C.L NOTES 56-75 Flashcards
56.A device that takes a small electrical signal and converts it into a large one.
What does a amplifier do?
56.Used in stereo systems, electric guitars, computers speakers, and hundreds of other items.
Where are amplifiers used?
- The battle of New Orleans.
What was the greatest battle of the war?
- The American commander was Andrew Jackson.
Who was he american commander?
58.A series of space flights under taken by the United States.
What is the Apollo program?
58.Three astronauts consist of this.
How many astronauts are on a crew?
- Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
Who was the first man on the man?
- Yes he is from the Apollo program.
Was Neil Armstrong apart of the apollo program?
- Artificial intelligence.
What does AI stand for?
- The means of duplicating or imitating intelligence in computers, robots, or other devices.
What is AI?
- An American inventor and scientist of the late nineteenth & twentieth centuries.
Who is Alexander graham bell?
- Born in Scotland.
Where was Alexander graham bell born?
62.The bell telephone company.
What was the result of bells result?
- Alexander graham bell.
Who is bell?
- (Beye-nuh-Ree)
How do you pronounce binary?
- Anything composed of two parts.
What does binary mean?
- The smallest unit of information.
What is a bit?
- Yes or no
What does a bit correspond to?
- By an airplane traveling at speeds greater than the speed of sound.
How is a sonic boom generated?
- Explosive sound generated by an airplane.
What does sonic boom mean?
- (beyet)
How do you say byte?
- Often 8 bits.
How many bits are in one byte?
- A temperature scale in which zero degrees is the freezing point of water.
What does Celsius mean?
- 100 degrees Celsius.
What is the boiling point for Celsius?
- A place in Ukraine.
Where is Chernobyl?
- A generator powered by a nuclear reactor.
What is a nuclear reactor?
- A program that enters a computer without the knowledge of the operator.
What is a computer virus?
- Through disks.
How do viruses spread?
70.The branch of technology concerned with the behavior of materials at very low temperatures.
What is cryogenics?
- Near ABSOLUTE ZERO.
What temperatures is cryogenics particularly temperatures?
- The late 19th centuries and early 20th century.
What centuries was Thomas A. Edison an inventor?
- More than a thousand devices.
How many devices did Thomas Edison patent?
- Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
What proverb did edison originate?
- New Jersey.
What was Thomas Edison’s home state?
- Newspapers, motion pictures, radio, television, and magazines.
What does mass media consist of?
- News papers, motion pictures, radio, television, and magazines c
What has technical capacity to deliver information?
- A meltdown.
What is the most serious accident that can occur at a nuclear reactor?
- Radio active material in the reactor becomes very hot.
What occurs in a meltdown?
- A prefix meaning one billionth.
What does nano mean?
- Prefix.
Is nano a prefix or suffix?
