- Describe how you would convert AC to DC?
- Most phone batteries are described by ampere-hours for their power capacity, e.g. 3600mAh. Why is this technically wrong?
- Why do we need resistors in circuits?
- If I have a Mac charger with USB-C, can I plug it into my USB-C port of my phone for charging?
- Describe how a motor works
- For a motor, we want to see discussion about magnetic fields
- Armatures, how to reverse the magnetic field
- How do you make a motor have more torque?
- Describe how a generator works
- How do we convert movement into electricity in a generator?
- Why is a generator and motor very similar?
- Describe the major parts of a modern computer
- This helps if you've built your own PC before.
- What is the purpose of error-correcting codes, and how do they work?
- Describe how a website loads on your computer, from start to finish. This is a very loaded question, so this is your chance to shine with your breadth and depth of knowledge.
- Server side
- What type of servers can you use? (bonus, specific AWS ones like EC2 and S3, and why)
- Load balancing (e.g. Redis)
- Database needs?
- Ethernet
- TCP/UDP
- Client side
- Javascript / CSS / HTML
- DNS lookup
- MAC / IP Addresses