May 23, 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 - Science & Engineering Crossword Puzzle, May 23, 2010

ACROSS

1. The '3-finger salute" for a hung PC (3 keys)

4. Magnitude of a value

7. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)

8. Semiconductor company based in Norwood, MA (2wd.)

15. Bandwidth (abbr.)

17. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.)

18. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.)

20. Opposite of O.D.

22. Network department (abbr.)

23. Chemical symbol for tantalum

25. Chemical symbol for silicon

26. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)

27. Send Morse Code

28. FCC's Universal Licensing System (abbr.)

29. BER, 8 bits at a time

30. Chemical symbol for terbium

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

33. Chemical symbol for ruthenium

35. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

36. It can follow an MS

38. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc.

40. Polymer having the elastic properties of natural rubber

41. Short for "intermodulation"

42. RF connector & cable manufacturer located in Suwon, Korea (and an RF Cafe advertiser)

46. __ + Power + _______, RF power supply company in Setauket, NY

51. IC killer (abbr.)

53. ELI the ICE ___

54. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)

56. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

57. Chemical symbol for rubidium

59. Morse Code for "from"

60. 300 MHz to 3 GHz

61. Logic family

62. Mate to a bolt

63. Circuit for firing a radar magnetron (abbr.)

64. Chemical symbol for nickel

66. Chemical symbol for bromine

67. Opposite of I.D.

69. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)

70. 3 GHz to 30 GHz

72. Straight line emanating from a point source

74. 30 kHz to 300 kHz

75. Angle at which a radio signal is refracted in the ionosphere (2 wds.)

76. Greek letter (micro)

79. Applies too large of a signal

80. System for communicating between areas of a building or vessel (pl.)

DOWN

1. _________ Press, technical book publisher

2. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

3. The distance that light travels in one year (2 wds.)

4. Antenna effective area

5. Boob tube (abbr.)

6. Made or broke circuits

9. Chemical symbol for neptunium

10. Abbreviation for acknowledge (also a common word used by Bill the Cat)

11. Chemical symbol for lithium

12. Network department (abbr.)

13. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)

14. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

16. Point in a circuit that is always at approximately ground potential (2 wds.)

19. Distance around the boundary of a circle

21. 2 x SSB

22. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE

24. Arithmetic Logic Unit (abbr.)

25. Adjust a pot

31. Unit of admittance

34. Term used in soldering to achieve the condition that occurs when the metals being soldered are hot enough to melt the solder so it flows over the surface

36. Chemical symbol for platinum

37. Decimeter (abbr.)

38. Chemical symbol for manganese

39. Chemical symbol for selenium

42. Mr. Marconi's first name

43. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

44. Amplifier Solutions Corporation, located in Colmar, PA (abbr.)

45. Chemical symbol for neodymium

46. He stated the principle that the total energy in a stable fluid system is constant

47. Type of component package (abbr.)

48. Rotate about the vertical axis

49. Chemical symbol for tin

50. Range of frequencies (pl.)

52. 2 or more of these are required for matrix algebra

55. Type of distribution, squared

56. Substrate for mounting components (abbr.)

58. Manufacturer of project boxes

59. Design for Manufacturability (abbr.)

65. Greek letter often used to represent an angle

68. Yttrium Aluminum Garnet

70. Chemical symbol for strontium

71. Unit of length (abbr.)

72. Chemical symbol for radon

73. Ham-ese for Young Lady

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

78. Galilean moon

 

 

 


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RF Cafe - Science & Engineering Crossword Puzzle, May 23, 2010