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100

What do you call the set of all possible outcomes that is denoted as Ω?

What is the sample space?

100

What is Bernoulli’s Principle?

As the velocity of a fluid increases, its pressure decreases

100

What formula does V = IR referring to?

What is Ohm’s Law?

100

This myth suggests that swallowing gum will cause it to stay in your stomach for how many years.

7 Years

100

The name of the company whose logo is a red fruit.

Apple

200

What is the scientific name for the level of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty?

What is entropy?

200

This dimensionless number compares inertial forces to viscous forces and determines whether flow is laminar or turbulent.

Reynolds Number

200

What is the name for a set of code that is repeating a function?

What is a loop?

200

This myth suggests that cracking which joint causes arthritis, which has not been supported by scientific evidence.

Knuckles

200

This companies logo is red and is in the shape of a U.S. State.

Texas Instruments 

300

In probability, this term describes the long-run average value of a random variable, and in everyday life, your parents have high ones for you.

What is expectation

300

This phenomenon describes the gradual deformation of a material under constant stress over time, especially at high temperatures.

Creep

300

This microscopic switching component serves as the fundamental building block found in every electronic device, from simple logic gates to complex processors.

What is a transistor?

300

This myth claimed that what object when dropped from a skyscraper could kill someone on the ground—but was busted due to air resistance limiting its speed.

Penny

300

This companies logo is blue and looks similar to the infinity symbol

Meta 

400

Acting as a selective gatekeeper, this cellular structure controls which substances are permitted to enter or exit the cell.

What is the cell membrane?

400

 If a cantilever beam has a point load applied at its midpoint, where is the maximum bending moment located?

At the fixed support (against the wall).

400

This type of memory is a computer's short-term memory, holding data that the CPU is actively using.

What is a RAM (Random Access Memory)

400

This myth examined whether a person could be lifted off the ground by a large number of what type of balloons, which was confirmed under the right conditions.

Helium

400

This logo is dark green and looks similar to a "moving star"

Lockheed Martin

500

When C3H8 + 3O2 → 3CO2 + 4H2 is balanced and 1.50 moles of propane are combusted, this many moles of hydrogen gas are produced.

What is 6 moles?

500

This test determines the tensile strength of concrete by applying a compressive load along the diameter of a cylindrical specimen.

What is the Brazilian (splitting tensile) test?

500

This variable-length binary encoding scheme guarantees no codeword is a prefix of another, making it optimal for lossless data compression.

What is Huffman code?

500

This myth says that toilets flush in different directions depending on whether you are in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere. What is the name of this effect?

Coriolis Effect

500

This companies logo is a blue donut shape with white lines through it. 

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