Biochemistry
This chemical reaction converts CO2 and water into oxygen and sugar using light.
What is photosynthesis?
This exothermic reaction between a fuel (usually a hydrocarbon) and an oxidant, commonly oxygen, produces heat and light.
What is a combustion reaction?
This is the name of the lab Ellison mentioned he works in during his introduction.
What is the Shariati Lab?
This is the basic source of energy for most electronic devices.
What is Electricity?
This famous engineer is known for inventing the light bulb and many electrical devices.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This substance is the only one in this list that is not a macromolecule: DNA, protein, carbohydrate, lipid.
What is DNA?
This element is the only non-metal in this list: Fe, Au, Ag, Cl, Mg.
What is Cl?
This law explains that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s Third Law?
This engineering field focuses on designing chemical processes like fuel production, pharmaceuticals, and plastics.
What is Chemical Engineering?
This engineering field designs microchips, processors, and embedded systems.
What is Computer Engineering?
This is the full enunciation of the acronym RNA.
What is ribonucleic acid?
The number of these subatomic particles in an atom define which element it is.
What is a proton?
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This unit measures electrical power.
What is a watt?
This phenomenon occurs when a structure vibrates at its natural frequency, causing very large oscillations
What is resonance?
This substance is the only one in this list that is not one of the 20 common amino acids: valine, aspartic acid, selenocysteine.
What is selenocysteine?
This whole, negative number (no decimal places) in units of Kelvin, is equivalent to 0 degrees celsius.
What is -273?
This process transfers heat through electromagnetic waves without direct contact.
What is radiation?
This type of engineering focuses on improving manufacturing systems, efficiency, and workflow optimization
What is industrial engineering?
This thermodynamic law states that entropy in an isolated system always increases over time.
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
This type of inhibitor decreases both the Km and the Vmax of an enzyme.
What is an uncompetitive inhibitor?
This thermodynamic quantity of the material does not change while it is undergoing a phase change (ex: liquid to gas).
What is temperature?
These activities have all been hosted by the chem club this year: beaker pong, lab tours, free coffee shop bar. (True/False.)
What is True?
This thermodynamic quantity measures the amount of disorder in a system.
What is entropy?
This algorithm, commonly studied in computer engineering and graph theory, finds the shortest path between nodes in a weighted graph.
What is Dijkstra’s Algorithm?