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Introduction To Engineering
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Subject
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engineering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 three types of equilibrium are:
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Generate many alternative solutions
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Rankine and Kelvin
2. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Wind tunnel testing
Galileo
Movable pulley
The number of pulley wheels
3. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Specifications
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
4. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Microprocessor
Bell Laboratories
Gears
First- class levers
5. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Stress
Invisible
Critical load/weight of the structure
Cable- stayed
6. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Trial and error
Gripper
Design loop
Read only memory
7. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Block and tackle
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Cable- stayed
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
8. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Work
Galileo
9. The five types of stress are...
Tension structures weigh less
A rock used to test metal for quality
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Design loop
10. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Actuators
Beam
A waist twisting
Gears
11. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Pulling
Grippers
Extend and retract
Read only memory
12. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Triangular shapes
Law of Conservation of Energy
Functional models
Microprocessor
13. How can an ultrasonic sensor measure movement and distance?
Design brief
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Imaginary
14. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Resistive sensor
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Beam - arch - and suspension
The bowstring girder
15. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Generate many alternative solutions
Cloud chamber
Appearance model
Following white lines on the floor
16. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
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
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Suspension
Law of Conservation of Energy
17. The planned process of change
Span
The wheel and axle
Design
Interstate highway system
18. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Sensing systems
Steel reinforced concrete
The cable- stayed bridge
Triangular lateen sail
19. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Block and tackle
Guard rails
Beam
Stress
20. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
The lack of pressure to continue development
Collapse or break
Up
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
21. Force times distance
Work
Gravity - weight - load
Bascule
Gears
22. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
23. More than one pulley working together
Time and angles
Bending and shearing
Block and tackle
Measurement - evaluation - and control
24. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
XYZ
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Sliding
The lack of pressure to continue development
25. The turning point of a lever
Bus
Shape
Law of Conservation of Energy
Fulcrum
26. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Movable pulley
Memory addresses
High tech robots
Irrigation systems
27. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
Equilibrium
Fixed pulley
Axes
Innovation
28. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
Sliding
256
Elasticity
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
29. The probblem with very large compression structures is that they are...
The calendar
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Heavy
Compression - tension
30. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
True
Effort
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Tension structures weigh less
31. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Pushing
Irrigation systems
Is able to learn
3000 feet
32. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
Suspension
Tip over
Cloud chamber
Random access memory
33. Which of the following was not a development of Roman culture?
Input/Output devices
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Chemistry
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
34. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Energy
Arch
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Optoelectronic sensor
35. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Width of the beam
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Chain hoist
Technology
36. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
A small degree of flexibility
ENIAC
True
Science
37. The scientific formula for work is...
Appearance model
Balanced
W = F x d
Arch
38. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Mechanical advantage
Interstate highway system
Triangular shapes
Ends
39. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Innovations
Design loop
Problems
The structure will be lighter
40. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Sensing systems
Solve problems
Aqueducts
Weight of the roof...
41. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Optoelectronic sensor
Imaginary
Horizontal braces
The cable- stayed bridge
42. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Chain hoist
Cable- stayed
Span
Following white lines on the floor
43. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Computer language
The bowstring girder
Bit
44. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
Keystone
add a diagonal member
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Cable- stayed
45. For a tower to be built higher - the walls can be...
Gravity - weight - load
Effort
Resistive sensor
Battered
46. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Shape
Problems
Mechanical advantage
47. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Cable- stayed
Aqueducts
Two story building
Elasticity
48. Operating parameters are the abilities and limitations of robots that determine their design and tasks. Which of the following is not a robotics operating parameter?
Axes
Generate many alternative solutions
Hung
Load
49. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Arch
Span
Program
Generate many alternative solutions
50. 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
A rock used to test metal for quality
Tie
Arch
Rankine and Kelvin