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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The weight of the obect being moved
Resistance
W = F x d
Papyrus
Lasers
2. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
New jobs
Newton - meter
Memory addresses
Specifications
3. The dead load of a structure is
Keystone
Work
Tip over
the permanent loads on a structure
4. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Appearance model
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Cloud chamber
Suspension
5. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
The structure will be lighter
Lever
Technology
Design loop
6. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Clock
Strong anchorages
Irrigation systems
Read only memory
7. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Program
Yaw
Nylon
8. A system of pulleys that consists of one rope wound around two separate sets of pulley - each of which is free to rotate independently on the same axle
Rankine and Kelvin
Protect other people working around them
Block and tackle
Strong anchorages
9. 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?
Axes
Screw
Size - shape - and type of material
Arch
10. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
Chemical reactions
Invisible
Plow
256
11. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Suspension
Gripper
Heavy
Neil Armstrong
12. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?
James Watt
Plow
ROM
Bit
13. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Newton - meter
Equilibrium
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Neil Armstrong
14. The controller is what part of the robot?
Spur gears
The deck arch
Main - frame computer
Brain
15. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
Papyrus
Block and tackle
Work
Bend and rotation
16. The English unit of measuring work
Steel reinforced concrete
James Watt
Foot- pounds
ROM
17. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Generate many alternative solutions
Invisible
Microprocessor
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
18. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Elasticity
Microcomputer
Shear
Imaginary
19. A lever in which the fulcrum is between the effort and the load
Triangular lateen sail
Ends
add a diagonal member
First- class lever
20. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Beam
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Papyrus
21. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
Bevel gears
3000 feet
Steam engines
Medium technology robot
22. 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
Technology
Tie
Suspension
Generate many alternative solutions
23. Shear is best described as...
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Sliding
Design
Mechanical advantage
24. The I- beam is very strong because...
increasing the area over which the force acts
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Effort
Suspension
25. Force times distance
ROM
Work
Temperature changes
Pushing
26. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Bus
A waist twisting
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Papyrus
27. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
James Watt
Prototypes
Stress
Irrigation systems
28. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Bridge failure
Plow
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Low technology robots
29. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Rack and pinion gears
Work
Ends
Stone - concrete - or steel
30. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Send out a light signal
Equilibrium
Gravity - weight - load
Weight of the roof...
31. A side effect of bending is called...
Lever
Compression at the bottom
Bending moment or lever arm
Optoelectronic sensor
32. The metric unit for measuring work
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Newton - meter
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Arch
33. A bit is the presence of voltage or no voltage. By what symbols is it represented?
1 or 0
Arch
increasing the area over which the force acts
Gears
34. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Bevel gears
Design
Solutions
Irrigation systems
35. The lesson used an illustration of a robot filling boxes. The sensors detected if the box had moved. What kind of sensor was used?
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Optoelectronic sensor
The bowstring girder
Chain hoist
36. Energy of position
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Effort
Potential energy
Cable- stayed
37. The five types of stress are...
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
James Watt
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
38. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Mechanical advantage
Ends
Galileo
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
39. 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
Pulley
Low technology robots
Aqueducts
Neutral axis...
40. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Cable- stayed
Bending and shearing
Innovations
Gripper
41. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Sensing systems
Design
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Fire extinguisher
42. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Horizontal braces
How far it can reach
Keystone
Instruction set
43. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?
Specifications
Low technology robots
Memory addresses
Bell Laboratories
44. The turning point of a lever
Technology
Fulcrum
Up
Stone - concrete - or steel
45. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Bell Laboratories
Beam
Gears
Chain hoist
46. I am one of the oldest and simplest bridge designs. Today I can be quite a complex bridge - but like my ancestors - I support my own weight and the loads I have to bear - on vertical piers.
Beam
Third- class lever
Chain hoist
Weight of the roof...
47. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Structural failure
Tip over
Weight of the roof...
Science
48. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
Is able to learn
Deck
The structure will be lighter
The lack of pressure to continue development
49. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
Microprocessor
Grippers
Ergonomics
Potential energy
50. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Piers
The problem solving process
Brainstorming