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Introduction To Engineering

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1. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Gears
Triangular shapes
Functional models

2. My bridge design is popular when the span is less than 3000 feet - mainly because I do not need anchorages or many piers
Screw
Cable- stayed
True
Computer language

3. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Random access memory
Send out a light signal
Tower
Compression - tension

4. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Abutments
Actuators
Pulley
Clock

5. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Pulley
Tip over
add a diagonal member
Generate many alternative solutions

6. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Invisible
Guard rails
Innovation
How much a material has changed its shape

7. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Innovation
Two story building
Weight of the roof...

8. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Guard rails
Ultrasonic sensor
A library
A small degree of flexibility

9. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Suspension
High technology robots
Steam engines
Trial and error

10. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Collapse or break
Ramp
Time and angles
Optoelectronic sensor

11. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?
Papyrus
Laser rod
Manipulator
Aqueducts

12. The energy of motion
Temperature changes
Bending moment or lever arm
Power
Kinetic energy

13. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Bending moment or lever arm
Foot- pounds
Collapse or break
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words

14. The three types of arches are...
Romans
Law of Conservation of Energy
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Physical characteristics and work envelope

15. The force that has the most impact in arch bridges
Compression
Romans
Second- class lever
It didn't always point at the North Star

16. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Physical characteristics and work envelope
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Bending and shearing
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required

17. Compression is best described as...
Strong anchorages
Arch
Pushing
Unstable

18. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Tip over
Lever
lever
Ramp

19. The five types of stress are...
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Bit
Computer language
Rankine and Kelvin

20. Tension is best described as...
Pulley
Optoelectronic sensor
Pulling
Input/Output devices

21. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
3000 feet
High tech robots
Ends
Work

22. Energy of position
Taller
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Potential energy
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings

23. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch
The number of pulley wheels
increasing the area over which the force acts
Chemistry
Abutments

24. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
Chemistry
Byte
James Watt
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth

25. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Microprocessor
The problem solving process
ROM
Neil Armstrong

26. The weight of the obect being moved
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Grippers
Resistance
Innovation

27. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Potential energy
James Watt
Compression - tension
Reduced labor costs and predictable output

28. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
Ultrasonic sensor
Fire extinguisher
Bus
Wheel and axle

29. The scientific formula for work is...
Stone - concrete - or steel
Overflows of the Nile
W = F x d
Compression at the bottom

30. 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
Arch
Location of the trustline
Neutral axis...
Compression

31. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
The cable- stayed bridge
Location of the trustline
Time and angles
Beam bridge

32. Stress can be lowered by
Hard automation
Resistive sensor
increasing the area over which the force acts
How much a material has changed its shape

33. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
256
It didn't always point at the North Star
Piers
Sensing systems

34. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Technology
Arch
Shear
XYZ

35. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Low technology robots
Plow
Chain hoist
Brainstorming

36. An arch will support the load equally well at...
The bowstring girder
Power
Any place on the arch
Gripper

37. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Byte
Worm gears
Brain
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions

38. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
Twisting
Medium technology robot
Beam
Most famous

39. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Any place on the arch
The growth of Christianity
Spur gears

40. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Resistance
Yaw
Span

41. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Second- class lever
Tension structures weigh less
Technology
How much a material has changed its shape

42. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Hung
Two story building
Bend and rotation
Solutions

43. The dead load of a structure is
the permanent loads on a structure
Structural failure
Time and angles
Silicon

44. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
Interstate highway system
Invention
The growth of Christianity
New jobs

45. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
Is able to learn
Effort
The problem solving process
Plow

46. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Laser rod
Technology
The growth of Christianity
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need

47. A wheel fixed to a support with a rope that is run over the wheel to change the direction of a force applied to the rope
Pulley
Load
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Two story building

48. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Up and down
Following white lines on the floor
Chemistry
Shear

49. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Manipulator
Guard rails
Effort
Grippers

50. Robots fit into two categories:
The number of pulley wheels
Structural failure
Hard automation and soft automation
Hard automation