Science
This physicist's cat is both alive and dead until its box is opened
Who is Schröedinger?
What is 0?
The ratio of the change in a material's length to its original length
What is strain?
Who is Euclid?
This person was on the board last year
The scientific name for a kneecap
What is the patella?
Bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort, and merge sort are examples of this
What are sorting algorithms?
What is yield strength?
This symbol denotes a factorial
What is !?
This board has played the pipe organ and accordion
Who is Al?
The two letters that do not appear on the periodic table
What are J and Q?
The process of breaking a problem into smaller, simpler problems
What is recursion?
This type of beam has one fixed support and one free end
What is a cantilever beam?
Euler's identity (equation)
What is eiπ + 1 = 0?
These board members are materials science majors
Who are Amelia and Mar?
In quantum mechanics, electrons are viewed as this
What is a wave?
The output of this code:
turns = 0
x = 3
while turns < 8
x = x * 3
turns = turns + 3
endwhile
print (x)
What is 81?
The main components of stainless steel
What are iron, carbon, and chromium?
The value of cos(5π/3)
What is 0.5?
This board member's hometown is furthest from Pitt's campus
Who is Amelia?
This phenomenon, first described in the early 20th century, makes objects contract and time dilate when moving at speeds close to light
What is Einstein's theory of special relativity?
This quantifies the amount of time needed to process a code or algorithm based on the number of iteration of a statement
This cycle represents an ideal heat engine with two isothermal expansion and two adiabatic processes
What is the Carnot cycle?
The antiderivative of ln(2x)/x
What is ln2(2x)/2?
This person grew up on a dairy farm
Who is Brooke?