C.L. Notes 57-75 Flashcards
57.
In electronics, a device that takes a small electrical signal and converts it into a large one.
What is an amplifier?
57.
Amplifiers are used for this.
What is in stereo systems, electric guitars, computer speakers, and hundreds of other items?
58.
A series of space flights undertaken by the United States.
What is the Apollo Program?
58.
In the Apollo programs there were this many total successful flights made.
What were six?
59.
The first man to walk on the moon.
What is Neil Armstrong ?
59.
Neil Armstrong landed on this.
What is Luna?
60.
The means of duplicating or imitating intelligence in COMPUTERS, robots, or other devices.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
60.
Artificial intelligence allows technology to do this.
What is to solve problems, discriminate among objects, and respond to voice command?
61.
An American inventor and scientist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Who ismAlexander Grahem Bell?
61.
Alexander devoted his career to this.
What was education of the deaf and the production of electronic devices to help them hear better?
62.
This thing was formed.
What was the Bell Telophone Company?
62.
The Telophone company was formed as a result of this.
What was Bells work?
63.
Anything composed of two parts.
What is binary?
63.
Since switches can be either off or on they have this kind of character.
What is a binary character?
64.
The smallest unit of info.
What is bit?
64.
One bit corresponds to this.
What is a “yes or no”?
65.
The sharp, explosive sound generated by an airplane traveling at speeds greater than the speed of sound.
What is sonic boom?
65.
The sonic boom follows this.
What is the aircraft much like the wake follows the a ship?
66.
A unit of info made up of bits in computer technology.
What is byte?
66.
The memory capacity of a typical personal computer runs from this.
What is hundreds to thousands to millions of bytes?
67.
A temp. scale in which zero degrees is the freezing point of water and 100 is the boiling point .
What is Celsius?
67.
Temp. in this scale is usually denoted by this.
What is C* or , in scientific usage C alone?
68.
A place in Ukraine where a nuclear power plant underwent a meltdown.
What is Chernobyl?
68.
Chernobyl underwent this.
What is a meltdown?
69.
A program that enters a computer usually bad.
What is a computer virus?
69.
The viruses are usually this.
What is mild?
70.
The branch of technology concerned with the behavior of materials at very low tempatures.
What is cryogenics?
70.
Cryogenics:particularly tempatures near what”
What is near absolute zero?
71.
An American inventor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Who is Thomas A. Edison?
71.
Tomas patented this many devices.
What was more than a thousand?
72.
Edison originated this proverb.
What was “ Genius is one perfect inspiration and 99 percent perspiration?”
72.
Thomas was referred to as this.
What was the “wizard of Menlo Park?”
73.
20th century newspapers,motion pictures, radio , television, and magazines
What is mass media?
73.
Mass media delivered info to this many people.
What is millions of people?
74.
The most serious accident that can occur at a nuclear reactor.
What is meltdown?
74.
Meltdown:some or all of this.
What is fuel in the reactor?
75.
A prefix meaning one billionth.
What is nano?
75.
Nano means this.
What is one billionth?
