Glossário tesla

GLOSSARY
A guide to some technical terms you'll encounter while reading about the genius of Nikola Tesla.
01 - absorption – absorção, dedicação, consumo.
Absorption of a single photon could produce two or even three excited electrons.
02 - aether, luminiferous (Also known as the ether) – éter luminoso.
This property of space experimentally characterizes the luminiferous aether.
03 - alternating current (AC) – corrente alternada.
A legendary engineer credited with inventing much of the 20th-century technology including alternating current.
04 - alternator – alternador.
You think it could be the alternator but you suspect that your car's battery has given up the ghost.
05 - amplitude modulation (AM) – modulação de amplitude.
Amplitude modulation requires a high frequency constant carrier and a low frequency modulation signal.
06 – anode – ânodo.
Lithium batteries are primary batteries that have lithium metal or lithium compounds as an anode.
07 – antenna – antenna.
Just a radio antenna to reach the world.
08 - audio transducer – transdutor de audio.
Apart from the impossibility of trying to define the subjective term "good sound," there is no such thing as a "perfectly accurate" audio transducer.
09 - ballast – lastro, lastrear.
Isolated islands of ice, their ballast glowing emerald green under the water, pushing loudly into the subdued scatter of pack ice.
10 - base band – banda de base.
In contrast, baseband transmission used in most computer networks allows only one signal at a time.
11 - capacitor/condenser – condensador.
The simplest kind of capacitor has two parallel conductive plates separated.
12 - cart – transporter.
Qantas immediately checked oxygen supplies on more than 50 of its planes that had been serviced by a wrongly labelled nitrogen cart at.
13 - cathode – catódio, cátodo.
Think liquid crystal display, which first showed up in calculators and watches, and is now replacing cathode ray tubes.
14 – coherer - coesor: