Gimmick Capacitance – small
capacitance formed by twisting two
insulated wires
Decade Counter – one output pulse for
every 10 input pulse
4 x 4 resistor – series parallel
connection to make 100ohms, 10 watts
from 100 ohms 1watt
Wiring Diagram – shows components
values
Wire wound resistors – can handle
large power dissipation
ADVANTAGE OF RHEOSTAT
OVER POTENTIOMETER – can
handle more current
Mercury Cell – can pollute the
environment
Nickel-Iron – Has high internal
resistance
Output of HW rectifier – effective
value is less than the original
Output of FW rectifier – effective
value is same as the original
Electromagnetic Deflection – change
in compass needles
Hot wire Ammeter – can be used in AC
and DC
Transistors can be protected by –
current limiting resistors
Weston cell – voltage reference source
To solve for true power when voltage
is out of phase with current – multiply
apparent power by power factor
CPU, Microprocessor – contain ALU
and Control Unit
GaAs – preferred over silicon and
Gallium in microwave application
Frequency Counter – accurate in 6
Digits or more
Polar Coordinate – used to have a view
of phase angle
Rectangular coordinate – used if you
want to see the reactances and
resistances
Transition time – time it takes to
switch conduction from one transistor
to another
IBM – invented BYTE
Interpreter – one at a time
Compiler – For later used
Assembly Language – high level
programming that can translate
language to machine language by
mnemonics
95Mhz – air core conductor
400 Mhz – Torroidal Inductor
Avalanche – caused by collision of
electrons
Time Constant – time needed tochange
an RL/RC to 63.2%
Multivibrator – not a sine wave
generator.
Percent conductivity of pure annealed
copper – 108.8%
Percent conductivity of 99.9% gold –
72.6%
Percent conductivity of 99.5 pure
aluminum – 63%
Operating System – Contain BIOS
Ampacity – maximum current a wire
can handle
Wheatstone Bridge – determines
unknown resistances Rx w/ fixed
resistor R1 and R2 and calibrated
variable resistor R3
F.T. Bacon - cell in 1959
Frenkel Effect – vacant lattice Site/
missing atom is relocated at the
interstitial position
Vacancy Effect – Vacant lattice site
Resolution – Smallest increment
Reproducibility – degree of closeness
which a given value is measure
Accuracy – closeness of value
measured compared to the repeatedly
measured true value
Class B motor – 130 degrees F
Class F motor – 155 degrees F
Class F motor – 155 degrees F
Maximum reverse voltage in diode –
peak inverse voltage
Duty Cycle – ratio of ON time to the
switch period
Electromagnetic effect – due to less
than 100% coupling
Ramsauer Effect – absorption of slow
moving electron due to intervening
matter
APF –volume/cell volume
Weidman Franz Law - Ratio of thermal
conductivity and electrical
conductivity is proportional to the
absolute temperature
Orthogonal Nulling – garaging the 2
adjustments of an AC bridge together
in such a way that charging one
adjustment change the other in a
special way
Common Drain – Buffer amplifier
Common Gate – High frequency
amplifier
Common Source – voltage amplifier
Personal error – error due to the user
Storage oscilloscope – retain the
display for a longer period of analysis
Electrostatic Precipitation – by
electrostatic charging and precipitation
Polyphased motors – used for heavy
load application
Array of Thermocouple – Thermopile
STACK – temporary data storage that
uses LIFO
Single grid – control Grid
Selsyn – direction of the object
oriented
Work envelope of robot manipulation –
range of axis
Ohmic contact – contact with a metal
Semiconductor RAM – combinational
logic circuit
Schmitt Trigger – circuit with
hysteresis
Ernest Rutherford – 10 to the -4 size of
atoms
Residual Magnetism – magnetizing
force equal to 0
0.74 – face centered atomic packing
factor
Chromium – body centered
Advantage of toroidal over solenoid is
the magnetic flux of toroid is in the
core
Converter transformer – 10kHz to
150kHz
Carrier Frequency Transformer –
20kHz to 20MHz
Cross over network – a pair of filter on
high fidelity system which separate
audio frequency band signal into 2
separate groups where one is to be fed
to the tweeter and the other to the
woofer
Parasitic Oscillation – unwanted
oscillation
Solid grounding – 660V
Resistance grounding – 3.3kV to 11kV
Swinburne’s test – economical and
convenient
Hopkin’s test – (disadvantage) used to
shunt motor
Die casting – not included in IC
manufacturing
Swicth mode power supply – dc-dc
converter
Megger – measure resistance
Universal motor – operates in ac or dc,
speed dependent on frequency,
Prescaler – HF hinahati so that low
frequency show the operating
frequency
Silicon – 2, 8, 4
Cyclotron and magnetic resonator –
invented by Lawrence Livingston
Electron Ballistics – study the collision
of electron and trajectories
-12dB/octave - -40dB/decade
Absorptiometer – measure absorption
Absolute coding – absolute location of
file in a computer
Gratz amplifier – 6 rectifier
Persistor – conducting inductor parallel
with switch
5 – 15% - efficiency of solar cell
Fermi – Level – probability of
occupancy of energy level of an
electron
Windage – is a no load loss but not an
electric core loss in motors
A motor loses 2 -3 hours of useful life
every 1 hour run
Ringing circuit – RLC circuit which
produces unchanged oscillations
Microprogramming – series of 5 bits
that identify control signal
Toroidal frequency – 400MHz
Air-core – 95MHz
Absolute Zero – state where there’s no
moving electrons
Depletion region – Schottky Diode –
no depletion layer and operates on hot
carriers

Tank circuit – anti-resonant circuit

Hall Effect – determines if P or N

substance PNP/NPN device is used to
avoid grounding Vc

LASCR – used for Latcing

Greater harmonic suppression – Pi L

network over pi network

Ringing circuit – undamped circuit

Hand shaking – I/O devices

Negative coefficient of capacitor –

capacitance decreases with increase in
temperature

For added wrist in manipulator –

3degrees of freedom

Selenium – photocell

Solenoid – electrical to mechanical

motion

Nicad – cells can be replaced

Dead space – output remains

unchanged unless voltage goes beyond
the mark/limit

Frequency stability – provide tuned

circuit

Full adder – 2 bits and 1 carry

Half adder – sum and carry