Circuits
What flows through the wires in a circuit?
What is electricity/electric current?
What is the branch of civil engineering?
A branch that focuses on the construction, maintenance, design of infrastructure.
What is binary?
A base-2 system used to store information in computers.
What are the main materials needed for a working circuit? Hint: There are 4!
What is a wire, light bulb, switch, and battery?
What is a load? What are some types of loads?
Load = a force the acts on a structure
Dead Load, Environmental Load, Live Load
How many ciphers are there?
Why can we use copper tape to connect batteries to LED lights?
What is electric conductivity?
Why are triangles stronger than squares?
The angles of a triangle don't changa unless you change the lengths.
What are the first 8 numbers in the base-2 system?
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128
What can we use to make something vibrate?
What is eccentric weight?
What can engineers do to minimize environmental load?
Specific to weather! Gutters, flexible material, sloped roofs, treated wood.
What does the Atbash Cipher do?
The speed of electricity.
What is 670 million mph
What are some types of flexible materials that engineers use?
Polymers & plastics!
Who was the Caesar Cipher named after?
Julius Caesar!