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100

What are the 3 states of matter?

What are liquid, solid and gas?

100

What is the principle that energy cannot be create or destroyed?

What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?

100

 What is the derivative of f(x)=x2e?

What is x2ex+ 2xex ?

100

This is the term for a mistake in a program that causes it to behave incorrectly.

What is a bug?

100

What’s the FULL name of USF’s mascot?

Who is Rocky D. Bull?
200

The process of a solid turning directly into a gas without passing through the liquid phase.

What is sublimation?

200

This is the acceleration due to gravity near Earth’s surface, in meters per second squared.

What is 9.8 m/s²?

200

This infinite series 1+1/2+1/3+1/4+... is famous because, unlike the geometric series, it does this.

What is diverge (the harmonic series diverges)?

200

This type of loop continues as long as a condition is true.

What is a while loop?

200

What is generally known as the first "robotics" class for engineers at USF?

What is EGN3000L or Foundations Lab?

300

The energy change associated with breaking and forming chemical bonds in a reaction.

What is enthalpy change (ΔH) ?

300

A circuit component that temporarily stores electrical energy by distributing charged particles on (generally two) plates to create a potential difference.

What is a capacitor?

300

Evaluate the integral ∫2xcos⁡(x2)dx

What is sin⁡(x2)+C?

300

A program that translates code written in a high-level programming language, into a low-level language that a computer's processor can execute.

What is a compiler?

300

Who is the current dean of the College of Engineering? 

Who is Levi Thompson?

400

Lithium-ion batteries work because lithium atoms easily give up this particle.

What is an electron?

400

The device that increases or decreases the voltage of alternating current (AC)

What is a transformer?

400

What is the probability of rolling a sum of 7 with two fair dice?

What is 1/6?
400

In excel, the function that looks up a value in the first column of a table and returns a corresponding value in another column.

What is vlookup or xlookup?

400

USF is classified as a top public research university (R1). Conceptually, what does it mean for a university to be “R1”?

What is a university that conducts research at the highest level of intensity in the U.S. (very high research activity)?

500

The reason catalysts speed up reactions is because they lower this.

What is activation energy?

500

This region of the electromagnetic spectrum has wavelengths longer than visible red light, and it’s the radiation we primarily feel as heat.

What is infrared light (infrared radiation)? 

500

The area under the curve of a probability density function (PDF) over all real numbers must equal what?

What is 1?

500

In MATLAB, which operator is used for element-wise multiplication?

What is .* ?

500

What is the full name of CUTR?

What is the Center for Urban Transportation Research?

1000

Why are metals malleable but ionic solids brittle?

What is because metallic bonds allow electron delocalization while ionic lattices break under repulsion of like charges?

1000

Why is perpetual motion of the second kind (a machine that converts all heat into work with no losses) impossible?

It violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics entropy of an isolated system cannot decrease. Some energy must always remain as heat; no process is 100% efficient.

1000

The region under one arch of y=sin⁡(x)between 0 and pi has this exact area.

What is 2?

1000

In machine learning, this term refers to a model whose internal decision-making process is not easily interpretable, even if its outputs can be observed.

What is a black box model?

1000

The USF College of Engineering was founded in this decade, making it one of the younger engineering schools among major Florida universities.

What are the 1960s? (Specifically 1964)