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Introduction To Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. What type of bridge requires very strong abutments or supports?






2. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?






3. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam






4. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?






5. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?






6. Robots fit into two categories:






7. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?






8. The deck of a suspension bridge is ____ from the cables






9. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)






10. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?






11. A pulley that makes work easier






12. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...






13. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?






14. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?






15. A side effect of bending is called...






16. The force that has the most impact in arch bridges






17. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would






18. 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






19. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?






20. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?






21. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...






22. What was the forerunner of the robot?






23. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made






24. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support






25. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?






26. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?






27. The force applied to a lever






28. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:






29. Shear is best described as...






30. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:






31. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same






32. The English unit of measuring work






33. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles






34. Compression is best described as...






35. Which of the following are two advantages of using robotics technology?






36. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called






37. A fixed wheel with a rope or chain that is attached to a load - used to change the direction of a force or to lift heavy objects - is a






38. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?






39. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...






40. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/






41. 550 foot- pounds per second






42. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?






43. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?






44. The force (push or pull) used to do work






45. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...






46. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...






47. The metric unit for measuring work






48. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by






49. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...






50. 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