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111Diode — Figure 1: Closeup of a diode, showing the square shaped semiconductor crystal (black object on left) …
112Sound card — A Sound Blaster Live! Value card, a typical (circa 2000) PCI sound card. Connects to Motherboard via one of: PCI ISA USB IEEE 139 …
113Quartz crystal microbalance — A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measures a mass per unit area by measuring the change in frequency of a quartz crystal resonator. The resonance is disturbed by the addition or removal of a small mass due to oxide growth/decay or film… …
114How television works — Analog televisionUntil the advent of digital television and flat panel displays in the 1990s, all television was based on the transmission and reception of analog signals, displayed on a cathode ray tube. Although a number of different broadcast… …
115Conventional PCI — PCI Local Bus Three 5 volt 32 bit PCI expansion slots on a motherboard (PC bracket on left side) …
116Manchester Hydraulic Power — An original steam powered hydraulic pump, converted to electrical operation, on display at the Museum of Science and Industry Manchester s Hydraulic Power system was a public hydraulic power network supplying energy across the city of Manchester… …
117Ship gun fire-control system — Mk 37 Director c1944 with Mk 12 (rectangular antenna) and Mk 22 orange peel Ship gun fire control systems (GFCS) enable remote and automatic targeting of guns against ships, aircraft, and shore targets, with or without the aid of radar or optical …
118Multifaceted reflector — Left to right: MR16 with GU10 base and with GX5.3 base, MR11 with GU4 or GZ4 base MR16 and MR11 (sometimes referred to as MR 16 or MR 11, rarely MR8 or MR 8) are standard formats for halogen multifaceted reflector light bulbs made by a variety of …
119Varistor — A 385 volt metal oxide varistor A varistor is an electronic component with a diode like nonlinear current–voltage characteristic. The name is a portmanteau of variable resistor. Varistors are often used to protect circuits against excessive… …
120Sampling (signal processing) — Signal sampling representation. The continuous signal is represented with a green color whereas the discrete samples are in blue. In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous signal to a discrete signal. A common example is the …
