TSA Tech Bowl Technology 4, TSA Technology Bowl

Construction, manufacturing, and biotechnology are examples of this because they are ways of creating goods or products to meet the needs and wants of society

Production Technologies

The first permanent photographic image created by Joseph Niepce was a:

Heliograph

This is where transmitted TV signals are sent through a cable and are not radiated into the atmosphere

Closed Circuit TV

The probability that a component part, equipment, or system will satisfactorily perform its intended function under given circumstances, such as environmental conditions, limitations as to operating time, and frequency and thoroughness of maintenance for a specified period of time

Reliability

Middle value of a set of values arranged in order of magnitude.

Median

common return path for electric current, another name for the negative connection point

Ground

where you plug wires into on the arduino

Pins

The negative pole on a electronic component

Cathode

A system that requires energy to do it's work.

Load

The objects stick together and travel in the same direction. Greatest kinetic energy is lost. Momentum is conserved.

Perfectly Inelastic Collision

The shift in frequency and wavelength that occurs when the source and detector are in relative motion.

Doppler Effect

The thing that creates current.

Voltage

a spinning force. Torque is described by the magnitude of the force multiplied by the distance it is from the center of rotation (Force x Distance = Torque). Torque is measured in units of force*distance, such as Inch-Pounds of Newton-Meters.

Torque

Sensitivity to light

The ASA number for camera film is the film's:

example: structure, density, size, shape, texture, and color

physical properties

Diode

Which of the following is a two terminal device which permits current to flow in only one direction?

United States

What country produces more nuclear-generated electricity than any other country (which accounts for nearly 1/3 of the world's total)?

Alexander Lippisch

This German aerospace engineer developed the design for delta wing aircraft.

Youtube.com

What domain name was registered on February 14, 2005?

South

In building a home to take advantage of passive solar energy, which direction should the majority of the home's windows be facing?

This item is the printed or filmed output of information in humanly readable form

Hard Copy

Any heavy material carried on a ship to provide the desired draft and stability for the ship is the:

Ballast

This type of engine is a heat engine designed to burn the fuel inside the engine

Internal Combustion Engine

The path for carrying signals between a source and destination is a

Channel

This is the current economic system used in the US

Monetary

Stages a product goes through from concept and use to eventual withdrawal from the market place.

Product Development Lifecycle

A resource that can be replaced when needed.

Renewable Energy

The production of electricity in conductors with the use of magnets

Electromagnetic Induction

The energy that a piece of matter has because of its position or nature or because of the arrangement of parts

Potential Energy

Changes one form of power to another

Power Converter

The rate at which work is performed or energy is expended

Power

A circuit in which all parts are connected end to end to provide a single path of current

Series Circuit

A group of machined or handmade parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit.

Assembly

Test methods used to examine an object, material, or system causing permanent damage to its usefulness

Destructive Testing

Amount of difference between a value and the mean.

Deviation

Measure of variation equal to the sum of the deviations of each value from the mean.

Mean Deviation

Values that possess names or labels.

Qualitative Data

Information about the output of a system that can be used to make adjustments.

Feedback

An age of technology where math, science, and art developed at a fast pace. Most basic scientific tools like microscopes or thermometers were develop during this time.

Renaissance

The period of time after the Industrial Revolution. Many people moved to cities. Machines powered the tools used in the fields and factories.

Industrial Age

used to establish connections between the central micro controller and other devices such as buttons and sensors.

Jumper Wire

A doctor who focuses on one system of the body

Medical Specialist

building and remodeling of manufacturing facilities, power plants, and related structures.

industrial construction

Narration which is added after filming and is not in sync with the action.

Voiceover

Giving credit to the authors of source information and formatted using one of the many sets of rules.

Citation

travelling in a circular or nearly circular path around another object

Orbiting

heat, is the vibration and movement of the atoms and molecules within substances

Thermal energy

A machine that uses the wind's energy to create electricity.

wind turbine

A quantity that involves both magnitude and direction.

Vector

A net distance traveled including direction; An objects change in position.

Displacement

Predicts what will happen when an unbalanced force does act on an object: the object's velocity will change / the object will accelerate.

Newton's Second Law

A type of friction that occurs when there is no relative motion between the object and the surface (no sliding).

Static Friction

The product of force and the time during which it acts.

Impulse

Another way of writing Newton's Second Law. (Written J = change in momentum)

Impulse-Momentum Theorem

Consists of a weight of mass attached to a string or a mass-less rod that swings, without friction, about the vertical equilibrium position.

Simple Pendulum

The loudness of sound.

Decibels (dB)

When two waves interfere constructively, producing an increase in sound level.

Beat

The presence of charge creates an ___________ ___________ in the space that surrounds it.

Electric Field

Limitation put on design

Constriant

Also, known as velocity, it is a measure of how fast an object is moving. Change in distance over time. v=d/t

Speed

a servomechanism that supplies and transmits a measured amount of energy for the operation of another mechanism or system, like a gripper or launcher

Actuator

Voltage

What is the measure of potential difference in electricity?

Horseless Carriage

Originally, many people thought of the car as a:

Consumers

____________ are people who buy and use products.

Megaflops

Vector processing is measured in:

Degrees

The number of _________ of freedom for a robot is given by the number of directions of movement.

Thumbnail sketch

A _____ is a simple, rapidly drawn design of initial ideas.

Clip art

Reprinted artwork that is to be cut and pasted-up to complete a mechanical is:

Sill

What is the lining of a door or window called?

Notes

__________ are used to supplement graphic information, dimensions, and to eliminate the necessity of repetitive dimensions.

SLURRY

___________ is a rough solution used to help move cargo in a pipeline.

Overhead costs

_________ include buildings, utilities, office supplies, taxes, and advertising.

Pascal

Which inventor created the first practical calculating machine in 1642?

ohm

What is the unit of electrical resistance?

20"

Studs in residential construction are typically placed 16" OR ______" apart

states that opposites attract and likes repel

Law of Magnetism

unit of energy

joule

path followed by a planet

orbit

ways heat is transferred to the atmosphere

convection, radiation, conduction

rate at which an electrical charge moves

ampere

when two planes intersect

line

flaring out of light as it emerges from a narrow slit

diffraction

Scarlet

What official TSA color represents "the strength and determination of the technology education students and teachers to obtain their goal?

Fillet

What is a rounded part on an object that makes smooth transition from one surface to another?

110V

What is the typical alternating current voltage from a wall receptacle in the United States and Canada?

Chief Executive Officer

In business jargon, what does CEO stand for?

6

How many officers serve on an officer team?

Accelerator

A substance which speeds up the curing of a compound when added in quantity is a(n):

Topographic

What type of map shows geographic regions by means of contour lines and symbols?

Erosion

The wearing away of the land from the actions of wind, water, glaciers, and from the pull of gravity is called:

Net profit

The total profit made by a business is its:

Strip Mining

This type of mining operation is done when the coal is relatively near the surface of the earth (no deeper than 120 feet).

The pressure below the wings is greater than the pressure above the wings

An airplane has lift because:

China's Three Gorges Dam

The most powerful hydroelectric project in the world is:

General Electric

The first commercial fluorescent lamp was introduced by which company?

3D Printing

What is the process for making a physical object from a three-dimensional digital model, typically by laying down many successive thin layers of a material?

REM, or Roentgen Equivalent Man

Human exposure to radiation is measured in a unit called _____.

Second

Every _____, 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body.

Financial

If a general contractor accepts a stipulated-sum contract with an owner, he has agreed to what type of constraint?

Rachel Carson

Who is given credit for bringing environmental issues to the attention of the American public?