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What is the name of the simple machine that consists of a wheel with a rope or belt around it, used to lift loads?
Pulley
Which room you can shape metal into what ever you want, so long as its a cylinder?
machine shop
Room 214
What is the main function of a flywheel in an engine?
To store rotational energy and smooth out fluctuations in engine speed
In the context of fatigue failure, what is the term for the phenomenon where cracks propagate at a high rate when subjected to cyclic loading?
Paris' Law (or the Paris-Erdogan law)
What is the term for a device that reduces friction between moving parts?
Bearing
What is the unit of force in the SI system?
Newton
In an internal combustion engine, what component is responsible for mixing air and fuel before combustion in older carbureted engines?
Carburetor
What is the name of the Equation Method used to calculate Buckling for Stout load bearing columns?
J.B Johnson Method
Which room has the 3d printers
105B
What type of heat transfer occurs through direct molecular contact without the movement of the material?
Conduction
What is the name of the dimensionless number that determines whether fluid flow is laminar or turbulent?
Reynolds Number
What is Castigliano's theorem?
Castigliano's theorem is a structural analysis theorem that relates the deformation of a structure to its strain energy
What is the term for the type of energy stored in a compressed spring?
Elastic potential energy
In thermodynamics, which law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or transformed?
The First Law of Thermodynamics
In material science, what is the phenomenon where a material deforms permanently under constant stress over time?
Creep
What is the name of the principle stating that the buoyant force on a submerged object is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid?
Archimedes’ Principle
What is ASME
ASME stands for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
In statics, what is the condition that must be satisfied for an object to be in equilibrium?
The sum of all forces and the sum of all moments must be zero
In fluid mechanics, what equation relates pressure, velocity, and height in an incompressible, frictionless fluid?
Bernoulli’s Equation
What is the term for the minimum temperature at which a material can be plastically deformed without fracturing?
The ductile-to-brittle transition temperature