Popular Science Australia - 01.04.2018

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