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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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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. More than one pulley working together
Block and tackle
Design loop
Gears
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
2. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Gripper
Tower
First- class lever
Critical load/weight of the structure
3. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Triangular shapes
Design loop
Grippers
Optoelectronic sensor
4. A force that opposes motion
Cantilever
Program
Friction
Weight of the roof...
5. Provides problem clarification and specification
Design brief
Size - shape - and type of material
Fulcrum
How much a material has changed its shape
6. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
Third- class lever
The lack of pressure to continue development
Gravity - weight - load
Romans
7. What are computer chips made from?
The growth of Christianity
Bascule
Structural failure
Silicon
8. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
A small degree of flexibility
Block and tackle
Abutments
Program
9. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Medium technology robot
Lever
Neil Armstrong
Fire extinguisher
10. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...
Tie
Cable- stayed
Imaginary
Piers
11. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Lasers
Cable- stayed
Width of the beam
A waist twisting
12. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Design brief
Bend and rotation
Gripper
High technology robots
13. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Bevel gears
Abutments
Design brief
Soft clay tablets
14. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
Stone - concrete - or steel
Bridge failure
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Compression - tension
15. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
Its depth
ENIAC
Solve problems
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
16. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
Compression
Brainstorming
Design loop
Medium technology robot
17. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Tension structures weigh less
Trial and error
Nylon
Random access memory
18. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Yaw
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Fulcrum
19. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
Gears
The growth of Christianity
Random access memory
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
20. Shear is best described as...
Memory addresses
The deck arch
Sliding
Cantilever
21. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum - used to overcome a resistance or to raise a weight when force is applied is a
Brainstorming
The number of pulley wheels
lever
Chain hoist
22. The scientific formula for work is...
Science
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
W = F x d
23. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Science
Two story building
The number of pulley wheels
Memory addresses
24. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Main - frame computer
Gears
Neutral axis...
Appearance model
25. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?
Shear
Sliding
William Gilbert
High technology robots
26. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Ends
Pulley
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Up
27. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on
Battered
Soft clay tablets
Axes
W = F x d
28. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?
A library
Technology
High tech robots
Pushing
29. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Cable- stayed
A rock used to test metal for quality
Solutions
First- class lever
30. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Width of the beam
Keystone
First- class levers
Fixed pulley
31. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
Triangular shapes
Law of Conservation of Energy
256
the permanent loads on a structure
32. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Shape
Flexible
Optoelectronic sensor
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
33. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Microcomputer
Operator of a battering ram
Fulcrum
Cable- stayed
34. Distance between the piers
Bend and rotation
Span
Brain
A waist twisting
35. Materials change shape as they expand and contract with...
Prototypes
Bridge failure
Temperature changes
Read only memory
36. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Steel reinforced concrete
Temperature changes
3000 feet
The calendar
37. The weight or resistance on a lever
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Load
Any place on the arch
Tip over
38. Operating parameters are the abilities and limitations of robots that determine their design and tasks. Which of the following is not a robotics operating parameter?
increasing the area over which the force acts
Soft clay tablets
Axes
Arch
39. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Beam - arch - and suspension
Protect other people working around them
The structure will be lighter
Chain hoist
40. The weight of the obect being moved
Width of the beam
Ultrasonic sensor
Resistance
Yaw
41. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Pulley
Compression at the bottom
Soft clay tablets
Triangular lateen sail
42. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Tower
Gears
Critical load/weight of the structure
Irrigation systems
43. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Compression - tension
Byte
Innovation
44. The improvement of things already invented
Beam - arch - and suspension
Specifications
Innovation
Battered
45. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Law of Conservation of Energy
Stress
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Keystone
46. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Design loop
Pulley
Sliding
Resistive sensor
47. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Aqueducts
Neutral axis...
Suspension
48. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Functional models
Ultrasonic sensor
Resistive sensor
Bit
49. Inclined section that connects land to beam
William Gilbert
James Watt
Ramp
Romans
50. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
How much a material has changed its shape
Pulley
Stress
increasing the area over which the force acts