General Engineering
This unit is used to measure the intensity of a sound.
What is a decibel?
This molecule carries genetic information in most organisms.
What is DNA?
This is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
The sum of the angles in a triangle always equals this many degrees.
What is 180°?
This country has the most active volcanoes.
What is Indonesia?
This force acts opposite to an object's motion through a fluid, resisting its movement.
What is drag?
These structures, found in animal cells but not plant cells, help with cell division.
What are centrioles?
This state of matter has a definite volume but no definite shape.
What is a liquid?
The derivative of 7x² with respect to x is this.
What is 14x?
What simple machine is a triangle-shaped tool, and is a portable inclined plane?
What is a wedge?
What is the continuity equation?
These biological molecules, made of amino acids, function as enzymes, structural components, and signaling molecules.
What are proteins?
This principle states that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain an equal number of molecules.
What is Avogadro's Law?
This branch of calculus is concerned with finding areas under curves.
What is integral calculus?
This California structure designed in 1917 has an official color of "international orange."
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
This is the measure of the average kinetic energy of a system.
What is temperature?
This organelle is responsible for synthesizing proteins in a cell.
What is the ribosome?
Nitrogen makes up roughly this percentage of Earth's atmosphere.
What is 79%?
This method of integration is useful when you have the product of two functions and need to reverse the product rule.
What is integration by parts?
This is the least used letter in the English alphabet.
What is Z?
This state function represents the total energy of a system, including internal energy and flow work.
What is enthalpy?
This type of RNA carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation.
What is transfer RNA (tRNA)?
This type of hybridization occurs in a molecule of methane (CH₄).
What is sp3 hybridization?
The limit of (1 + 1/n)ⁿ as n approaches infinity is equal to this mathematical constant.
What is e?
When viewing the composition of petroleum by weight, this chemical makes up the majority.
What is carbon?