6/20/2005 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 The effect which causes a voltage between the faces of a crystal under pressure

10 Type of average, abbr.

11 Undesirable background information

12 Semiconductor manufacturer, abbr.

14 ___-AZIMUTH telescope mount

17 Surface Mount Device

18 Start of and Internet address for transferring files

20 Round semiconductor fabrication base

21 Fixed point from which the distances to any point on a parabola are connected by a linear relation

23 Data conversion device, abbr.

24 Resistor vendor in Berne, IN

26 ___IP, in Internet lingo

28 Army-Navy spec

29 1/000 of an amp, abbr.

30 Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr.

31 Front edge of a wing, abbr.

33 Relative Humidity

34 300 Hz to 3 kHz

35 Plug-ins for computer buses

37 1/000 of an amp

39 Test Equipment

40 Defense electronics company in Ft. Wayne, IN

41 Device Under Test

43 Home state of Los Alamos lab

45 Army-Navy spec

46 Thread cutting tool

47 Important component in sensitive receiver front end, abbr.

48 Semiconductor and calculator company, abbr.

49 L time this gives instantaneous voltage across an inductor

51 Constellation of the ram

53 Component

55 What an open fuse is

57 Short Message Service

58 The physical unit measured in coulombs per volt

59 Move between cells

61 Harden

62 Precision landing system, abbr.

64 DSB/2

67 One component of a complex number, abbr.

68 1e-6 mA

70 Satellite of Jupiter discovered by Galileo

72 World's only remaining superpower

73 Type of supply used in a Norton Equivalent circuit

DOWN

1 Half the day

2 British scientist ... Newton

3 Switch position

4 Electrical overstress, abbr.

5 Diode circuit to restrain voltage input

6 IC killer

7 European equivalent to the U.L.

8 Amplifier terminal

9 College brother to and EE, ME, CE or AE

10 Part of this website's title

13 Type of model airplane control system, abbr.

15 30 kHz to 300 kHz

16 Prefix meaning ground or earth

18 Older name for copper PCB trace(s)

19 Temperature Coefficient

20 Computer communication scheme, abbr.

22 Special diode that can be switched, abbr.

23 Prefix deca, abbr.

24 Lunar depressions

25 Points at (0,0,0) for z = y^2 - x^2

27 Unit of acidity

29 300 kHz to 3 MHz

32 Electromagnetic

34 Manufacturers

35 One of the primary wireless communications oversight groups

36 Stars

38 Alternative name for Alpha Scorpii

39 Loose end of a cable

40 Opposite of O.D.

42 Professor's student instructor, abbr.

44 Gigantic star in Cetus

49 Logarithmic ratio, abbr.

50 Base of the binary counting system

52 Type of microwave diode

53 One of the two main radar types I worked on in the USAF, abbr.

54 Time Delay

56 1e-6 mA

58 A BPF or LPF spec, abbr.

60 1E6 nanoseconds

61 Super glue, abbr.

62 Resistor manufacturer in Boone, NC

63 Name given to configuration of a satellite circling close to earth, abbr.

65 Hub of the solar system

66 Base Station Transceivers

68 72 Across / 1000

69 PC follower

70 Infrared

71 Logic gate


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