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Are You Smarter than an Undergraduate? April 2021PEimpact KH2023-06-09T15:13:40-06:00

Are you smarter than an undergraduate

PDHengineer's monthly quiz for engineers

Will you do EGGcellently on this month’s quiz? Here’s the April 2021 Pop Quiz for Engineers. Are you smarter than an undergraduate?

Question 1: If two bulbs are connected in a series and one blows out, what happens to the other one?
- It continues to glow with the same brightness
- It stops glowing
- It glows with increased brightness
- It also burns out

Question 2: The main component of carbon steel by weight is ________.
- Zinc
- Carbon
- Iron
- Phosphorous

Question 3: The third law of thermodynamics states that a system's entropy approaches a constant value as the temperature approaches _________.
- Infinity
- 212 degrees F
- 32 degrees F
- Absolute zero

Question 4: For a fully saturated soil sample, the volume of voids is equal to the ____________.
- Volume of air
- Volume of water
- Volume of air and water
- Volume of water and solids

Question 5: Which of the following methods is NOT used for desalination?
- Distillation
- Coagulation
- Reverse osmosis
- Freezing

Question 6: Shear stress distribution over a rectangular section beam will be _________.
- Parabolic
- Elliptical
- Triangular
- Trapezoidal

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