Terms You Pretend to Know
This acronym refers to systems like Salesforce uses to manage interactions with customers and track sales activity.
What is CRM (Customer Relationship Management)?
When speed doubles, airflow changes by this factor.
What is 2 (it doubles)?
This famous singer's name is eerily similar to a new team member.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This is the number of watts in one horsepower.
What is 746 watts?
Unlike modern models, many antique snowmobiles relied on this simple cooling method.
What is air cooling?
This principle suggests that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes.
What is the Pareto Principle?
The acronym CAPS stands for this computer system.
What is Computer Animation Production System?
This team member shares a name with a horror icon.
Who is Jason Haskins?
This is the number of pounds in one kilogram (to one decimal place).
What is 2.2 pounds?
This military slang refers to an unspecified time in the early morning hours before sunrise.
What is zero dark thirty?
This term describes the short-term behavior of a system as it transitions from one steady state to another?
What is transient?
This dimensionless number describes the transition from laminar to turbulent flow.
What is Reynold's Number?
This team member's name has been made famous through commercial.
What is Skylar Gage?
Using modern historical notation, this is how 200 BC would be written today.
What is BCE?
This activity requires monitoring of partial gas pressures to avoid risks like nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness.
What is scuba diving?
This term refers to a misrepresented or oversimplified argument that is easier to attack, not one intended to stand on its own.
What is a straw man?
This metric defines a fans power consumption relative to a typical fan's power consumption but is otherwise meaningless.
What is Fan Energy Index?
These team members don't look alike, but when you call, they all might respond.
Who are Brian Mleziva, Brian Southworth, and Bryan Magnuson?
This is the approximate pressure in mm Hg of 2 in of water column.
What is 3.7 mm Hg?
In this sport, pitch control is often considered the strongest predictor of winning.
What is soccer?
This vague business term is often used to describe a benefit, even when the benefit itself is not clearly defined.
What is value add?
An increase in sound by 10 dB results changes perceived sound by this amount.
What is double?
Who is Tyson Sargent?
This is the pressure in psi equivalent to 1 atmosphere (to one decimal place).
What is 14.7 psi?
This bread relies on a symbiotic culture of wild yeast and lactobacillus, where fermentation, not leavening, drives carbon dioxide production and flavor development.
What is sourdough bread?