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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Energy of position
Hard automation
The bowstring girder
Chain hoist
Potential energy
2. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Sliding
Main - frame computer
Time and angles
Tower
3. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Invisible
Structural failure
Shear
Computer language
4. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Computer language
Beam
Soft clay tablets
ENIAC
5. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Triangular shapes
Critical load/weight of the structure
Fire extinguisher
Cable- stayed
6. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
A library
Bimetallic sensor
Sensing systems
Up and down
7. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
A cantilever bridge
Optoelectronic sensor
Ends
Microprocessor
8. The ability to do work
Block and tackle
Nylon
Energy
Law of Conservation of Energy
9. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?
Invention
A library
The structure will be lighter
Design loop
10. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Protect other people working around them
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Clock
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
11. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Protect other people working around them
Chemistry
Lever
Brainstorming
12. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Width of the beam
Ultrasonic sensor
Strong anchorages
Bimetallic sensor
13. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
Most famous
Potential energy
Aqueducts
The lack of pressure to continue development
14. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?
James Watt
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Bending moment or lever arm
Silicon
15. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
Critical load/weight of the structure
Clock
Bending moment or lever arm
Design brief
16. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Compression - tension
Balanced
Bus
Grippers
17. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Bridge failure
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Time and angles
18. Tension is best described as...
Pulling
Instruction set
Rankine and Kelvin
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
19. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
Gears
3000 feet
Energy
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
20. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Bimetallic sensor
Mechanical advantage
Innovation
Clock
21. The most important factor in determining the strength of a beam is...
Its depth
Manipulator
Optoelectronic sensor
Mechanical advantage
22. The five types of stress are...
ROM
Block and tackle
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Nylon
23. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace
Steel reinforced concrete
William Gilbert
New jobs
Beam
24. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
Horsepower
Flexible
Cantilever
Power
25. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Gripper
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
The bowstring girder
Wind tunnel testing
26. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Piers
Compression - tension
Trial and error
Effort
27. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Solve problems
Design loop
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
Temperature changes
28. A force that opposes motion
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Friction
ENIAC
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
29. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Bascule
XYZ
Ergonomics
Romans
30. Shear is best described as...
Bridge failure
Sliding
Effort
Chemistry
31. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Kinetic energy
Computer language
Ends
32. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
Romans
Bimetallic sensor
The bowstring girder
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
33. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Ramp
Balanced
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Computer language
34. Which of the following is not a robot arm movement?
Axes
Tie
Pulling
Yaw
35. Which is not a true statement about gears?
Functional models
The growth of Christianity
True
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
36. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
Size - shape - and type of material
Neutral axis...
256
William Gilbert
37. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Foot- pounds
Axes
Neil Armstrong
Aqueducts
38. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Appearance model
Pulling
Up and down
Design loop
39. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Optoelectronic sensor
Ramp
Read only memory
Stone - concrete - or steel
40. Provides direction for the work of the designer
How much a material has changed its shape
Design brief
Deck
Collapse or break
41. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Cloud chamber
Following white lines on the floor
Design loop
Pulley
42. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Worm gears
Steel reinforced concrete
Third- class lever
Gravity - weight - load
43. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Byte
Shear
Cable- stayed
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
44. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges
Optoelectronic sensor
Pulling
Most famous
Power
45. What factors determine the weight if a structure?
Size - shape - and type of material
Prototypes
Horizontal braces
Memory addresses
46. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Bit
Microcomputer
Gears
Specifications
47. What are I/O devices?
Problems
increasing the area over which the force acts
Brain
Input/Output devices
48. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Beam
Load
Collapse or break
Hard automation and soft automation
49. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Following white lines on the floor
Byte
Weight of the roof...
Actuators
50. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Law of Conservation of Energy
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Temperature changes