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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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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. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Shape
Irrigation
Tower
Design loop
2. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
Chemistry
High tech robots
The structure will be lighter
Grippers
3. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
A small degree of flexibility
The bowstring girder
Computer language
4. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Medium technology robot
Instruction set
Trial and error
Is able to learn
5. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Pulling
Steam engines
Sensing systems
Neil Armstrong
6. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Bridge failure
Invention
ENIAC
A waist twisting
7. The three basic types of bridges are...
A small degree of flexibility
Fire extinguisher
The wheel and axle
Beam - arch - and suspension
8. Shear is best described as...
Sliding
Second- class lever
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Following white lines on the floor
9. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Compression at the bottom
Third- class lever
Trial and error
Following white lines on the floor
10. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Extend and retract
Functional models
Actuators
Collapse or break
11. The planned process of change
ENIAC
Block and tackle
Location of the trustline
Design
12. Distance between the piers
Gears
Span
Power
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
13. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Axes
A cantilever bridge
The bowstring girder
Measurement - evaluation - and control
14. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Microprocessor
The lack of pressure to continue development
Weight of the roof...
256
15. A wheel fixed to a support with a rope that is run over the wheel to change the direction of a force applied to the rope
Pulley
Elasticity
Protect other people working around them
The deck arch
16. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Input/Output devices
Most famous
Manipulator
Gravity - weight - load
17. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...
Arch
Tie
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
18. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Interstate highway system
Trial and error
Design loop
Operator of a battering ram
19. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Weight of the roof...
Two story building
Gears
ENIAC
20. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Guard rails
Following white lines on the floor
A library
Critical load/weight of the structure
21. The difficulties we must overcome
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
ROM
Steam engines
Problems
22. What factors determine the weight if a structure?
W = F x d
Ramp
Size - shape - and type of material
Functional models
23. More than one pulley working together
Computer language
James Watt
Block and tackle
Guard rails
24. What are computer chips made from?
Program
Silicon
Kinetic energy
Problems
25. The English unit of measuring work
Foot- pounds
Bevel gears
The structure will be lighter
Load
26. The weight or resistance on a lever
Compression
Potential energy
Load
Laser rod
27. The force (push or pull) used to do work
Flexible
Effort
Guard rails
Gears
28. The weight of the obect being moved
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Resistance
Tower
Bit
29. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Unstable
Beam
Plow
30. What is binary?
Romans
Ultrasonic sensor
Block and tackle
Computer language
31. 550 foot- pounds per second
Arch
Third- class lever
Beam bridge
Horsepower
32. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Memory addresses
Cable- stayed
Solve problems
Shear
33. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Rack and pinion gears
Tension structures weigh less
First- class levers
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
34. A bit is the presence of voltage or no voltage. By what symbols is it represented?
1 or 0
A small degree of flexibility
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Physical characteristics and work envelope
35. The points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?
Axes
Bell Laboratories
The problem solving process
Stress
36. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Span
Innovation
37. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Wheel and axle
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Invention
38. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
Bridge failure
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Solve problems
Worm gears
39. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Width of the beam
Cable- stayed
Rack and pinion gears
XYZ
40. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Balanced
Solutions
Cantilever
Shear
41. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...
Innovations
The wheel and axle
The bowstring girder
Hard automation and soft automation
42. What is the definition of stress
Flexible
Hard automation and soft automation
Tie
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
43. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Cloud chamber
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
Ultrasonic sensor
Effort
44. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Suspension
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Cantilever
XYZ
45. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
lever
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Friction
ROM
46. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?
Beam
Tension structures weigh less
High technology robots
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
47. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Potential energy
Equilibrium
Weight of the roof...
Science
48. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
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
Prototypes
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Ramp
49. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
Law of Conservation of Energy
Galileo
The calendar
The wheel and axle
50. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Weight of the roof...
Axes
Up and down
Spur gears