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Physical Laws
Basic Boolean Logic
Material Mechanics
Calculus
Engineering Disasters
100
The principle that stipulates that the total energy in a mechanical system does not change with time.
What is Conservation of Energy
100
When coding with case structures, rather than using 1's and 0's, it is better practice to refer to the high and low signals with these opposing phrases.
What are True and False?
100
Hooke's Law relates the elastic modulus of a material to this dimensionless quantity.
What is strain?
100
This rule is often used in calculus for composite functions.
What is the chain rule?
100
This 80's disaster was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. It caused 31 immediate deaths and the long term affects, such as cancer and deformities are still being accounted for.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
200
The law that states that the current between two points of a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference across and inversely proportional to the resistance of said conductor
What is Ohm's Law
200
If the output is desired to be high only if all the inputs are high, this conjunctive gate should be used.
What is an AND gate?
200
Its easy to remember that torque creates this type of stress that acts parallel to the cross-sectional area since both terms are frequently represented by the Greek letter tau.
What is shear stress?
200
Integration by this two word term is used to expand a function into integrable parts when the function to be integrated is one polynomial divided by another.
What is Partial Fractions?
200
This space shuttle disintegrated shortly after takeoff, due to an O-Ring failure in the right solid rocket booster
What is the Space Shuttle Challenger?
300
Frequently used to model oscillating systems, this law holds that the force of a spring is proportional by a material constant to the displacement of the spring from equilibrium
What is Hooke's Law?
300
For the Boolean equation A+B=C, where A is 1 and B is also 1, it is the value of C.
What is 1?
300
Although it may not fail, normal stress beyond this value will leave a material permanently deformed.
What is the yield stress?
300
This approximation for the area under a curve is named for the German mathematician who developed the concept. The can be taken from the left, the right, the middle, or using the trapezoid rule. Depending on the function, they can be fairly accurate.
What are Riemann sums?
300
The Tacoma Narrows bridge was sometimes referred to as this alliterative nickname describing the large vertical movements it endured from the wind before finally collapsing in 1940.
What is Galloping Gertie?
400
For many simple applications, this law is used to determine the conductive heat transfer in thermal systems.
What is Fourier's Law?
400
This tool can be used to tell whether a propositional expression is true for all legitimate input values.
What is a Truth Table?
400
This unitless term describing the structural capacity of a system beyond the expected load, is an important factor to keep in mind to avoid failure when designing a structure.
What is Factor of Safety?
400
This formula, derived from a power series expansion, can be used to relate an imaginary exponential to a function of sines and cosines.
What is Euler's formula?
400
This vessel was destroyed in less than a minute while trying to dock due to a copious amount of flammable hydrogen. The diesel fuel for the engine continued to burn for several hours after the fact.
What is the Hindenburg?
500
A person's weight is often determined using Newton's second law, where the acceleration due to gravity is defined by this other law, also derived by Isaac Newton.
What is The Law of Universal Gravitation?
500
In hardware, the Boolean 1 and 0 typically correspond to this input parameter for circuitry.
What is Voltage?
500
Temperature change can have an effect on the strain of material. The relationship is given by this coefficient that varies by material.
What is the thermal expansion coefficient?
500
The derivative of a function that is dependent on several variables, with respect to one of those variables.
What is a partial derivative?
500
This disaster took nearly 3 hours from start to finish but, killing more than 1500 people, it is still one of the largest maritime disasters in history.
What is the Titanic?