April 11, 2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

 

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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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle, 4/11/2010

ACROSS

1. Filter supplier located in Gaithersburg, MD

6. The fourth state of matter, which occurs in stars and fusion reactors (pl.)

11. Chemical symbol for scandium

12. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

13. Printer resolution measure (abbr.)

15. Test equipment (abbr.)

16. Chemical symbol for thulium

17. Method of connecting redundant power supplies

19. The "D" in DARPA

22. Chemical symbol for polonium

23. Stock symbol for Microsoft

25. Stock symbol for RF Micro Devices

26. Type of current flow (abbr.)

27. Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (abbr.)

28. Army-Navy specification prefix

29. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)

30. One component of a complex number (abbr.)

31. Electromagnetic (abbr.)

33. Miniature RF connector

35. 10^1 numerical prefix

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

37. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

39. RF design consultant in Rochester, NY

40. ______ Electronics - passive RF component vendor in Clifton, NJ

41. Chemical symbol for tantalum

42. Powers pneumatic devices

43. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)

44. Amateur Television (abbr.)

46. Return-to-Zero (abbr.)

48. PC follower

49. Mass unit (abbr., pl.)

50. Chemical symbol for xenon

52. Balun with both ports unbalanced (pl.)

53. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.

54. Logic family

56. Dual Tone Multi-Frequency

58. Network department (abbr.)

59. Engineering firm in Middletown, OH, that provides RF subsystem design services

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

64. Chemical symbol for praseodymium

65. Type of modulation (abbr.)

66. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)

67. Greek letter (micro)

69. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)

71. Lifetime failure rate curve

72. The central core of an atom

DOWN

1. Type of flip-flop

2. Official engineering change document (abbr., pl.)

3. Unit of length (abbr.)

4. Amplifier linearity specification (abbr.)

5. Filter type (abbr.)

6. Part of a male connector

7. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)

8. Chemical symbol for selenium

9. Basic element

10. Type of component package (abbr.)

14. Describes a line that is at right angles to the horizontal

18. ____ Solutions, RF component manufacturer located in Torrance, CA

20. Quickly changing portion of waveform

21. Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (abbr.)

22. Circuit for firing a radar magnetron (abbr., pl.)

24. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

25. Chemical symbol for radium

29. _____ Microwave East (part of L3-Com), RF component manufacturer located in Hauppauge, NY

30. Silicon _____, RFIC for radar systems company in Frankfurt, Germany

32. Log onto a hard drive

34. Nickname given to a satellite (pl.)

35. Device under test (abbr.)

38. Below ELF

45. Variable crystal oscillator (abbr., pl.)

47. International phonetic alphabet letter "Z"

48. Mechanical engineering organization (abbr.)

49. ____ Microwave, RF component company in FuJian, China

51. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

53. Chemical symbol for mendelevium

55. Gigantic star in Cetus

57. Software function selection mechanism

59. Nordic Mobile Telephone

60. One of the Ws in WWW

61. Virtual Private Network

62. Miniature RF connector

64. Chemical symbol for lead

65. Unit of inductance(abbr.)

68. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)

70. 1E6 nanoseconds


See solution below

RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle, 4/11/2010