Un-Answered Questions { Engineering AllOther }

What is the significance of superconductors?

755


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

1178


Why do windmills never appear stationary?

1150


How do trains go around bends?

825


Explain about a light bulb

754


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

1027


Explain momentum?

787


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

1039


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

773


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?

909


Please derive the formula for the area of a circle.

821


Explain work?

737


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?

1991


What are the fundamental differences between Engineering and Physics?

736


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

832