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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






2. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.






3. The act of breaking a particular subject into different parts to achieve clarity of understanding.






4. A device that orbits the Earth and receives messages from one location and transmits them to another.






5. A device capable of detecting (sensing) changes in its environment; light and movement are examples.






6. Stored energy or energy at rest.






7. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.






8. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






9. The height of a wave measured from the top of its peak to the bottom of its trough. It is an indicator of the strength of a wave.






10. A resource that is entered into a system.






11. A popular movement.






12. Trade of products and services on a global scale.






13. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.






14. Any information about the output of a system that is returned to the system for the purpose of determining whether or not the system is functioning as it should.






15. The formal rules that guide the design process.






16. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.






17. The path by which electric current or pulses flow.






18. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






19. The path by which a message travels from the sender to receiver.






20. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.






21. The technology field focused on sending messages and other in formation using different means.






22. The use of computers in each stage of the design process.






23. Current flow in which electrons move in only one direction.






24. A specialized processor that resides directly on the motherboard of a computer. It can be thought as the brain of a computer. It processes the data; also referred to as a microprocessor or a 'computer within the computer.'






25. A group of parts that work together to accomplish a goal. The basic parts of a system are input - process - and output.






26. A language - used to write computer programs - that can easily be translated into machine language.






27. The law that states that if the pressure of a gas increases - the volume decreases (provided that the temperature remains constant).

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28. A production system in which a limited quantity of a part or product is made. After the production run - the machines are retooled or changed over to accommodate the production of a different part or product.






29. The measure of work done over a period of time as energy is converted from one form to another or transferred from one place to another.






30. A device that creates a mechanical advantage. Complex machines are based on 6 simple machines in various combinations.






31. A unit that collects waves and decodes information contained within those waves.






32. The field of knowledge relating to materials as they exists on a molecular or atomic level.






33. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.






34. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






35. The imitation - as closely as possible - of the real- life circumstances in which a solution is intended to be used.






36. The act of putting different things together to form a new product or idea.






37. A production process in which the part or product moves down a line from one station to the next while parts are added.






38. The use of pressurized liquid or gasses to control and transmit power.






39. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.






40. Studying the effects of a given technology to determine its impact.






41. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.






42. Processes and knowledge that can be used to extend human abilities as well as satisfy human needs and wants.






43. The process of turning abstractions of thought into concrete ideas.






44. An activity in which two or more people try to think of as many possible solutions to a problem as they can. Ideas are not evaluated or criticized at this time.






45. Creating things through the process of planning.






46. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them






47. The use of 3D CAD drawings to create real models of a product within a sort of time.






48. The amount of resistance the power system must overcome or - alternatively - the amount of force output by the power system: also can be referred to as weight or pressure.






49. A circuit in which electricity flows along a single path to more than one device.






50. A wave created by electric and magnetic fields;it travels through the air like ripples in a pool of water.