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Are You Smarter than an Undergraduate? September 2020PEimpact KH2023-06-09T15:15:55-06:00

Are you smarter than an undergraduate

PDHengineer's monthly quiz for engineers

Will you fail this fall? Take the engineering pop quiz and find out!

Question 1: Many fluorescent lamps are classified as hazardous waste because ____________.
- They contain chlorine gas
- They contain mercury
- They contain argon gas
- The incandescent lamp industry has a strong lobby in Congress

Question 2: Which of the following actions can prevent cavitation damage to a control valve?
- Use a valve with a high recovery coefficient
- Increase the downstream pressure by installing a flow restrictor downstream of the valve
- Reduce the downstream pressure by installing an expander downstream of the valve
- Undersize the valve by 50%

Question 3: The _______ equation is used to calculate the drained shear strength of soil.
- Mohr-Coulomb
- Tresca
- Poisson
- Hazen-Williams

Question 4: Moore's Law is a term used to describe ____________.
- The increase in computing power over time
- A technique for finding principal stresses and strains in materials
- Accelerated fatigue failure in asymmetrical rotating objects
- The potential for widespread blackouts in the U.S. power grid

Question 5: _________________insulation typically has the highest thermal resistance per inch of thickness.
- Fiberglass
- Polyisocyanurate
- Polyurethane
- Cellulose

Question 6: After a coating is applied, the ________ determine(s) the corrosion-inhibitive properties and, generally, the color and some flow control properties of the applied coating.
- Pigments
- Binder
- Resin
- Solvent

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