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Introduction To Engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The three basic types of bridges are...
Clock
First- class levers
W = F x d
Beam - arch - and suspension
2. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Ultrasonic sensor
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
3. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Axes
Manipulator
Collapse or break
The bowstring girder
4. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Optoelectronic sensor
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Nylon
Main - frame computer
5. What factors determine the weight if a structure?
Medium technology robot
Silicon
Size - shape - and type of material
Suspension
6. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Guard rails
Suspension
Battered
3000 feet
7. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
James Watt
Brainstorming
Abutments
Design brief
8. Work divided by time
Stress
Most famous
Power
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
9. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Wheel and axle
Structural failure
Grippers
Overflows of the Nile
10. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Low technology robots
Movable pulley
Effort
Keystone
11. The weight of the obect being moved
Optoelectronic sensor
Resistance
Send out a light signal
Fulcrum
12. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch
Innovations
256
Two story building
Abutments
13. The points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?
Shear
Axes
Ends
Bending moment or lever arm
14. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
Stone - concrete - or steel
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Effort
Operator of a battering ram
15. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Tip over
Yaw
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
16. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Block and tackle
Interstate highway system
Fire extinguisher
Design loop
17. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Trial and error
Strong anchorages
Main - frame computer
18. Operating parameters are the abilities and limitations of robots that determine their design and tasks. Which of the following is not a robotics operating parameter?
Cable- stayed
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Laser rod
Axes
19. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Gears
Sensing systems
Piers
The cable- stayed bridge
20. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
Main - frame computer
Program
Chain hoist
High technology robots
21. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Pulley
How far it can reach
Design loop
Width of the beam
22. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Solve problems
Sliding
Design loop
23. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
Pulley
Width of the beam
A cantilever bridge
Wheel and axle
24. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Chain hoist
The wheel and axle
XYZ
Taller
25. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Spur gears
Triangular shapes
Weight of the roof...
Resistive sensor
26. The deck of a suspension bridge is ____ from the cables
Hung
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Extend and retract
Chemical reactions
27. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
Keystone
Guard rails
The lack of pressure to continue development
It didn't always point at the North Star
28. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Beam bridge
Steel reinforced concrete
Specifications
Any place on the arch
29. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Medium technology robot
Gravity - weight - load
Block and tackle
30. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Beam - arch - and suspension
Up and down
Block and tackle
Low technology robots
31. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Manipulator
Grippers
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Solutions
32. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Read only memory
Width of the beam
The structure will be lighter
Gravity - weight - load
33. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Tension structures weigh less
A waist twisting
The wheel and axle
Equilibrium
34. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Bus
Cable- stayed
ENIAC
Spur gears
35. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?
Potential energy
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Movable pulley
ROM
36. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Microprocessor
Brainstorming
Ends
Beam
37. Two examples of me are the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. They both have decks that hang from cables made of hundreds of steel wires - just like me
Beam
Suspension
3000 feet
The structure will be lighter
38. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Lever
Design loop
Solutions
XYZ
39. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Brainstorming
Cloud chamber
Stone - concrete - or steel
Invention
40. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind
Random access memory
Suspension
Ultrasonic sensor
Spur gears
41. Force times distance
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Gears
Work
Clock
42. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Tower
Shape
Generate many alternative solutions
Papyrus
43. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Equilibrium
Work
Tip over
A waist twisting
44. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Compression - tension
the permanent loads on a structure
Work
Guard rails
45. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Axes
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Beam
Hung
46. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
Suspension
Fulcrum
Cantilever
The cable- stayed bridge
47. What is the definition of stress
Friction
Bending and shearing
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
48. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Stress
Appearance model
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Strong anchorages
49. Torsion is best described as...
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
A rock used to test metal for quality
Twisting
Any place on the arch
50. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
The cable- stayed bridge
Laser rod
Cloud chamber
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
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