1/16/2004 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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ACROSS 2 Internet Protocol 4 Type of current flow, abbr. 7 Amount of matter in a body 11 Relative Humidity 12 One component of a complex number, abbr. 13 Geometric solid from which the circle, parabola, ellipse and hyperbola are derived 16 Style of computer case 18 Chemical element B 19 Earth is one of nine known 21 Atom in the periodic table 23 Unit of time, abbr. 24 Greek letter 25 Noise figure, abbr. 26 Analog/Digital 27 Personal Computer 29 Electromagnetic, abbr. 31 Common Gateway Interface 32 Semiconductor and calculator company, abbr. 33 Part of a For-Loop 35 Plug-in substrates for holding resistors, capacitors, etc. 37 Stored energy 39 Connecting to a transformer interwinding point 44 Greek letter 49 Type of current 50 Audio Frequency 51 Formerly known as GMT 52 Super glue, abbr. 53 1e-9 A 54 1/1e12 second 55 Start Frequency, per filter annotation 56 Test Point 58 Chemical symbol for beryllium 60 Swedish astronomer who defined the centigrade scale 63 Former amplifier company in Newbury Park, CA 67 Used lubricant 68 Scheduling graph types 69 Stopband and ____band 70 PC follower 71 Logic gate 73 Switch configuration, abbr. 74 1e6 nanoseconds 75 Unit of time, abbr.	DOWN 1 Internet mail protocol 2 Infrared, abbr. 3 Branch of science dealing with mass, motion, optics, etc. 4 33rd element 5 European equivalent to the U.L. 6 Exhaust air opening in a cabinet 8 Popular (for some unknown reason) Internet service provider, abbr. 9 Windows file type for emulating RAM 10 Detected the presence of 13 Fan vendor in San Ysidro, CA 14 Used logic gates 15 Negation prefix 17 Component of product cost, abbr. 18 Chemical symbol for beryllium 20 An RX listens to this 22 30 kHz to 300 kHz, abbr. 27 Unit of acidity, abbr. 28 European equivalent to the U.L. 30 Mechanical equivalent of an EE 32 Professor's student instructor, abbr. 33 Test Equipment 34 Opposite of I.D. 36 Reverse Polish Notation 38 Amateur radio enthusiast 39 Time Delay 40 Opposite of DC 41 Allows information through 42 Frequencies between RF and BB 43 Triangular joint stiffeners 44 8-sided polygon 45 Integrated Circuit 46 Wires 47 Switch position 48 1e-6 mA 54 Oscillators requiring reference sources 55 Upper Frequency, per filter annotation 57 Related to FM by derivative/integral 59 Antenna power, abbr. 60 Disk file operation 61 Electronics Industry Association 62 Opposite of O.D. 64 Min-to-max voltage of a waveform, abbr. 65 Resistor vendor in Berne, IN 66 Material testing organization, abbr. 70 Modulation type 72 Kind of flip-flop
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