Fluids
What substance has no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure?
Fluid/Liquid
What deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy?
What is revenue minus expenses
Profit
What is the full meaning of RMS?
Root Mean Square
What does RFP stand for?
Request for proposal
What states "the volume of fluid that enters the pipe must equal the volume of fluid that leaves the pipe, even if the diameter of the pipe changes"?
Continuity Principle
What applies the conservation of energy principle to systems where heat transfer and doing work are the methods of transferring energy into and out of the system
1st Law of Thermo
What is unused creativity considered?
What is the "natural response" aka how the circuit responds when the source is removed?
What is the time constant?
What are the 2 types of project contracts?
Lump-sum and Time and material (T&M)
What states that a body totally or partially immersed in a fluid is subject to an upward force equal in magnitude to the weight of the fluid it displaces?
Archimedes Principle
Isentropic
What model shows the center circle being high-value low volume and the outer circle being low-value and high volume?
Von Thunen Rings
What is it when you combine all impedance elements (resistors, capacitors, and inductors) so that the circuit is left with the total impedance in series with the voltage source?
Thevenin equivalent circuit
What is the sequence of stages determining the minimum time needed for an operation, especially when analyzed on a computer for a large organization called?
Critical path
What states that an increase of a fluid's flow will cause a decrease in pressure or potential energy?
Bernoulli's Principle
What is the method of removal of heat from the low temperature and dissipating it to a higher temperature. This is a reversible process.
Refrigeration
What process is one in which 99.99966% of all opportunities to produce some feature of a part are statistically expected to be free of defects?
Six Sigma
What tool would you find in the E-lab that tests and displays voltage signals as waveforms, visual representations of the variation of voltage over time?
Oscilloscope
What is the 2-minute challenge in conflict management?
1- State the behavior objectively
2- Wait for a response
3- Come to a solution to the problem together
The pressure in a static fluid arises from the _____ of the fluid.
weight
What principle specifies limits on the maximum efficiency any heat engine can obtain.
Carnot's rule/theorem
What is the name of this method of transportation: When one or two people take a pick-up truck across the country for a part or product that a company or person needs?
Hotshot
What are the four main types of filters?
Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, and Notch/Band reject
What are the 4 types of projects?
1- Necessary
2- Market conditions
3- Economically justified
4- Pet Project