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Introduction To Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?






2. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?






3. 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?






4. 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






5. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the






6. The controller is what part of the robot?






7. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?






8. The difficulties we must overcome






9. The turning point of a lever






10. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...






11. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...






12. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?






13. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?






14. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?






15. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to






16. Compression is best described as...






17. The five types of stress are...






18. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?






19. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?






20. A robot can be driven by any of the following except






21. What type of bridge requires very strong abutments or supports?






22. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?






23. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?






24. Provides a structure for thinking and doing






25. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...






26. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a






27. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?






28. The dead load of a structure is






29. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?






30. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?






31. Distance between the piers






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






33. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction






34. Tension is best described as...






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






36. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?






37. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:






38. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced






39. Surplus food led to all of the following except:






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






41. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?






42. Ways of overcoming difficulties






43. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?






44. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called






45. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/






46. What was the first computer - developed at the University of Pennsylvania?






47. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys






48. Provides problem clarification and specification






49. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?






50. The improvement of things already invented