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Introduction To Engineering
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Subject
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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. Materials change shape as they expand and contract with...
Cloud chamber
Temperature changes
Heavy
Taller
2. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
Rankine and Kelvin
The growth of Christianity
Sensing systems
Cable- stayed
3. The three basic types of bridges are...
Beam - arch - and suspension
Block and tackle
Twisting
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
4. 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
James Watt
Main - frame computer
Pushing
5. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Mechanical advantage
Papyrus
Energy
6. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Unstable
Strong anchorages
Silicon
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
7. 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
Innovation
Taller
Beam bridge
Cable- stayed
8. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
Is able to learn
Suspension
High technology robots
Functional models
9. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
Solve problems
Screw
Elasticity
Unstable
10. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Send out a light signal
Innovations
Location of the trustline
Protect other people working around them
11. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Critical load/weight of the structure
Suspension
Computer language
Width of the beam
12. In the past it was commonly used to cross narrow distances like small streams or rivers
Beam
Optoelectronic sensor
Clock
Potential energy
13. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
Temperature changes
Microcomputer
Program
Axes
14. The planned process of change
Design
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Functional models
Cable- stayed
15. What is a touchstone?
A rock used to test metal for quality
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Invention
William Gilbert
16. Distance between the piers
Potential energy
Span
Low technology robots
Battered
17. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Compression - tension
Suspension
Power
3000 feet
18. The English unit of measuring work
Foot- pounds
Steam engines
Compression - tension
Collapse or break
19. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
Axes
Chain hoist
Brainstorming
Triangular lateen sail
20. A lever in which the fulcrum is between the effort and the load
First- class lever
Cantilever
Guard rails
Third- class lever
21. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
Fire extinguisher
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Compression at the bottom
Fixed pulley
22. The ability to do work
Wheel and axle
How far it can reach
Energy
Fire extinguisher
23. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Potential energy
Ends
Beam
Yaw
24. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Nylon
Solve problems
Work
Lasers
25. The I- beam is very strong because...
Block and tackle
XYZ
Deck
Most of the material is located where it is needed
26. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Brainstorming
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Bimetallic sensor
Input/Output devices
27. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
XYZ
256
Gears
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
28. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Stress
Collapse or break
Third- class lever
Second- class lever
29. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Up and down
Medium technology robot
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Read only memory
30. More than one pulley working together
Effort
lever
Block and tackle
Appearance model
31. Robots fit into two categories:
Steam engines
Hard automation and soft automation
Ramp
Suspension
32. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
Irrigation
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Steel reinforced concrete
Equilibrium
33. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Hung
Prototypes
Hard automation and soft automation
Gears
34. The five types of stress are...
Size - shape - and type of material
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Neutral axis...
Microprocessor
35. Suspension bridges have the problem of being...
Heavy
Flexible
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Pushing
36. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Keystone
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
The cable- stayed bridge
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
37. The force applied to a lever
Cable- stayed
Hung
Cantilever
Effort
38. What are computer chips made from?
Cloud chamber
Gravity - weight - load
Irrigation systems
Silicon
39. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Clock
Wind tunnel testing
Bending moment or lever arm
Shear
40. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
W = F x d
Actuators
Ramp
Fire extinguisher
41. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Movable pulley
add a diagonal member
It didn't always point at the North Star
42. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Trial and error
A small degree of flexibility
Beam
43. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Cantilever
Its depth
The lack of pressure to continue development
Bit
44. The difficulties we must overcome
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Medium technology robot
Problems
Sliding
45. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Design loop
256
Input/Output devices
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
46. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Unstable
Time and angles
Spur gears
Specifications
47. What is the name of the robot's arm?
How far it can reach
Manipulator
Work
Bend and rotation
48. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
True
add a diagonal member
Memory addresses
49. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Energy
The number of pulley wheels
Clock
256
50. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Design loop
Irrigation systems
Prototypes
Spur gears