Thermo
This law states that as the temperature approaches 0 K, the entropy of the system approaches a minimum value
What is the third law of thermodynamics
Conservation of mechanical energy in fluid flow (ignoring all frictional losses!)
What is Bernoulli's Equation
What PID control stands for
What is proportional, integral, derivative
The limit as h approaches zero of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / h
What is a derivative
Breakfast food (Barium Cobalt Nitrogen)
What is bacon
The efficiency of a refrigerator or heat pump, defined as Q_L / W
What is the coefficient of performance (COP)
The key equation governing conservation of momentum for an incompressible, isotropic fluid with constant viscosity
What is Navier-Stokes
This parameter is the time it takes for a first order system to reach 63% of the change in output
What is the time constant
In differential calculus, this famous rule uses derivatives to evaluate limits involving indeterminate forms
What is L’Hospital’s rule
Invented by Alfred Nobel (Dysprosium Nitrogen Americium Iodine Tellurium)
What is dynamite
This chemical quantity will increase if a reaction involves melting a solid or evaporating a liquid
What is entropy
The mass property of a rigid body that determines the torque needed for a desired angular acceleration about an axis of rotation
What is moment of inertia
This type of function in the Laplace domain relates the output to the input
What is a transfer function
A way of converting surface integrals to volume integrals
A treat between meals (Tin Actinium Potassium)
What is snack
This chart contains the dry bulb temperature, the humidity ratio, the wet bulb temperature, relative humidity, saturation temperature, and the enthalpy of dry air
What is a psychrometric chart
In fluid dynamics, the equation that states that the rate at which mass enters a system is equal to the rate at which mass leaves the system plus the accumulation of mass within the system
What is the continuity equation
The characteristic of a second-order process that determines the general shape of the dynamic response
What is the damping factor
This famous identity states that e^(iπ+1) = 0
What is Euler’s Identity
A utensil (Potassium Nickel Iron)
What is knife
A property of a real gas which if substituted for the pressure or partial pressure in the equations for an ideal gas gives equations applicable to the real gas
What is fugacity
A means of diffusion that occurs when the length scale of a system is comparable to or smaller than the mean free path of the particles involved
What is Knudsen diffusion
Mathematical technique that transforms a function of time to a function of frequency
What is a Fourier transform
Strategy for finding the local maxima and minima of a function subject to equality constraints
What is a Lagrange multiplier
Part of the eye (Rhenium Titanium Sodium)
What is retina