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31Positive feedback — Alarm or panic can spread by positive feedback among a herd of animals to cause a stampede. Positive feedback is energy taken from the output of a system and reapplied to the input, which is phase congruent with the input signal. A system… …
32Pulse-Doppler radar — Pulse Doppler is a radar system capable of not only detecting target location (bearing, range, and altitude), but also measuring its radial velocity (range rate). It uses the Doppler effect to determine the relative velocity of objects; pulses of …
33LORAN — (LOng Range Aid to Navigation) is a terrestrial radio navigation system using low frequency radio transmitters that uses multiple transmitters (multilateration) to determine location and/or speed of the receiver. The current version of LORAN in… …
34Guitar amplifier — Mesa Boogie Mark IV, a guitar combo amplifier A guitar amplifier (or guitar amp) is an electronic amplifier designed to make the signal of an electric or acoustic guitar louder so that it will produce sound through a loudspeaker. Most guitar… …
35Transit (satellite) — Transit 2A with GRAB 1 atop during launch preparations The TRANSIT system, also known as NAVSAT (for Navy Navigation Satellite System), was the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally. The system was primarily used by the U.S.… …
36Femtocell — In telecommunications, a femtocell mdash;originally known as an Access Point Base Station mdash;is a small cellular base station, typically designed for use in residential or small business environments. It connects to the service provider’s… …
37Flip-flop (electronics) — An SR latch, constructed from a pair of cross coupled NOR gates. Red and black mean logical 1 and 0 , respectively. In electronics, a flip flop or latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information. The… …
38Radio receiver design — is a complex topic which can be broken down into a series of smaller topics. A radio communication system requires two tuned circuits each at the transmitter and receiver, all four tuned to the same frequency. [Cheney, M., Uth, R., Glenn, J.… …
39Global Positioning System — GPS redirects here. For other uses, see GPS (disambiguation). Geodesy Fundamentals …
40Transformer — This article is about the electrical device. For the toy line franchise, see Transformers. For other uses, see Transformer (disambiguation). Pole mounted distribution transformer with center tapped secondary winding. This type of transformer is… …
