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How many protons are in the nucleus of a Carbon atom?

6

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This English Mathematician is often called "the father of computer science"?

Alan Turing

100

(Aerospace Engineering): these four forces act on a plane in flight

Lift, Drag, Weight, Thrust  

100

This theorem, considered the most important in calculus, establishes the relationship between differentiation and integration by stating that they are inverse operations

Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

100

What is the chemical Formula for table salt? 

NaCl 

200

What Bond is responsible for the high boiling point of water? 

The Hydrogen Bond

200

What 1972 arcade game that is based on the sport seen in the movie Marty Supreme is considered the first ever videogame? 

Pong

200

(Materials Engineering): This crystal defect, involving a misalignment of atomic planes, is the primary mechanism by which metals plastically deform.  

A Dislocation 

200

his type of differential equation contains only one independent variable and its derivatives.

ordinary differential equation (ODE)

200

This rule allows the differentiation of a composite function by multiplying the derivative of the outer function by the derivative of the inner function

The Chain Rule

300

What is the SI unit for electrical resistance? 

The Ohm 

300

This Operating System released in 1984 was the first to have a graphical user interface.  

Mac OS 

300

(Biomedical Engineering): This imaging technique uses magnetic fields and radio waves rather than radiation to produce detailed images of soft tissue.

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

300

This theorem, established the famous relationship between e, i, pi, one, and zero in a single elegant equation

Euler's identity

300

This Manhattan Project scientist, known as the father of the atomic bomb, later opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb and had his security clearance revoked during the McCarthy era

J. Robert Oppenheimer

400

What does the C in E = MC^2 stand for? 

The speed of light

400

This early 2000s platform introduced the concept of user profiles, and friends lists years before Facebook did it. 

What is Friendster 

400

(Electrical Engineering): This three terminal semiconductor device, invented at Bell Labs in 1947, amplifies or switches electronic signals and is the foundation of all modern electronics.  

The Transistor

400

This method finds the extreme values of a function subject to a constraint by introducing an auxiliary variable multiplied by the constraint equation.

Lagrange multipliers

400

This heat transfer mechanism occurs when energy is transferred through direct contact between molecules without bulk movement of matter.

Conduction

500

In Thermodynamics, this law states that the entropy of the universe always increases in a spontaneous process. 

The 2nd law of thermodynamics

500

this material replaced germanium as the preferred semiconductor material during the 1950's 

what is Silicon

500

(Engineering History): This engineer, working during the Industrial Revolution, designed the first practical steam engine with a separate condenser, dramatically improving its efficiency. 

James Watt 

500

This NASA mathematician manually calculated the orbital trajectories for John Glenn's and Apollo 11's missions with extraordinary precision and was portrayed in the 2016 film Hidden Figures.

Katherine Johnson

500

This phenomenon in fluid dynamics causes lift on an airfoil by creating a pressure difference between upper and lower surfaces due to differences in fluid velocity.

The Bernoulli effect?

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