Math
SWE Facts
Unit Conversion
Science
Engineering General
100

What is pi rounded to 6 decimals?

What is 3.141593?

100

How many UD SWE events do you need to attend to achieve active membership this semester?

What is 4?
100

How many centimeters are in 1 kilometer?

What is 100,000 centimeters?

100

What is the basic unit of life?

What is a cell?

100

What engineering discipline focuses on designing machines and mechanical systems?

What is mechanical engineering?

200

What is the derivative of 6x^8?

What is 48x^7?

200

In what year was SWE founded?

What is 1950?

200

What is 5000 grams in kilograms?

What is 5 kilograms?

200

What process converts sunlight to energy?

What is photosynthesis?


200

What Python data type is "Hello, World!"?

What is a string?

300

What's the determinant of the 2x2 matrix [a,b],[c,d]?

What is ad-bc?

300

Where was the SWE national conference held in 2025?

Where is New Orleans?

300

How many Joules/second is 10 Watts?

What is 10 Joules/second?

300

What thermodynamic law states that entropy of an isolated system never decreases?

What is the 2nd law of thermodynamics?

300

What dimensionless number compares inertial forces to viscous forces in fluid flow?

What is the Reynolds number?

400

What theorem guarantees a solution exists for continuous functions that change sign over an interval?

What is the intermediate value theorem?

400

What engineering major at UD does our SWE chapter have the most representation of?

What is chemical engineering?

400

What is a 50 Pascal pressure in bar? 

What is 0.0005 bar?

400

What type of chemical bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms?

What is a covalent bond?

400

What fundamental equation relates stress, strain, and material stiffness?

What is Hooke's Law?

500

If a function f(x) has a continuous second derivative and f′′(x) > 0 on an interval, what property describes the shape of the graph on that interval?

What is concave up?

500

Where was SWE founded?

Where is the Cooper Union in NYC?

500

What is 1 BTU of energy in eV?

What is 9.88x10^19 eV?

500

What equation explains why increasing the temperature of a reaction generally increases its rate by increasing the fraction of molecules above the activation energy?

What is the Arrhenius equation (or collision theory)?

500

What transform converts a time-domain differential equation into an algebraic equation in the complex frequency domain?

What is the Laplace transform?

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