Engineering
2020 marks the 75th anniversary of this iconic toy that sprung forth from mechanical engineer Richard James & his wife Betty
The Slinky
Mathematicians have used calculus to prove that this ratio is less than 22/7, its common approximation
pi
It's the decimal equivalent of 1/8
0.125
Ralph Waldo Emerson started attending this college at age 14, graduated & then began teaching there at age 18
Harvard
Tesla emigrated to the US. in 1884 & soon began a contentious job working for this inventor
Edison
In 2020, NASA sponsored a public competition to help engineer a rover that could withstand the 900-degree surface temperature & crushing atmospheric pressure of this otherwise somewhat Earth-like planet
Venus
The process of differentiation lets you find the slope of one of these lines that touches a curve at just one point
a tangent
9 divided by 3/4 =
this
12
The 1960s antiwar movement that grew to cover the whole nation started at places like this Ca. school founded in 1868
Cal Berkley
Several of Tesla's product designs were used to harness this natural landmark to power Buffalo, New York
Niagara Falls
Famed California architect, Julia Morgan, pioneered the use of reinforced concrete, helping designs such as the Mills College Bell Tower to survive this 1906 disaster
The San Fransico Earthquake
"Calculus" is Latin for a small one of these, used by the ancients on counting boards
a stone
If x2 + 2 = 18, x = this
4
"The Book of Knowledge" is vied for by Carleton & Macalaster, called this state's top 2 liberal arts colleges
Minnesota
Tesla once claimed he'd been contacted by aliens & in 1940 declared he had developed one of these rays
A Death Ray
The first historically documented engineer, Imhotep created a new type of building with this pyramid named for its series of flat-terraced platforms
A step Pyramid
The rate of change of a function with respect to a variable is denoted by this term that can also mean "unoriginal"
derivative
It's 5% of 400
20
In 1961 this private Texas school provided most of the land that became NASA's Mission Control Center
Rice
In 1891 Tesla invented this induction device that can transmit electric power without wires
an Induction Coil (Tesla Coil)
Mae Jemison got her start in the sciences with a degree in chemical engineering before becoming the first African-American woman in space as an MS--this kind of astronaut conducting experiments aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour
Mission Specialist
It all comes together with this calculus operation that lets you find the precise area under a curve
integration
(x + 1)^2 expands to this
x^2 + 2x + 1
Its Tempe campus has one of the largest undergraduate populations in the United States
Arizona State
These 2 Balkan nationalities claim the great inventor; in a 1936 telegram he said he was proud of both
Serbia and Croatia