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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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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. Work divided by time
Power
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Optoelectronic sensor
Axes
2. The five types of stress are...
Time and angles
Overflows of the Nile
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Bevel gears
3. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Gears
Bending moment or lever arm
Horsepower
Gripper
4. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Microprocessor
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
First- class levers
5. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Bell Laboratories
Program
Pulling
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
6. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
The growth of Christianity
Mechanical advantage
Byte
7. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Truss
Microprocessor
Galileo
8. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Guard rails
Beam - arch - and suspension
Wind tunnel testing
Design loop
9. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Tension structures weigh less
Instruction set
Twisting
Functional models
10. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
A cantilever bridge
Elasticity
Cable- stayed
Tip over
11. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...
Innovations
Low technology robots
Worm gears
Bending moment or lever arm
12. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Time and angles
Stone - concrete - or steel
Effort
Ramp
13. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Keystone
The number of pulley wheels
Cable- stayed
Ramp
14. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
Technology
The cable- stayed bridge
Design
How far it can reach
15. My bridge design is popular when the span is less than 3000 feet - mainly because I do not need anchorages or many piers
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Cable- stayed
Bell Laboratories
Bending moment or lever arm
16. What is binary?
Computer language
Bending and shearing
Shear
The bowstring girder
17. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Galileo
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Triangular shapes
Beam
18. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Unstable
A rock used to test metal for quality
Functional models
Gears
19. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Wheel and axle
lever
Gears
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
20. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Time and angles
The calendar
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Resistive sensor
21. The ability to do work
Compression
Energy
True
Ultrasonic sensor
22. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Span
256
Triangular shapes
Overflows of the Nile
23. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Design loop
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
3000 feet
Bending and shearing
24. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam
Deck
Lever
Bevel gears
Work
25. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?
Newton - meter
Collapse or break
Random access memory
Program
26. The turning point of a lever
Cable- stayed
Fulcrum
1 or 0
Functional models
27. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?
1 or 0
Equilibrium
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
28. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
True
Sensing systems
Bell Laboratories
High tech robots
29. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
How far it can reach
Read only memory
Chemistry
Design brief
30. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Up
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
ENIAC
First- class levers
31. Distance between the piers
Span
Gripper
Keystone
It didn't always point at the North Star
32. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Bevel gears
Up and down
Aqueducts
Kinetic energy
33. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Two story building
Following white lines on the floor
34. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Piers
Triangular shapes
Triangular lateen sail
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
35. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace
New jobs
Solutions
Hard automation and soft automation
Solve problems
36. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Invisible
Rack and pinion gears
The problem solving process
37. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Low technology robots
Specifications
Design
38. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
Rack and pinion gears
Balanced
Resistance
Bit
39. What is a touchstone?
Taller
Appearance model
A rock used to test metal for quality
Foot- pounds
40. The difficulties we must overcome
Ramp
First- class levers
Problems
Ultrasonic sensor
41. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Gravity - weight - load
Solve problems
Cable- stayed
Stress
42. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Sliding
Beam
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
43. The three types of equilibrium are:
Bimetallic sensor
Battered
Compression - tension
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
44. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
Lever
Medium technology robot
Soft clay tablets
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
45. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
ENIAC
Design loop
Ends
Pulling
46. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
The problem solving process
Balanced
Steel reinforced concrete
Most of the material is located where it is needed
47. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Ultrasonic sensor
Imaginary
Cloud chamber
48. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
William Gilbert
Solutions
Elasticity
Design loop
49. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
High technology robots
Following white lines on the floor
Irrigation
Up and down
50. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Location of the trustline
Technology
Structural failure