Engineering Quiz

Write the word that is defined in each box on the left

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Definition	Word
Mass	Kilogram
Length	Metre
Time	Second
Thermodynamic Temperature	Kelvin
Electric Current	Ampere
Amount of a substance	Mole
Luminosity	Candela
The temperature and pressure at which a substance can exist in all three phases at once	Triple point
The sum of kinetic and potential energy of the molecules of a substance	Internal Energy
The world's two largest civil aviation companies	Airbus
The world's two largest civil aviation companies	Boeing
(Claimed) British Inventor of the Jet Engine	Frank Whittle
Flight regime of most civil aircraft, corresponding to subsonic speeds with areas of supersonic flow around the wings of a plane	Transsonic
First man-made object to be put into Earth's orbit	Sputnik

Definition	Word
Discovered/Invented the three laws of motion	Isaac Newton
The most common long-term failure mechanism	Fatigue
A compound containing at least one metal	Alloy
Defined as stress divided by strain; a measure of a material's elastic stiffness	Young's Modulus
Perfectly aligned microscopic lattice structure	Crystal
The process of using software to assist in product design	Computer-aided Design
Using numerical methods to solve a complex set of equations for various purposes e.g. Finding the load distribution on a chassis	Finite Element Analysis
Theorem used to give the maximum guaranteed safe loading on a structure	Lower Bound Theorem
Theorem used to give the minimum guaranteed failure loading on a structure	Upper Bound Theorem
Famous Scottish rotating boat lift	Falkirk Wheel
The tallest man-made structure ever built	Burj Khalifa
The most common building material in the world (by mass)	Concrete
The failure mode of a slender rod in compression	Buckling
The opposite of compression	Tension

Definition	Word
Element of a potential divider circuit	Resistor
Effectively a very small gap in a circuit	Capacitor
Effectively a tight coil of wire in a circuit	Inductor
The building block of any computing device	Transistor
An electrical insulator	Dielectric
Inventor of the lightbulb	Thomas Edison
Circuits are built on PCBs. What does PCB stand for?	Printed Circuit Board
A process to be followed in calculations	Algorithm
A program that translates a high-level language into machine code	Compiler
The father of modern computing; helped to crack the enigma code	Alan Turing
Current hot topic where instead of writing code to perform a task, the code writes code to perform the task	Machine Learning
The most common probability distribution	Normal
The area of design concerning complex algorithm-following machinery	Robotics
Common data compression file type	ZIP file

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Sep 14, 2023

This quiz is not clear. "Mass" is not a definition of "kilogram". Rather Kilogram is the standard unit of mass. Same thing goes for metro, second, ampere, etc.

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