Engineering Quiz - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Definition Word % Correct
Time Second
86%
Mass Kilogram
85%
Length Metre
85%
Electric Current Ampere
83%
Discovered/Invented the three laws of motion Isaac Newton
81%
Thermodynamic Temperature Kelvin
78%
The world's two largest civil aviation companies Boeing
62%
Amount of a substance Mole
52%
Inventor of the lightbulb Thomas Edison
49%
A compound containing at least one metal Alloy
47%
The world's two largest civil aviation companies Airbus
45%
The tallest man-made structure ever built Burj Khalifa
43%
The most common building material in the world (by mass) Concrete
41%
The opposite of compression Tension
39%
First man-made object to be put into Earth's orbit Sputnik
38%
Defined as stress divided by strain; a measure of a material's elastic stiffness Young's Modulus
33%
The father of modern computing; helped to crack the enigma code Alan Turing
28%
Element of a potential divider circuit Resistor
28%
Luminosity Candela
27%
The temperature and pressure at which a substance can exist in all three phases at once Triple point
27%
Effectively a very small gap in a circuit Capacitor
26%
The process of using software to assist in product design Computer-aided Design
26%
Perfectly aligned microscopic lattice structure Crystal
23%
The most common long-term failure mechanism Fatigue
22%
The most common probability distribution Normal
22%
Effectively a tight coil of wire in a circuit Inductor
20%
Circuits are built on PCBs. What does PCB stand for? Printed Circuit Board
20%
The failure mode of a slender rod in compression Buckling
19%
The building block of any computing device Transistor
19%
The sum of kinetic and potential energy of the molecules of a substance Internal Energy
16%
A program that translates a high-level language into machine code Compiler
14%
Current hot topic where instead of writing code to perform a task, the code writes code to perform the task Machine Learning
11%
Using numerical methods to solve a complex set of equations for various purposes e.g. Finding the load distribution on a chassis Finite Element Analysis
10%
A process to be followed in calculations Algorithm
8%
Famous Scottish rotating boat lift Falkirk Wheel
5%
(Claimed) British Inventor of the Jet Engine Frank Whittle
5%
Flight regime of most civil aircraft, corresponding to subsonic speeds with areas of supersonic flow around the wings of a plane Transsonic
5%
Common data compression file type ZIP file
5%
An electrical insulator Dielectric
3%
The area of design concerning complex algorithm-following machinery Robotics
2%
Theorem used to give the maximum guaranteed safe loading on a structure Lower Bound Theorem
1%
Theorem used to give the minimum guaranteed failure loading on a structure Upper Bound Theorem
1%
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