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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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1. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
Medium technology robot
Abutments
A cantilever bridge
Newton - meter
2. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Send out a light signal
Specifications
Is able to learn
Bell Laboratories
3. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace
New jobs
Fixed pulley
Interstate highway system
Low technology robots
4. Robots fit into two categories:
lever
Hard automation and soft automation
Equilibrium
Technology
5. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
The calendar
Abutments
The bowstring girder
6. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Unstable
Temperature changes
Guard rails
Work
7. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Bimetallic sensor
Prototypes
A waist twisting
Up and down
8. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Chain hoist
Resistive sensor
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Program
9. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Taller
Gears
Grippers
Spur gears
10. The English unit of measuring work
Foot- pounds
Deck
Beam
Compression at the bottom
11. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
The cable- stayed bridge
Resistance
ENIAC
Following white lines on the floor
12. The planned process of change
Compression at the bottom
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Twisting
Design
13. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Aqueducts
Pulley
W = F x d
Second- class lever
14. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Worm gears
Clock
Tie
Tower
15. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Bascule
Instruction set
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Effort
16. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Axes
Cantilever
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
A cantilever bridge
17. 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
Up
Pulley
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Extend and retract
18. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Program
The structure will be lighter
Design brief
Triangular lateen sail
19. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
Optoelectronic sensor
The problem solving process
Second- class lever
Foot- pounds
20. 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
Two story building
Medium technology robot
Gears
Suspension
21. What is the definition of stress
Bend and rotation
Physical characteristics and work envelope
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Stone - concrete - or steel
22. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
Hard automation
The structure will be lighter
Microprocessor
Generate many alternative solutions
23. The development of something completely new
Taller
Invention
A rock used to test metal for quality
Resistive sensor
24. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
Ramp
A cantilever bridge
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Bevel gears
25. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
Spur gears
Program
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Extend and retract
26. Tension is best described as...
Innovation
Pulling
Compression at the bottom
Low technology robots
27. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Up
The calendar
Temperature changes
Main - frame computer
28. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Flexible
Input/Output devices
Design loop
Invention
29. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
James Watt
Galileo
Solve problems
How much a material has changed its shape
30. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Location of the trustline
Science
Beam
Neutral axis...
31. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
New jobs
Compression at the bottom
Axes
32. The weight of the obect being moved
Memory addresses
Resistance
Design brief
Rack and pinion gears
33. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Brainstorming
Chemical reactions
Up and down
Any place on the arch
34. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Science
Shear
Screw
Computer language
35. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
First- class lever
Weight of the roof...
Location of the trustline
Bridge failure
36. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Bus
Gravity - weight - load
Microprocessor
Solve problems
37. The five types of stress are...
Program
256
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Fixed pulley
38. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Problems
Optoelectronic sensor
Irrigation
Aqueducts
39. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
Sliding
Bending moment or lever arm
Deck
To do jobs that would be boring to people
40. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
The structure will be lighter
Tension structures weigh less
Chemical reactions
Wind tunnel testing
41. What are I/O devices?
Input/Output devices
Read only memory
Hard automation and soft automation
Specifications
42. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Structural failure
Friction
Hard automation
Heavy
43. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
ROM
Brainstorming
Bit
Steam engines
44. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
add a diagonal member
A small degree of flexibility
Arch
Most of the material is located where it is needed
45. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Hung
Science
Cable- stayed
Specifications
46. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Bevel gears
256
Pulling
47. I am a new bridge design that includes elements from a cantilever and a suspension bridge. I am easier to build than either of those but I am limited to spanning shorter distances
Cable- stayed
Block and tackle
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Compression at the bottom
48. The three types of arches are...
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
How far it can reach
add a diagonal member
Cable- stayed
49. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Stress
Work
Piers
Axes
50. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Read only memory
Resistance
Weight of the roof...