MESL IH 1-100 (68 Cards)

Which of the following is the standard acceleration due to gravity in the English unit?

32.2 fps²

A change in position, specified by a length and a direction is said to be:

Displacement

The process of one substance mixing with another because of molecular motion is known as:

Diffusion

Those cost that arise at the result of a change in operations or policy or it is the ratio of a small increment cost and a small increment of output.

Differential cost

What is acid test ratio?

The ratio of current assets (exclusive of inventory) to the total current liabilities.

How do you call an energy required to move 1 Coulomb of charge through an element?

Voltage

In electricity, how do you call the rate of charge flow?

Current

Which of the following is the equivalent of 1 ampere?

1 Coulomb per second

This is the process of expressing a polynomial as the product of another polynomial or monomial of lower degree. What is this mathematical process?

Factoring

This is the point where the concavity of a curve changes or when the slope of the curve is neither increasing nor decreasing. What is this point?

Point of inflection

How do you call the axis of hyperbola that passes through the center, the foci, and the vertices?

Transverse axis

What is the number, which could not be expressed as a quotient of two integers?

Irrational

How do you call the distance of a point from the y-axis?

Abscissa

A polygon with 10 sides is said to be:

Decagon

The economic order quantity (EOQ) is defined as the order quantity which minimizes the inventory cost per unit time. Which of the following is not an assumption of the basic EOQ model with no shortages?

There is an upper bound on the quantity ordered.

How do you classify work-in-process?

An asset

Which of the following does not affect owner's equity?

License to start business

How do you call an increase in the value of a capital asset?

Capital gain

Another term of rhombus is said to be:

Diamond

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Answer

A polygon with twelve sides is known:

Dodecagon

How do you call the integral of any quotient whose numerator is the differential of the denominator?

Logarithm

What is the reason why an ivory soap floats in the water?

The specific gravity of ivory soap is less than that of water.

What do you think is the negotiation of wage rates, conditions of employment, etc., by representatives of the labor force and management?

Collective bargaining

How do you call a type of bond where the corporation's owner name is recorded and the interest is paid to the owner's without their asking for it?

Registered bond

What do you think is the output or sales at which income is insufficient to equal operating cost?

Break-even point

What is an estimate of asset's net market value at the end of its estimated life?

Salvage value

What do you think is the provision in the contract that indicates the possible adjustment of material cost and labor cost?

Escalatory clause

What can you say about the present worth of all depreciation over the economic life of an item?

Depreciation recovery

This is the process of determining the value of certain property for specific reasons. What is this?

Appraisal

What do you think are those products or services that are required to support human life and activities that will be purchased in somewhat the same quantity even though the price varies considerably?

Necessity products and services

How do you call a market where there is only one buyer of an item for which there are no good substitutes?

Monopsony

Which of the following is not a property of magnetic field lines?

The lines cross themselves only at right angles.

Tesla is unit of which of the following?

Magnetic induction

How do you call a polygon with 10,000 sides?

Myriagon

It is any influence capable of producing a change in the motion of an object.

Force

How do you call a ring shaped surface or solid obtained by rotating a circle about a coplanar line that does not intersect?

Torus

If the eccentricity is less than one, then the curve is:

Ellipse

What do you say to the following statement: "The volume of a circular cylinder is equal to the product of its base and altitude."

Theorem

What is the study of the properties of figures of three dimensions?

Solid Geometry

Points that lie on the same plane

Coplanar

The sum of all the cost incurred by the originators of the project up to time that the promoters of the project accepts the project is known as:

Development cost

This is a number sequence where the succeeding term is obtained by adding the last pair of preceding terms such as the sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,…). How do you call this number sequence?

Fibonacci number

If the roots of an equation are zero, then, how do you classify the solutions?

Trivial solutions

This law in electrical circuits states, "The algebraic sum of currents entering a node (or a closed boundary) is zero." How do you call this law?

Kirchhoff's current law

This law in electrical circuits states, "The algebraic sum of all voltages around a closed path (or loop) is zero." How do you call this law?

Kirchhoff's voltage law

In electrical, what is the SI unit of conductance?

Siemens

How do you call the opposite of the prefix nano?

Giga

What do you call a triangle having three unequal sides?

Scalene

This measure of central tendency is defined as the most frequent score. How do you call this measure?

Mode

Which of the following is the equivalent of 1 mil?

One-thousandth of an inch

Any number expressed in place-value notation with base 12 is known as:

Duodecimal

Which of the following is true regarding the minimum attractive rate of return used in judging proposed investments?

It is frequently a policy decision made by an organization's management.

Which of the following situations has a conventional cash flow so that an internal rate of return can be safely calculated and used?

You invest in a safe dividend stock and receive dividends each year.

Which of the following events will cause the optimal lot size, given by the classic EOQ model with no shortages, to increase?

A or C above

What is the indirect product cost (IPC) spending variance?

The difference between actual IPC and IPC volume adjusted budget.

Another name for derivative is said to be:

Differential coefficient

A prefix denoting a multiple of ten times any of the physical units of the System International.

Deka

The Father of Plane Geometry.

Euclid

This is the case of a solution of a plane triangle where the given data leads to two solutions. How do you call this case?

Ambiguous case

It is a type of polygon in which each interior angle must be less than or equal to 180°, and all vertices point upwards away from the interior. How do you call this polygon?

Convex polygon

How do you call the formula used to compute the value of n factorial, where n is a large number?

Stirling's approximation

When two planes intersect with each other, the amount of divergence between the two planes is expressed by measuring the:

Dihedral angle

How do you call those products or services that are directly used by people to satisfy their wants?

Consumer goods and service

These are used to produce goods and service. What are these?

Producer goods and service

How do you call a cylinder with elliptical cross-section?

Cylindroid

Which statement about a charge placed on a dielectric material is true?

The charge is confined to the region in which the charge was placed.

What is a pole pitch?

The space on the stator allocated to one pole.