Alliterative Expressions
Specializations by Definition
Campus Software
Cheaper by the Dozen
Equations
100

A description of a system that experiences no changes with respect to time.

What is steady state?

100

The manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers.

What is nanotechnology?

100

The very modern system you can use to register for your classes, print your schedules, and pay your bills.

What is SOLAR?

100

The metric prefix indicating 1 * 10^-12 units.

What is pico- ?

100
F = kx

What is Hooke's Law?

200

A numerical measure of the statistical association of two variables, often symbolized r.

What is a correlation coefficient?

200

The field that covers the design and discovery of new materials, particularly solids. 

What is materials science?

200

The videoconferencing software you can use to log into your asynchronous classes here at Stony Brook.

What is Zoom?

200

A twelve-sided die will will take on this geometric shape.

What is a dodecahedron?

200

ΔU = Q - W

What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?

300

A manner of control that measures and corrects a disturbance before it upsets the process.

What is feedforward?

300

The study of substances consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits.

What is polymer science?

300

The coding software you will be mastering in ESG 111 and CME 315.

What is MATLAB?

300

By definition, the most common isotope of this element weighs exactly 12 atomic mass units.

What is carbon?

300

Δp = 8μLQ/(πr^4)

What is the Hagen-Poiseuille Equation?

400

A chemical transformation in which the conversion between reactants and products and between products and reactants occur simultaneously.

What is a reversible reaction?

400

The branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy.

What is physics?

400

The simulation software you will get acquainted with in CME 441.

What is CHEMCAD?

400

Listen closely to Dr. Kim in this class, abbreviated as CME 312.

What is Material and Energy Balance?

400

P = RT / (V - b) - a / V^2

What is the Van der Waals Equation?

500
The dimensionless ratio that relates the convective and conductive heat transfers at a boundary in a fluid.

What is the Nusselt Number?

500

The practice of making one's living by engaging in commerce.

What is business?

500

The user-friendly software that restricts your computer's access to the Internet to "prevent cheating" during online exams.

What is Respondus LockDown Browser (or Honorlock Online Proctoring)?

500

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave me 12 of these.

What are Drummers Drumming?

500

dP/dz = - G / (ρgD) * ((1 - Φ) / Φ^3) * (150(1 - Φ)μ  / D + 1.75G)

What is the Ergun equation?