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Aircraft maintenance
Principles, fundamentals, and technical procedures for aircraft maintenance, including terms on airframe, powerplant ratings, mathematics, aircraft drawings, weight and balance, aircraft materials, processes and tools, physics, electricity, inspection, ground operations, and FAA regulations governing the certification and work of maintenance technicians.
Industry: Aviation
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conduction
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The transfer of heat which requires physical contact between an object that has a large amount of heat energy and one that has a smaller amount of heat energy.
convection
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid (gas or liquid).
corrosion
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The deterioration of metal by chemical or electrochemical attack.
cosine (cos)
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A trigonometric function comparing two sides of a right triangle as follows: Cos = adjacent side hypotenuse
coulomb
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A measure of electrical output. One coulomb is 6.24 × 10 18 electrons.
