Chemical Reactions
The minimum energy required to start a chemical reaction.
What is activation energy?
This principle states that the total mechanical energy of a fluid remains constant.
What is Bernoulli’s principle?
This dimensionless number represents the ratio of buoyancy to thermal diffusion in a fluid.
What is the Rayleigh number?
The 1980s sitcom set in a bar where “everybody knows your name” featured this cast of quirky characters.
What is Cheers?
This 20th-century novel by George Orwell presents a dystopian future under the rule of Big Brother.
What is "1984"?
This common battery type involves redox reactions between zinc and manganese dioxide.
What is an alkaline battery?
This equation describes the motion of viscous fluid substances.
What is the Navier-Stokes equation?
The efficiency of a heat exchanger can be calculated using this effectiveness factor.
What is the effectiveness-NTU method?
This show, created by Genndy Tartakovsky, features a time-traveling samurai fighting evil forces to return to his own time.
What is Samurai Jack?
This character from "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in the racially charged South.
Who is Atticus Finch?
This principle states that at equilibrium, the mechanism of the forward reaction is the exact reverse of the mechanism of the backward reaction.
What is the principle of microscopic reversibility in chemical kinetics?
The effect of fluid speed increasing and pressure decreasing is known as this effect.
What is the Venturi effect?
This type of heat exchanger uses baffles to direct flow and enhance heat transfer.
What is a shell-and-tube heat exchanger?
This actor starred as Dr. Gregory House in the medical drama "House," known for his unconventional methods and sharp wit.
Who is Hugh Laurie?
This literary technique involves an extended metaphor where a story or narrative represents a larger concept or moral.
What is an allegory?
This equation is a model used to describe the temperature dependence of reaction rates using transition state theory.
What is the Eyring equation?
This type of instability occurs in rotating fluids and is critical in understanding phenomena like tornadoes.
What is the Taylor-Couette instability?
This thermal analysis technique uses temperature measurements to evaluate heat distribution within an object.
What is thermography?
In "Game of Thrones," this dramatic event in Season 3 led to the shocking deaths of several major characters at a wedding.
What is the Red Wedding?
This term describes a recurring element, such as a symbol, theme, or motif, that has a significant meaning in a literary work.
What is an archetype?
This Postulate states that the transition state of a reaction resembles the structure of the nearest stable species.
What is the Hammond Postulate?
This effect refers to the force experienced by a rotating object moving through a fluid, causing it to deflect perpendicular to the direction of motion.
What is the Magnus effect?
This technique uses the concept of thermal diffusivity to describe how quickly a material responds to temperature changes.
What is the lumped system analysis?
This character from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is known for her role as the Slayer and her fight against supernatural forces.
Who is Buffy Summers?
This literary work by Virginia Woolf is notable for its stream-of-consciousness narrative technique and centers around the character of Mrs. Dalloway.
What is "Mrs. Dalloway"?