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Introduction To Engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
The lack of pressure to continue development
Keystone
Specifications
First- class lever
2. What are I/O devices?
lever
Input/Output devices
Foot- pounds
Protect other people working around them
3. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Neil Armstrong
Brainstorming
A cantilever bridge
Tip over
4. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...
Wheel and axle
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Lever
Trial and error
5. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Computer language
Load
Its depth
Invisible
6. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
Medium technology robot
Silicon
How far it can reach
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
7. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
The deck arch
Cloud chamber
W = F x d
Aqueducts
8. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Gears
Bell Laboratories
Appearance model
Sliding
9. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Truss
10. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum - used to overcome a resistance or to raise a weight when force is applied is a
Compression - tension
lever
Ultrasonic sensor
Kinetic energy
11. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
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12. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Trial and error
Fulcrum
1 or 0
Triangular lateen sail
13. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
It didn't always point at the North Star
Third- class lever
How much a material has changed its shape
Guard rails
14. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Axes
Clock
Axes
Newton - meter
15. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?
A library
Brainstorming
Galileo
Innovation
16. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
A small degree of flexibility
Bevel gears
Effort
Galileo
17. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Gears
Tension structures weigh less
Balanced
Guard rails
18. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
Cable- stayed
Yaw
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Gravity - weight - load
19. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Actuators
Unstable
Power
Innovations
20. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Time and angles
Irrigation systems
The problem solving process
Byte
21. Distance between the piers
Triangular lateen sail
Science
Span
Energy
22. Who was the first to conclude that the Earth is a giant magnet?
William Gilbert
Kinetic energy
Up and down
Stress
23. 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
Second- class lever
Gripper
Arch
Friction
24. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Effort
Laser rod
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Beam
25. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Most famous
Chain hoist
Imaginary
Protect other people working around them
26. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Worm gears
Fulcrum
First- class levers
Tension structures weigh less
27. The three types of equilibrium are:
Arch
Innovations
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Keystone
28. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
First- class lever
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Trial and error
Work
29. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
Program
Friction
Chemistry
Microprocessor
30. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Width of the beam
Bending and shearing
Cable- stayed
Compression - tension
31. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Soft clay tablets
Design loop
Wind tunnel testing
Chemical reactions
32. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Read only memory
Brainstorming
Microcomputer
Horizontal braces
33. The five types of stress are...
Overflows of the Nile
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Yaw
How far it can reach
34. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Design loop
Triangular shapes
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Ends
35. 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
The growth of Christianity
Bus
Ultrasonic sensor
36. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Grippers
Bridge failure
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
37. The metric unit for measuring work
1 or 0
Cantilever
Irrigation
Newton - meter
38. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Suspension
Gears
New jobs
Program
39. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
First- class lever
Critical load/weight of the structure
Gears
Cable- stayed
40. Compression is best described as...
Arch
Pushing
The calendar
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
41. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
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
Truss
Romans
42. 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
Bit
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Pulley
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
43. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Collapse or break
Instruction set
Keystone
Third- class lever
44. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Low technology robots
Bend and rotation
ROM
Actuators
45. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Compression at the bottom
Nylon
Bridge failure
Design brief
46. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
The problem solving process
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
True
Piers
47. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Pulley
Microprocessor
Resistive sensor
Structural failure
48. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Elasticity
Axes
Effort
Beam
49. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
The lack of pressure to continue development
Pulling
Invisible
Actuators
50. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Microprocessor
Suspension
256
Instruction set