Un-Answered Questions { Engineering AllOther }

What is the significance of superconductors?

594


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

1003


Why do windmills never appear stationary?

941


How do trains go around bends?

653


Explain about a light bulb

605


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

745


Explain momentum?

590


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

754


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

596


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?

721


Please derive the formula for the area of a circle.

622


Explain work?

573


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?

1734


What are the fundamental differences between Engineering and Physics?

582


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

651