Gears and Wings
A car accelerates uniformly from rest to 20 m/s in 4 seconds. What is its average acceleration?
5 m/s2
This process, often used in the production of insulin, involves inserting a gene from one organism into the DNA of another to produce a desired protein.
genetic engineering or recombinant DNA technology
Princeton University's NSBE Chapter is in which region
Region 1
The intro class for all computer scientist at Princeton
COS126
Infamous junior year lab based class for all ECE Majors
Car Lab
This law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or converted.
First Law of Thermodynamics
How many moles of HCl are required to neutralize 1 mole of NaOH in the following reaction: HCl+NaOH→NaCl+H2O
1 mole
The 50th Annual NSBE Convention was held where
Atlanta
Convert the 8-bit binary number 101101102 to its decimal equivalent
182
If the inputs to a 2-input AND gate are 1 and 0, what will be the output
0
A solid cylinder of mass 5 kg and radius 0.2 m is rotating with an angular velocity of 10 rad/s. What is its rotational kinetic energy?
0.5 J
A 2-liter container holds an ideal gas at 1 atmosphere of pressure and a temperature of 300 K. If the temperature is increased to 600 K while the volume stays the same, what is the new pressure?
2 atm
The Pre-Collegiate Initiative(PCI) Chair of Princeton's NSBE chapter for the 24-25 academic school year
Ephraim
A famous unsolved problem in computer science, this question asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be quickly solved.
P vs NP problem
You have a circuit with a 12 V battery and two resistors in series, one with 4 Ω and one with 8 Ω. What is the current flowing through the circuit?
1A
A projectile is launched at an angle of 45° with an initial speed of 20 m/s. What is the maximum height reached by the projectile?
10.2 m
In a distillation column, component A has a boiling point of 80°C, and component B has a boiling point of 120°C. If the mixture is heated to 100°C, which component will dominate the vapor phase?
component A
This university is where the National Society of Black Engineers was founded
Purdue University
Given an array of 1000 elements, what is the time complexity of a binary search algorithm in terms of Big O notation?
O(logN), where N is 100
A 100μF capacitor is charged through a 200Ω resistor. How long will it take for the capacitor to charge to 63% of its maximum voltage?
20ms or .02 seconds
This fundamental equation describes the relationship between lift, drag, air density, and velocity in aerodynamics.
Bernoulli Equation or Lift Equation
How many moles of solute are present in 1 liter of a 0.5 M NaCl solution?
0.5moles
The year NSBE was founded
1975
If you have a sorted list of 8 elements, how many comparisons will it take to find an item using binary search in the worst case?
3 comparisons
A proton with a charge of 1.6×10-19 C is moving with a velocity of 2×106 m/s in a magnetic field of 0.5 T. The magnetic field is perpendicular to the velocity. Calculate the magnitude of the force exerted on the proton.
1.6×10-13 N