6/20/2005 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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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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