Popular Science Australia - 01.04.2018

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tests:This still-current
y exam rates a subject’s grasp of
and mechanics. It assesses how
tential pilots and other recruits
bstract concepts to practical,
rld scenarios.


HANICAL COMPREHENSION

NUED ON PAGE 41

THETEST

[1]In what US state is Pikes Peak?
[2]To what is the disease so-called
beriberi due?
[3]From what do we obtain iodine?
[4]Who wrote the story “The Murders
in the Rue Morgue?”
[5]Name the chemist who discovered
oxygen.
[6]Who built the first steamboat?
[7]How many square feet in an acre?
[8]What is 210 degrees F on the
centigrade scale?
[9]Give the approximate population of
eachof the five largest cities in
the U.S., per 1920 census numbers.
[10]What countries boundary France?
[11] What city and country produce the
finest china?
[12] In what country other than
Australia are kangaroos found?
[13] Who invented logarithms?
[14] Rhode Island is the smallest state.
What is the next and the next?
[15] What is the distance between
Earth and the sun?
[16] What cereal is used in all
parts of the world?
[17] Who made The Thinker?
[18] What is copra?
[19] What is the lightest wood?

1920s

h direction does friction act on
ier?


[C]
[D]

s the intake valve open on this
en the piston goes down?


pressure at X < air pressure at Y
pressure at Z < air pressure at X
pressure at X > air pressure at Y
ressure at Y > air pressure at Z

ng the reach of the above crane
ift its————————.:


l weight
wable speed

[C]centre of gravity
[D]centre of buoyancy

[SPRING 2018]

EDISON


2 LAB

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