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Introduction To Engineering
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1. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Block and tackle
The wheel and axle
Chemical reactions
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
2. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Second- class lever
Wind tunnel testing
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
The structure will be lighter
3. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Specifications
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
The wheel and axle
Brainstorming
4. The safety factor is...
Law of Conservation of Energy
Tie
Yaw
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
5. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Location of the trustline
Mechanical advantage
Resistive sensor
A waist twisting
6. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Generate many alternative solutions
Elasticity
Pulling
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
7. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Load
Horsepower
How far it can reach
Truss
8. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
The cable- stayed bridge
Tower
Grippers
Design loop
9. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Location of the trustline
Flexible
Design
Bimetallic sensor
10. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Stone - concrete - or steel
Fulcrum
Ends
Bridge failure
11. The probblem with very large compression structures is that they are...
Imaginary
Heavy
Second- class lever
Cable- stayed
12. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Bus
Clock
Actuators
Yaw
13. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Block and tackle
It didn't always point at the North Star
Byte
Structural failure
14. An optoelectronic emitter is used to do what/
Bridge failure
Low technology robots
Send out a light signal
Pushing
15. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
1 or 0
Equilibrium
Brain
16. The improvement of things already invented
Load
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Compression
Innovation
17. More than one pulley working together
increasing the area over which the force acts
Cable- stayed
Block and tackle
Fire extinguisher
18. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Foot- pounds
Beam
Third- class lever
19. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Its depth
Stress
True
Flexible
20. 550 foot- pounds per second
Horsepower
Bit
Tie
Gears
21. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
The lack of pressure to continue development
Collapse or break
Send out a light signal
Axes
22. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Two story building
Effort
Input/Output devices
Tip over
23. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Cable- stayed
Pulley
Work
Triangular shapes
24. What is the definition of stress
Load
Abutments
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Two story building
25. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Manipulator
Worm gears
Balanced
Screw
26. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
The growth of Christianity
Beam - arch - and suspension
First- class levers
To do jobs that would be boring to people
27. Work divided by time
Shear
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Brain
Power
28. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
Cantilever
Bending and shearing
A small degree of flexibility
Heavy
29. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
Bend and rotation
Microprocessor
The calendar
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
30. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...
add a diagonal member
Trial and error
Beam
Up
31. Which of the following was not a development of Roman culture?
William Gilbert
Chemistry
Chain hoist
Piers
32. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Can perform tasks more accurately and efficiently than people - can be programmed to do a variety of jobs - and never need holidays - sleep or meal breaks
Ramp
Steel reinforced concrete
Gravity - weight - load
33. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Bascule
Following white lines on the floor
The bowstring girder
Optoelectronic sensor
34. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Guard rails
Axes
Gears
35. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Low technology robots
Worm gears
Technology
Structural failure
36. When generating ideas for a solution to a problem - it is important to do which of the following in order to effectively and visually communicate these ideas for use in construction drawings?
How far it can reach
Axes
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Hard automation
37. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Unstable
First- class levers
New jobs
Problems
38. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Neil Armstrong
Optoelectronic sensor
Design brief
Rankine and Kelvin
39. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
add a diagonal member
Manipulator
Elasticity
Beam
40. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Nylon
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Is able to learn
Solutions
41. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Neutral axis...
Microprocessor
Tip over
Bending and shearing
42. For a tower to be built higher - the walls can be...
Law of Conservation of Energy
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Battered
Trial and error
43. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Input/Output devices
Compression - tension
Heavy
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
44. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Actuators
Steam engines
Grippers
Aqueducts
45. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
James Watt
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Galileo
Hard automation and soft automation
46. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Irrigation systems
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Structural failure
Bus
47. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
Compression at the bottom
Irrigation
Battered
Span
48. Shear is best described as...
Sliding
Byte
Block and tackle
Horsepower
49. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
A cantilever bridge
Any place on the arch
Beam - arch - and suspension
Ultrasonic sensor
50. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Bit
Trial and error
Triangular shapes
Wheel and axle
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