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Communications Services,
Systems, and Utilities
Words and word combinations:
To solve a complex problem – решить сложную проблему
to book a plane reservation – заказать билет на самолет
to send flowers – отправить цветы
to receive mail – получить почту
vast resources – обширные ресурсы
If you have a microcomputer, a modem, a telephone, and data communications software, you can sell a printer, buy new software, play a game with one or more people, solve a complex problem by researching in a database or having a conference with several experts, buy stock, book a plane reservation, send flowers, receive mail- all from your desk, using public communications networks. The introduction of the personal computer dramatically broadened the appeal of these networks to the business user and the general user. These networks provide users with the vast resources of (among other things) databases, teleconferencing services, information services, electronic bulletin boards, electronic mail, electronic stock trading, shopping, and banking.
Exercises:
1. Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases:
A microcomputer; a modem; a telephone; data communications software; sell a printer; buy new software; play a game with one or more people; solve a complex problem by researching in a database or having a conference with several experts; buy stock; book a plane reservation; send flowers; receive mail- all from your desk; using public communications networks.
2. Translate these sentences into your native language:
1. The introduction of the personal computer dramatically broadened the appeal of these networks to the business user and the general user. These networks provide users with the vast resources of (among other things) databases, teleconferencing services, information services, electronic bulletin boards, electronic mail, electronic stock trading, shopping, and banking.
Retell the text.
Introduction
Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye. We see things every day, from the moment we get up in the morning until we go to sleep at night. We look at everything around us using light. Light is all our eyes can really see.
The ways of thinking about light, light waves, light frequencies, the theory of light are examined in the second part of the given textbook.
The work of an electrical network as an interconnection of electrical elements such as resistors, inductors, capacitors, and switches, electrical conduction as the movement of electrically charged particles through a transmission medium, a number of electrical laws applied to all electrical networks are represented in the book.
In this part of the book you will find the texts concerning the problems an electric current as the rate of charge flowing past a given point in an electric circuit, the types of microphones as transducers detecting sound signals and producing an electrical image of the sound, the essence of the voltage as an electric potential energy.
You will be able to introduce with such terms as conduction, solids, metals, semiconductors, superconductors, gases and plasmas.
PART 2
ENERGY
Text 1
Electric Current