Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

August 29, 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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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle, 8-29-2010

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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 "C" 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

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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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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle Solution, 8-29-2010