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Engineering and Technology: Flashcards for Units 5-8
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- 1a branch of engineering focused on designing and producing machinery with the intention of developing productsMechanical Engineering
- 2a control system that runs machinery through complete automation, requiring little to no human interventionautomation system
- 3a device fitted closely inside a tube that moves up and down to create motion in a machinepiston
- 4a fictional being with mechanical parts that increase its physical abilities beyond what is normalcyborg
- 5a global system that provides navigation based on positional data for all modes of travelGlobal Positioning System (GPS)
- 6a machine that ignites its fuel inside the engineinternal combustion engine
- 7a machine that ignites its fuel outside of the engineexternal combustion engine
- 8a material that is fatal or harmful when absorbed or digestedtoxic
- 9a mathematical understanding of how two materials relate to each other and the specifics of their reactions to increase knowledgestoichiometry
- 10a measure of a material's resting stateinertia
- 11a microscopic living organism, usually with only one cellmicroorganism
- 12a power source generated through thermal energy and converted into mechanical or electrical energynuclear power
- 13a process that allows material to bypass a process within a systemrecycle
- 14a process that occurs when atoms collide and the nucleus of an atom spontaneously splits on impact and creates energyfission
- 15a rate of vibrationfrequency
- 16a rotary device intended to pull energy from a fluid and use it in a functional processturbine
- 17a system that checks its own process automatically through feedback and makes any needed correctionsclosed loop
- 18a system that checks its own process with some kind of controller, not feedbackopen loop
- 19a system that performs different functions according to a fixed schedulesequential control
- 20a system that runs continuously using a sensor to take measurements and make constant adjustmentscontinuous control
- 21a technology that uses cellular and biomolecular processes to create solutions and new ideasbiotechnology
- 22a three-dimensional image created through laser light beams or another functional light sourcehologram
- 23a tool with several parts that uses energy to functionmachine
- 24an area of science concerned with how physical things react when subjected to outside forces or displacementsmechanics
- 25an on-off control system used at the discretion of the engineerdiscrete control
- 26an unborn or unhatched offspringembryo
- 27any individual animal, plant, or single-celled life formorganism
- 28any solid waste that is defined as flammable, corrosive, reactive, or toxichazardous waste
- 29energy created by moving particlesradiation
- 30excessive self-confidencehubris
- 31microscopic organisms that constitute a large part of prokaryotic cellsbacteria
- 32something made by combining two different elementshybrid
- 33special cells that transmit nerve impulsesneurons
- 34the central core of a cell, which stores dnanucleus
- 35the chemical breakdown of a substance through bacteriafermentation
- 36the chemical processes that occur within a living organism to maintain lifemetabolism
- 37the different parts and functions of a cellorganelles
- 38the discipline that deals with how to maintain the output of a specific process within a desired rangeprocess control
- 39the discipline that transforms and transports different materials, all beginning with development in the laboratoryChemical Engineering
- 40the field concerned with understanding how matter and energy behave in the universequantum physics
- 41the internal energy in a systemthermal energy
- 42the measure of disorder and randomness in a systementropy
- 43the natural science of studying matter and how it moves through space and timephysics
- 44the package that contains the molecules needed for reproductionchromosomes
- 45the size and extent of somethingmagnitude
- 46the speed of vaporization in a substancevolatility
- 47the study of celestial objects, such as the stars and planetsastronomy
- 48the study of living organismsbiology
- 49the study of materials used in any medical devicesbiomaterials
- 50the tiniest structure and functional unit of any organismcell
- 51the understanding of how weight affects physical structures and their componentsstructural analysis
- 52the unwanted material generated by humans and nature, such as trash, dead animals, abandoned objects, or general debrismunicipal solid waste
- 53the unwanted material resulting from any kind of industry, manufacturing, mining, or agricultural projectindustrial waste
- 54the use of engineering strategies to identify how all living organisms function within their environmentsystems physiology
- 55the use of technology-based knowledge for the betterment of health care in generalClinical Engineering
- 56unwanted material similar to hazardous waste but consisting of common materialsuniversal waste
- 57when no heat is passed between two physical systems even though there is a permeable barrierthermal equilibrium
- 58the study of the nature of knowledgephilosophy
- 59a movement from the 18th century marked by the rejection of traditional ideas and centered on reasonage of enlightenment
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