EIT Cheat Sheet 2026
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110 questions
345 min time limit
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- Among bisection, false position, secant, and Newton-Raphson methods, which converges fastest near a simple root? โ Newton-Raphson method
- What is Avogadro's number? โ 6.022 ร 10ยฒยณ
- A motor produces 1500 W at 200 rpm. What torque does it deliver? โ 71.6 Nยทm
- An investment of $10,000 grows to $14,802 in 5 years with continuous compounding. What is the nominal annual interest rate? โ 7.0%
- A reaction is spontaneous under constant temperature and pressure when: โ ฮG < 0
- A PE stamps drawings prepared by an unlicensed engineer she has never supervised. This practice is known as: โ Plan stamping or rubber stamping
- Plane stress condition assumes which stress components are zero? โ ฯ_z, ฯ_xz, and ฯ_yz
- Two events A and B are independent. If P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.5, what is P(A โฉ B)? โ 0.20
- A 2 kg ball moving at 6 m/s undergoes a perfectly inelastic collision with a stationary 4 kg ball. What is the post-collision velocity? โ 2 m/s
- The dot product of vectors A = (3, 4) and B = (1, -2) is: โ -5
- What does stress represent in mechanics of materials? โ Stress is the force per unit area within materials
- A firm's after-tax MARR is 12%. Its effective tax rate is 35%. What is the before-tax MARR? โ 18.5%
- An isolated system undergoes an irreversible process. What can be said about its entropy? โ Entropy increases
- The section modulus S of a cross-section is defined as: โ S = I / c
- What is the general solution to the first-order linear differential equation dy/dx + 2y = 6? โ y = 3 + Ce^(-2x)
- For a pump operating in a piping system, the operating point is determined by: โ The intersection of the pump curve and the system curve
- Which of the following is the correct formula for integration by parts? โ โซ u dv = uv - โซ v du
- The Newton-Raphson method is primarily used for: โ Finding roots of nonlinear equations
- What type of fluid flow has layers sliding past each other smoothly? โ Laminar flow
- During a constant-volume (isochoric) heating process of an ideal gas, which of the following is true? โ All heat added goes to increasing internal energy
- An engineer who holds a PE license is offered a position managing a non-engineering department (e.g., marketing). Which statement is most accurate? โ The PE license requires annual renewal regardless of professional role
- The curl of a conservative vector field F is: โ Zero everywhere
- The Gibbs phase rule for a non-reacting system is F = C - P + 2. For a pure substance (C=1) in a two-phase region (P=2), how many degrees of freedom exist? โ 1
- What is the value of the derivative of x^2 at x = 3? โ 6
- The Laplace transform of f(t) = tยทe^(2t) is: โ 1/(s-2)ยฒ
- The economic service life of an asset is the age at which the: โ Annual worth of costs is minimized
- A 5 kg object is lifted 10 m vertically. How much work is done against gravity? (g = 9.81 m/sยฒ) โ 490.5 J
- A 10 kg block slides down a frictionless incline of 30ยฐ. What is its acceleration along the incline? (g = 9.81 m/sยฒ) โ 4.91 m/sยฒ
- A force couple consists of two 50 N forces separated by a perpendicular distance of 0.8 m. What is the moment of the couple? โ 40 Nยทm
- Which of the following describes the process occurring in the turbine of an ideal Rankine cycle? โ Isentropic expansion
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