From the history of electronics

LESSON 1

Exercise 1

Translate the following words paying attention to suffixes.

Electron, electrical, electrically, electricity, electrify, electronic, electronics; ninth, nineteen, ninetieth, ninety; transmit, transmitted, transmitting, transmission, transmissible, transmitter; organize, organization, organizer, organizing, organizational, organized; improve, improving, improvement, improved; part, party, parted, partition, partly, particular, particularly, particularity; serve, server, servant, served, service, serviceable.

Exercise 2

Translate the following sentences paying attention to tenses.

1.IBM,Siemens and Toshiba have developed a fully-functional 256Mbyte dynamic ram chip. 2. For the manufacturers and developers a faster chip means improved overall system performance. 3. Toshiba and Siemens have been collaborating in various semiconductor areas. 4. Analogue microphones produce an output proportional to incident sound pressure, which is converted to digital form. 5. The robots tend to get confused if they receive signals from more than four other robots at once. 6. Automobile engineers have long been searching for a simple technique to enable continuous monitoring of combustion parameters inside an engine. 7. But what technology your next-generation optical-disk player will use is still being worked out. 8. Microsoft and Intel want to standardize key software and semiconductor hardware for mobile phones, much as they made the Windows operating system and Pentium processors the norm for PCs. 9.Carmakers are spending more on silicon these days, as electronics and software spread throughout motor vehicles. 10.Technology is evolving so rapidly that any standard may prove merely temporary. 11.One application to which energy storage is of great importance is on the International Space Station. 12. Basically, there is no difference between single-chip microcomputers and microcontrollers. 13. Eight-bit microcomputers represent for many applications a sensible compromise in terms of performance and on-chip circuit utilisation. 14. The device does not incorporate analogue interfaces, but does have a flexible and powerful instruction set. 15. Engineers have been shortening the delay for several years, by simply reducing the line’s so-called time constant, which is equivalent to the product of its resistance and capacitance.

Exercise 3

Match the English phrases with their Ukrainian translations.

1. incandescent lamp	1. НВЧ прилад
2. oscillation valve	2. радіопередача
3. wireless transmission	3. твердотільні компоненти
4. proceedings of the IRE	4. лампа розжарення
5. microwave device		5. нотатки ІРЕ
6. travelling-wave tube		6. генераторна лампа
7. solid-state components		7. лампа біжної (прямої) хвилі

Exercise 4

Pay attention to the translation of the following phrases from the text.

1.to trace its own origins back to the 1930s - віднайти власні джерела в 1930х роках;
2. particularly noteworthy among them was...- серед них на особливу увагу заслуговувала...;
3. in response to consumer demands -			як реакція на споживчий попит;
4. the lion’s share -	левина частка;
5. the flood gates burst -		греблю прорвало.