Hydraulic Power
This type of system uses a nearly incompressible liquid to transmit power under pressure.
What is hydraulics?
This type of fluid power system uses a compressible gas instead of a liquid.
What are pneumatics?
This basic component stores hydraulic fluid or compressed air in a system.
What is a reservoir (or receiver tank)?
This law states that gas pressure and volume are inversely related at constant temperature.
What is Boyle’s Law?
This is a named storage location in memory that can hold and change a value.
What is a variable?
These systems transmit force and energy primarily by fluid pressure rather than rapid flow.
What are hydrostatic systems?
Unlike liquids, gases behave like this mechanical device when compressed.
What is a spring?
This quantity determines how fast an actuator moves and is measured in gallons per minute.
What is flow rate?
This law states that gas volume changes proportionally with temperature at constant pressure.
What is Charles’ Law?
This data type stores numbers with decimal points.
What is a float?
This law states that pressure applied to a confined fluid is transmitted equally in all directions.
What is Pascal’s Law?
Standard pneumatic systems typically operate around this pressure value.
What is 100 psi?
This quantity overcomes resistance in a fluid power system but does not create motion by itself.
What is pressure?
This law relates gas pressure and temperature while volume remains constant.
What is Gay-Lussac’s Law?
This type of variable remembers whether an event has ever occurred.
What is a flag?
This term describes the ratio of output force to input force in a hydraulic press.
What is mechanical advantage?
This early pneumatic device was used by blacksmiths to supply air to fires.
What are bellows?
This form of energy is lost when system energy is not transferred into useful work.
What is heat?
This absolute temperature scale is used in gas law calculations and equals °F + 460.
What is Rankine?
This structure repeatedly executes code as long as a condition remains true.
What is a while loop?
As fluid velocity increases, pressure decreases according to this principle.
What is Bernoulli’s Principle?
This pressure includes both atmospheric pressure and gauge pressure.
What is absolute pressure?
In fluid power, one horsepower equals this flow–pressure relationship.
What is 1714 (gpm × psi)?
Standard atmospheric pressure is equal to this value.
What is 14.7 psi?
These blocks of reusable code are declared, defined, and then called.
What are functions?