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Are You Smarter than an Undergraduate? September 2021PEimpact KH2023-06-09T15:15:55-06:00

Are you smarter than an undergraduate

PDHengineer's monthly quiz for engineers

We beLEAF in you to pass this month’s quiz! Here’s the September 2021 Pop Quiz for Engineers. Are you smarter than an undergraduate?

Question 1: The probability of a 2-year event flood event being equaled or exceeded in any year is ________.
- 500%
- 50%
- 5%
- 0.5%

Question 2: The shear strength of soil (S) is expressed in terms of __________.
- Adhesion, unit weight and friction angle
- Cohesion, normal stress and unit weight
- Cohesion, normal stress and friction angle
- None of the above

Question 3: What is considered an acceptable type of flow meter for measuring liquids having large suspended solids?
- Insertion turbine meter
- Orifice plate
- Paddlewheel
- Magmeter

Question 4: On standard induction motors, the full-load speed is typically 96% to 99% of the no-load speed. This is known as ________.
- Efficiency
- Slip
- Sag
- Lapse

Question 5: 316 Stainless steel is considered in the "passive" condition when __________.
- It is acting as an anode
- It is acting as a cathode
- It is covered by a protective oxide film
- It is welded to carbon steel

Question 6: In steel design, LRFD stands for __________.
- Loads Required in Free-body Diagrams
- Load and Resistance Factor Design
- Loads Required for Design
- Live loads, Rain loads, Flood loads and Dead Loads

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