Engineering Club Jeopardy

Chemical

100

This is the 67th element of the periodic table

What is Holmium?

200

He is considered to be the Father of the periodic table

Who is Mendeleev?

300

IUPAC is an abbreviation for

What is the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry?

400

This is equal to the total internal (potential) energy of a substance

What is Enthalpy?

500

This is the balanced thermochemical equation for the complete combustion reaction of liquid cyclopentane (C₅H_10(l)), including the molar enthalpy combustion value of -3291.6 kJ/mol of cyclopentane

What is C₅H_10(l) + 15/2 O_2(g) ---> 5CO_2(g) + 5H₂O_(g) + 3291.6 kJ?

Mechanical

100

This is the stress that pulls objects apart

What is tension?

200

An engine that converts heat into mechanical work using pistons

What is an internal combustion engine?

300

The term for resistance that opposes motion between two surfaces in contact

What is friction?

400

This heat transfer mode requires no contact between objects and is the reason the Sun’s energy can travel through space to Earth

What is Radiation?

500

What is Newton’s First Law of Motion? (MUST BE FULLY CORRECT BY MS. FEDOR)

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Civil

100

This is the strongest geometric shape

What is a triangle?

200

This is the tallest man-made structure

What is the Burj Khalifa?

300

This is the floor value of 6.7

What is 6?

400

This symbol is used for the coefficient of friction

What is the symbol mew?

500

This stone city dates back to 300BC in Jordan’s southwestern desert

What is Petra?

Electrical

100

An LED stands for

What is a Light-Emitting Diode?

200

This law states the relationship between current, voltage and resistance

What is Ohm's law?

300

Along with the cross-sectional area and length, this variable is used to calculate resistance

What is resistivity?

400

This electronic component unlike a battery, can rapidly charge and almost instantly discharge its stored energy

What is a capacitor?

500

This circuit converts full-wave AC to DC using only diodes

What is a full bridge rectifier?

Biomedical

100

This organelle manufactures proteins

What is the ribosome?

200

ATP, the energy currency of the cell, stands for

What is Adenosine Triphosphate?

300

This type of nucleic acid has these four nitrogenous bases: uracil, cytosine, adenine, and guanine

What is RNA?

400

This process breaks glucose down into energy and pyruvate

What is glycolysis?

500

This chamber is used to treat carboxyhemoglobin toxicity, knocking carbon monoxide off hemoglobin

What is a hyperbaric oxygen chamber?