Electrical
The unit of electrical power?
What is a Watt?
Physical measurement that is technically defined as force divided by the area over which that force is being applied. Queen and David Bowie performed a song about being under it.
What is Pressure?
This temperature regulation device needs to be in an accessible location, level, and adhered securely to the wall.
What is an air conditioner thermostat?
A set of minimum requirements for building systems, using both prescriptive and performance-related provisions.
What is the International Building Code (IBC)?
A structure notorious for its 3.97 degree tilt is the freestanding bell tower of a cathedral in its namesake Italian town. The structure's tilt comes from the soft ground of its unstable foundation.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
The component used to step-up or step-down voltage in a circuit, also a popular franchise about living robots.
What is a Transformer?
This fundamental structural element is a horizontal member that carries loads primarily by resisting bending.
What is a beam?
Another name for a swamp cooler, think water becoming a gas.
What is an evaporative cooler?
A room's max occupancy has to pass 50 people for this to become necessary, think wayfinding.
What is an exit sign?
This device, an example of ancient engineering, uses stored potential energy to fling a projectile great distances without any propellant. It is sometimes referred to as a catapult.
What is a trebuchet?
The unit illumination is measured in, the body part you walk with and something you light on fire to make a room smell good.
What is a Foot candle?
This type of structure, often used in bridges, consists of interconnected triangles to distribute loads efficiently. Rhymes with fuss.
What is a truss?
Heat from air transfers across the refrigerant tubes of the evaporator using this principle. Sounds like a small kind of oven.
What is convection?
This state has adopted Title 24 as their primary building standards code.
What is California?
This type of bridge is characterized by two projecting beams or trusses that are joined in the center by a connecting member and are supported on piers and anchored by counterbalancing members. The Quebec Bridge is an example of this type of bridge.
What is a cantilever bridge?
Electrical component used to protect sensitive electronic circuits from voltage spikes and surges.
What is a Surge protector?
This phenomenon occurs when a structure experiences oscillating forces at its natural frequency, potentially leading to catastrophic failure.
What is resonance?
Trap used to prevent sewer gases from entering the house.
What is a P-trap?
The International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) first mentions daylight zones and photocell requirements in this year.
What is 2009?
The concept that the acronym CAD stands for.
What is Computer Aided Design?
An instrument that detects electric current, starts with a "G".
What is a Galvanometer?
This structural phenomenon occurs when a slender column fails under compressive stress due to lateral deflection, rather than by crushing. There is a phrase about people doing this under pressure.
What is buckling?
The name of the professional organization that aims to improve the design and construction of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems. Acronym that starts with an "A"
What is ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers?
The International Building Code (IBC) was published in this year. This is the same year that the first electronic TV image was transmitted.
What is 1927?
The control protocol that a theater light typically uses.
What is DMX?