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C.L. Notes 57-75 Flashcards

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57.

In electronics, a device that takes a small electrical signal and converts it into a large one.

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What is an amplifier?

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57.

Amplifiers are used for this.

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What is in stereo systems, electric guitars, computer speakers, and hundreds of other items?

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58.

A series of space flights undertaken by the United States.

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What is the Apollo Program?

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58.

In the Apollo programs there were this many total successful flights made.

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What were six?

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59.

The first man to walk on the moon.

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What is Neil Armstrong ?

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59.

Neil Armstrong landed on this.

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What is Luna?

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60.

The means of duplicating or imitating intelligence in COMPUTERS, robots, or other devices.

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What is Artificial Intelligence?

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60.

Artificial intelligence allows technology to do this.

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What is to solve problems, discriminate among objects, and respond to voice command?

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61.

An American inventor and scientist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Who ismAlexander Grahem Bell?

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61.

Alexander devoted his career to this.

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What was education of the deaf and the production of electronic devices to help them hear better?

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62.

This thing was formed.

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What was the Bell Telophone Company?

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62.

The Telophone company was formed as a result of this.

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What was Bells work?

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63.

Anything composed of two parts.

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What is binary?

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63.

Since switches can be either off or on they have this kind of character.

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What is a binary character?

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64.

The smallest unit of info.

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What is bit?

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64.

One bit corresponds to this.

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What is a “yes or no”?

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65.

The sharp, explosive sound generated by an airplane traveling at speeds greater than the speed of sound.

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What is sonic boom?

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65.

The sonic boom follows this.

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What is the aircraft much like the wake follows the a ship?

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66.

A unit of info made up of bits in computer technology.

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What is byte?

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66.

The memory capacity of a typical personal computer runs from this.

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What is hundreds to thousands to millions of bytes?

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67.

A temp. scale in which zero degrees is the freezing point of water and 100 is the boiling point .

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What is Celsius?

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67.

Temp. in this scale is usually denoted by this.

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What is C* or , in scientific usage C alone?

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68.

A place in Ukraine where a nuclear power plant underwent a meltdown.

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What is Chernobyl?

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68.

Chernobyl underwent this.

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What is a meltdown?

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69.

A program that enters a computer usually bad.

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What is a computer virus?

26
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69.

The viruses are usually this.

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What is mild?

27
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70.

The branch of technology concerned with the behavior of materials at very low tempatures.

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What is cryogenics?

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70.

Cryogenics:particularly tempatures near what”

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What is near absolute zero?

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71.

An American inventor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Who is Thomas A. Edison?

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71.

Tomas patented this many devices.

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What was more than a thousand?

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72.

Edison originated this proverb.

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What was “ Genius is one perfect inspiration and 99 percent perspiration?”

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72.

Thomas was referred to as this.

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What was the “wizard of Menlo Park?”

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73.

20th century newspapers,motion pictures, radio , television, and magazines

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What is mass media?

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73.

Mass media delivered info to this many people.

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What is millions of people?

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74.

The most serious accident that can occur at a nuclear reactor.

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What is meltdown?

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74.

Meltdown:some or all of this.

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What is fuel in the reactor?

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75.

A prefix meaning one billionth.

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What is nano?

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75.

Nano means this.

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What is one billionth?

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