Mathematics
The rule describing the length of a right triangle's hypotenuse in relation to the other sides
The standard unit of mass
What is the kilogram?
The elementary particle responsible for current
What is the electron?
A field of Engineering involving the design and production of infrastructure
The first line of the CU Fight Song
What is "Fight, CU down the field"?
sin(A)/a = sin(B)/b
What is the Law of Sines?
Every force has an equal and opposite reaction force
What is Newton's Third Law?
A material capable of conduction or insulation, i.e. Silicon
What is a semiconductor?
What is caffeine?
A common drug that is legal in Boulder but illegal on campus due to CU being a federally-funded institution
What is Marijuana?
A function that can be described as a ratio of two polynomials
What is a Rational Function?
A vector quantity described in units of meters per second per second
What is acceleration?
I = V/R
What is Ohm's Law?
A model often constructed late in the design process, intended to test the viability of the design and determine problems to resolve in later iterations
What is a prototype?
The state park in which the flatirons are located
What is Chautauqua?
Invented by Isaac Newton, this is a function that describes the rate of change of another function at any point
What is the Derivative?
299,792,458 meters per second
What is the speed of light in a vacuum?
The programming language most websites are written in
What is HTML?
A numerical value describing the ratio of the expected maximum load on a material to the material's known strength
What is the Safety Factor?
This policy significantly reduces consequences for students that call 911 to help a dangerously intoxicated friend, even if they are also intoxicated
What is the amnesty policy?
A function whose rate of change is equal to itself at all points
What is e^x?
The process by which electric current is generated when a bar magnet moves through a coil of wire
What is induction?
A low-level programming language that uses the characters 0-9 and a-f
What is Hexadecimal?
A field of Engineering involving the efficient realization, use, and retirement of a complex engineering product such as an airplane
What is Systems Engineering?
What is 1882?