Heat & Insulation
The three ways heat travels
What is Convection, Conduction and Radiation
A room with only air being pushed in such as and open window or a supply vent has this type of pressure.
What is Positive pressure.
The measure of a materials thermal resistance
What is R-value
The device that calculates the PA and the airflow to measure the CFM while running a blower door.
What is a Manometer. (dg 700, dg 1000)
Because modern energy-efficient homes are built so airtight, building codes require this type of active, mechanical system to constantly exchange stale indoor air with fresh outdoor air.
What is whole-house ventilation
The three countries originally part of the Axis Powers.
Who are Germany, Japan, Italy
In the 2006 comedy Idiocracy, whenever the time-traveling Joe Bauers objects to watering agricultural fields with a fluorescent green sports drink named Brawndo, the Secretary of State shuts down his logic by continuously shouting this aggressive four-word corporate slogan.
What is "Its what plants crave!"
What is the earliest level of language processing?
What is labeling (naming nouns)
Bonding fibers with resin adhesive sometimes with kraft paper attached.
What is Fiberglass batts
1 "what" = 1 pound of water heated 1 degree.
What is BTUh
Used by manufacturers to calculate the pricing and custom sizing of a replacement window, this specific metric is found by simply adding the window's total width in inches to its total height in inches.
What is united inches.
The pressure differential needed to receive an accurate CFM reading.
What is Supply only fan.
A teenage peasant girl claimed she heard voices from angels telling her to go save France, successfully led the French army to break the Siege of Orléans, and became a national hero before her tragic, fiery execution.
Who is Joan of Arc
In Tropic Thunder, When Alpa Chino demands to know what Kirk Lazarus means by "you people," Kirk fires back this absurdly ironic, five-word question.
What is "What do you mean, 'you people'?"
What category of sounds do the following phonemes belong in.../p, b, t, d, k, g/?
What are Stop/plosives (because air explodes out)
The action level for mold where insulation is not allowed until it has been remediated.
What is 10 sqft
Driven by thermodynamic buoyancy, this phenomenon occurs when warm indoor air rises and escapes out the top of a building envelope, drawing cold outdoor air in through leaks at the bottom.
What is stack effect.
The final R-value per inch for settled cellulose in the attic.
What is R-3.7 per inch.
The process of pushing air into the home to a +50 pa pressure.
What is pressurizing.
What is R-8
The year world war 2 started.
What is 1939.
In the classic 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally..., an older woman sitting near Meg Ryan at Katz's Delicatessen watches a highly enthusiastic fake "moment" and casually tells the waiter this legendary line.
What is "Ill have what shes having"
Name 3 articulators.
What are tongue, teeth, lips, palate, etc.
Density of Cubic feet required for dense packing walls with cellulose
What is 3.5 cu ft.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
What is energy flows naturally from high concentrations to low concentrations?
I let heat flow faster as my number grows, tracking the power escaping every square foot for every degree of difference.
What is U-value
Before turning on the fan during a diagnostic air leakage test, an auditor must record the house's natural, unassisted background pressure shifts over a short period—a critical calibration
What is baseline.
A required safeguard to be installed when installing an ASHRAE Fan.
What is Emergency override switch.
In 1861, the King of Siam (modern-day Thailand) kindly offered to ship a whole fleet of these massive, trunked mammals to Abraham Lincoln to help win the war, but Lincoln politely declined, citing a lack of local pasture.
What are Elephants
In Dune, when Paul Atreides faces the lethal Gom Jabbar needle test on Caladan, he manages to conquer his overwhelming physical pain and terror by quietly reciting a famous Bene Gesserit litany that declares this specific emotion is what.
What is "Fear is the mind killer"
Which of the following is not considered a consonant sound in the international phonemic alphabet? /r/, /k/, /s/, /m/
/r/=yes, "er" is a vowel! (bird=b=er=d)
This type of heat transfer occurs when warming temperatures cause the gas or fluid inside an unsealed insulation cavity to become less dense and rise, creating a rotating loop that carries heat away.
What is Convection or convective loop
This two-word term describes a highly conductive element (like a steel stud or concrete slab) that bypasses the insulation layer, creating a major pathway for heat loss.
What is Thermal Bridge
I am the real-world scorecard for a wall's true thermal resistance. While a single layer of fiberglass boasts a high score on paper, I am the collective median that forces metal studs and framing leaks to drag down the whole assembly's performance.
What is Average R-Value
Highest allowed pressure for a register before duct sealing is recommended.
What is 1 pa. (3 pa will be allowed)
The ventilation requirement for a kitchen with 3 windows.
What is 80.
During world war 1, Germany tried to slide into Mexico’s DMs with a spicy encrypted telegram promising to help them reconquer Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if they attacked the US—but Uncle Sam intercepted the text and promptly swiped left on neutrality.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram.
After Rick O'Connell dramatically escapes the burning ship by jumping overboard, his opportunistic rival Beni taunts him safely from the opposite bank, leading to a hilarious back-and-forth shouting match that ends with Rick smugly yelling this iconic line in 1999s The Mummy.
What is "Hey, Beni! It looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!"
What does AAC stand for?
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication
When imaging a standard insulated wood-frame wall from the inside during a hot summer afternoon, the physical studs behind the drywall will appear as this thermal profile on a FLIR screen compared to the insulated cavities.
What is bright or hotter.
When calculating a building’s seasonal heating requirements, this foundational law ensures that the total thermal energy entering a space via HVAC output and solar gains must perfectly balance the energy lost through the envelope plus the change in the home's internal energy.
What is 1st law of Thermodynamics.
An exterior wall assembly spans 1,000 square feet total: 200 square feet is solid wood framing at R-5, and the remaining 800 square feet is insulated cavity at R-20. Neglecting air films, this is the overall average R-value of the entire wall.
What is R-12.5.
To properly conduct a depressurization test using a blower door, a technician must locate and carefully disable any automated appliances relying on this specific open-flame thermodynamic process to prevent backdrafting toxic gases into the home.
What is atmospherically vented.
A mechanical ventilation device that creates a balanced in the house transfering heat and moisture.
What is an Energy recovery ventilator or ERV
While Wei, Shu, and Wu spent decades locked in a brutal, exhausting rock-paper-scissors match for supremacy, this entirely different stealthy dynasty swooped in at the very end, unified China, and took the whole prize.
What is the Jin Dynasty
In the 1996 sci-fi classic Independence Day, these are the roaring five words yelled by crop duster Russell Casse as he sacrifices himself, flying his missile-loaded fighter jet straight up into the alien destroyer's primary weapon.
What is "Hello boys! I'm back!"
Who is the best speech language pathologist and wife?
Who is, Amanda Weaver, your instructor's wife!=)