Civil Engineering
This is the largest man-made structure in the world.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This law states that the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume.
What is Boyle's law?
This is the basic unit of information in computing and digital communications.
What is a bit?
This is the most abundant element in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This is the unit of electrical resistance.
What is an ohm?
This is a structure built to allow the flow of water under a road or railway.
What is a culvert?
This device is used to measure rotational speed.
What is a tachometer?
This programming language is known as the "mother of all languages" for its influence on other languages.
What is C?
This law describes the relationship between the temperature and volume of a gas.
What is Charles's law?
This effect describes the induced electromotive force (EMF) in any closed circuit due to a change in magnetic flux through the circuit.
What is Faraday's Law of Induction?
This is the type of force that acts to stretch a material.
What is tensile force?
This type of engine is commonly used in automobiles.
What is an internal combustion engine?
This is a type of network topology where each node is connected to a central hub.
What is a star topology?
This process is used to separate mixtures based on boiling points.
What is distillation?
This component stores electrical energy in an electric field.
What is a capacitor?
This is the process of determining the positions of points and the distances and angles between them.
What is surveying?
This is the stress at which a material begins to deform plastically.
What is the yield strength, or what is yield point?
This protocol is used for securely transmitting data over the internet.
What is HTTPS?
This is the study of the rates of chemical reactions.
What is kinetics?
This type of current alternates its direction periodically.
What is alternating current (AC)?
This famous engineer is known for his work on the Panama Canal.
Who is John Frank Stevens?
This principle explains the lift force on an airplane wing.
What is Bernoulli's principle?
This algorithm is used for finding the shortest path in a graph.
What is Dijkstra's algorithm?
This type of reactor is commonly used for continuous flow reactions.
What is a plug flow reactor?
This theorem simplifies the analysis of electrical circuits by reducing them to a single voltage source and series resistance.
What is Thevenin's theorem?