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100

The Only Supersonic Commercial Passenger Airliner

Concorde

100

Inventor of Three-Phase Electricity

Tesla

100

Form of Energy Given Off by a Stove Burner

Thermal

100

Mechanical Device that Uses Electro-Magnetism to Isolate Control Circuits

Relay

100

Remove a Letter From this Number to Make it EVEN

(S) EVEN

200

The Largest Organ in the Human Body

Skin

200

The Longer Prong on an Electric Outlet

Neutral
200

Form of Energy Given Off by Incandescent Bult

Luminous

200

Allows Electrical Current to Flow in Only One Direction

Diode

200

The Number of Transistors in An Integrated Circuit DOUBLES every 18-24 months

Moore's Law


300

In the 7th Century Fireworks Were Invented in this Country

China

300

Routh-Hurwitz Says "An LTI System is Only Stable if All Roots of the Characteristic Equation are in the ______ Half of the S-Plane"

c) between 50 and 60 milion

300

Current Flowing Through a Coiled Wire Wrapped Around an Iron Core

Magnetic

300

Two Charged Surfaces Separated by an Insulator

Capacitor

300

Inventor of the Integrated Circuit

Bob Noyce

(Jack Kilby)

400

The World's Longest River

The Nile

400

Transistor Inventors

William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain

400

Electric Current Applied to Piezoelectric Crystal Causing Vibration

Sound (or mechanical) Energy


400
Semi-Conductor Operates in Reverse-Bias @ Constant Voltage/Variable Current

Zener Diode

400

The Three Search Strategies in Computer Science

Hashing, Linear, Binary


500
Where is the world's tallest building?
Dubai
500

The Inventor of Information Theory

Claude Shannon

500

Electric Energy Spins a Fan To Move Air

Mechanical Energy

500

The Building Block of Quantum Computing

Qubit

500

Who Invented the Logarithm

John Napier

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