Academic Technical Bowl

1. Academic Technical Bowl NSBE at Clarkson

2. The Categories • Math • Science • Engineering • NSBE History • African-American History NSBE at Clarkson

3. Academic Technical Bowl NSBE at Clarkson Final Question

4. 100 What is the inverse cosine of: √3 2 Answer: 30o NSBE at Clarkson Back

5. 200 What is the DERIVATIVE of: 3x2 +2x + 9 Answer: 6x + 2 NSBE at Clarkson Back

6. 300 What is the INTEGRAL of: 3x2 +2x + 9 Answer: X3 + x2 + 9x NSBE at Clarkson Back

7. 400 An amount P is invested at interest rate i per compounding period. F is the account balance after n compounding periods. What formula relates F to P? Answer: F = P(1 + i )n NSBE at Clarkson Back

8. 500 What is the Laplace Transform of: 4cos(4t) Answer: __4s__ s2 + 16 NSBE at Clarkson Back

9. 100 What is Avogadro’s number? Answer: 6.022 x 1023 NSBE at Clarkson Back

10. 200 What type of gases have a complete valence shell? Answer: Noble/Inert gases NSBE at Clarkson Back

11. 300 How many atoms are within a BCC unit cell structure? Answer: 2 atoms NSBE at Clarkson Back

12. 400 The most efficient packing of atoms is found in what type of crystalline lattice? Answer: Body Centered Tetragonal NSBE at Clarkson Back

13. 500 What causes plastic deformation? Answer: Dislocation Motion NSBE at Clarkson Back

14. 100 What is the value of a current that passes through a resistor of 20Ω that has a voltage of 100V? Answer: 5 Amperes NSBE at Clarkson Back

15. 200 Break this force into vector components Answer: 6√2i + 6√2j NSBE at Clarkson Back

16. 300 What is the maximum moment of this beam? Answer: 5600 N.m NSBE at Clarkson Back

17. 400 What is the heat transfer during an isentropic process equal to? Answer: 0 NSBE at Clarkson Back

18. 500 What is the maximum shearing stress, in psi, at pt. A? Answer: 17,500 psi NSBE at Clarkson Back

19. 100 Of the Chicago Six, who is the only one not listed here: Anthony Harris, Brian Harris, John Logan, Edward Coleman, George Smith Answer: Stan Kirtley NSBE at Clarkson Back

20. 200 What was the location of the first National Conference? Answer: Purdue University NSBE at Clarkson Back

21. 300 What was the year that NSBE was incorporated as a non-profit organization? Answer: 1976 NSBE at Clarkson Back

22. 400 What year did the organization change from Society of Black Engineers (SBE) to National Society of Black Engineers? Answer: 1974 NSBE at Clarkson Back

23. 500 Where was the location of the first National Headquarters? Answer: Washington, DC NSBE at Clarkson Back

24. 100 What was the name of the Mississippi civil rights activist that was slain by Byron De La Beckwith? Answer: Medgar Evers NSBE at Clarkson Back

25. 200 Which amendment was written to abolish slavery? Answer: The Thirteenth Amendment NSBE at Clarkson Back

26. 300 What was the name of the church in which four young girls were killed in a Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama? Answer: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church NSBE at Clarkson Back

27. 400 What was the name of the inventor who developed and patented the process for manufacturing the carbon filament? Answer: Lewis Howard Latimer NSBE at Clarkson Back

28. 500 Who was the first African-American to be elected to the House of Representatives? Answer: Joseph Rainey (1870) NSBE at Clarkson Back

29. Final Question Who is the first female National Chairperson of NSBE, as well as the first to serve 2 terms? Answer: Virginia Booth NSBE at Clarkson Back

30. Thank You For Playing! NSBE at Clarkson Back