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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. In the past it was commonly used to cross narrow distances like small streams or rivers
increasing the area over which the force acts
Beam
Solutions
W = F x d
2. How can an ultrasonic sensor measure movement and distance?
Flexible
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Time and angles
Galileo
3. Energy of position
Hard automation
Law of Conservation of Energy
Low technology robots
Potential energy
4. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Innovation
Shear
5. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Twisting
Time and angles
Fixed pulley
Following white lines on the floor
6. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Invisible
Bending moment or lever arm
Bridge failure
Location of the trustline
7. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?
Wheel and axle
Laser rod
Bevel gears
Ultrasonic sensor
8. A pulley that makes work easier
Movable pulley
Irrigation
The deck arch
Functional models
9. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Newton - meter
Gears
Byte
10. The dead load of a structure is
Pushing
Bascule
the permanent loads on a structure
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
11. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Low technology robots
add a diagonal member
Gravity - weight - load
Galileo
12. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
Interstate highway system
Piers
Two story building
Lasers
13. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
The calendar
XYZ
Medium technology robot
ROM
14. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Law of Conservation of Energy
ROM
Chemistry
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
15. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Keystone
Tension structures weigh less
Invention
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
16. The scientific formula for work is...
Random access memory
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
W = F x d
Steam engines
17. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Silicon
Protect other people working around them
Axes
Worm gears
18. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Design loop
Beam
Axes
Second- class lever
19. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Interstate highway system
Weight of the roof...
Battered
XYZ
20. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
Optoelectronic sensor
A rock used to test metal for quality
Fire extinguisher
Fixed pulley
21. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Prototypes
Design loop
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
22. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Effort
Instruction set
Gravity - weight - load
Bend and rotation
23. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Ends
Pulley
Cloud chamber
Brainstorming
24. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Tie
Design brief
Microcomputer
Deck
25. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?
Collapse or break
High technology robots
Triangular shapes
Load
26. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
James Watt
Power
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Input/Output devices
27. Torsion is best described as...
Twisting
Shear
Pushing
Compression at the bottom
28. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Tension structures weigh less
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Chemistry
29. Robots fit into two categories:
Hard automation and soft automation
The bowstring girder
Aqueducts
Brainstorming
30. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Bus
Keystone
Critical load/weight of the structure
Most famous
31. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Screw
A small degree of flexibility
Bit
Cloud chamber
32. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Functional models
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Design
33. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Instruction set
Width of the beam
Ends
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
34. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Compression - tension
Any place on the arch
Design brief
35. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Gears
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Horsepower
Worm gears
36. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
Work
Load
Compression at the bottom
High tech robots
37. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...
Tie
New jobs
Tip over
Microprocessor
38. The robot's wrist can sometimes move in two dimensions. What are they?
Extend and retract
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Bend and rotation
Most of the material is located where it is needed
39. The difficulties we must overcome
Functional models
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Effort
Problems
40. Two examples of me are the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. They both have decks that hang from cables made of hundreds of steel wires - just like me
W = F x d
Suspension
Manipulator
Main - frame computer
41. The weight or resistance on a lever
Protect other people working around them
Strong anchorages
Lasers
Load
42. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
A rock used to test metal for quality
Program
Bell Laboratories
Fire extinguisher
43. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
Microprocessor
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
True
The cable- stayed bridge
44. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
The number of pulley wheels
Resistance
Low technology robots
Deck
45. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Its depth
Sensing systems
Hard automation
256
46. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
increasing the area over which the force acts
Generate many alternative solutions
Bend and rotation
47. Strain is a measure of...
How much a material has changed its shape
Second- class lever
Potential energy
Nylon
48. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Truss
High tech robots
Its depth
Strong anchorages
49. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Microprocessor
The problem solving process
Hung
Wind tunnel testing
50. The force (push or pull) used to do work
Effort
Truss
Solve problems
Shape