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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. The metric unit for measuring work
Balanced
Abutments
Newton - meter
The calendar
2. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
Weight of the roof...
Screw
The bowstring girder
lever
3. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Bend and rotation
Bit
Bending and shearing
Size - shape - and type of material
4. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
Optoelectronic sensor
Steam engines
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Chain hoist
5. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Trial and error
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Neil Armstrong
Mechanical advantage
6. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Collapse or break
Chain hoist
3000 feet
256
7. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
add a diagonal member
the permanent loads on a structure
Bit
Guard rails
8. Robots fit into two categories:
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Sensing systems
Optoelectronic sensor
Hard automation and soft automation
9. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
Memory addresses
Fixed pulley
Pulling
Generate many alternative solutions
10. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Span
XYZ
Up and down
Effort
11. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Brain
Battered
Following white lines on the floor
Extend and retract
12. The five types of stress are...
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Bimetallic sensor
Tip over
Compression
13. The controller is what part of the robot?
Twisting
Brain
Medium technology robot
Main - frame computer
14. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
First- class lever
Deck
Second- class lever
15. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Microcomputer
Brain
Law of Conservation of Energy
Papyrus
16. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Compression at the bottom
The growth of Christianity
High technology robots
Galileo
17. The turning point of a lever
Romans
Its depth
Lasers
Fulcrum
18. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Axes
Critical load/weight of the structure
The wheel and axle
A waist twisting
19. Torsion is best described as...
Effort
It didn't always point at the North Star
A rock used to test metal for quality
Twisting
20. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Kinetic energy
Invisible
Tip over
Steam engines
21. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Invention
the permanent loads on a structure
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Structural failure
22. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Wheel and axle
Hung
Axes
William Gilbert
23. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Shape
Pulling
Chain hoist
Block and tackle
24. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
Collapse or break
3000 feet
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Papyrus
25. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on
Ends
Soft clay tablets
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Arch
26. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
Cantilever
Cable- stayed
Heavy
Science
27. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Brainstorming
Tip over
Cable- stayed
1 or 0
28. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Tie
Beam
Grippers
Location of the trustline
29. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Load
Extend and retract
Bimetallic sensor
The number of pulley wheels
30. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Tension structures weigh less
Solutions
The deck arch
Stone - concrete - or steel
31. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?
Shear
The structure will be lighter
Suspension
A library
32. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Chain hoist
William Gilbert
Physical characteristics and work envelope
33. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
Manipulator
Its depth
Cloud chamber
Law of Conservation of Energy
34. 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
Beam
Any place on the arch
First- class lever
35. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Imaginary
Design brief
Actuators
Operator of a battering ram
36. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Steel reinforced concrete
Compression
ENIAC
Fixed pulley
37. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Brainstorming
Up
Solve problems
38. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Newton - meter
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Cable- stayed
Worm gears
39. The ability to do work
Energy
The bowstring girder
Beam - arch - and suspension
Aqueducts
40. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Piers
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Most famous
Shape
41. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?
Twisting
Memory addresses
Solve problems
1 or 0
42. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Most famous
The lack of pressure to continue development
Triangular shapes
43. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Truss
Interstate highway system
Physical characteristics and work envelope
44. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Up
Sliding
Shape
Grippers
45. The improvement of things already invented
Grippers
Following white lines on the floor
Innovation
Memory addresses
46. Work divided by time
Hard automation
Arch
Power
Ramp
47. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
New jobs
A waist twisting
Steam engines
Read only memory
48. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Romans
To do jobs that would be boring to people
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
increasing the area over which the force acts
49. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Structural failure
Low technology robots
James Watt
50. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Read only memory
lever
Bend and rotation
Bascule