Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1063
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1063 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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The DeSoto automobile was manufactured and marketed by the now-defunct DeSoto Division of General Motors - True or False
The correct answer is Chrysler Corporation
Taguchi methods are statistical methods developed by Genichi Taguchi to increase the power output of steam turbines
It was to improve the quality of manufactured goods
One US gallon equals 321.0 cubic inches - True or False
The correct answer is 231.0 cubic inches
In Electrical Engineering - The voltage generated by a battery or by the magnetic force according to Faraday's Law is called "emf" - True or False
emf = electromotive force
Algebra is a branch of mathematics that studies triangles and the relationships between the lengths of their sides and the angles between those sides - True or False
The correct answer is Trigonometry
Fortran is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that was developed by Microsoft - True or False
It was developed by IBM
In Fluid Mechanics - Flows with low Reynolds numbers are classified as Laminar Flow - True or False
Standard gravity, or standard acceleration due to free fall of an object in a vacuum near the surface of the earth is equal to 32.174 ft/s2 (9.80665 m/s2 ) - True or False
Alan Shepard was the first American in space - True or False
The Tesla is the SI derived unit of Electric Charge - True or False
The correct answer is - Magnetic Flux Density