Mechanical Engineering
This force is always pulling down on objects
What is gravity?
The 4 states of matter
What are liquid, solid, gas, and plasma?
The ability to do work such as ride your bike, bake cookies and play sports
What is energy?
A push or pull that can change the motion of an object
What is Force?
This structure inside a cell is often called the "powerhouse of the cell"
What is the mitochondria?
This force prevents objects from continuing to move forever when pushed
What is Friction?
This SI unit is used to measure the amount of a substance in a chemical reaction
What is the mole?
The name of what flows through wires in a circuit
What is current?
The process that takes away land by water, ice, wind, or gravity
What is erosion?
This professor at the College of Engineering has several degrees from MIT
Who is Dr. Yaw Yeboah?
A type of energy that is stored and could be used by an object
What is potential energy?
Named for a British engineer, this dimensionless number predicts fluid flow patterns
What is the Reynolds Number?
Materials that don't allow current to flow very easily
What is an insulator?
A pulling force that acts to lengthen an object
What is tension?
The symbols and mascot of FSU and FAMU, respectively
Who are Venom the Rattler, Chief Osceola, and Renegade?
This branch of Mechanical Engineering studies bodies at rest under balanced forces
What is statics?
This property measures the amount of energy that does not do useful work in a system, and always increases in an irreversible process
What is entropy?
The circuit component that stores energy by magnetic field
What is an inductor?
This document, drawn by architects and engineers, shows the detailed plans and specifications of a construction project
What is a blueprint?
These four rock stars led the hysterical fan frenzy often referred to as the "Beatlemania"
Who are Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon?
This simple machine consists of a wheel and a rope to lift loads or change the direction of a force
What is a pulley?
This graphical technique uses operating lines and an equilibrium curve to find the number of theoretical stages in a distillation column
What is the McCabe-Thiele method?
This law states the sum of currents entering a node equals the sum of currents leaving it
What is Kirchhoff's Current Law?
This construction material is made by mixing cement, water, and aggregate
What is concrete?
This album dominated the charts and became the best-selling album of all time to this day
What is Thriller?
This alloy of iron and carbon was the precursor to many later mechanical engineering marvels
What is steel?
These equations describe the conservation of momentum for viscous flow
What are the Navier-Stokes equations?
This mathematical technique converts a time-domain signal into its frequency-domain representation
What is the Fourier transform?
This structural system arranges members in triangular patterns so each carries load purely in axial tension or compression.
What is a truss?
This 1969 mission marked the first time humans walked on the Moon
What is Apollo 11?