C.L. Notes 75-100 Flashcards
What is a nanosecond?
How long is a nanosecond?
A term often referred to as a very short time
A billionth of a second
What is nano technology?
What is it a branch of?
The production of devices at an atomic scale
Technology
What are neutral networks?
Developed to what?
A computer system that is designed to mimic the human brain.
To deal with problems like pattern recognition that the brain does well
What is offshore drilling?
Normally in water how many feet deep ?
The operations of oil wells
Hundreds
What is perpetual motion?
A machine that could run forever
What is a radar?
What is it used for?
Radio Detection And Ranging
Finding the position and velocity of an object
What is radioactive waste?
What kinds are their?
Radioactive materials that may be left after a lab process
High level and low level
What is software?
Opposed to what?
The programs and instructions that run a computer
Actual machinery and devices
What is the spirit of St. Louis?
Where is it on display?
A specially designed airplane that Charles Lindbergh flew.
The smithsonian institute
What were sputniks?
When were they launched?
A series of soviet satellites
1957
What does SST stand for?
What is an example of SST?
Super Sonic Transport
The concorde
What is stealth technology?
What is the term now referred to as?
The use of specialized materials.
Something that remains hidden or unknown
Who were the wright bros.?
What did they achieve?
American mechanics and inventors.
The first sustained airplane flight.
What is the Achilles’ tendon?
Who was Achilles?
Tendon connecting the heel bone with the calf muscle
A greek mythological hero who could only be wounded in the heel
What is acupuncture?
Where did it originate?
A technique for curing disease and relieving stress
China
What is aids?
What does it stand for?
A fatal disease caused by immune difficency
Acquired immune difficency syndrome
Where is it believed aids originated?
Infected more than…
Africa
25 million world wide
What is alcoholism?
What can occur if the disease is not dealt with?
A disease because of the excessive consumption of alcoholism
Death
What is anorexia nervosa?
Commonly found in who?
A phycosamatic disorder due to a self distorted image
Young women
What is a bacterial infection?
How can it be halted?
Any infection caused by bacteria
By the use of antibiotics.
What is benign?
What is its opposite?
A descriptive term for conditions that present no danger to life
Malignant
What is biofeedback ?
How to regulate what?
A training technique
Body functions like blood pressure
What is blood pressure?
How is it expressed?
Pressure of the blood against the walls of the blood vessels.
Through 2 numerical values
What is blood type?
Is blood type inherited?
One of many groups in which a persons blood can be organized
Yes
