Definition
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Word
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Mass
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Kilogram
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Length
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Metre
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Time
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Second
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Thermodynamic Temperature
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Kelvin
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Electric Current
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Ampere
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Amount of a substance
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Mole
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Luminosity
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Candela
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The temperature and pressure at which a substance can exist in all three phases at once
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Triple point
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The sum of kinetic and potential energy of the molecules of a substance
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Internal Energy
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The world's two largest civil aviation companies
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Airbus
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The world's two largest civil aviation companies
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Boeing
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(Claimed) British Inventor of the Jet Engine
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Frank Whittle
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Flight regime of most civil aircraft, corresponding to subsonic speeds with areas of supersonic flow around the wings of a plane
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Transsonic
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First man-made object to be put into Earth's orbit
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Sputnik
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Discovered/Invented the three laws of motion
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Isaac Newton
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The most common long-term failure mechanism
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Fatigue
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A compound containing at least one metal
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Alloy
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Defined as stress divided by strain; a measure of a material's elastic stiffness
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Young's Modulus
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Perfectly aligned microscopic lattice structure
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Crystal
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The process of using software to assist in product design
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Computer-aided Design
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Using numerical methods to solve a complex set of equations for various purposes e.g. Finding the load distribution on a chassis
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Finite Element Analysis
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Theorem used to give the maximum guaranteed safe loading on a structure
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Lower Bound Theorem
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Theorem used to give the minimum guaranteed failure loading on a structure
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Upper Bound Theorem
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Famous Scottish rotating boat lift
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Falkirk Wheel
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The tallest man-made structure ever built
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Burj Khalifa
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The most common building material in the world (by mass)
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Concrete
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The failure mode of a slender rod in compression
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Buckling
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The opposite of compression
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Tension
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Element of a potential divider circuit
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Resistor
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Effectively a very small gap in a circuit
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Capacitor
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Effectively a tight coil of wire in a circuit
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Inductor
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The building block of any computing device
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Transistor
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An electrical insulator
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Dielectric
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Inventor of the lightbulb
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Thomas Edison
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Circuits are built on PCBs. What does PCB stand for?
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Printed Circuit Board
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A process to be followed in calculations
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Algorithm
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A program that translates a high-level language into machine code
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Compiler
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The father of modern computing; helped to crack the enigma code
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Alan Turing
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Current hot topic where instead of writing code to perform a task, the code writes code to perform the task
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Machine Learning
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The most common probability distribution
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Normal
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The area of design concerning complex algorithm-following machinery
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Robotics
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Common data compression file type
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ZIP file
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