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This atomic bond is considered the strongest


What is Covalent
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A falling object is accelerated by gravity until air resistance opposes it equally.
Acceleration equals zero at this point known as this.


What is terminal velocity
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This letter is often used during substitution


What is the letter U
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This car company recalled 9 million vehicles from 2009-2011 for acceleration


What is Toyota
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This singer headlined this year's Superbowl halftime show "like a veteran"


Who is Madonna
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When steel wool is burned it weighs more afterward
due to this process which combines gas with iron.



What is Oxidation or Rusting
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Two gears of different sizes are interlocked.
Gear A has 24 teeth while Gear B has 12.
This gear rotates faster.


What is Gear B
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∫ 1 ⁄ x dx


What is ln(x) + C
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Flawed instrument readings caused operators to cut back on emergency
cooling and nearly cause a widespread nuclear meltdown at this facility in 1979


What is Three Mile Island
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This 2004 Democratic Presidential Nominee recently showed up
to the White House sporting a broken nose and two black eyes


Who is John Kerry
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This noble gas used in high-speed photography lamps
takes it's name from the Greek for "hidden".


What is Krypton
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In this kind of collision, momentum is conserved but kinetic energy is not.


What is an inelastic system
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dy ⁄ dx (y2 + x2 + xy)


What is 2x + y
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Nicknamed "Galloping Gertie", this bridge's epic failure claimed no human lives
but did result in the death of a canine


What is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
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This single syllable singer recently split with his supermodel wife of nearly seven years


Who is Seal
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A chemical known as an anhydride is one that removes this from substances.


What is Water
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This rate of energy conversion is defined as one joule per second.


What is a Watt
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These three coordinate systems are taught in Calculus


What are Cartesian, Polar, and Cylindrical
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Partial collapse of the 160 ft Baldwin Hills Dam in 1963
resulted in the flooding of this major US city and killed 5 people


What is Los Angeles
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After a Civil War era photograph of a man resembling Nicolas Cage surfaced on eBay,
the actor went on Late Night talk shows to dispel the rumors that he was this


What is a vampire or a time-travelling vampire
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This element is the most abundant (by mass)
in both the earth's oceans as well as the human body.


What is Oxygen
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The acronym LASER stands for Light Amplification
by ___ ___ of Radiation.


What is Simulated Emission
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This mathematical series is represented by:
f(a) + f'(a) ⁄ 1! (x-a) + f''(a) ⁄ 2! (x-a)2 + f(3)(a) ⁄ 3! (x-a)3 + ...


What is Taylor Series
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A suspended walkway in the Kansas City Hyatt collapsed during a dance party
in 1981 killing 114 people. The investigation concluded that induced harmonic vibrations
was NOT the cause of the failure because
the frequency induced by the dancers did not equal this parameter


What is the Natural Frequency of the Structure
(also acceptable: the Resonant Frequency)
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Recently deceased singer Whitney Houston is best known for her lead single from the soundtrack to this 1992 movie co-starring Kevin Costner


What is The Bodyguard