Engineering News
February 14, 2005 Vol. 76, no. 5S

Genius Corner: Gain fame with our brain game

You might find inspiration for this brainteaser while riding BART through the transbay tube into the city. Send your answer to editnews@coe.berkeley.edu, and include your name, major, and class year. The first person to e-mail the right answer will have his or her name printed in the next issue of Engineering News along with the answer. Twice a semester, one of the biweekly winners will be picked at random to win two movie tickets, courtesy of Engineering Alumni Relations.

How long would it take a half-mile train going one mile a minute to go through a two-mile tunnel?

 

Send your answer to editnews@coe.berkeley.edu, and include your name, major, and class year. The first person to e-mail the right answer will have his or her name printed in the next issue of Engineering News along with the answer. Twice a semester, one of the biweekly winners will be picked at random to win two movie tickets, courtesy of Engineering Alumni Relations.

 


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