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100

This regulation mandated clean drinking water.

What is the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)?

100

BART is an acronym for.

What is Bay Area Rapid Transit?

100

This is the density of reinforced concrete used in design

What is ~150 pcf?

100

What geometric representation is used to visualize 2-D transformation of stresses?

What is Mohr's Circle?

100

This agency is responsible for ensuring that workplaces are safe.

What is OSHA?

200

This is the equation for the volumetric flow rate.

What is Q=VA?

200

Along which AC Transit line is the closest stop to here?

What is the 79?

200

This state occurs when the degree of static indeterminacy, n, is zero

What is Statically Determinant?

200

What test is used to assess subsurface stratigraphy and geological properties of soil?

What is CPT (Cone Penetration Test)?

200

The designer and contractor work together from the beginning, as a team, providing recommendations to fit the Owner's schedule and budget.

What is the design-build method?

300

Name two criteria air pollutants.

What is particulate matter, ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and lead?

300

Name any Amtrak Service calling at Emeryville that isn't Capitol Corridor

What is the California Zepyhr/Coast Starlight/San Joaquin?

300

This is the elastic modulus, E, of steel

What is ~29,000 ksi OR 200,000 MPa?

300

What is the state rock of California?

What is Serpentine?

300

This document is used to request clarification about documents, drawings, specifications, or other project conditions.

What is an RFI?

400

This is the alkalinity of waters at neutral pH.

What is [HCO3-]?

400

Name the Agencies involved with transportation planning.

What is a Metropoolitian Planning Organization (MPO)/Rural Planning Organizations and Cities?

400

This principle utilizes imaginary forces to find real displacements

What is the Principle of Virtual Forces (PVF)?

400

What graphical method is used to model 2-D groundwater flow through an aquifer?

What is a Flow Net?

400

This analysis is done during preconstruction to reduce costs while maintaining value.

What is value engineering?

500

This is how we find the rate at which pollutants accumulate in a system.

What is mass balance?

500

What are the axes for the Fundamental Diagrams for roads?

What are flow (veh/hr) and density (veh/mi) (units optional)?

500

This is a powerful tool used in structural design to determine worst case scenarios

What are Influence Lines?

500

What is the specific gravity of sand?

What is 2.65? (Range from 2.6 to 2.7 is valid)

500

This money is set aside in the budget for unforeseen conditions.

What is contingency?