Un-Answered Questions { Engineering AllOther }

What is the significance of superconductors?

604


Why do sausages split lengthways, rather than around the circumference?

1021


Why do windmills never appear stationary?

954


How do trains go around bends?

664


Explain about a light bulb

613


If I am in a room with 5 people and guess all their birthdays what is the probability of getting (only) one correct?

759


Explain momentum?

609


Why did they used to make the mill chimneys so tall?

767


What is Moore's law and what limits the size of a computer chip?

609


A rectangular sheet dimensions a x b is to be made into an open-topped box by cutting a square of side h from each corner and folding the 4 sides up. Find the value of h which allows the maximum volume of the box?

731


Please derive the formula for the area of a circle.

626


Explain work?

582


If you had a cylinder, sealed at both ends, with the pressure rising inside, would it blow at the end or split along the side first?

1747


What are the fundamental differences between Engineering and Physics?

602


What would happen if you drilled through the Earth all the way to the other side and then jumped into the hole?

660