PalaSSCPan Flashcards - Additional Mats
Shaping a Sustainable Future Through Engineering
UNESCO’s theme for World Engineering Day
Future-Ready Red Spartans: Empowered with Sustainability & Innovation Thinking
BSU’s theme for World Engineering Day
The partially-collapsed bridge in Isabela region, spanning 990 meters, which cost Php 1.23 billion to construct.
Cabagan - Sta. Maria Bridge
A new gene editing technology that allows scientists to modify DNA sequences with precision.
CRISPR
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
CRISPR stands for
Cas9 protein and gRNA
Key molecules in CRISPR-Cas9 system
Erwin Tulfo, Lito Lapid/Bong Revilla/Pia Cayetano (tie)
Top 3 senatorial preferences as of February 26
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, highlighted for developing a technology for cancer reversal treatment.
KAIST
Originally beans or stones moved in grooves of sand, this tool still remains in common use for basic operations.
Abacus
A physical measurement technically defined as force divided by the area over which that force is being applied.
Pressure
Naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions in the atmosphere or ground temporarily equalize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of as much as one billion joules of energy.
Lightning
Polymer-based materials that are difficult to recycle, which bacteria are being bred to eat.
Plastic
The world’s tallest and fastest rollercoaster designed by Intamin Amusement Rides, topping accelerating speeds of 128 mph.
Kingda Ka
The numerically-named ‘Great Adventure’ amusement park in New Jersey where Kingda Ka opened in 2005.
Six Flags
A 72-story skyscraper on London Bridge street designed by Renzo Piano, sharing its name with a broken piece of glass with sharp edges.
The Shard
The ginormous hydroelectric piece of infrastructure straddling the Arizona-Nevada border compared to Boulder City’s Copper Mountain Solar Facility by Barack Obama.
Hoover Dam
The East Coast private research university where a beaver named Tim serves as the mascot for the sports teams.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
A data engineering team member who majored in computer science and theater in college.
Paddy
A bridge named after European explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano that connects Staten Island to Brooklyn.
Verrazano Bridge
The world’s tallest masonry dam built in 1969 at a towering 406 feet in India.
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
Elemental metal produced by Alcoa and Arconia.
Aluminum
The point in a structure where the load is concentrated and distributed to the supporting members.
Node
The attraction between molecules that holds molecules of the same substance together.
Cohesion
A substance’s ability to return to its original shape after being deformed under stress.
Elasticity
The process of joining two metal pieces by melting them and allowing them to cool and solidify, creating a bond.
Welding
The unit of electrical resistance.
Ohm
The study and design of computer systems and networks.
Computer Engineering
Thermodynamic properties that are independent of the size of the system.
Intensive Properties
Bases that can neutralize acids.
Alkali
A branch of fluid mechanics that deals with fluids at rest.
Hydrostatics
Steel that has carbon as its principal hardening agent.
Carbon Steel
The maximum stress a material can withstand without undergoing permanent deformation.
Yield Stress
The only type of support that has one moment, not allowing any movement or rotation at the point of support.
Fixed Support
The acid used in glass etching because it is a strong acid that can dissolve the surface of glass.
Hydrofluoric Acid
The ratio of stress to strain exhibited by a specific material under external forces.
Modulus of Elasticity
The field of study encompassing the procurement and production of metals.
Metallurgy
The combination of cutting and scratch test of a material.
File Hardness Test
The method of applying mechanics that assumes all objects are continuous.
Continuum Mechanics
The physical appearance of sodium.
Silver Metal
An element commonly used in making lasers due to its unique optical properties.
Neodymium
A statement of the second law of thermodynamics stating that a heat engine can have a thermal efficiency of 100%.
Kevin-Planck Statement
A member in a truss which does not carry any load.
Zero Force Member
The study of the geometry of motion, focusing on position, velocity, and acceleration without considering forces.
Kinematics
The branch of physics that studies how fluids react to forces.
Fluid Mechanics
Type of bonding where electrostatic attraction is predominant.
Ionic bonding
The law stating that the stress applied to a solid material is directly proportional to the strain produced in the material.
Hooke’s Law
A class of hydrocarbons that consist of only single bonds between carbon atoms.
Paraffins or Alkanes
A class of hydrocarbons consisting of saturated hydrocarbons with single bonds.
Paraffins or Alkanes
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Emissivity of a black body
A type of steel that has 0.8% carbon and 100% pearlite.
Eutectoid
A large molecule with two alternating mers, consisting of two or more different monomers.
Copolymer
A type of polymer that exhibits rubber-like properties, such as high elasticity and flexibility.
Elastomer
Steel products that have been coated with zinc.
Galvanized steel
A Philippine non-profit organization that provides support and care facilities for elderly LGBTQ people.
Home for the Golden Gays
The world’s first reusable space vehicle.
The Space Shuttle
Called the 1st Filipino Diplomat.
Felipe Agoncillo
An anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe published in 1852 that had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly
A non-metallic element found extensive use in photocopying machines.
Selenium
An ancient siege weapon resembling a catapult, used during medieval warfare to hurl projectiles.
Mangonel
The line segment from the center of a regular polygon to the midpoint of its side.
Apothem
The First American civil-governor of the Philippines.
William Howard Taft
A massive suspension bridge known for its rustic red color, built in the early 1900s.
Golden Gate Bridge
The nearest star to Earth, other than the Sun.
Proxima Centauri
The world’s longest bridge, spanning over 164 kilometers (102 miles) across China’s Jiangsu province.
Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge
One of Rizal’s siblings who died early, said to be Rizal’s ‘First sorrow.’
Concepion
A Bhutanese tradition where young men stealthily enter an unmarried woman’s house to spend the night with them.
Bomena
It is a colorless, pungent gas commonly used in the industry as a fertilizer, refrigerant, and in the production of various chemicals. Additionally, it plays a vital role in biological processes and is found in cleaning products/household cleaners.
Ammonia
What orbiting laboratory, jointly operated by multiple space agencies including NASA, ESA, Roscosmos and others, serves as a platform for scientific research and international cooperation, hosting astronauts from various countries for long-duration missions in space?
The International Space Station (ISS)
The Philippines’ own version of a dowry system, where the groom’s payment is determined by the parents of the bride according to their social position and/or sometimes selfish motivation.
Dote or Bigay-Kaya
Song by Queen from the album, a night at the opera (1975). This song is notable for the lack of refraining chorus. It is one of the progressive rock songs of the 1970s to achieve widespread acclaim and commercial success and appeal to a mainstream audience.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Molecule that serve as the primary energy currency in cells. It is continuously synthesized through cellular respiration, primarily in the mitochondria of eukaryotic cells and cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells. It is also regenerated through processes like photosynthesis in plants.
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
The time it takes for the tank to empty completely through the hole.
65.45 minutes
The 2024th letter when the letters of the word THINKERS are repeatedly and consecutively written.
S
Governor-General of the Philippines from 1869 to 1871 and is considered one of the most beloved governor-general assigned to the Philippines.
Carlos María de la Torre y Navacerrada
19th century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and how often pessimistic terms. He is known for his short story, “The Necklace.”
Guy de Maupassant
Given 2 vectors with equal magnitude, what must be the angle between them so that their resultant has a magnitude equal to each of the given vectors?
120 degrees
A pipe with a diameter of 2 meters carries water at a velocity of 2m/s. If the pipe narrows to a diameter of 1 meter downstream, what is the velocity of water at that point, assuming steady flow and conservation of mass?
8 m/s
The solution formula used to determine the velocity of water in a pipe when it narrows.
A1v1 = A2v2
What is the pseudonym used by Pablo Faced?
Quioquiap
What does the acronym GPT in ChatGPT mean?
Generative Pre-trained Transformer
