Laws and Theorems Named After Old Dead Guys
Famous Engineers
Tools of the Trades
Engineering Marvels
UNITS UNITS UNITS
100

A fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry that states the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

a2 + b2 = c2

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
100
Entrepreneur, engineer, and inventor who recently launched a Tesla Roadster towards Mars.
Who is Elon Musk?
100
Makes holes or inserts and removes screws.
What is a drill?
100
Name of the only supersonic passenger airliner that was in service from 1979 to 2003.
What is Concorde?
100
Units of Length
What is a meter or foot?
200

The law that states electric current is proportional to voltage and inversely proportional to resistance.

I = V/R

What is Ohm's Law?
200
Renowned civil engineer and architect best known for designing the Statue of Liberty and the tower named after him in the middle of Paris.
Who is (Gustave) Eiffel?
200
Uses soft metal to fuse wires together.
What is a solder?
200
World's tallest building, located in Dubai. (200 pt. bonus: approx. height)

What is the Burj Khalifa?

Height: 2,717 ft (828 m), 2,722 ft (829.8 m) to tip

200
Units of Mass

What is a kilogram or slug? 

(pound mass also accepted)

300

A law that states the force needed to stretch or compress a spring is proportional by a material constant to the displacement of the spring from equilibrium.

F = kX

What is Hooke's Law?
300
Though he died penniless, this electrical engineer's invention of alternating current proved to be far superior to Edison's direct current. 
Who is Nikola Tesla?
300
The Venice tide barrier project designed to protect the city from flooding and prevent it from sinking further.
What is the MOSE Project?
300

Units of Force

What is a Newton or pound force?

400
The principle of conservation of electric charge implies that at any node (junction) in an electrical circuit, the sum of currents flowing into that node is equal to the sum of currents flowing out that node.
What is Kirchhoff's Current Law (aka Nodal Rule)?
400
American inventor, engineer, entrepreneur, and programmer who co-founded Apple.
Who is Steve Wozniak?
400
The world's largest man-made island project located off the coast of the UAE in the Persian Gulf near Dubai.
What are the Palm Islands?
400
Units of Absolute Temperature
What is Kelvin and Rankine?
500

The law that states the magnitude of the electrostatic force of attraction or repulsion between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of the magnitudes of charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

F = ke (q1 q2) / r2

What is Coulomb's Law?
500
American mathematician, computer scientist, and Navy Rear Admiral who invented the first compiler and COBOL, the first complex computer language.
Who is Grace Hopper?
500
The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator developed by CERN, completed in 2008 near Geneva, Switzerland.
What is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)?
500
Units of Pressure
What is Pascal (Pa) or pound force per square inch (psi)?
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