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                             frequency, natural, 290
                                                                                 in, 169
                                                       locomotion system and, 148
                             friction, 31–32, 40, 41, 45, 290
                                                                               FCC guidelines on, 139
                                                       power supply and, 147–148
                             friction blocks, 55       documentation of, 12–13  energy and power supplies
                             full test, 145           high pass filters in, 210, 210  generation of, 138–141
                                                      Huffman compression, 266  grounding vs., 140
                                                      human brain vs. computer   intersymbol interference (ISI)
                             G                         power, 21                 in, 230–231, 230, 231, 262
                             gain changes, 56, 56     humidity, 135            isolating noisy circuitry
                             galvanic corrosion, 285–286  hunting, 53–56, 55     and, 141
                             game units, 83           hysteresis, in control systems,  linear power supplies and, 141
                             Gantt bar chart, 9, 10    55–56, 56               low frequency and, 139
                             Gauss, 62, 63                                     motors and, 141
                             general packet radio service                      package openings and, 142
                               (GPRS), 270            I                        power cord filters vs., 143
                             general purpose processors,  improving the design, 143  power supply filtering vs., 140
                               88–89                  inductors, anti-aliasing filters  pretested components vs., 141
                             general purpose (GP) registers,  and, 205         rise time of signals and, 140
                               98–99                  industry standard architecture  shielding vs., 141–143
                             General Theory of Relativity,  (ISA) bus, 104    Inter-IC (I2C) bus, 105
                               69–71                  infinite impulse response (IIR)  interleaver/deinterleaver,
                             global positioning system   filters in, 217–219, 218  250, 252
                               (GPS), 82              information signal, 233  internal resistance, in
                             global system for mobile  infrared data association (IRDA)  batteries, 166
                               communication (GSM), 270  wireless, 270        Internet, 82
                             governor, 60, 60         infrared wireless networks,  Internet protocol (IP), 82
                             gravitational lens, 70–71, 71  25–26, 107, 270   intersymbol interference (ISI),
                             gravity, 69–71, 69, 70   input/output (I/O), 103–108  230–231, 230, 231, 262
                             grounding, interference vs., 140  bandwidth and, 103  inverse Laplace transforms,
                             gyroscopic torque         buses for, 103–104       control systems, 37–39
                              display systems and, 112  direct memory access (DMA)  IP checksums, 243
                              hard disk drives and, 109–110  and, 104, 118    iteration of computations in
                                                       local area networks (LAN) and,
                                                                                control systems design, 61–62
                                                        105–108
                             H                         memory bus in, 104
                             hackers, 267–269          video bus in, 104–106  J–L
                             Hamming window for FIR filter  Institute of Electrical and  jamming communications, 228
                               in, 214, 214            Electronics Engineers (IEEE),  jewelry, safety concerns of, 130
                             Hanning window for FIR filter  reliability parameters
                               in, 213, 213, 230       definition, 124        kinetic energy (moving
                             hard disk drives, 109–111, 175  instruction set, 99–100  mass), 31
                             headroom, in control systems,  intelligence in robots, 20–22,
                               50–51                   79–81, 80, 81          Laing, Ronald David, 22
                             hearing and safety, 131  intelligent batteries, 149  Lamarr, Hedy, 263, 263
                             heat transfer, 290–291   interference and emissions,  Laing, R.D., 22, 222
                             heatsinks, 165, 290–291   138–143                Laplace transforms, in control
                             high level design (HDL),  connectors and cabling and,  systems, 37–39
                               147–151                  142–143               laser safety, 132
                              automation and, 148–151  electrostatic and      layered model for network
                              computer hardware and, 113,  electromagnetic fields in,  communications, 224–228
                                148–151                 138–139               leadership, 13–14, 160
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