A) Al-Khazini B) Banū Mūsā C) Al-Jazari D) Al-Biruni
A) Conical measure B) Reciprocating piston pump C) Saqiya chain pump D) Hydrostatic balance
A) Banū Mūsā brothers B) Al-Khazini C) Al-Jazari D) Al-Biruni
A) Thermal expansion controls B) Continuous velocity controls C) Two-step level controls D) Manual pressure regulators
A) Small variations in hydrostatic pressures B) Large volumes of flowing water C) Surface tension fluctuations D) Atmospheric pressure changes
A) Tap valves B) Conical valves C) Float valves D) Plug valves
A) Thermal cooling system B) Fail-safe system C) High-pressure release system D) Continuous flow system
A) Suction pump B) Hydrostatic balance C) Double-concentric siphon D) Crankshaft
A) 1115 B) 973 C) 1206 D) 1121
A) Al-Khazini's balance B) Al-Biruni's conical measure C) Al-Jazari's saqiya machine D) Banū Mūsā's suction pump
A) Maximizing efficiency B) Simplifying construction C) Lowering costs D) Reducing noise
A) Float chambers B) Conical valves C) Suction pipes D) Two-step level controls
A) Pneumatic to rotary B) Rotary to reciprocating C) Reciprocating to rotary D) Linear to hydraulic
A) Quantum theories B) Experimental scientific methods C) Relativistic physics D) Modern thermodynamics
A) Magnetohydrodynamics B) Aerodynamics C) Fluid statics D) Fluid dynamics
A) The invention of the steam engine B) The study of atomic structure C) Human dependence on water, meteorology, and biological processes D) The need for better chemical manufacturing
A) Building skyscrapers B) Calculating planetary orbits C) Developing early electrical grids D) Constructing canals, aqueducts, and maritime transport
A) Through purely abstract mathematics B) Through computer simulations C) Through experiments D) Through ancient folklore
A) Isaac Newton B) Nicolaus Copernicus C) Galileo Galilei D) Claude-Louis Navier
A) Aerospace engineering B) Social psychology C) Geology D) Linguistics
A) In the middle of deserts B) High up in mountain ranges C) In dense forest regions D) Near the shores of rivers
A) Archimedes B) Leonhard Euler C) George Stokes D) Daniel Bernoulli
A) Johann Bernoulli B) Claude-Louis Navier C) Mencius D) Cao Chong
A) The flow of water through canals B) The equivalence of the weight of gold and feathers C) The density of various gases D) The buoyancy of wooden boats
A) The study of prehistoric stone tools B) The development of musical instruments C) The study of ancient pottery techniques D) The study of astronomical bodies and galaxies
A) 250 BC B) 500 BC C) 300 CE D) 100 AD
A) Displacement of boats B) Leverage and pulleys C) Atmospheric pressure D) The speed of river currents
A) Athens B) Rome C) Alexandria D) Cairo
A) Water clock B) Steam engine C) Siphon D) Noria
A) Turbine B) Hydraulic ram C) Chain pump D) Piston pump
A) A valve B) A filter C) A pulley D) A piston
A) Ctesibius B) Hero C) Ptolemy D) Sextus Julius Frontinus
A) Mechanica B) Principia C) De aquaeductibus urbis Romae commentarius D) De Architectura
A) Simon Stevin B) Evangelista Torricelli C) Leonardo da Vinci D) Benedetto Castelli
A) 1586 B) 1643 C) 1628 D) 1648
A) Hydrostatics B) Aerodynamics C) Quantum mechanics D) Thermodynamics
A) Evangelista Torricelli B) Simon Stevin C) Benedetto Castelli D) Raffaello Magiotti
A) Evangelista Torricelli B) Simon Stevin C) Leonardo da Vinci D) Benedetto Castelli
A) 1643 B) 1586 C) 1628 D) 1648
A) Simon Stevin B) Leonardo da Vinci C) Raffaello Magiotti D) Benedetto Castelli
A) Vessel B) Parachute C) Jet D) Streamlined body
A) Tides B) Planetary orbits C) Eddy formation D) Hydraulic jumps
A) 1620 B) 1663 C) 1686 D) 1655
A) A hobby B) A trade C) A science D) A philosophy
A) Viscosity B) Friction C) Evaporation D) Transverse motions
A) The shape of the orifice B) Friction C) The weight of the water D) Transverse currents
A) Blaise Pascal B) Sir Isaac Newton C) Henri Pitot D) Edme Mariotte
A) An arithmetical mean B) The square root C) A geometric mean D) The sum
A) 1687 B) 1705 C) 1713 D) 1720
A) Vena contracta B) Fluid friction C) Surface tension D) Coriolis force
A) It was replenished only once per hour B) It always remained full at the same height C) It was constantly draining until empty D) It was decreasing at a constant rate
A) 1742 B) 1738 C) 1743 D) 1726
A) The principle of fluxions B) The principle of equilibrium C) Newton's laws of motion D) Conservatio virium vivarum
A) John Bernoulli B) Colin Maclaurin C) d'Alembert D) Daniel Bernoulli
A) Leonhard Euler B) John Bernoulli C) Colin Maclaurin D) Daniel Bernoulli
A) Colin Maclaurin B) d'Alembert C) Newton D) Joseph-Louis Lagrange
A) 1738 B) 1752 C) 1744 D) 1743
A) Joseph-Louis Lagrange B) Newton C) Leonhard Euler D) Colin Maclaurin
A) 1752 B) 1757 C) 1786 D) 1777
A) Partial differential equations B) Ordinary differential equations C) Integral equations D) Algebraic equations
A) John Scott Russell B) Abbé Charles Bossut C) Gotthilf Hagen D) George Stokes
A) Inertial force B) Accelerating force C) Viscous drag D) Static pressure
A) Turbulent flow B) Non-dissipative flow C) Creeping flow D) Incompressible flow
A) Diderik Korteweg B) Gustav de Vries C) John Scott Russell D) Gotthilf Hagen
A) Pascal B) Poiseuille C) Stoke D) Newton
A) Non-dissipative flow B) Viscous flow C) Incompressible flow D) Laminar flow
A) Jean le Rond d'Alembert B) Pierre-Louis-Georges du Buat C) Claude-Louis Navier D) George Stokes
A) Arnold Sommerfeld B) Osborne Reynolds C) Stokes D) Hermann von Helmholtz
A) Arnold Sommerfeld B) Horace Lamb C) Osborne Reynolds D) Stokes
A) 1851 B) 1883 C) 1858 D) 1867
A) Horace Lamb B) P. G. Tait C) G. K. Batchelor D) Henri Poincaré
A) Henri Poincaré B) Clifford Truesdell C) Henri Villat D) Philip Saffman
A) G. K. Batchelor B) Clifford Truesdell C) Philip Saffman D) Horace Lamb
A) Thirty-one B) Eighty-two C) One hundred D) Fifty-one
A) Lowell Hydraulic Experiments B) Recherches hydrauliques C) Handbuch der Mechanik und der Hydraulik D) Théorie des Tourbillons
A) Full B) Half C) Two thirds D) One quarter
A) Julius Weisbach B) Henri-Émile Bazin C) Henry G. P. Darcy D) J. B. Francis
A) William Froude B) Osborne Reynolds C) Henry Selby Hele-Shaw D) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
A) Henri-Émile Bazin B) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb C) William Froude D) Henry Selby Hele-Shaw
A) 1894 B) 1910 C) 1904 D) 1939
A) Richard C. Tolman B) Andrey Kolmogorov C) Albert Einstein D) Ludwig Prandtl
A) Vortex dynamics B) The adiabatic condition C) The stress-energy tensor D) The Kutta-Joucowski theorem
A) 1902-1906 B) 1894-1910 C) 1941 D) 1939
A) Richard C. Tolman B) Andrey Kolmogorov C) Ludwig Prandtl D) J. Robert Oppenheimer
A) Cavitation vortices B) Taylor vortices C) Kármán vortex street D) Görtler vortices
A) Görtler vortices B) Wingtip vortices C) Kármán vortex street D) Taylor vortices
A) 1980s B) 1970s C) 1950s D) 1960s
A) MIT B) ETH Zurich C) Harvard University D) Stanford University
A) George M. Whitesides B) Terence Tao C) Stephen C. Terry D) Andreas Manz
A) 1995 B) 1990 C) 1979 D) 2000
A) Polydimethylsiloxane B) Polyethylene C) Polypropylene D) Polystyrene
A) Stanford University B) Clay Mathematics Institute C) Google DeepMind D) International Fluid Mechanics Society
A) Ten B) Three C) Five D) Seven
A) Charles Fefferman B) Andreas Manz C) Terence Tao D) Stephen C. Terry
A) Laser printing B) Nanotube assembly C) 3D printing D) Semiconductor device fabrication
A) Polymerase chain reaction B) Genetic testing C) Capillary electrophoresis D) Gas chromatograph |