MAE Fundamentals
What law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Newton’s Third Law
Who designed the original Academical Village?
Thomas Jefferson
UVA’s basketball team won the NCAA Championship in what year?
2019
What fictional engineer built an arc reactor in a cave?
Tony Stark
This city was formerly known as Constantinople
Istanbul
This dimensionless number represents the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces
Reynolds number
What mountain range surrounds CVille?
Blue Ridge Mountains
What ACC conference does UVA compete in?
Atlantic Coast Conference
What NASA rover landed on Mars in 2021?
Perseverance
Where is the tallest mountain in the world measured from base to peak
Hawaii
The stress field near a crack tip scales with the inverse square root of distance and is characterized by this parameter
Stress intensity factor (k)
This secret society is known for periodically placing cryptic symbols around Grounds
Seven Society
This UVA men's basketball coach led the Cavaliers to their first NCAA championship
Tony Bennett
What TV show features engineers at Caltech?
The Big Bang Theory
What country has the most islands in the world
Sweden
This transform converts a differential equation in time into an algebraic equation in the complex domain
Laplace Transform
Jefferson's original plan for UVA deliberately excluded this academic discipline
Theology (divinity)
UVA is one of the few Division I schools to have won NCAA championships in this many different sports.
27
(Over 25)
This 1995 film features a graduate student discovering chaos theory using a simple pendulum model
Jurassic Park
This law states that with enough time, any finite probability event becomes inevitable—usually right before a deadline
Murphy’s Law
This stability condition requires all eigenvalues of the amplification matrix to lie inside the unit circle.
Numerical stability (von Neumann stability condition)
Finish the sentence: “On my honor as a student,…”
I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment/exam
Virginia men's lacrosse
This 1990 space telescope initially produced blurry images due to a primary mirror ground to the wrong shape
Hubble Space Telescope
What historical figure lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the pyramids being built
Cleopatra