Chemistry Engineering
This state of matter has a definite volume but takes the shape of its container.
What is a liquid?
This SI unit measures energy, work, and heat, defined as one newton applied over one meter.
What is the joule?
This imaging technology uses powerful magnets and radio waves to produce detailed images of soft tissue.
what is a MRI?
This law states that voltage equals current multiplied by resistance.
What is Ohm's Law?
This symbol, "//" or "#" depending on the language, marks text in code that the compiler/interpreter ignores.
What is a comment?
What is Charles's Law?
law states that the volume of a gas is directly proportional to its temperature at constant pressure.
This law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
This blood-filtering medical device does the work of failed kidneys by removing waste and excess fluid from the bloodstream.
What is a dialysis machine (dialyzer)?
This breadboard-friendly component limits current flow and is often color-coded with bands to indicate its value.
What is a resistor?
This structure stores multiple values of the same type in a single, indexed variable.
What is an array?
This piece of equipment separates a liquid mixture into components based on differences in boiling point, using a tall column of trays or packing.
What is a distillation column?
This thermodynamic cycle, made of two isentropic and two constant-volume processes, models a gasoline engine.
What is the Otto cycle?
This biomedical imaging technique uses high-frequency sound waves and is commonly used to visualize a developing fetus.
What is ultrasound (sonography)?
This flat board of copper traces etched onto an insulating substrate is used to mechanically support and electrically connect components in nearly all modern electronics.
What is a PCB?
This networking protocol, paired with IP, breaks data into packets and guarantees reliable, ordered delivery.
What is TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)?
This dimensionless number compares convective to conductive heat transfer at a boundary, used to characterize heat exchanger performance.
What is the Nusselt number?
This type of stress occurs when a material is twisted around its axis, like a driveshaft under load.
What is torsional stress (torque/shear)?
This branch of biomedical engineering designs artificial limbs and joints to restore lost function.
What are prosthetics?
What is an inductor?
A passive component that opposes changes in current by storing energy in a magnetic field.
This layer of software sits between hardware and applications, managing memory, processes, and files.
What is an operating system (OS)?
This principle states that when a system at equilibrium is disturbed, it shifts to counteract the change.
What is Le Chatelier's Principle?
"The remnants of Hurricane Ida recently dropped 7.5 inches of rainfall on New York City. Estimate the number of Olympic-sized swimming pools that could have been filled with the water that fell on New York due to Ida."
What is roughly 50,000–60,000 pools?
This technology uses a patient's own electrical brain signals, recorded via implanted or scalp electrodes, to control external devices like robotic arms or computer cursors.
What is a brain-computer interface (BCI)?
This circuit-analysis theorem lets you replace any complex linear network with a single voltage source and one series resistor.
What is Thevenin's Theorem?
This cryptographic concept uses a public key to encrypt data and a separate private key to decrypt it.
What is public-key encryption?