9/22/2003 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

Take a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

All of these crossword puzzles were created using the fabulous Crossword Express (now called "Magnum Opus") software.

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Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Luminous intensity

8 Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr.

9 A "1" or a "0"

10 ___-Azimuth telescope mount

12 Logic gate

13 Wire diameter unit

14 __ Cafe - the web's greatest engineering website

16 Toggle switch position

18 Professor's student instructor, abbr.

20 Opposite of I.D.

21 Test Equipment

22 Polish to a tight tolerance

24 1/000 of an inch

25 2nd element in the Periodic Table

26 Data safeguard

28 Powers pneumatic devices

30 Greek letter

32 Type of current, abbr.

33 Chemical symbol for beryllium

34 1e-6 mA

36 One port of an amplifier

37 Chemical symbol for iron

38 Unit of weight

40 2nd generation wireless, abbr.

42 Field Effect Transistor

43 FCC Part 15 rules apply in these bands

44 Both LSB and USB

45 Compliment to electrical forces

DOWN

1 Constellation of the lion

2 Universal Asynchronous Transmit/Receive

3 Big Blue

4 Rechargeable batteries

5 Asynchronous Transfer Mode

6 Plug-in for computer bus

7 30 Hz to 300 Hz

11 Connector mounting walls

15 Wireless communication device

17 Last stage in a transmitter, abbr.

19 Put into motion

20 8-sided polygon

21 Semiconductor and calculator company, abbr.

23 Type of coordinate system

24 Manufacturer

27 Bare

29 Integrated Circuit

31 Opposite of a LO

33 Electron beam

35 Data conversion devices

37 Finite-Element Model

38 Add solder to tip of iron

39 Nordic Mobile Telephone

41 Global System for Mobile Communications

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