Finance
This is the primary index of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S.
What is the S&P 500?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s 3rd Law?
In programming, this logical error results in a piece of code executing indefinitely.
What is an Infinite Loop?
In finance, the ROI stands for this.
What is Return on Investment?
This person is the Treasurer of Purdue Momentum
Who is Carolina Sugane Hamada?
In accounting, the fundamental equation states that Assets equal Liabilities plus this.
What is Equity (or Owner's/Shareholder's Equity)?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
This popular version control system was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005.
What is Git?
In computing, CPU stands for this.
What is Central Processing Unit?
Momentum was founded in this semester and year.
What is Spring 2025?
This investment vehicle allows you to buy a basket of securities that trades on an exchange like a stock.
What is ETF (Exchange-traded Fund)?
This component is used to control current and divide voltage in electrical circuits.
What is a resistor?
This algorithm uses divide-and-conquer to sort in O(n log n) worst case time.
What is merge sort?
In manufacturing and engineering, CAD stands for this.
What is Computer-Aided Design?
This is the VP you should be reaching out to when you have any issues concerning Attendance/absence, and dues payment.
Who is Pritam Hazra?
This mathematical model, developed in 1973, is widely used to price stock options.
What is the Black-Scholes model?
This dimensionless quantity is commonly used to predict flow regimes in fluid systems and heat transfer problems.
What is the Reynolds number?
This property of a sorting algorithm preserves the relative order of equal elements.
What is stability?
In databases, ACID stands for?
What is Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability
This is the VP you should be reaching out to when you have any internal conflicts with other members/leadership.
Who is Bisti Potdar?
This financial metric measures return per unit of risk and is commonly used to evaluate portfolio performance.
What is Sharpe Ratio?
This data-driven, statistical methodology aims at improving process quality by minimizing defects, variation, and waste to achieve near-perfect performance.
What is Six Sigma?
This algorithm detects cycles in a directed graph using depth-first search.
What is topological sort?
In engineering, CFD is used to simulate fluid flow.
What is Computational Fluid Dynamics?
These three colors represent the pillars in Momentum’s official branding and are used across graphics, slides, and team materials.
What are pink, yellow, and blue?
This measure represents a stock’s sensitivity to overall market movements.
What is beta?
This material property measures resistance to deformation under stress.
What is Young’s modulus?
This data structure uses First In, First Out ordering.
What is a queue?
In machine learning, LSTM stands for this neural network architecture.
What is Long Short-Term Memory?
Last semester, Momentum showcased a total of these during their final presentation.
What are 14 completed projects?
This type of option gives the holder the right to sell an asset at a specified price.
What is a put option?
This elctrical law states that current entering a junction equals current leaving it.
What is Kirchhoff’s Current Law?
This algorithm technique solves problems by breaking them into overlapping subproblems and storing results.
What is dynamic programming?
In networking, TCP stands for this.
What is Transmission Control Protocol?
These are three of momentum's core values.
What is Integrity, Collaboration, Empathy? (or Inclusivity, Commitment)
This hypothesis states that stock prices already reflect all publicly available information.
What is the Efficient Market Hypothesis?
This transform converts a time-domain signal into its frequency-domain representation.
What is the Fourier transform?
This algorithm finds strongly connected components in a directed graph in linear time.
What is Kosaraju’s algorithm?
In finance, NAV stands for this value representing total assets minus liabilities per share.
What is Net Asset Value?
These are the countries that the founders of Momentum are from.
What are Brazil, India, and Mexico