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Write the word that is defined in each box on the left
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Definition
Word
Mass
Kilogram
Length
Metre
Time
Second
Thermodynamic Temperature
Kelvin
Electric Current
Ampere
Amount of a substance
Mole
Luminosity
Candela
The temperature and pressure at which a substance can exist in all three phases at once
Triple point
The sum of kinetic and potential energy of the molecules of a substance
Internal Energy
The world's two largest civil aviation companies
Airbus
The world's two largest civil aviation companies
Boeing
(Claimed) British Inventor of the Jet Engine
Frank Whittle
Flight regime of most civil aircraft, corresponding to subsonic speeds with areas of supersonic flow around the wings of a plane
Transsonic
First man-made object to be put into Earth's orbit
Sputnik
Discovered/Invented the three laws of motion
Isaac Newton
The most common long-term failure mechanism
Fatigue
A compound containing at least one metal
Alloy
Defined as stress divided by strain; a measure of a material's elastic stiffness
Young's Modulus
Perfectly aligned microscopic lattice structure
Crystal
The process of using software to assist in product design
Computer-aided Design
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
Theorem used to give the maximum guaranteed safe loading on a structure
Lower Bound Theorem
Theorem used to give the minimum guaranteed failure loading on a structure
Upper Bound Theorem
Famous Scottish rotating boat lift
Falkirk Wheel
The tallest man-made structure ever built
Burj Khalifa
The most common building material in the world (by mass)
Concrete
The failure mode of a slender rod in compression
Buckling
The opposite of compression
Tension
Element of a potential divider circuit
Resistor
Effectively a very small gap in a circuit
Capacitor
Effectively a tight coil of wire in a circuit
Inductor
The building block of any computing device
Transistor
An electrical insulator
Dielectric
Inventor of the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
Circuits are built on PCBs. What does PCB stand for?
Printed Circuit Board
A process to be followed in calculations
Algorithm
A program that translates a high-level language into machine code
Compiler
The father of modern computing; helped to crack the enigma code
Alan Turing
Current hot topic where instead of writing code to perform a task, the code writes code to perform the task
Machine Learning
The most common probability distribution
Normal
The area of design concerning complex algorithm-following machinery
Robotics
Common data compression file type
ZIP file
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1 Comments
afmarsha
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Level 70
Sep 14, 2023
This quiz is not clear. "Mass" is not a definition of "kilogram". Rather Kilogram is the standard unit of mass. Same thing goes for metro, second, ampere, etc.
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