Civil Engineering
This material is the most widely used in construction worldwide
What is concrete?
This is the flow of electric charge
What is current?
This the force that resists motion between surfaces
What is friction?
This part of the computer is known as the brain?
What is the CPU?
This device helps regulate heart rhythm
What is a peacemaker?
This type of structure is built to carry loads across a gap
What is a bridge?
You shuffle across the carpet in socks, touch your friend, and suddenly become an unpaid electrician. What just happened?
What is static electricity?
This everyday invention lets you carry half your life around campus without actually carrying it in your hands.
What are backpack straps?
This system uses only 0s and 1s
What is binary?
The biomedical signal represents the electrical activity of the heart over time
What is an ECG (electrocardiogram)?
This type if stress occurs when a material is being pulled apart
What is tensile stress?
This law states that the sum of voltages around any closed loop in a circuit equal 0
What is Kirchoff's Voltage Law (KVL)?
This law states energy cannot be creates or destroyed
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
This algorithm finds the shortest path from a single source node to all other nodes in a graph with non-negative edge weights.
What is Dijkstra's algorithm?
This element is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature and was once commonly used in thermometers.
What is mercury (Hg)?
This soil property describes how easily water flows through it
What is permeability?
This theorem allows you to simplify a complex circuit into a single voltage source and series resistance
This GD&T symbol is used to control how flat a surface must be, without referencing a datum
What is flatness?
What does ROM and RAM stand for?
"Read Only Memory" and "Random Access Memory."
This nurse, known as the "Angel of the Battlefield", went to establish the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?