Northeastern
The number of times the Women's hockey team has won the bean pot
What is 20?
This process has won two Nobel Prizes: first for the development at laboratory scale, then again 13 years later for development at an industrial-scale.
What is the Haber-Bosch Process?
Energy of motion
What is Kinetic energy?
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed
What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?
The first nuclear disaster to receive the highest rating (seven) on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES)
What is Chernobyl?
A plaque near the Cabot Center on campus marks where the left field foul line for this inaugural major sporting event was located in 1903.
What is the first-ever baseball World Series?
Francis Arnold in 2018 for this process.
What is Directed Evolution of Proteins?
The study of heat and temperature, in relation to energy and work (heat-movement)
Thermodynamics
PV =nRT
What is the Ideal Gas Law?
The change in flight control system of this plane caused it to self correct without the Pilot's knowledge, resulting in multiple deadly crashes
What is Boeing 737 Max?
This famous arena on campus, which first opened in 1910, is the world's oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena and was the original home of the Boston Bruins.
What is Matthews Arena?
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier in 2020 for this technology.
What is CRISPR?
Most efficient heat engine possible
What is the Carnot Engine?
A measure of how ordered a system is
What is Entropy?
The most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant caused initially by a failure that prevented the main feedwater pumps and was exasperated by excessive alarms alarms
What is Three Mile Island Accident?
The university's official motto is Lux, Veritas, Virtus, which translates from Latin to these three words.
What are Light, Truth, and Courage?
Science mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour and first black woman in space
Who is Mae Jemison?
The mechanism where the transfer of energy due to forces causing motion
What is Work?
Sum of rotational, vibrational, and electromagnetic energies of individual molecules, atoms, & subatomic particles moving around in a body of material or a flowing stream
What is Internal Energy?
This disaster happened on January 15, 1919, in Boston when a large storage tank burst and killed 21 and injuring 150 people
What is Great Molasses Flood?
Name the Twitter co-founder and Napster founder who both attended Northeastern before dropping out to pursue their tech ventures
Who are Biz Stone and Shawn Fanning?
A pioneering chemical engineer who designed the first commercial penicillin plant and became the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemical engineering in the U.S.
Who is Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau?
(useful energy out)/(total energy in)
What is efficiency?
If two systems are both in thermal equilibrium with a third system, then they are in thermal equilibrium with each other
What is Zeroth law of thermodynamics Law?
The city where a tank holding methyl isocyanate (MIC), a toxic intermediate chemical, in the process of making pesticides was released
What is Bhopal, India?