Chi Epsilon
Structures
Water Resources
Transportation
Environmental
100
What are the four pillars?
What is Practicality, Scholarship, Character, Sociablity
100
Stress is directly proportional to what?
What is Strain
100
What is the dimensionless number that is the ratio of inertia forces over viscous forces?
What is Reynolds number
100
What does AASHTO stand for?
What is American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
100
The branch of physical science concerned with heat and its relation to other forms of energy and work. (also known as the driver for long term environmental processes – states or systems at equilibrium)
What is Thermodynamics
200
What is the name of our Historian?
What is Giselle Harkous
200
True or False: The polar moment of inertia is required for the elastic torsion formulas.
What is True
200
True or False: If the Froude number is greater than 1, the flow is subcritical.
What is False (The flow is supercritical)
200
True or False: The plan view is also called the horizontal alignment.
What is True
200
Name one Environmental Engineering professor at UCI.
What is Bill Cooper, Sunny Jiang, Diego Rosso, Stanley Grant, Betty Olson, or Jan Scherfig
300
What are the Chi Epsilon colors?
What is purple and white
300
What does the Modulus of Elasticity define?
What is a materials tendency to deform elastically when a force is applied.
300
In Fluid Mechanics, what is the output of the Moody Chart?
What is coefficient of roughness (n)
300
What does PVT stand for?
What is Point of Vertical Tangent - the final point of the vertical curve
300
The name of the set of equations that describe the motion of fluid substances such as liquids and gases.
What is the Navier-Stokes equations
400
What status and GPA percentage must you have to join Chi Epsilon?
What is Junior Status and top 1/3rd.
400
The Poisson’s ratio is a ratio of what?
What is Lateral Strain/Axial Strain
400
What assumptions can be made to derive the Reynolds Transport Theorem in terms of mass? (List 2)
What is 1-dimensional flow, steady flow (continuity), and incompressible flow.
400
List the 4 layers of a typical pavement cross section from top to bottom starting with "wearing."
What is wearing, base, subbase, subgrade
400
The #- order reaction that describes mass that generates or decays as being directly proportional to the initial mass?
What is a first-order reaction.
500
What is the Chi Epsilon motto and what does it symbolize?
What is Chi Delta Chi: Conception. Design. Construction.
500
What method do you use to determine the maximum shear and axial stress at a point?
What is Mohr’s circle
500
In the Reynolds Transport Theorem, what does b equal?
What is dB/dm (the change in the system property over the change in mass)
500
What does W18 mean in flexible pavement design?
What is 18-kip-equivalent single-axle load
500
The law of nature that describes the tendency of systems to move spontaneously in the direction of the equilibrium state (aka toward chaos and randomness)
What is entropy