Technology
Launched in 1957, this is the first man-made Earth satellite.
What is Sputnik?
This type of rock results from the application of heat and pressure to a source rock.
What is a metamorphic rock?
This physicist is best known for a famous equation relating mass to energy.
Who is Albert Einstein?
In this type of correlation, one variable decreases as the other increases.
What is an inverse relationship/negative correlation?
This is what the acronym SEC stands for
What is STEM Engagement Club?
This is the decimal equivalent of the binary number 101.
What is 5?
Biologist Gregor Mendel used this plant to study genetic inheritance.
What are pea plants?
This chemist and x-ray crystallographer produced Photograph 51, leading to the discovery of DNA's structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This R2 value represents a perfect linear fit.
What is 1?
These are 3 types of events held by SEC
What are general body meetings, volunteering sessions, journal groups, career panels, how to get involved in research, etc?
In programming, this kind of statement is used to repeat a section of code a certain number of times.
What is a for loop?
This type of chemical bond involves the complete transfer of electrons from one atom to another.
This ancient mathematician is credited with the equation relating the three sides of a right triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
In this distribution, 68% of datapoints are within 1 standard deviation of the mean, and 95% are within 2.
What is the normal/Gaussian distribution?
This is where SEC volunteering sessions take place
What is the Boys and Girls Club?
This communication technology uses light waves above 1mm in wavelength.
What is radio/wireless telegraph?
These are the 3 types of heat transfer.
What are convection, conduction, and radiation?
This French microbiologist developed a method to stop bacterial contamination in milk and wine.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
If this value is less than 0.05, you might consider your results statistically significant.
What is the p-value?
These are the names of the SEC execs.
Who are Ashlynn, Claire, Julia, Makenzie, Sameen, and Shaina?
These are the 6 classical simple machines.
What are the lever, inclined plane, wedge, screw, pulley, and wheel & axle?
What are the malleus/hammer, incus/anvil, and stapes/stirrup?
This early computer scientist is best known for decrypting the German enigma machine during WWII.
Who is Alan Turing?
Disproving this hypothesis shows that the two variables do have a relationship.
What is the null hypothesis?
This is SEC's faculty advisor.
Who is Prof. Larry Tartaglia?