10/24/2008 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle


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ACROSS

1. The "Ge" in SiGe

4. PNPs and NPNs

7. Army-Navy spec

8. S21

15. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

17. Amateur Television

18. Unit of resistance

20. Chemical symbol for radon

22. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

23. Chemical symbol for thulium

25. Chemical symbol for lithium

26. International Reply Coupon

27. Semiconductor On Insulator, abbr.

28. World's only remaining superpower, abbr.

29. Cellphone band above DCS; Personal communication system

30. Unit of apparent power, abbr.

32. Chemical symbol for gallium

33. Chemical symbol for bismuth

35. Type of current

36. Low Noise Amplifier

38. Radio Direction Finding

40. C++, Java, BASIC, Fortran, etc.

41. Next best things to bearings

42. System established by the NTSC to adjust video display hue values

46. Its chemical symbol is Bk

51. Coordinated Universal Time, abbr.

53. Finite-Element Model

54. Chemical symbol for mendelevium

56. Chemical symbol for neptunium

57. Equalizer

59. Chemical symbol for gold

60. High voltage resistor manufacturer in Montreal, Quebec

61. International Telecommunications Union

62. Last statement in a BASIC program

63. Family of TTL logic

64. Unit of time

66. Chemical symbol for chromium

67. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"

69. Chemical symbol for platinum

70. Instruments for Industry, Ronkonkoma, NY, abbr.

72. Signal-to-noise ratio, abbr.

74. Chemical symbol for neon

75. Device for translating higher frequencies to lower frequencies

76. Chemical symbol for plutonium

79. kV

80. Phenomenon which causes an object to vibrate in the presence of sound at a particular frequency

DOWN

1. Numerical brightness of an image pixel

2. Chemical symbol for rubidium

3. Component composition, pl.

4. Television

5. Type of flip-flop

6. Filter that rejects lower and higher frequencies

9. 1e-6 mA

10. Official Space Shuttle designation, abbr.

11. 1.602E-19 Joules

12. Local Oscillator

13. The unit of electrical resistance

14. Surface mount, abbr.

16. Antenna structure that connects directly to the feed line

19. An abrupt change in a parametric value

21. Gun safety and education organization, abbr.

22. Basis for decibels, abbr.

24. Degree of IC sophistication

25. Display type

31. Motorola's "Digital ___"

34. RF systems company in Rochester, NY, abbr. (now owned by GE)

36. Chemical symbol for lutetium

37. Chemical symbol for silver

38. Chemical symbol for ruthenium

39. Femtohenry, abbr.

42. A type of filter designed using the image method

43. Chemical symbol for ruthenium

44. Unit of heat

45. Type of current flow

46. Interference caused by a station operating on an adjacent channel

47. Part of this website's title

48. Send Morse Code

49. 1/6 inch printer's measure; Electromagnetic

50. It is the "M" in SMA

52. Unintended frequency products from a mixer

55. Logarithmic units of power

56. Negative temperature coefficient, abbr.

58. Ham's code for "You are excused from the net."

59. Application Service Provider, abbr.

65. Organization for former military members

68. Antenna, abbr.

70. Galilean moon

71. One port of an amplifier

72. Chemical symbol for strontium

73. One component of a complex number, abbr.

77. Chemical symbol for thallium

78. Chemical symbol for manganese


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