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100

Newton's Second Law

What is the acceleration of an object that is directly proportional to the net force acting upon it and inversely proportional to its mass?

or

What is F=ma?

100

This device is placed into concrete to increase its tensile strength.

What is reinforcing bar (rebar)?

100

In the following equation for apparent power, is reactive power generated or consumed?

S = 500 - 1200j

What is “generated”

100

The primary force that opposes the motion of an aircraft through the air.

What is drag?

100

The ratio of output work to input work in a system.

What is efficiency?

200

This is the term for the maximum stress a material can withstand before experiencing plastic deformation

What is Yield Strength?

200

This field of civil engineering deals with mapping out surfaces for construction purposes.

What is surveying?

200

What components/gates are in a MUX?

What is “a NOT, AND, & OR”

200

The principle that explains how an aircraft wing generates lift.

What is Bernoulli's principle?

200

The number one with a nano in its prefix would have these many zeroes when written in decimal form.

What is eight?

300

The dimensionless number that determines if flow is laminar or turbulent

What is Reynolds #?

300

This is the load caused by the permanent static wight of structure components.

What is dead load?

300

What law defines the electrostatic force of attraction or repulsion between two points charges?

What is “coulombs law”

300

This Space Shuttle carried the Hubble telescope into its 611.5-kilometer orbit around the earth.

What is the Space Shuttle Discovery?

300

The neutron‑absorbing element used in Chicago Pile‑1 control rods.

What is cadmium?

400

This material has a Poisson's ratio closest to 0

What is cork?

400
This is the minimum yield strength of grade 60 steel in pounds per square inch.

What is 60,000 psi?

400

What is a linear device that has all the properties required for nearly ideal DC amplification and is used extensively in signal conditioning, filtering, or to perform mathematical operations?

What is “an op-amp”

400

The ratio of the velocity of a fluid to the velocity of sound in that fluid.

What is Mach number?

400

The Mars Climate Orbiter space probe was designed to orbit Mars to study its weather but crashed into the planet. The failure was caused by this error.

What is a unit conversion error between English and SI?

500

WD-40 stands for this

What is Water Displacement 40th attempt

500

This is considered the standard time for most concrete to reach maximum strength.

What is 28 days?

500

What is a smearing of power across a frequency spectrum that occurs when the signal being measured is not periodic in the sample interval?

What is “spectral leakage”

500

SpaceX uses this material in their most current Raptor engines.

What is Inconel SX500?

500

The dimensionless number comparing inertial to viscous forces in blood flow.

What is the Reynolds number?