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Quality Assurance
Basic Metrology
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Science Terms
Test Equipment
100
This formal document identifies methodologies to verify performance parameters of equipment
What is a Calibration Procedure?
100

If one was to micro (10-6) manage a group of people this kind of management would be 10-24?

What is a Yocto-Management?

100

If you were watching a WWII movie and you hear the phrase D-Day + 11, what is the date?

June 17th, 1944

100
In geometry, this shape has twenty sides and although used in gaming, bet you won't use it in Vegas.
What is a Dodecahedron?
100

This is the smallest size that a normal 3 inch micrometer can measure.

What is 2 inches?

200
This is a form of interlaboratory comparison whose purpose is to perform a complete experimental evaluation and characterization of the measurement process to assure measurement confidence.
What is a Measurement Assurance Program (MAP)?
200
Although the German physicist Daniel Fahrenheit and the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius never had a heated discussion, there is a cool temperature that they do share.
What is -40°?
200

Pharaoh Khufu was the first to decree this piece of granite to build these quadrahedrons

What is the Royal Egyptian Cubit? (Cubit is also correct)

200

If the Milky had its Way... Oh! an Inductor would have this

What is a Henry?

200
As a sphygmomanometer measures the beat, a thermometer measures the heat, this periodic table element with an Atomic Number of 80 is common to both.
What is Mercury?
300
This is information that can be proved true on the basis of facts obtained through observation, investigation, audits, measurement, test or other means.
What is Objective Evidence?
300
The density of water increases as the temperature decreases, but only until approximately this temperature
What is 4°C?
300
It is the second largest of the group and the six farthest from Sol
What is Saturn?
300
This term refers to how close a measured value is to the actual nominal value.
What is Accuracy?
300

To use this instrument you must swing two thermometers around in the air.

What is a Sling Psychrometer?

400
This is defined as the closeness of agreement between the results of successive measurements of the same measurand carried out under the same conditions of measurement
What is Repeatability?
400
This Stooge's name inverted, is synonymous to Ernst Werner von Siemens which physicist Georg Simon Ohm resisted.
What is the mho?
400

This device, invented by Michael Faraday, is used in thousands of devices, such as robots, RC Cars and Planes, toothbrushes and power plants.

What is the Electric Motor

400
This describes the amount of undesirable deviations or anomalies present in a waveform usually expressed in a percentage.
What is Distortion?
400
In simplest terms, this is a digital electronic device which measures the cycles of an input signal by comparison to a crystal oscillator
What is a Frequency Counter?
500
This is a set of operations that establishes, under specified conditions, the relationship between values indicated by a measuring instrument or measuring system, or values represented by material measure, or a reference material, and the corresponding values realized by standards
What is Calibration?
500
Although he invented this device, Evangelista Torricelli will never be credited by the Weather Channel for determining the big H and L on the weather map.
What is the Barometer?
500
Its tour was launched in 1977, it has traveled more than 12,427,423,844 miles, it has a gold record but will never be spun by a DJ.
What is Voyager 1? (Voyager is acceptable)
500
This is the amount of change in power level equal to 10 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the two powers.
What is the Decibel (dB)?
500

This instrument originated in ancient China as early as 9 AD. The secondary scale, which contributed extra precision, was invented in 1631 by French mathematician Pierre Vernier.

What is the Vernier Caliper? (Caliper is also correct)