| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Trigonometric function defined as the ratio between the opposite side and the hypotenuse | Cosine | 71%
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| Electric current multiplied by the voltage results in this quantity | Power | 56%
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| Condition that occurs when the sum of all forces and the sum of all moments acting on a body are equal to zero | Equilibrium | 54%
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| When circuit elements are arranged in this type of circuit, the current flowing through them is constant | Series | 48%
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| A thermodynamic quantity that represents the degree of disorder in a system | Entropy | 46%
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| The oldest type of engineering profession | Civil | 43%
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| A type of beam that has a fixed support at only 1 end | Cantilever | 38%
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| Change in pitch that occurs when a sound source is moving with respect to the listener | Doppler effect | 38%
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| A property of a square matrix A that is denoted by |A| | Determinant | 37%
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| The frequency of a pendulum is only dependent on the acceleration due to gravity and this property of the pendulum | Length | 35%
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| An integral transform that converts a function in time to a function of s which is equal to the integral of the product of the function in t and e^(-st), from zero to infinity | Laplace | 28%
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| The most efficient type of heat engine | Carnot | 26%
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| The loss of value of a certain investment from its present worth until it reaches its salvage value | Depreciation | 22%
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| Conic section that has an eccentricity equal to 1 | Parabola | 22%
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| Part of the quadratic formula inside the radical sign that determines the number of distinct roots of a quadratic equation | Discriminant | 21%
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| The law of thermodynamics that states: if object A is in thermal equilibrium with object B, and object B is in thermal equilibrium with object c, then object A is in thermal equilibrium with object C. | Zeroth | 21%
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| A type of interest which is of the form F = P(1 +iN) where F is the future worth, P is the present worth, i is the interest, and N is the number of interest periods | Simple | 16%
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| Stress divided by strain (when the body obeys Hooke's Law) | Modulus of elasticity | 12%
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| Ratio between the deformation of a body caused by subjecting it to stress and its original length | Poisson's ratio | 9%
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| A special kind of differential equation which has the form: dy/dx + yP(x) = Q(x)y^n | Bernoulli | 5%
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