Jeopardy Science
Physics
Dimensionless Groups
Heat Transfer
Process Control
U.S. Geography Extremes
100
Organic chemistry focuses specifically on this element’s compounds & their reactions.
What is carbon?
100
This famous equation is known as the mass-energy equivalence.
What is E = mc2?
100
This dimensionless number is used as the criterion for determining whether pipe flow is laminar or turbulent.
What is the Reynolds (Re) number?
100
This is equal to:
What is the Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient (U)?
100
This parameter represents the time for a first order process to reach 63% of the change in output in response to a step change in input.
What is the time constant?
100
This is the deepest freshwater lake in the United States.
What is Crater Lake?
200
The first object in our solar system discovered by telescope was not a planet, but one of these.
What is a moon?
200
This Nobel Prize winning Austrian physicist, who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, may be best remembered for his thought experiment of a cat.
Who is Erwin Schrödinger?
200
This dimensionless number is used to determine the relative thickness of thermal and momentum boundary layers.
What is the Prandtl (Pr) number?
200
In this heat transfer equipment, a fluid in a tube bank is heated by a hotter fluid that make multiple passes across the tube bank.
What is a shell and tube heat exchanger?
200
The Laplace transform of the function e-at?
What is 1/(s+a)?
200
This is the tallest waterfall in the United States.
What is Yosemite Falls?
300
His “Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically” received so much “resistance,” he resigned his post at Cologne.
Who was Georg Ohm?
300
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize for his “services to theoretical physics,” in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory.
Who is Albert Einstein?
300
This dimensionless number is the ratio of convective to conductive heat transfer.
What is the Nusselt (Nu) number?
300
This type of heat transfer occurs without any contact between the surfaces.
What is radiation?
300
The name of the function that is the ratio of the output to the input in the Laplace domain.
What is a transfer function?
300
The northern most point in the contiguous 48 states is located in this state.
What is Minnesota?
400
The word for this disease comes from the same Latin root as “rage.”
What is rabies?
400
Although Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize in his will in 1833, during his life he was best known for this groundbreaking invention.
What is dynamite?
400
This dimensionless number represents the ratio of fluid velocity to the velocity of sound in that medium.
What is the Mach (Ma) number?
400
This type of heat transfer happens due to density variations of the fluid.
What is natural convection? or What is free convection?
400
This device receives signals from the controller and makes changes to one of the inputs to the process.
What is an actuator?
400
The highest point in the contiguous 48 states is located at the summit of this mountain.
What is Mt. Whitney?
500
It’s the square root of a gross.
What is 12?
500
“Laser” is an acronym for this.
What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?
500
This dimensionless number is the ratio between inertial and gravitational forces, and is used to determine the resistance of an object moving through a fluid.
What is the Froude (Fr) number?
500
This number is the ratio of heat transfer resistances inside the body to the resistances at the surface.
What is the Biot number?
500
These are the roots of the polynomial in the denominator of the closed-loop transfer function.
What are the poles?
500
This was the most widely visited National Park in 2014 with over 10 million visitors.
What is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?