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Introduction To Engineering
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1. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
A waist twisting
The wheel and axle
Design loop
Most of the material is located where it is needed
2. Tension is best described as...
Beam
Computer language
Pulling
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
3. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Byte
Span
Shape
Triangular shapes
4. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
Invention
Stress
Wind tunnel testing
add a diagonal member
5. Compression is best described as...
Pushing
Send out a light signal
Compression - tension
Hard automation and soft automation
6. 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
add a diagonal member
Soft clay tablets
Main - frame computer
Block and tackle
7. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Horsepower
Most famous
Keystone
Rankine and Kelvin
8. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Beam bridge
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Ultrasonic sensor
Following white lines on the floor
9. 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
Size - shape - and type of material
Manipulator
Spur gears
Suspension
10. 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.
Grippers
Beam
Law of Conservation of Energy
Two story building
11. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
Suspension
Axes
Program
Is able to learn
12. I am a new bridge design that includes elements from a cantilever and a suspension bridge. I am easier to build than either of those but I am limited to spanning shorter distances
Resistive sensor
Cable- stayed
Triangular lateen sail
A cantilever bridge
13. The metric unit for measuring work
Microprocessor
Nylon
Gripper
Newton - meter
14. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Technology
Resistive sensor
Bimetallic sensor
Strong anchorages
15. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder
Microprocessor
Structural failure
1 or 0
Screw
16. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace
Optoelectronic sensor
First- class lever
New jobs
3000 feet
17. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
First- class levers
Clock
True
The structure will be lighter
18. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
First- class lever
Innovations
The lack of pressure to continue development
Generate many alternative solutions
19. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Tip over
The calendar
ROM
20. Force times distance
New jobs
Aqueducts
The problem solving process
Work
21. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Hard automation and soft automation
Grippers
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
22. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Wind tunnel testing
Fulcrum
Functional models
Clock
23. The energy of motion
Bevel gears
Heavy
Kinetic energy
Stone - concrete - or steel
24. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Truss
3000 feet
Measurement - evaluation - and control
A rock used to test metal for quality
25. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Any place on the arch
Work
Axes
Gears
26. In the past it was commonly used to cross narrow distances like small streams or rivers
Axes
Beam
It didn't always point at the North Star
Strong anchorages
27. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Newton - meter
Shear
Gears
28. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
Operator of a battering ram
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Solutions
William Gilbert
29. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
To do jobs that would be boring to people
A cantilever bridge
The wheel and axle
Load
30. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?
Microcomputer
Appearance model
Axes
High technology robots
31. What type of arch bridge did the Romans build? (They were made from stone with the road on top of the arch)
The deck arch
Ergonomics
Send out a light signal
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
32. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Tower
Bit
Neutral axis...
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
33. What was the forerunner of the robot?
Computer language
Up and down
Hard automation
Ends
34. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
A rock used to test metal for quality
Width of the beam
Stress
Manipulator
35. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Bridge failure
Galileo
Physical characteristics and work envelope
36. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
The bowstring girder
Width of the beam
Cloud chamber
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
37. A force that opposes motion
Compression at the bottom
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Friction
38. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
XYZ
Chemical reactions
Chemistry
Fixed pulley
39. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Beam
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Design loop
40. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
Microprocessor
The calendar
Operator of a battering ram
Compression
41. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/
Rankine and Kelvin
Mechanical advantage
Steel reinforced concrete
Law of Conservation of Energy
42. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Bridge failure
First- class lever
Overflows of the Nile
43. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Axes
Third- class lever
Block and tackle
Bell Laboratories
44. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
Time and angles
The structure will be lighter
True
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
45. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Read only memory
Arch
Microprocessor
Work
46. The most important factor in determining the strength of a beam is...
Truss
Its depth
A small degree of flexibility
Structural failure
47. What type of bridge requires very strong abutments or supports?
Gravity - weight - load
Arch
New jobs
Physical characteristics and work envelope
48. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges
The problem solving process
Design
Shear
Most famous
49. The robot's wrist can sometimes move in two dimensions. What are they?
Bend and rotation
Soft clay tablets
Nylon
Power
50. Robots fit into two categories:
Stone - concrete - or steel
Design loop
Hard automation and soft automation
The lack of pressure to continue development
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