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Engineering Trivia Quiz - April 01, 2013
 

This Weeks Engineering Trivia Quiz


The Coffee Break Quiz - A challenging selection of General Engineering 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 !

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  1. The DeSoto automobile was manufactured and marketed by the now-defunct DeSoto Division of General Motors - True or False
  2. Taguchi methods are statistical methods developed by Genichi Taguchi to increase the power output of steam turbines - True or False
  3. One US gallon equals 321.0 cubic inches - True or False
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Fortran is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that was developed by Microsoft - True or False
  7. In Fluid Mechanics - Flows with low Reynolds numbers are classified as Laminar Flow - True or False
  8. 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
  9. Alan Shepard was the first American in space - True or False
  10. The Tesla is the SI derived unit of Electric Charge - True or False

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1) False - It was Chrysler Corporation  2) False - It was to improve the quality of manufactured goods  3) False - it is 231.0 cubic inches  4) True - emf = electromotive force  5) False - It is Trigonometry  6) False - it was developed by IBM  7) True  8) True  9) True  10) False - it is Magnetic Flux Density
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