Mechanical Engineering
This branch of mechanics studies objects at rest.
What is statics?
The unit of electric current.
What is an ampere (A)?
The main component that processes data inside a computer.
What is the CPU?
The smallest unit of an element that retains its identity.
What is an atom?
The type of structure that organizes data as “first in, first out.”
What is a queue?
The ratio of output work to input work in a machine.
What is mechanical efficiency?
A device that opposes current flow in a circuit.
What is a resistor?
This binary system uses only two digits: 0 and 1.
What is the CPU?
The state of matter with a definite volume but no fixed shape.
What is a liquid?
The set of instructions a computer follows to perform a task.
What is an algorithm?
This quantity measures how fast an object changes its position.
What is velocity?
This law states that voltage equals current times resistance.
What is Ohm’s Law?
The primary storage device that loses data when power is off.
What is RAM?
This chemical bond is formed when electrons are shared between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
A loop that continues until a condition becomes false.
What is a while loop?
The type of energy stored in a compressed spring.
What is elastic potential energy?
The component that stores energy in a magnetic field.
What is an inductor?
This binary code is used to represent text in computers.
What is ASCII?
“This substance speeds up a chemical reaction without being used up in the process.”
What is a catalyst?
The programming concept where one function calls itself.
What is recursion?
The equation F = ma describes this fundamental law of motion.
What is Newton’s Second Law?
This circuit component stores energy in an electric field.
What is a capacitor?
The process of translating human-readable code into machine code.
What is compilation?
The law stating that matter cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
The method of breaking a complex problem into smaller subproblems to solve it efficiently.
What is divide and conquer?