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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
Instructions:
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 planned process of change
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Design
3000 feet
Soft clay tablets
2. Robots fit into two categories:
Yaw
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Fire extinguisher
Hard automation and soft automation
3. Shear is best described as...
Shear
Up
Sliding
Bevel gears
4. What type of bridge requires very strong abutments or supports?
Truss
Arch
Chain hoist
Chemical reactions
5. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Computer language
A small degree of flexibility
Beam
Piers
6. The weight of the obect being moved
Protect other people working around them
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Ramp
Resistance
7. Work divided by time
Cable- stayed
Laser rod
Second- class lever
Power
8. Force times distance
Sensing systems
Instruction set
Work
Cable- stayed
9. The development of something completely new
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Invention
Solve problems
Hard automation and soft automation
10. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?
The deck arch
Memory addresses
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Hung
11. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Stone - concrete - or steel
Work
Actuators
12. The I- beam is very strong because...
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Brain
Pulley
13. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Worm gears
Pulling
Time and angles
Effort
14. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Design
Twisting
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
15. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Shape
Second- class lever
Silicon
16. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Critical load/weight of the structure
Law of Conservation of Energy
Resistive sensor
Width of the beam
17. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Rack and pinion gears
Ultrasonic sensor
Brain
Neil Armstrong
18. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Sliding
Aqueducts
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
Tip over
19. What are I/O devices?
Balanced
Input/Output devices
Is able to learn
Invention
20. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Soft clay tablets
Interstate highway system
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Resistive sensor
21. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Read only memory
XYZ
Design loop
Worm gears
22. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
Beam
Microprocessor
A rock used to test metal for quality
Tie
23. 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
Cable- stayed
Kinetic energy
Tie
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
24. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...
Wind tunnel testing
Tie
New jobs
Strong anchorages
25. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
Send out a light signal
Instruction set
Critical load/weight of the structure
Beam - arch - and suspension
26. Compression is best described as...
Pushing
Arch
The number of pulley wheels
Compression
27. A lever in which the fulcrum is between the effort and the load
First- class lever
Most famous
The number of pulley wheels
How far it can reach
28. The energy of motion
Kinetic energy
Solutions
Tip over
William Gilbert
29. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
Optoelectronic sensor
Axes
256
Kinetic energy
30. Energy of position
Extend and retract
The wheel and axle
Potential energy
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
31. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Effort
Critical load/weight of the structure
Fire extinguisher
Ramp
32. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
Critical load/weight of the structure
Interstate highway system
The growth of Christianity
Computer language
33. The dead load of a structure is
High technology robots
Lever
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
the permanent loads on a structure
34. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Prototypes
Kinetic energy
Fixed pulley
35. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Bending and shearing
Design loop
Taller
A waist twisting
36. The force (push or pull) used to do work
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
Effort
Random access memory
How much a material has changed its shape
37. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
Bascule
Medium technology robot
Cable- stayed
Beam
38. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
Piers
A cantilever bridge
The wheel and axle
First- class levers
39. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
lever
Science
Functional models
Microprocessor
40. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Pushing
Compression at the bottom
Deck
Worm gears
41. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...
The growth of Christianity
Functional models
Innovations
Axes
42. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Effort
Prototypes
How much a material has changed its shape
Heavy
43. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Wheel and axle
Computer language
1 or 0
Spur gears
44. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
Fulcrum
Kinetic energy
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
45. The probblem with very large compression structures is that they are...
Heavy
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Computer language
New jobs
46. 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
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Arch
James Watt
Chain hoist
47. What was the forerunner of the robot?
Second- class lever
Block and tackle
Nylon
Hard automation
48. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Bend and rotation
Any place on the arch
Third- class lever
Lever
49. Suspension bridges have the problem of being...
Flexible
Design brief
Wind tunnel testing
Second- class lever
50. The robot's wrist can sometimes move in two dimensions. What are they?
Main - frame computer
Gears
Effort
Bend and rotation