Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

October 10, 2010

2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles

Visit the Crossword Express website - RF CafeTake 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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ACROSS

1. The nearest star - _____ Centauri

4. Sharp bends in I-V curves

8. Chemical symbol for neptunium

9. Chemical symbol for europium

10. Upper frequency (abbr.)

11. Award offered by ARRL for contacting and confirming 100 or more different countries (abbr.)

13. Unit of time (abbr.)

15. Greek letter

16. Online service

17. Semiconductor lamp

19. Physical unit by which power is measured

20. One type of electron spin

21. "Texting" (abbr.)

22. Plasma atmosphere layer of the sun

23. Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net."

24. Low- to mid- frequency RF connector

26. Current summing point

27. Ad-hoc on demand distance vector (abbr.)

28. Electronic component package type (abbr.)

29. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)

30. Large loudspeaker designed primarily to reproduce low frequency audio signals

31. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

33. Medium for storing large amounts of digital data

34. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

35. Compact Fluorescent Light

37. 3-phase transformer configuration

38. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.)

40. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

41. Prefix for font without serifs

43. Infrared (abbr.)

44. __ Dude, premier design consultant in Rochester, NY

46. Chemical symbol for lutetium

47. Prefix indicating magnetic properties

48. Provider of services for telecommunications systems in Switzerland

DOWN

1. Area between a pair of concentric circles

2. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)

3. Unit of time

5. Japanese semiconductor & equipment manufacturer (abbr.)

6. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors

7. Changed phase from solid to vapor

11. Device for translating higher frequencies to lower frequencies (pl.)

12. Negative terminals

14. Chemical symbol for selenium

18. Direct Digital Synthesis (abbr.)

24. Theoretical failed star (2 wds.)

25. Units of heat

31. Method of self-detection and self-fixing transmission of digital data (abbr.)

32. Half of table salt

36. Unit of length (abbr.)

39. Halves of DIP's

42. The Microwave Office software company (abbr.)

45. Chemical symbol for iron

46. Local Oscillator (abbr.)


See solution below

Engineering Crossword, October 10, 2010 - RF Cafe