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Introduction To Engineering

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1. Distance between the piers






2. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?






3. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?






4. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?






5. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles






6. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?






7. What is binary?






8. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?






9. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced






10. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/






11. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they






12. Which of the following is not a robot arm movement?






13. The five types of stress are...






14. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?






15. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would






16. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made






17. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires






18. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the






19. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?






20. How can an ultrasonic sensor measure movement and distance?






21. The longer the suspension bridge - the ____ the towers need to be






22. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?






23. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?






24. The turning point of a lever






25. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?






26. What is the name of the robot's arm?






27. A robot can be driven by any of the following except






28. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?






29. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?






30. Strain is a measure of...






31. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?






32. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?






33. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?






34. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:






35. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort






36. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...






37. The generation of ideas for solutions






38. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...






39. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?






40. Force times distance






41. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a






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






43. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world






44. More than one pulley working together






45. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?






46. The controller is what part of the robot?






47. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?






48. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?






49. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?






50. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?







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