A list of instructions written in a programming language that is used to control the behavior of a machine.
What is a program?
100
The force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and/or material elements sliding against each other.
What is friction?
100
Describes the situation when output from an event in the past will influence an occurrence or occurrences of the same event in the present or future.
What is feedback?
100
A type of switch that only has to be touched by an object to operate.
What is touch sensor?
200
A sequence of instructions in a computer program which loops endlessly, either due to the loop having no terminating condition, having one that can never be met, or one that causes the loop to start over.
What is an infinite loop?
200
The product of the mass and velocity of an object.
What is momentum?
200
The principle that the shape of a building or object should be primarily based upon its intended function or purpose.
What is form follows function?
200
A type of switch that operates based on a temperature reading.
What is temperature sensor?
300
A term often used to denote the fixed, usually rather small, programs and/or data structures that internally control various electronic devices. Examples of devices containing firmware range from end-user products such as remote controls or calculators.
What is an firmware?
300
The tendency of a force to rotate an object about an axis, fulcrum, or pivot.
What is torque?
300
The strategies of information processing and knowledge ordering, mostly involving software, but also other humanistic and scientific theories.
What is bottom-up design and top-down design?
300
A commonly used technique for controlling power to inertial electrical devices, made practical by modern electronic power switches.