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Engineering Trivia Quiz - April 22, 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. A sextant is an instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects - True or False
  2. Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the Earth's surface - True or False
  3. A device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation is called a Tazer - True or False
  4. A semiconductor is a material which has electrical conductivity between that of a conductor such as copper and an insulator such as glass - True or False
  5. A screwjack will unwind under load if it is not locked - True or False
  6. In solid mechanics - when analyzing the properties of beams  with constant cross section.-  Saint-Venant's theorem states that the simply connected  cross section with maximal torsional rigidity is a circle - True or False
  7. Cathodic Protection is a process to protect computer systems from viruses - True or False
  8. "Imperial"  was the Chrysler Corporation's luxury automobile brand between 1955 and 1975 - True or False
  9. One cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 lb - True or False
  10. Logarithms were first used by Galileo - True or false

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1) True  2) False - it is east-west  3) False - it is a Laser  4) True  5) False - they are self locking  6) True  7) False - it is a technique used to inhibit corrosion  8) True  9) True  10) False - they were  introduced by John Napier  in the early 17th century
Monday 22 April, 2013 01:05 AM
 
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