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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. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Two story building
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
Newton - meter
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
2. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?
Mechanical advantage
Bend and rotation
Ultrasonic sensor
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
3. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
Random access memory
Effort
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
To do jobs that would be boring to people
4. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Two story building
Grippers
A waist twisting
Steel reinforced concrete
5. The controller is what part of the robot?
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
A waist twisting
Brain
Design loop
6. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Cable- stayed
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Shear
Twisting
7. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
Spur gears
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Cloud chamber
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
8. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
Gripper
increasing the area over which the force acts
The number of pulley wheels
Resistive sensor
9. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
Trial and error
Stone - concrete - or steel
Main - frame computer
The calendar
10. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Prototypes
Neutral axis...
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Nylon
11. The turning point of a lever
It didn't always point at the North Star
Triangular shapes
Fulcrum
Deck
12. What was the forerunner of the robot?
Hard automation
Axes
Sliding
Galileo
13. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Compression - tension
Cantilever
Irrigation systems
The deck arch
14. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Tower
1 or 0
Design loop
High tech robots
15. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
James Watt
Strong anchorages
Location of the trustline
Design brief
16. A system of pulleys that consists of one rope wound around two separate sets of pulley - each of which is free to rotate independently on the same axle
Block and tackle
Tension structures weigh less
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Any place on the arch
17. The scientific formula for work is...
W = F x d
Friction
Plow
Screw
18. 550 foot- pounds per second
Strong anchorages
Movable pulley
Romans
Horsepower
19. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Is able to learn
The growth of Christianity
Stress
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
20. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
A waist twisting
Design brief
Unstable
Compression - tension
21. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Ends
Time and angles
Bending and shearing
Any place on the arch
22. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Cable- stayed
Wheel and axle
First- class lever
Pulley
23. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
The problem solving process
Irrigation systems
Neutral axis...
New jobs
24. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
Wind tunnel testing
Invisible
The bowstring girder
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
25. A side effect of bending is called...
Bending moment or lever arm
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Random access memory
Bevel gears
26. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
Program
Irrigation systems
High tech robots
Any place on the arch
27. Provides problem clarification and specification
Bending moment or lever arm
Design brief
Beam bridge
Bit
28. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Spur gears
Lasers
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Beam
29. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Invention
add a diagonal member
Optoelectronic sensor
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
30. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Work
Block and tackle
Chemistry
Neil Armstrong
31. A bit is the presence of voltage or no voltage. By what symbols is it represented?
1 or 0
Bending and shearing
Suspension
Battered
32. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:
Pushing
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Movable pulley
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
33. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
Microprocessor
A library
Solve problems
Foot- pounds
34. Who was the first to conclude that the Earth is a giant magnet?
The growth of Christianity
William Gilbert
Actuators
Main - frame computer
35. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Shape
Two story building
Balanced
36. The three types of arches are...
Chemistry
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Axes
37. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Design loop
Microcomputer
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Brainstorming
38. A pulley that makes work easier
Axes
Stress
Plow
Movable pulley
39. Ways of overcoming difficulties
increasing the area over which the force acts
Wind tunnel testing
Up
Solutions
40. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
A cantilever bridge
Chemical reactions
Gravity - weight - load
The structure will be lighter
41. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Two story building
The structure will be lighter
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Truss
42. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Up
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Size - shape - and type of material
Beam
43. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
True
Strong anchorages
Technology
Tie
44. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Actuators
How much a material has changed its shape
Second- class lever
A cantilever bridge
45. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
Microprocessor
Bimetallic sensor
Imaginary
Up and down
46. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Chemistry
Functional models
Stress
Clock
47. The three basic types of bridges are...
Axes
The wheel and axle
Ultrasonic sensor
Beam - arch - and suspension
48. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Fire extinguisher
Compression at the bottom
Weight of the roof...
XYZ
49. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Cable- stayed
Design
Bimetallic sensor
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
50. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
Wind tunnel testing
Bascule
Fixed pulley
Pulley