Advanced   Some of the articles may contains words that those outside of the engineering world might not be too familiar with. Here are the words that are used throughout this issue. 171 . Reverberations Echoes, reflection, or repulsion, as these relate to sound (Merriam-Webster). Found in Built for Sound: Architectural Acoustics . View Article 172 . Reverse osmosis Pushing a solution through a filter that traps the solute on one side and the pure solvent on the other. Found in Engineering Water: Finding Solutions to a Drying Well . View Article 173 . Rods Light sensitive nerves in the retina able to detect low levels of light but unable to detect variances in color. Found in Shedding Light on Blindness . View Article 174 . Satyr effect When males are made to aggressively mate with every female encountered. Found in A Genetic Solution to Malaria: More Harm Than Good? . View Article 175 . Scuba (Self Contained Underwater Apparatus) A device utilizing a portable supply of compressed air supplied at regulated pressure and used for breathing while swimming underwater. Found in The Pivot Advantage . View Article 176 . Sidecut The sidecut is the curve that runs from the tip to the tail of the ski. It defines the ski’s width with the narrowest point located under the skier’s boot. Sidecut determines how a ski turns, because when a ski is put on edge, it follows the radius of t. Found in Engineering a Smooth Ride: Creating the Perfect Ski Through Shaping and Vibration Damping . View Article 177 . Signal An impulse or a fluctuating electric quantity, such as voltage, current, or electric field strength, whose variations represent coded information. Found in Engineering Rock and Roll: A Casual Introduction to Signal Processing . View Article 178 . Sinusoidal wave The graph of the equation y = sin x. Also called sinusoid. Found in Engineering Rock and Roll: A Casual Introduction to Signal Processing . View Article 179 . Smokeless powder A propellant or explosive that consists mainly of nitrocellulose and makes little or no smoke when it is fired. Found in Ballistics of Modern Firearms . View Article 180 . Solar arrays Groups of solar panels that convert energy from the sun into DC power. Found in Ion Propulsion: Exploring Space in the 21st Century . View Article   Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next

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