The transformer that develops the high voltage in a home television is commonly called a…?

A. Tesla coil
B. Flyback
C. Yoke
D. Van de Graaf
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The flyback is usually connected to the system that pulls the electron beam across the screen in one direction to ‘paint’ a line of the image and then returns in the other direction much faster.

What are three types of lasers?

A. Gas, metal vapor, rock
B. Pointer, diode, CD
C. Diode, inverted, pointer
D. Gas, solid state, diode
✅ The correct answer is option D.
The first laser was a solid state laser. Solid state refers to any solid material like a glass rod. Diode lasers are very common because they are used to read compact disks and digital video disks in computers, CD players, and DVD players. Before diode lasers, the most common type of laser may have been the helium-neon laser, in which the active medium is a combination of the two gasses helium and neon.

After the first photons of light are produced, which process is responsible for amplification of the light?

A. Blackbody radiation
B. Stimulated emission
C. Planck’s radiation
D. Einstein oscillation
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The word “laser” is actually an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Atoms or molecules of the active medium that have been excited to a higher energy level are stimulated by a passing photon to relax to a lower energy level and emit a photon that is indistinguishable from the passing photon, thereby increasing the number of photons like the incident one.