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 ?
- In Physics – a Qantas is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction – True or False
- Peanuts are in fact NOT nuts - True or False
- 1/32" (one thirty-second of an inch ) = how many mm
- A Rhombus is a parallelogram with how many equal sides
- Beginning with the letter "V", what is the generic name for a mechanical screw activated tool which is used to hold or clamp a workpiece
- What two word name name is given to an industrial process based on and also called lost-wax casting , it is one of the oldest known metal-forming techniques - a) Inverted Casting b) Intricate Casting c) Incentive Casting d) Investment Casting
- When considering an oscillating system, what name is given to the magnitude of change in the oscillating variable with each oscillation – a) Amplitude b) Swing c) Pulse d) Resonance
- In electronics a switch may be abbreviated to "DPST" - what does this mean
- Degaussing was commonly used in CRT based TV sets and computer monitors to decrease or eliminate unwanted magnetic field – True or False
- The Rockwell scale is a hardness scale based on the ability of a material to withstand shear - True or False
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ANSWERS
1) False - a Quantum is the minimum amount of any physical entity involved in an interaction 2) True - Peanuts are technically legumes and are more closely related to chickpeas and soybeans 3) 0.79375mm 4) Four 5) Vice 6) d) Investment Casting 7) a) Amplitude 8) Double Pole, Single Throw 9) True 10) False - The Rockwell test determines the hardness by measuring the depth of penetration of an indenter
