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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The money a business makes after all expenses have been paid






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






3. Energy in motion.






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






5. A very small solid state panel that contains light sensitive photo- sites or photo- diodes. The CCD uses the photo- sites to convert light into electrical signals transformed into an image.






6. 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.






7. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






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






9. The use of simple machines to multiply the output force of a mechanical system.






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


11. 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.






12. A resource that is entered into a system.






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






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






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






16. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






17. The formal rules that guide the design process.






18. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






19. A group of people working together to accomplish a common goal.






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






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






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






23. Creating things through the process of planning.






24. The passage of electric current through an electrolytic fluid for the purpose of separating molecules.






25. A circuit in which electricity flows along more than one path.






26. The unlawful acquisition of some one's personal information for use without their consent.






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






34. A popular movement.






35. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






36. The effect of a system's processes and/or output on the systems environment. this effect can be either positive - negative - or in some cases both.






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






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






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






40. The use of a computer system to produce technical drawings and/or design a product.






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






42. Someone who starts a business.






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.






49. 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.'






50. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.