2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles
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.
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Crossword Express (now called "Magnum Opus") software.
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ACROSS
1. Physical rule describing the direction of
EMF and current resulting from induction 5. Electronic enclosures 9. Network department (abbr.) 11. The
star Alpha Geminorum 15. Guided ____ Technology, filter design software company in Denmark 17. Chemical
symbol for silicon 18. Personal Digital Cellular 20. One component of a complex number (abbr.) 22. Do a
total memory transfer
24. RF & DC power supply manufacturer located in Gloucester, MA 27. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 28.
Electronics Industry Association (abbr.) 29. Vacuum Tube Voltmeter (abbr.)
30. The "D" in BCD 31. Non-return to zero (abbr.) 32. Type of digital filter (abbr.)
33. 30 Hz to 300 Hz 35. Local Oscillator (abbr.) 36. Metal or plastic rod that connects a potentiometer
wiper to a knob 39. ___ Electronics, RF component manufacturer in Buffalo Grove, IL 41. Adjusts a pot
44. Electro-mechanical control device 47. BC _____ Systems, power supply and RF amplifier company in
Setauket, NY 50. Sudden, brief increase in wind speed 54. High voltage resistor manufacturer in Montreal,
Quebec 56. PCB Material _____, circuit substrate provider in Palatine, IL 57. Switch position 58. 1/000
of an inch
59. Ground fault interrupter (abbr.) 60. Unit of energy 62. Computer character set (abbr.)
64. Electronic assembly transport container 67. International Telecommunications Union
68. Chemical symbol for dysprosium 69. RF connector & cable vendor located in Farmingdale, NY 72. Very
small aperture terminal 73. Chemical symbol for magnesium 74. Yttrium Aluminum Garnet 75. A measure of
receiver quality (abbr.) 76. ____ Solutions, RF component manufacturer located in Torrance, CA 77. RF
component manufacturer in Arcadia, CA 79. Chemical symbol for francium 81. Ham's term for self-assembled
project 82. Transfer ________, which mathematically describes the relationship between output and input
DOWN
2. Chemical symbol for europium
3. Stock symbol for Lockheed Martin 4. Electrical conductor 6. Having a gradual curve
7. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.) 8. RF amplifier
company in East Hanover, NJ 10. Introduces unintended amplitude changes 12. Halves of DIP's 13. RF
shielding manufacturer headquartered in Easton, PA 14. Ham's code for "Shall I increase power?" 16.
Electrical unit of potential difference 19. Cellular Digital Packet Data 21. Resistor vendor in Skokie, IL
23. Creates a code version of a semiconductor device 24. Printer manufacturer 25. 1E6 cycle per second
26. 1.602E-19 Joules 34. Type of digital filter (abbr.) 37. Gary Breed's fine magazine on RF & microwaves
topics (abbr.) 38. Start frequency (abbr.) 40. Chemical symbol for holmium 42. Chemical symbol for
tantalum 43. Chemical symbol for copper 45. High-speed logic family 46. 300 Hz to 3 kHz 48.
Wavelength division multiplexing (abbr.) 49. Electro-mechanical switching device (pl.) 50. RF connector &
cable manufacturer located in Suwon, Korea 51. Make and break circuits 52. Part of a FOR loop 53. A
concern of Boolean equations 55. Plane geometric figure having three straight sides and three angles 60.
End of transmission (abbr.)
61. _____-Kutta method in differential equations 63. Connector ____, RF connector manufacturer in Merlin, OR
65. Image file format name extension 66. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
68. This calculus operation yields current through an inductor 70. International phonetic alphabet letter "O"
71. 30 GHz to 300 GHz 73. Microwaves & RF magazine (abbr.) 76. Type of memory 78. Negation prefix
80. Chemical symbol for molybdenum
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