This is a bridge with its load-bearing structures typically composed of a series of triangles.
What is a truss bridge?
This element has the symbol C and precipitated the field of organic chemistry.
What is carbon?
These two brothers invented the first airplane.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
Alternating-current electricity is more popular today than this form.
What is direct-current?
What are tin cans made of?
Steel
This is a twisting force that tends to cause rotation.
What is torque?
Any man or woman who has won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Who is- (LOOK IT UP)
Yuri Gagarin, from this country, was the first man in space.
What is Russia / USSR ?
this man invented direct current electricity and feuded with Edison, who invented alternating current.
Who is Tesla?
This is a type of circuit (name any).
What is a: Closed Circuit, Open Circuit, Short Circuit, Series Circuit OR Parallel Circuit ?
This ancient civilization developed the arch dam.
What is Rome?
This is a unit of measurement; one is equal to 6.02 * 10^23
What is a mole?
This type of engine uses surrounding air as a propellant, compressing it through a diffuser and forcing it through the combustion chamber. Notably, it cannot start from a stop.
What is a ramjet?
This is one of the four basic parts of any circuit
What is energy source OR path/conductor OR load OR control/switch?
This historical age, which marks the beginning of human civilization, is named for an alloy.
What is the Bronze Age? (bronze is an alloy of copper and tin)
This type of wrench loops around a pipe and is often used for PVC.
What is a strap wrench?
This parameter is often used to measure the efficiency of a chemical reaction; above 80% is generally considered good.
What is percent yield?
This rate is the terminal velocity of an object on Earth.
What is 9.8 m/s ?
This is a device that stores electrical energy in an electric field. Types include fixed and variable, but not flux.
What is a capacitor?
The Delaware Memorial Bridge is this type of bridge.
What is a twin suspension bridge?
This type of dam is known for curving both against the floor and the walls of the valley in which it sits, giving it its name.
What is the double-curvature arch dam?
This man, often called the greatest chemist of the 20th century, discovered the nature of chemical bonds and the structure of proteins (among other things).
Who is Linus Pauling?
The equation
Where is the specific impulse,
is a standard gravity,
is the propellant flow in kg/s,
is the cross-sectional area at the exit of the exhaust nozzle, and
is the atmospheric pressure,
describes THIS force?
What is thrust?
this is the speed at which electricity travels (either absolute or relative to something else).
What is 186,000 miles/second OR light?
In this year AND semester (fall or spring), the Charter Engineering Club was founded!
What is spring, 2019!