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Are You Smarter than an Undergraduate? November 2021PEimpact KH2023-06-09T15:14:31-06:00

Are you smarter than an undergraduate

PDHengineer's monthly quiz for engineers

Will your score on this month’s quiz be FOWL? Here’s the November 2021 Pop Quiz for Engineers. Are you smarter than an undergraduate?

Question 1: The deadliest engineering structural collapse in U.S. history resulting from human error was the _______________.
- Big Dig ceiling collapse in Boston, MA
- Hyatt Regency Walkway collapse in Kansas City, MO
- I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN
- Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse in Washington state

Question 2: When discussing active and passive lateral earth pressure, two relatively simple classical theories that are widely used are Coulomb Earth Pressure and _________ Earth Pressure.
- Rankine
- Euler
- Davidson
- Smith-Weber

Question 3: The continuity equation in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics states that in steady flow of an incompressible fluid, the ___________.
- Velocity in = Velocity out
- Pressure in = Pressure out
- Mass flow in = Mass flow out
- All of the above

Question 4: Reactance is measured in ________.
- Volts
- Coulombs
- Farads
- Ohms

Question 5: The thermal conductivity of most solids and liquids varies with the ________ of the substance.
- Temperature
- Pressure
- Volume
- Both A and C

Question 6: Most current loops used for control systems in commercial and industrial applications operate at ________.
- A range of 5 to 50 amps
- A range of 100 to 500 milliamps
- A range of 4 to 20 milliamps
- 10 amps

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