The Coffee Break Quiz - A challenging selection of General Engineering questions and answers
sometimes you just don't know what you don't know, but you're sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
Challenge your colleagues - can they answer more than you ?
- Machining a narrow ring around a large circle to produce a large diameter hole, typically in a plate or similar is called Trepanning - True or False
- The automation of machine tools operated by precisely programmed commands encoded on a storage medium is known as CNC - which stands for Central Notional Control - True or False
- In Electrical Engineering, a Volt is defined as the Potential Difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power - True or False
- The operating principle of a Gyroscope is based on a series of Gimbals - True or False
- 1 liter of fresh water = 1 kg = 22 lb - True or False
- What is the name of the stone used to grind and hone the edges of knives and steel tools - a) Whetstone b) Drystone c) Softstone d) Hardstone
- The Bitter electromagnet or Bitter solenoid was invented and built in 1933 by American physicist Francis Bitter and therefore the plates are known as Bitter plates - True or False
- With the chemical symbol Ar, what is the third most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere
- What is the name of a type of particle detector that measures ionizing radiation and is used to detect whether objects emit nuclear radiation
- Pteromechanophobia is also known as aerophobia, aviatophobia and aviophobia and is a fear of what
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ANSWERS
1) True 2) False - CNC stands for Computer Numerical Control 3) True 4) True 5) False - 1 liter of fresh water = 1 kg = 2.2 lb 6) a) Whetstone 7) True 8) Argon 9) Geiger counter (or Geiger-Müller counter) 10) A fear of Flying or of being on an Airplane
