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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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1. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
High tech robots
Beam
Operator of a battering ram
Sensing systems
2. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Strong anchorages
Steel reinforced concrete
Truss
Optoelectronic sensor
3. A side effect of bending is called...
Spur gears
Beam
Bending moment or lever arm
It didn't always point at the North Star
4. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Chain hoist
Read only memory
Friction
Brainstorming
5. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Actuators
Axes
Plow
The number of pulley wheels
6. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Bascule
Protect other people working around them
The cable- stayed bridge
Wind tunnel testing
7. Tension is best described as...
Pulling
Ends
Horsepower
Arch
8. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
add a diagonal member
Optoelectronic sensor
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
The lack of pressure to continue development
9. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Bell Laboratories
Fixed pulley
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
10. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
Bell Laboratories
3000 feet
Truss
add a diagonal member
11. The deck of a suspension bridge is ____ from the cables
Hung
Arch
Bell Laboratories
Beam
12. Strain is a measure of...
How much a material has changed its shape
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Design brief
Elasticity
13. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Gripper
Potential energy
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Strong anchorages
14. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Neutral axis...
Low technology robots
Ends
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
15. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Irrigation
Design
Spur gears
Brainstorming
16. Suspension bridges have the problem of being...
add a diagonal member
Horsepower
Flexible
The growth of Christianity
17. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
Balanced
Bridge failure
ENIAC
Design brief
18. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
Solve problems
3000 feet
Beam
Memory addresses
19. The dead load of a structure is
Arch
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Problems
the permanent loads on a structure
20. What are computer chips made from?
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Medium technology robot
James Watt
Silicon
21. Distance between the piers
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
A cantilever bridge
Span
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
22. My name means 'seesaw' in French and the English dictionary describes me as a level -- something that is counterbalanced - so that when one end is lowered - the other is raised
A waist twisting
Bus
Bascule
Temperature changes
23. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Foot- pounds
Romans
Byte
Heavy
24. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Unstable
Manipulator
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
The number of pulley wheels
25. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Spur gears
The lack of pressure to continue development
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
26. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Elasticity
Bit
Resistive sensor
Bend and rotation
27. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
Optoelectronic sensor
Physical characteristics and work envelope
The calendar
Chemical reactions
28. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Manipulator
Functional models
1 or 0
Bridge failure
29. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Axes
Technology
Collapse or break
Lever
30. What was the forerunner of the robot?
Ramp
Hard automation
Design brief
A waist twisting
31. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Bending moment or lever arm
Wheel and axle
Brainstorming
3000 feet
32. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
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33. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
The number of pulley wheels
The wheel and axle
Instruction set
Elasticity
34. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
The calendar
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Low technology robots
The bowstring girder
35. When generating ideas for a solution to a problem - it is important to do which of the following in order to effectively and visually communicate these ideas for use in construction drawings?
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Cable- stayed
Program
Stone - concrete - or steel
36. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Wheel and axle
Pulley
Structural failure
Triangular lateen sail
37. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on
Soft clay tablets
Ergonomics
Width of the beam
Movable pulley
38. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Ergonomics
Deck
Gears
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
39. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Optoelectronic sensor
Gears
Actuators
Pulling
40. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Arch
Wind tunnel testing
Wheel and axle
Most of the material is located where it is needed
41. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Abutments
Work
The problem solving process
Potential energy
42. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Work
Bascule
Second- class lever
Lever
43. A pulley that makes work easier
Steel reinforced concrete
Memory addresses
Appearance model
Movable pulley
44. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Wheel and axle
Pulley
Collapse or break
Steam engines
45. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
Protect other people working around them
Compression
Laser rod
How far it can reach
46. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Irrigation
Microprocessor
Input/Output devices
Optoelectronic sensor
47. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Stress
Block and tackle
Invisible
Resistive sensor
48. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Up
Lever
Ultrasonic sensor
Tower
49. The turning point of a lever
Heavy
James Watt
Fulcrum
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
50. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
Deck
Tie
Ergonomics
First- class levers