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Introduction To Engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The generation of ideas for solutions
Specifications
Brainstorming
Structural failure
Foot- pounds
2. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Read only memory
Clock
Strong anchorages
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
3. The ability to do work
Program
Resistance
Compression
Energy
4. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Piers
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Tension structures weigh less
Kinetic energy
5. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Flexible
Piers
Technology
Location of the trustline
6. What factors determine the weight if a structure?
The deck arch
Size - shape - and type of material
Spur gears
Input/Output devices
7. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Following white lines on the floor
Pulling
Keystone
Design loop
8. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:
Imaginary
Any place on the arch
Fulcrum
Physical characteristics and work envelope
9. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Work
The bowstring girder
Cantilever
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
10. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Irrigation systems
Input/Output devices
Low technology robots
Bit
11. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...
Deck
Tie
Piers
Design brief
12. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Any place on the arch
Invention
Up and down
13. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
Operator of a battering ram
Sensing systems
Chemical reactions
Read only memory
14. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
Program
increasing the area over which the force acts
Power
High tech robots
15. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Hard automation
Cable- stayed
Collapse or break
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
Bending and shearing
Truss
the permanent loads on a structure
17. The weight or resistance on a lever
The bowstring girder
Effort
Load
Its depth
18. The five types of stress are...
Tip over
Piers
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
High tech robots
19. For a tower to be built higher - the walls can be...
lever
Battered
Low technology robots
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
20. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Gears
Third- class lever
Solutions
21. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Science
Innovations
Arch
Instruction set
22. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Optoelectronic sensor
Up
New jobs
Abutments
23. The English unit of measuring work
Foot- pounds
Rack and pinion gears
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
24. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/
Beam bridge
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Equilibrium
Rankine and Kelvin
25. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
High technology robots
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Bending and shearing
Axes
26. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Two story building
Stone - concrete - or steel
The problem solving process
Truss
27. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Suspension
Soft clay tablets
Design brief
Stress
28. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Aqueducts
Fixed pulley
Bus
Design brief
29. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
Soft clay tablets
Operator of a battering ram
Screw
Design brief
30. Which of the following are two advantages of using robotics technology?
Flexible
Bridge failure
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Generate many alternative solutions
31. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
XYZ
Operator of a battering ram
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
32. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Horizontal braces
Design loop
Beam
Bend and rotation
33. What type of bridge requires very strong abutments or supports?
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Arch
Is able to learn
Technology
34. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Gravity - weight - load
Protect other people working around them
Specifications
Arch
35. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
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36. The three types of equilibrium are:
The lack of pressure to continue development
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Flexible
Suspension
37. The dead load of a structure is
Keystone
Send out a light signal
the permanent loads on a structure
Functional models
38. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
It didn't always point at the North Star
High tech robots
Strong anchorages
Wheel and axle
39. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Papyrus
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Law of Conservation of Energy
40. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
The wheel and axle
XYZ
Hard automation
Technology
41. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
The cable- stayed bridge
Worm gears
Elasticity
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
42. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Keystone
Heavy
Newton - meter
43. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Lasers
Span
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Bend and rotation
44. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Pulley
Screw
Design loop
Elasticity
45. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Compression - tension
Bell Laboratories
Law of Conservation of Energy
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
46. 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?
Horsepower
Trial and error
Axes
Overflows of the Nile
47. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Cable- stayed
Bridge failure
Neutral axis...
Equilibrium
48. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Gripper
Deck
Stone - concrete - or steel
49. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
Bevel gears
Triangular lateen sail
A small degree of flexibility
Functional models
50. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
Bimetallic sensor
Law of Conservation of Energy
Cantilever
Send out a light signal
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