audion later called the triode, which provided signal amplification.

170. What are the three main search expressions, or operators, recognized by Boolean logic?

A. FROM, TO, WHOM
B. AND, OR, NOT
C. SEARCH, KEYWORD, TEXT
D. AND, OR, BUT
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The three most commonly used Boolean operators are: AND, OR, and NOT. On the Web, Boolean operators are used in advanced searches to combine search items. For example, an “AND” operator between two words (“football AND television”) tells the search engine to find documents that contain both of these words.