Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1043
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1043 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
Challenge your colleagues – can they answer more than you ?
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Gaussian Elimination is a chemical process used in distillation - True or False
It is an algorithm for solving systems of linear equations
A Borescope is used for non destructive testing of metals - True or False
It is used for visual inspection
In mathematics and computer science, truncation is the term for limiting the number of digits right of the decimal point, by discarding the least significant ones. - True or False
What name is given to a machine or mechanism used to reduce the volume of a material through a squeezing process…
The Charpy v-notch test, is used to determine the amount of energy absorbed by a material during fracture - True or False
Nuclear fission is the disintegration of a susceptible atom's nucleus into two different, smaller elements and other particles including neutrons - True or False
A diving bell is a rigid chamber used to transport divers to depth in the ocean - True or False
The term BIM is widely used within the building and construction industry - BIM stands for Building Information Modelling - True or False
In the International System of Units - what name is given to a derived unit of energy, work, or an amount of heat…
In Civil Engineering - An "Abyssinian Well" is any device for securing a suspension or cantilever bridge at either end - True or False
It is a perforated pipe driven into the ground