Historical Figures
This young Macedonian king conquered the Persian Empire and is known as "The Great."
Who is Alexander the Great?
A gas is expanded with no change in temperature. The process described is known as
What is isothermal (expansion)?
The state of two or more objects in thermal contact when they have reached a common temperature
What is Thermal Equilibrium?
This type of cell division reduces the chromosome number by half, producing four genetically diverse gametes.
What is meiosis?
This Indian mission, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2008, was the first to orbit the Moon and marked India's entry into lunar exploration.
What is Chandrayaan-1?
This Roman general and statesman played a critical role in the fall of the Roman Republic and was famously assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BCE.
Who is Julius Caesar?
The 3rd law of thermodynamics specifies this property as zero for perfect crystalline substances at absolute zero temperature.
What is entropy?
Which dimensionless number represents the ratio of convective mass transfer to diffusive mass transfer and is used in mass transfer operations?
What is Sherwood Number (Sh)?
This term refers to the complete set of genes or genetic material present in a cell or organism.
What is a genome?
This famous comet, visible from Earth approximately once every 76 years, is one of the most well-known comets in history and was last seen in 1986.
What is Halley's Comet?
This anti-apartheid revolutionary became South Africa's first Black president in 1994, after spending 27 years in prison for his fight against racial segregation.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
A law that states that at the same value of reduced pressure and temperature, the compressibility factor has the same value for all species
What is Law of Corresponding States?
This reactor is a model used to describe chemical reactions in continuous flowing systems of cylindrical geometry
What is Plug flow reactor?
This small ring of DNA is independent from the bacterium's main genome and is commonly used in genetic engineering.
What is a plasmid?
This space telescope, launched in 1990, has provided some of the most detailed images of distant galaxies, nebulae, and other celestial objects, revolutionizing our understanding of the universe.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This 35th President of the United States famously declared, "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country," and led the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This describes the deviation of a real gas from an ideal gas
What is Compressibility Factor?
This is the temperature above which adequate energy is available in the environment to provide an ignition source
What is Autoignition Temperature (AIT)?
This is the process of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms.
What is apoptosis?
This NASA mission, launched in 1977, is the farthest human-made object from Earth and is currently traveling beyond the solar system.
What is the Voyager 1 mission?
Known as the "Iron Chancellor," this German statesman unified Germany in 1871 and served as its first Chancellor, shaping European diplomacy with his Realpolitik strategies.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
This dimensionless number is used to characterize the ratio of thermal resistance within a body to the thermal resistance at its surface and helps determine whether lumped system analysis is valid.
What is the Biot number?
Equation used to determine the pressure drop across a packed bed
What is Ergun equation
Carbon fixation mechanism in plants that enhances photosynthetic efficiency in hot and dry conditions by concentrating CO2 around the enzyme rubisco.
What is C4 pathway (C4 cycle)?
This Soviet satellite, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first artificial Earth satellite and marked the beginning of the space age.
What is Sputnik 1?