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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?
Laser rod
Balanced
Irrigation
Brain
2. Who was the first to conclude that the Earth is a giant magnet?
William Gilbert
Low technology robots
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Prototypes
3. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Plow
True
Solve problems
Low technology robots
4. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
Span
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Ultrasonic sensor
5. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Bell Laboratories
Abutments
Irrigation
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
6. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Mechanical advantage
Appearance model
First- class lever
Guard rails
7. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch
Compression at the bottom
Bend and rotation
Abutments
Lasers
8. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Suspension
Shear
Up
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
9. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Gears
Plow
Compression - tension
Functional models
10. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
the permanent loads on a structure
Structural failure
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
11. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind
Design brief
Trial and error
How much a material has changed its shape
Suspension
12. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
To do jobs that would be boring to people
The wheel and axle
High tech robots
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
13. Shear is best described as...
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Sliding
Beam bridge
Taller
14. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Invisible
the permanent loads on a structure
Plow
Design loop
15. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
First- class levers
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Cantilever
Suspension
16. What type of arch bridge did the Romans build? (They were made from stone with the road on top of the arch)
Fixed pulley
The deck arch
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Plow
17. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Invisible
lever
Friction
18. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
add a diagonal member
Extend and retract
Triangular shapes
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
19. The force applied to a lever
Operator of a battering ram
Fire extinguisher
Worm gears
Effort
20. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Bascule
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Triangular lateen sail
Optoelectronic sensor
21. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Equilibrium
Work
Energy
Technology
22. The three types of equilibrium are:
Low technology robots
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Solve problems
add a diagonal member
23. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
Extend and retract
Design loop
Tip over
Gears
24. What are computer chips made from?
Silicon
Work
Irrigation systems
Read only memory
25. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
Second- class lever
Its depth
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Suspension
26. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Optoelectronic sensor
Innovation
The problem solving process
Protect other people working around them
27. Stress can be lowered by
Physical characteristics and work envelope
increasing the area over which the force acts
Neutral axis...
Microprocessor
28. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
Steel reinforced concrete
Operator of a battering ram
ROM
256
29. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Beam bridge
Beam - arch - and suspension
Tip over
First- class levers
30. Builders made the original versions of me out of wedge- shaped stones that fit snugly together. They were held in place with the pressure of the weight of the bridge
Triangular lateen sail
Interstate highway system
Arch
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
31. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Bend and rotation
Brainstorming
Memory addresses
Brain
32. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Rankine and Kelvin
Triangular lateen sail
Shear
Work
33. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
XYZ
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
The calendar
34. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Sensing systems
Generate many alternative solutions
Papyrus
35. The robot's wrist can sometimes move in two dimensions. What are they?
The cable- stayed bridge
Bend and rotation
Compression
Weight of the roof...
36. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Chain hoist
3000 feet
Up
Neil Armstrong
37. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Cantilever
Is able to learn
Invisible
Steam engines
38. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Nylon
Technology
increasing the area over which the force acts
Time and angles
39. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Bimetallic sensor
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Hard automation and soft automation
40. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Gravity - weight - load
First- class levers
Specifications
It didn't always point at the North Star
41. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Invention
Heavy
Effort
Science
42. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on
Keystone
Unstable
Soft clay tablets
Instruction set
43. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Random access memory
Actuators
Overflows of the Nile
44. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Design loop
Laser rod
Foot- pounds
Design brief
45. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Flexible
Load
Any place on the arch
The structure will be lighter
46. The development of something completely new
Invention
Chemical reactions
Bend and rotation
Movable pulley
47. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Innovations
Fire extinguisher
Stone - concrete - or steel
Its depth
48. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Screw
Effort
Bus
Microprocessor
49. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
Hard automation and soft automation
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
James Watt
Weight of the roof...
50. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Tower
Instruction set
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Protect other people working around them