Electronics Engineering Coaching 1 (October 2012)

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1917
Year when Einstein first predicted the fact that there should be two kinds of emissions,

spontaneous and stimulated

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(+) VSAT to (-) VSAT
Maximum output voltage swing of an op-amp

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1 atmosphere
Every boiling point of a substance.. volume pressure

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3 data work by 3 bits
3 x 3 ROM means

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79xx series
Negative fixed voltage regulator

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Ability to handle
Not a characteristic of CMOS chips

extremely high

power

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Above-the-board
Turret, fork, and hook terminals are examples of what type of termination?

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AC converter
A converter that changes ac-voltage to another ac-voltage level.

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Access time
Total time it takes a disk drive to retrieve a sector of data

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Accumulator

Register collector

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Accuracy
What do you call the exactness of a particular motion in the robotic arm in free space

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Active power
What will happen when the power factor of a circuit is increased?

increases

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Acts as cleaning
Why is flux used in the soldering process?

agent to remove

oxide

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Add donor impurity
To make N-type semiconductor

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Aging battery
Rheostat is used in compensating _________ of the ohmmeter

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Air Muscle
Effective actuator compared to a human arm

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Allotropy
Ability to exists in more than one lattice

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Alpha
Common base current gain (amplification factor)

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An atom with
Ion is

unbalance charges

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Analog
Oscilloscope is used to display _____ voltage of individual signals

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AND
Output 1 when all inputs are 1

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Android
Robot that resembles human

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Android
Male humanoid

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Angular position of
What does the arrow on a synchro schematic symbol indicate?

the rotor

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Anode interruption
Most popular method of turning off an SCR

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Aristotle
First formal compilation of logic principle

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Arm
An interconnected set of links and powered joints comprising a manipulator that supports or

moves a wrist, hand or end effector

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Armstrong oscillator
The oscillator that uses a transformer in parallel with a capacitor

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Avalanche
Which breakdown theory explains the action that takes place in a heavily doped PN junction

breakdown
with a reverse bias above 5 volts?
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Avalanche effect
Free electrons collides to bound electrons causing more current

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Axis
A traveled path in space usually referred to as a linear direction of travel in any of three

dimensions.

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Backplane
Common connection in LCD

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Band Reject filter
What type of filter is used to block the passage of current for a narrow bandof frequency

while allowing current to flow at all frequencies above or below this band?

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Barretter and
Two types of bolometer

Thermistor

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Barrier potential
Increase in reverse bias; pn junction increases

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Battery aging
Causes error in ohmmeter reading

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Becomes capacitive
What will happen to a parallel ac-circuit if its line frequency is more than the resonant

frequency?

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Becquerel
SI unit of radioactivity

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BIBO
Bounded in, bounded out

Bi-directional Trigger

Which of the trigger diodes has the highest holding voltage

Diac

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BIFET op-amp
LF157A

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BJT
Voltage regulator commonly used what control element?

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Blavier's Test
A test for ground fault

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Blowholes
Main disadvantage of carbon arc welding

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Body Centered Cubic
Chromium

(BCC)

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Both PNP and NPN
SCR is fired and conduction band

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Bounded with
The closed-loop system that uses BIBO algorithm is ___

bounded input

Break-over devices

Electronic devices used to control/trigger large-power switching devices

Breakover voltage
from non-conducting

The voltage decreased across the anode (A) and cathode (K) of an SCR

state to conducting state

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Bulk Resistance
Resistance of semiconductor

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Can handle more

An advantage of rheostat over a potentiometer

current

Can operate in low Advantage of alkaline batteries temperature

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Capacitance
As capacitor plate area increases, all other things equal

increases

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Capacitance
When the spacing between plates in a capacitor is made smaller and all other things being

increases
equal

Carbon composition

Totally non-reactive resistor

Carbon composition

Resistor type that has the color bands in the body

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Cathode Ray
An instrument that is capable of displaying waveforms by means of fluorescence in a CRT

Oscilloscope

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Chain drives
Transmission system of robots, constant gear ratio

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Choke
Inductor used to impede flow of a pulsating
DC

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Clamp meter
Ammeter with no insertion loss

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Class A
Highest fidelity amplifier

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Class C
Highest efficiency amplifier

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Class D
Amplifier intended for pulse operation

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Clock
What provides a timing signaling in a digital equipment?

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Clock skew
Edge timing on multiple clock inputs

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CMRR
Measures the tendency of the device to reject input signals common to both inputs

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Collector and base
ICBO flows from

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Colpitts
Oscillator that uses tapped capacitor

Colpitts and Hartley

Two most popular RF oscillators

Colpitts oscillator
portions by a

A self-excited oscillator in which the tank is divided into input and feedback

capacitive voltage divider

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Combination bias
What type of bias is constant and improves thermal stability?

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Common base
Known for its stability

Common emitter or The BJT or FET used as multivibrator is arranged in the ___ configuration.
common source

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Common source
A circuit that can produce the greatest signal gain (amplification factor)

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Common source
Both good in voltage amplifier and high input impedance

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Commulatively
Motor used in elevators

compounded

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Commutator
What component causes a generator to produce a DC voltage instead of an AC voltage as its

output?
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Comparator
An op-amp used to compare two voltages and has no feedback element

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Comparator
319 IC, 14 pins

Compton Camera

Conformal coatings
caused by corrosion,

Camera with imaging positron effect with multiple of silicon detector

Protective materials applied to electronic assemblies to prevent damage

moisture and stress are called __________

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Constant polarity
Characterizes a DC electromagnet

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Continuous path
Robot program that has the ability to move a robot to any position within the range of

specific path

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Control
Which of the following types of synchro is used in a system requiring large amounts of power

and high accuracy?

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Controller
Heart of robot

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Cool sub-interval
Weld interval where current is absent

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CRT
The type of tube that is used to display signals in an oscilloscope

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Curie
Common unit of radioactivity

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Current transformer
For a dynamometer to be able to measure high current, ______ should be used

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Cycle (Program)
Unit of work for robot

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Damping
Reduction in the magnitude of oscillation due to absorption

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Dark current
It is the current through the photodiode when it is operated in photoconductive mode in the

absence of light.
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D'Arsonval
Most common type of meter movement

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D'Arsonval

Permanent-magnet moving coil instrument is also known as

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Data
Refers to the raw material processed by a computer

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Data and clock
Inputs of D-flipflop

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DC motors
Commutators are commonly found in __________

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DCEP
What is the most commonly used type of current in SMAW welding system?

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DCRP
Type of power supply used in MIG welding

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DCSP
__ welding, base penetration is deep

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Debye effect
Selective absorption of electromagnetic waves by a dielectric, due to molecular dipoles

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Decrease current in
A relay can be used to _______

a circuit

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Decreases
If the flux per pole of an ac generator is increased, the speed ________

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Degenerate gain
The effect of adding an emitter resistor to a bipolar diff-amp

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Dember Effect
Creation voltage in a conductor or semiconductor by illumination of one surface

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Design engineers
Boolean algebra is used primarily by ______ to simply circuits

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Destructive to
Disadvantage of mercury cells and batteries

environment

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Different number of
Used to increase the capability of moving iron ac ammeter

operating coils

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Differential
DC voltmeter used accurate measurement

Voltmeter

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Differentially
Type of motor that when load increases, speed increases

compounded

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Diffusion coefficien

Ability to diffuse

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Digital computers
Computer that handle discrete data

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Disk
Electric resistance seam welding uses _________ electrodes

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Disks allow faster
An advantage of magnetic disks over magnetic tape is

data storage and

retrieval

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Distance
Simplest proximity sensor cannot measure ________

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Divide the input
A T flip-flop is used primarily for what function?

frequency by two

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Divider
Frequency synthesizer uses _____

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Dot pitch
Space between the dots on the screen

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Doubles
When speed doubles, all other things being constant, generated emf ____________

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Drift current
Main current in a normally bias npn transistor

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Dynamo
Changes mechanical to electrical energy and vice versa

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Dynamometer
A device used to mechanically measure the output power of a motor

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Easy to store and
Zinc carbon is used often than hydrogen fuel cell

transport

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ECL
Between TTL and CMOS

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Eddy current
Core loss increases due to ___________

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Eddy current loss
Core is laminated to reduce ___________

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Edison cell
A secondary cell whose active positive plate consists of nickel hydroxide, and active negativ-

plate material is powdered iron oxide mixed with cadmium. Its typical output when fully

charged is VO = 1.2V

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Edison effect
Emission of electrons from hot to cold bodies

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Either positive or
Temperature coefficient of thermistor

negative

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Elbow
Connection between the forearm and the upper arm

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Electric Motor
Most popular actuator

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Electrodynamometer
An indicating instrument whose movable coils rotate between two stationary coils, usually

used as wattmeter

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Electron Beam
Uses high temperature metals like columbium

Welding

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Electron energy level
It is required for the electron to stay in its orbits

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Electronics
Branch of engineering that deals with the applications of electronic devices

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Electrostatic
Common cause of damage in MOSFET

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Electrostatic
The type of deflection an oscilloscope used

deflection

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Elemental
4 valence electrons

semiconductor

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Elementary
It consist of a single coil rotated in a magnetic field and produces an AC voltage

generator

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Encapsulated
A module which is difficult to repair because it is completely imbedded in solid material is

one which has been

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Energy
Lenz law is a consequence of Law of conservation of _______

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EPROM
Type of an IC that can have its memory changed

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Error signal
Which of the following term applies to the output of a control transformer?

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Eutectic alloy
Which of the following alloys will melt directly to liquid and have no plastic or semiliquid

state?

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Excellent efficiency
Air as an inductor core material

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Execute
What does ALU do during E-time?

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Exothermic
A chemical reaction wherein energy is released during the process is a/an __________

reaction

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Extension
The icons in the computer are determined by

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Fahrenheit scale
First recognized temperature scale

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FET
Example of a solid-state device

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Field strength
The most commonly used method of speed control of a dc motor is by varying

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Filter
Circuit after rectifier

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Fixed bias
Most unstable type of bias

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Flash Memory
Fastest nonvolatile memory available

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Flash Welding
Fast welding

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Flat packs
Heating the leads and lifting them up with tweezers is the preferred method of removing

which of the following components?

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Float charging
What refers to a method in which the charger and the battery are always connected to each

other for supplying current to the load?

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Fluorescent lamp
Discharges gases

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Flux and Speed
Factor(s) that affect iron losses in a dc motor

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Flux Cored Arc
What is a semi-automatic or automatic arc welding process that requires a continuously-fed

Welding (FCAW)
consumable tubular electrode containing flux and a constant-voltage or less commonly, a

constant-current welding power supply

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Flywheel effect
Ability of an oscillator to sustain oscillation

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Focus
Being controlled at the potentials between anode in an oscilloscope

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Forced commutation
Turning off an SCR is through anode current interruption and___________

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Forearm
Robot part connecting elbow and wrist

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Foreground
Program running in real-time

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Forge Welding
Oldest welding process

(FOW)

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Form Factor
Ratio of RMS of pulsating quantity to its mean value

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Fouling
A lacing shuttle on which the cord can be wound keeps the cord from______

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Free electrons
Referred to as the "escaped valence electrons"

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Freezing
Chemical reactions that release energy are called exothermicreactions; ____ is an example of

exothermic reaction.
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Frequency
Can vary with AC but not with DC

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From the collector
In a common-base circuit, the output is taken

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Gallium
Examples of trivalent impurities are boron, indium and _________

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Gallium Arsenide
Compound used in CRAY-1's microprocessor

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Gallium Arsenide
For high-speed integrated circuit, which semiconductor material given below is best to be

used?

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GaP
Compound used in LED that emits green light

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Gas Metal Arc
Also known as metal inert gas stick welding

Welding (GMAW)

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Gas Tungsten Arc
It is an arc welding process that uses a nonconsumable tungsten electrode to produce the

Welding (GTAW)
weld
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Gate
Control grid tube corresponds to ____ of FET

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George Box
Device used to reduce jamming signals

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Grandfather file
The original file copy inside the computer retrieved for reassembling

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Gray Code
Which of the code below is considered as minimum-change code

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Grosh's Law
The law that the processing power of a computer is proportional to the square of its cost .

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Guard
The safety feature of robotic system that protects human from danger is called _______

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Gunn diode
Most popular microwave diode

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Gunnplexer

Gunn diode in horn antenna

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Gynoid
Female humanoid

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Gyro
Device for maintaining orientation, based on the principles of conservation of angular

momentum
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Half of the cycle
Half-wave rectifier works only in

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Hallwachs effect
The ability of ultraviolet radiation to discharge a negatively charged body in a vacuum.

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Hans Christian
Who discovered magnetic effect?

Oersted

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Hartley
An oscillator that employs a tapped coil in a tuned circuit

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Hartley oscillator
A self-excited oscillator in which the tank is divided into input and feedback portions by an

inductive voltage divider or a tapped coil

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Has higher
The advantage of ICs compared to discrete components

attainable switching

speed

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Hay Bridge
Refers to an ac bridge for measuring the inductance and Q of an inductor in terms of

resistance, frequency and a standard capacitance.

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Heat sub-interval
Weld interval with current flowing

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Heaviside bridge
AC bridge that measures mutual inductance

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Higher than
In series resistance, the net resistance is _______ the largest resistance

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Hold interval
After the welding interval, it goes to _________ intervalwherein the electrode pressure is

maintained on the metal surfaces

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Holding Current
The minimum amount of current needed for an SCR to conduct continuously

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Hopping
Robot with one leg and small feet

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HTL
Fastest IC logic; unsaturated logic gate

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Humanoid
Robot that acts like human

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Hydraulic turbines
Low speed alternators are driven by

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Hydrogen
What is the lightest element?

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Hysteresis
The loss in a transformer due to the changing field is called

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Impedance
Total opposition to current flow

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Improve bead
The ultimate goal of electrode coating is ______

quality

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In a high power DC
The logical place for a wire-wound resistor

circuit

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Indices
Crystal lattice, used to ___ crystal orientation

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Induction
Characteristic of a parallel resonant circuit operating below the resonant frequency

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Input bias current
The current needed at the input of an op-amp to operate it normally

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Inverter
Used to change DC voltage to AC voltage

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Ion

Atom that has unbalanced charges

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Ionization Chamber
Gas-filled enclosure containing positive and negative electrodes that measures the amount

radiation passing through the enclosure according to the degree of ionization caused by the

radiation
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Is never repulsive
Force between a magnet and a piece of ferromagnetic metal that has not been magnetized

______
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It will drop to zero
A power supply has a capacitance filtering, what will happen to the ripple voltage if the load

is removed?
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I-time
When the control unit gets an instruction

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Its magnetizing
At very low frequencies, transformers woks poorly because

current will be very

high

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Jogged
If a power supplied is controlled by sudden outburst, the motor is __________

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Joshi effect
The change in the current passing through a gas or vapor when the gas or vapor is irradiated

with visible light

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Junction
A common connection between circuit elements or conductors from different branches

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Karel Capek
Who coined the word "robot"?

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Kelvin Double Bridge
This is a special bridge for measuring very low resistance (0.1 ohms or less). The arrangement

of the bridge reduces the effects of contact resistance, which causes significant error when

such low resistances are connected to conventional resistances bridges.

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Kernel
Main program in the operating system

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Keyboard
With GUI (Graphic user interface), we give commands with three difference ways EXCEPT

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Knife
What is the preferred tool to use to strip an aluminum wire?

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LASCR

Device with smallest amount of turn off time

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Layer build-up
The most complex to produce and difficult to repair printedcircuit boards are those made

using which of the following methods?

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Lead acid
Battery used in uninterrupted power supply (UPS)

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Lenz' Law
States that the polarity of the induced voltage will oppose the change in magnetic flux

causing the induction

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Less heat
Regulator dissipate less energy therefore

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Level 0
A faulty transistor would be identified as what level of packaging?

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Level shifters
Amplifiers that add or subtract a known voltage from the input in order to compensate for DC

offset voltages.
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Limit cycle
______ is peculiar to non-linear system

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Linear-taper
Potentiometer used in meter sensitivity

potentiometer

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Load
What determines the amount of slip in an induction motor?

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Local cell
A galvanic cell resulting from difference in potential between adjacent areas on the surface

a metal immersed in an electrolyte

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Logarithmic-taper
Potentiometer used in stereo compact-disk players

potentiometer

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Loop
When applying Kirchhoffs Voltage Law, a closed path is commonly referred to as a ______

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Low back EMF

High current for starting a motor

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Low cost
Advantage of a non-servo controlled robot

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Low drift
What is an advantage of CCO over VFO?

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Low value
The slip speed of an induction motor is 100% until the rotor moves and then falls to a ____

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MAG
Active gas welding

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Magnet wire

What is the common name for enamel insulated wire

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Magnetic field
The space outside a magnet where its poles has a force of attraction or repulsion on another

magnetic pole
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Magnetic pole
In a magnet, what do you call the point in which the magnetic lines of force is maximum?

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Main storage
Also known as primary storage

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Making permanent
High retentivity material is used for

magnet

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Manual Metal Arc
Other name for SMAW

Welding

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Maxicomputer
Which of the following is NOT a classification of computers?

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Maximizes coupling
What does a shell core do in a transformer?

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Maximum forward
Two important characteristics of a junction diode

current and PIV

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Maxwell bridge
This refers to a four-arm ac bridge used for measuring inductance against a standard

capacitance
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Measurement
What is the process of determining the magnitude of something in terms of a recognized

standard?
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Medium to low
Plastic insulation is normally used for what levels of voltage

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Meissner effect
At superconductivity, the material appears to become diamagnetic

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Memory
The process of allocating main memory separate from one another is called _________

management

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Metal film
Type of resistor that has less reactance than wire wound

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Mica
Insulator or dielectric for an electric iron

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Michael Faraday
Who discovered electromagnetic induction?

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Microcircuit
Component containing IC

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Microcomputers
Desktop and personal computers are also known as

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Microswitch
Most accurate snap switch

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Microwave oscillator
IMPATT diode is used as

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MIG
Inert gas welding

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MIG
AC welding machine cannot be used in __________

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Millman's Theorem
The theorem which deals with the computation of the common voltage when different

voltage sources with resistance are connected in parallel.

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Momentary position
Actuator maintains its position as long as it can

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Monolithic
IC is made up of

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Mossbauer effect
A certain condition wherein a nucleon can be stimulated to emit a very sharply defined

beams of gamma rays.

Motion of charge Magnetic flux can always be attributed to particles

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Moving iron
Cheapest, most rugged material for analog meter

galvanometer

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Multiprocessing
Running a program using many CPU

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Near the wire
The magnetic flux around a straight, current carrying wire, is stronger

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Negative feedback
A feedback being used for the operational amplifier circuits

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Noise figure
Weak signal amplifier, most important factor

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Non-interlaced
Used for fast animation

monitor

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NOR
Output 1 when all inputs are 0

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N-type material
Substrate used in p-channel IGFET enhancement type

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Off-line
Robot programming wherein the establishing of the required sequence of functional and

Programming
required positional steps is written on a remotecomputer console
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Ohmic
Left of pinch-off region is ______ region

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On-Line
Test equipment that continuously monitors performance and automatically isolates fault to

removable assemblies is what category of equipment?

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Op-code
The first byte in a machine level instruction

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Operating program
Set of programs that are between applications software and hardware

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Optical disk
Laser beam technology is used for

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Optoelectronics
Combination of electronics and fiber optics

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Optoisolator
LED/IRED and photodiode combination

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OR
Output 0 when all inputs are 0

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OTA
Voltage to current amplifier

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Overhead
Most hazardous welding

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Parallel
How do you connect a voltmeter in a circuit?

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Parallel
Information is written _______ to the edges of magnetic audio tape

295

Parallel winding
Lap winding is also known as _______

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Parallel; series
Most efficient filter uses capacitor in ________ and choke in ________

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Passivation
___ is the process making a material passive in relation to another material prior to using

the materials together

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Payload
Maximum weight a robot can handle

Peak inverse voltage

rectifier
(PIV)

The maximum reverse biased voltage that will be exposed in a diode in a

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Pen-based computer
Computer which supports handwriting inputs

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Pentavalent
Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth are classified as _____

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Period
The interval of a pulse from start to end is the _____ of the pulse.

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Peripheral
The equipment used in conjunction with the robot for acomplete robotic system. This

equipment
includes grippers, conveyors, parts, feeders that are needed with the robot.
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Photodiode
Light-activated diode

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Pierce
Oscillator that uses quartz

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Pinch point
The area where human can be trapped in the workspace of robot in which there is no avenue

of escape
307
Plasma arc welding
Bead weld in wineglass

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Plus to minus
Holes flow from

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Porcelain
In electrical power distributions, what insulator is generally used?

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Positive feedback
An oscillator should have __________

311
Positive half cycle
Half-wave rectifier works only in

312
Precession
What gyro characteristic provides the bases of the operation at a rate gyro?

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Precession
The ability of a gyro to maintain a position in space is referred to by what term?

314
Pressure
Process used in cold welding

315
Primary storage

Memory is another name for

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Principal node
A node in which KCL is applicable

317
Prompt
Signal that the computer is waiting for command by the user

318
Protect drive circuits
Purpose of installing thyrectors across the incoming power lines to the speed control system

from high voltage

is to _________

transient

319
Proximity effect
The redistribution of current in a conductor brought about by the presence of another

conductor

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Proximity sensing
Ability for a robot to tell when an object is near it

321
Psychrometer
An instrument used to measure relative humidity

322
Pulsating DC
Output of a rectifier circuit without a filter

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Pure argon
Gas shielding used in TIG

324
Push out gently
For the removal of imbedded TOs in which of the following are free, which of the following

methods is recommended?
325

Pyrometer
Device used to measure high temperatures beyond the extent of mercury thermometer

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Quantum detector
Variation in number of incident photon

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Quarter adder
An adder which can add up two binary digits but will not produce a carry.

328
Quartz crystal
The component used in most stable type of oscillator

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R = 0, S = 0
NOR store

330
R = 1, S = 0

NAND set

331
Radio-frequency
Bridge used to measure both inductive and capacitive impedances at higher frequencies

bridge

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Raman effect
Change in the wavelength of light that occurs when a light beam is deflected by molecules

333
Ramp
The sawtooth wave that gradually increases and rapidly decays is ________

334
Ramsauer effect
Absorption of slow-moving/ low energy electrons into something

335
Rate effect
A four-layer semiconductor device, tends for a switch to conduct undesirably as a result of a

transient spike

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Relative signal
In amplifiers, decibel is used to indicate _________

strength

337
Release interval
Next to hold interval is __________ interval in automatic welding system

338
Reluctance
Resistance in the magnetic path to the magnetic lines of force

339
Remove all
What is the first step in the repair of burned or scorched boards?

discolored

components

340
Removing
Most damage to PCB occurs at which of the following times?

components

341
Resistance
Which has the greatest effect on the figure of merit on the circuit?

342
Resistors in series
With no mutual inductance, total inductance is like

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Reverse bias
Photodiode when not used as photovoltaic cell

344
Revolute
Rotational joints of robot

345
RF Probe
The frequency-measuring capability of a digital multimeter can be extended using which of

the following device?

346
Rf/Ri
Closed-loop voltage gain of an inverting op-amp

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Right hand rule
Tells the direction of magnetic field produced by electric current

348
Ripples
The AC variations at the output of a power supply circuit

349
RISC
Computer that is fast because of fewer instructions

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Roboticist
Person that studies robots

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Robotics
Science of designing, building and applying robots

352
Roll
Type of motion of robotic end that is rotational

353
Rosin
When electrical and electronic components are soldered, what type of flux must be used?

354
Rotary converter

Used to convert ac voltage to dc voltage, or vice versa

355
Sallen Key filter
Second order filter

356
Scale factor
Internal attenuation factor

357
Schering bridge
A type of four-arm capacitance bridge in which the unknown capacitance is compared with a

standard capacitance. This bridge is frequently employed in testing electrolytic capacitors, to

which a dc polarizing voltage is applied during the measurement. What is this bridge?

358
Schmitt Trigger
A comparator with hysteresis immunity

359
Schottky effect
In an electric tube due to the influence of the potential gradient of the cathode emission

current

360
SCR
Example of an active device

361
SCR, Diac, Triac
Most common/popular thyristor

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Screening
_______ mammogram is used for women with no signs of breast cancer

363
Seebeck effect
Another term for thermoelectric effect

364
Seek time
Time it takes for a magnetic head to position itself over a specific track

365

Seismic mass
The movement in acceleration transducers is called

366
Separator
Materials used to insulate the positive plates from negativeplates are technically called

367
Sequencer
A controller that operates an application though a fixed sequence of events

368
Sequential circuits
A function table is like a truth table for

369
Series
Motor with the highest torque

370
Series regulator
A type of linear regulator used in applications requiring efficient utilization of the primary

power source.

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Series winding
Wave winding is also known as _______

372
Server
Computer that connects the user's computer system to the Internet

373
Servomechanism
It is a closed loop feedback control system in which one or more of the system signals

represent mechanical motion

374
Seymour Cray
Who invented CRAY-1

375
Shell
Another name for an operating environment

376
Shielded Metal Arc
Welding process where in the heat generated melts the tip of the electrode and the base of

Welding (SMAW)

metals in an immediate area of arc

377
Shoulder
The manipulator arm linkage joint that is attached to the base

378
Shunt
Voltage regulator connected in parallel with load

379
Signal diode
Diode used as an envelope detector

380
Silicon
Most widely used semiconductor

381
Silver
Type of solder suited for applications in which high-current and high-temperature are

required

382
Single-ended
When one input of the op-amp is connected to ground and the other is to the signal source,

its operation is called; Op-amp with 2 shorted inputs

383
Slew Rate
What is the maximum output voltage rate of change of an op-amp?

384
Small scale
543 transistors in a single chip

integration

385
SOHO
Business software

386
Sorting
Arranging data in sequence

387
Source, Gate, and
Three terminals of the JFET which corresponds to the E-B-C of the BJT

Drain

388
Spin axis direction
A gyro resist all forces that attempt to change its

389
Spintronics
Spin nature of electronics

390
Spooling
Characteristic of shared systems to avoid mixing up of print outs or programs

391
Spot welding
Dependent on resistance and forged pressure

392
Square wave
In electronic converters, what signal is mostly used to trigger the active device?

393
Squared
Moving-iron instrument has what scale?

394
Squared pulse
Voss-McCartney is a noise generator that produces modulated________

395
Squirrel cage
Winding used for heavy load

winding

396
Standby interval
After release interval

397
Star connected
Armature winding is always

398
Stefan-Boltzmann
Quantity emitted by blackbody

Law

399
Stepper motor
A brushless electrical motor that divides the rotation by a number of steps

400
Stores electric field
Function of a capacitor

401
Storing energy as a
An inductor works by

magnetic field

402
Substrate
The arrow in a MOSFET indicates a ________

403
Substrate (SS)
The base material of a MOSFET which extends as an additional terminal

404
Suite
A bundle of basic software designed to work together

405
Supervisor program
Management of an operating system is handled by

406
Sweat Joints
Stirring the lead during desoldering prevents which of the following unwanted results?

407
Sweep
Voltage applied to the horizontal deflecting plates in the oscilloscope

408
Switching
Most efficient voltage regulator; used in high-current, high-voltage applications

409
Switching
Regulator that dissipates less power and less heat

410
Tachometer
Mechanical rotation frequency measuring device

411
Ted Hoff
Who designed the microprocessor in 1969?

412
Teraflops
Trillion floating points

413
Tetrahedral
Crystal lattice of silicon and germanium

Texture of the skin

Which of the following is NOT used in biometrics?

The magnetic flux in What significant advantage, in some applications, of a toroidal coil over
solenoid is a toroid is practically

all within the core

416
The same
Period of two signals with the same frequency but opposite phase

417
Thermal Inertia
Defines the capacity of a soldering iron to generate and maintain a satisfactory soldering

temperature while giving up heat to the joint.

418
Thermocouple
Ammeter used in high-frequency applications

419
Thevenin's Theorem
Electrical circuit theorem that was first enunciated by Helmholtz

420
Thickness
Determines the frequency of the crystal

421
Thickness of weld
In the process of electroslag welding, theoretically there is no upper limit to the

lead

422
Thin film
Vacuum evaporation and cathode sputtering are two methods used to produce which of the

following types of components

423
Thomson effect
The liberation or absorption of heat when an electric currentflows from a warmer to a cooler

part of a conductor is called

424
Through-the-board
When a TO or DIP is replaced on a printed circuit board, what type of termination is normally

used?
425
Thyrector
Used for high voltage surge protection

426
TIG
Titanium gas welding

427
Tin/Lead 50/50
Solder used in electronic circuits with melting point of 220 degrees Celsius

428
Tin/Lead 63/37
Solder used in electronic circuits with melting point of 180degrees Celsius and below;

commonly used soldering

429
Tinning
Coating the material to be soldered with light coat of solder

430
To increase
The main purpose why a ferromagnetic core is place in an inductor

inductance

431
Torque and Control
What are the 2 general classifications of synchro system?

432

Torque control
Keep torque constant

433
Tracks are diagonal
Magnetic video tape

with the edges

434
Transfer function
What is the ratio of two exponential functions of time?

435
Transfer rate
The speed at which a disk drive and a disk drive controller working togerther can transfer

data to the host computer is what disk recording specification?

436
Transistor
All logic gates are made up of

437
Translation

A movement such that all axes remain parallel to what they were

438
Transputer
Computer in a chip

439
Trigger hold off
The time when the oscilloscope does not trigger

440
Trivalent
What are examples of acceptor impurities?

441
TTL
IC which is least susceptible to noise

442
TTL
The base technology for NAND gate

443
Tunnel diode
A diode that is widely used in the design of oscillator, switching networks and pulse generator

and has a negative resistance region

444
Turbine-driven
An alternator using a gas turbine as a prime mover should have what type of rotor?

445
Twice
Peak-to-peak voltage is _______ of Vpeak

446
Two
What is the minimum number of synchro devices needed for a simple synchro transmission

system?

447
Two or more
Number of inputs of a summing amplifier

448
Two transistor in
Class B amplifier most suitable for Hi-fi audio

push-pull

449
Type of sampling
The difference between series and shunt regulators is ___

circuit

450
UJT
Which of the following components has a negative resistance region

451
Ultrasonic welding
Industrial welding technique whereby high-frequency ultrasonic acoustic vibrations are

locally applied to work pieces being held together under pressure to create a solid state

weld

452
Universal motor
Motors used for AC and DC

453
Upper arm
The portion of a jointed arm that is connected to the shoulder

454
Uses solar panels
A stand-alone solar power system

and batteries

455
Utilities
Prewritten standard file-handling programs are called

456
Vacuum evaporation
To deposit highly reactive material into a substrate, which of the following method is used?

457
Varley Loop
Method of locating ground faults and short circuits in telephone cable

458
Vibration
Plug-in DIPs are susceptible to loosening because of which of the following causes?

459
Virtual storage
The technique whereby part of the program stored on disk and is brought into memory for

execution as needed is called ____

460
Viscosity
Resistance to flow in liquids

461
V-MOSFET
Which FET has a wide and short effective channel?

462
Voltage divider
Most used combination bias

463
Voltage follower
An operational amplifier has its output tied directly to the input terminal is a/an

464
Voltohmmeter
Combination of voltmeter, milliammeter and ohmmeter

465
Walk-through
Continuous path of robot

466
Wall effect
The rise in ionization due to electrons being released by the walls of the chamber in the

ionization chamber

467
Wattmeter
Which dynamometer instrument has a uniform scale?

468
Wattmeter
Dynamometers are mostly used as

469
Weld interval
After squeeze interval

470
White noise
Sound heard when tuned to non-existent channel

471
Wien bridge
What do you call of that frequency-sensitive bridge in which two adjacent arms are

resistances and the other two arms are RC combinations?

472
Wien-bridge and
What are the two most common audio oscillators?

Phase Shift

473
Will attract pure
An AC electromagnet

unmagnetized iron

474
Wire stripper
The preferred method for removing insulation from most types of insulated wire is by using

what tool?
475
Wire-wound
High power and high current resistor

476
Workmanship
Visual inspection of a completed repair is conducted to evaluate which of the following

Quality
aspects of the repair?
477
XNOR
Even parity checker

478
Zeeman effect
Splitting of spectral line of gas by magnetic field

479
Zener diode
Voltage reference element in most voltage regulators

480
Zero
Full-scale deflection of ohmmeter