8/4/2005 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS
1 Horizontal Cartesian coordinate
8 Equalizer, abbr.
10 Inductor
11 Regarding light
13 User Datagram Protocol
14 International Telegraphy and Telephony Consultative Committee
15 Professor's student instructor, abbr.
16 Automated Test Equipment
17 Greek letter (micro)
18 One component of a complex number, abbr.
19 Next degree after Master's
20 Test equipment, abbr.
21 Piper's famous yellow airplane
22 Army-Navy specification prefix, abbr.
23 Powers pneumatic devices
24 Resistor manufacturer in Yankton, SD
25 Mates a wire to a stud
27 1e-6 mA
28 Amplifier vendor in Santa Clara, CA
29 Section of a circle
31 Galilean moon
33 Through-connection on a PCB
35 Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association
36 Pentium, Centrino, Athalon, etc.
38 Min-to-max voltage of a waveform, abbr.
39 Semiconductor lamp
40 Infrared, abbr.
41 Metal parts engineer, abbr., pl.
42 Local Oscillator
43 Chemical symbol for arsenic
44 Exponent that returns the original number
45 Army-Navy specification, abbr.
46 Type of coaxial cable
48 Angular speed unit, abbr.
49 Second greatest invention after fire
50 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
51 Symbol for tin
52 RCL circuit operating at a frequency where the reactance equals zero
DOWN
1 An angle has less than 90 degrees
2 Frequency vs. amplitude plot
3 Half of a DIP
4 Type of model airplane control system, abbr.
5 System On Chip
6 Curve traced out by a point which moves around another point with an ever increasing radius
7 Decreases in magnitude
9 90 degrees from "I"
12 Network department, abbr.
14 3-D solid bounded by 6 equal squares
15 ___-film effect
16 Mass of an element
17 Number by which a set is divisible
19 Last stage in a transmitter, abbr.
21 Cable television, abbr.
24 Type of current
26 Power distribution system
30 Super glue, abbr.
32 Opposite of a short
34 The most distant point of an orbit from the earth
35 Encased in a protective covering
37 World's only remaining superpower, abbr.
40 RF attenuator maker in Ann Arbor, MI (now Aeroflex)
44 Describes a requisition that has not been filled
46 Relative Humidity
47 Precision landing system, abbr.
48 Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr.
50 One port of an amplifier


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