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Introduction To Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?






2. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?

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3. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:






4. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/






5. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?






6. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch






7. The difficulties we must overcome






8. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to






9. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?






10. What are I/O devices?






11. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck






12. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.






13. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?






14. My name means 'seesaw' in French and the English dictionary describes me as a level -- something that is counterbalanced - so that when one end is lowered - the other is raised






15. 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






16. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always






17. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on






18. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?






19. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?






20. I am one of the oldest and simplest bridge designs. Today I can be quite a complex bridge - but like my ancestors - I support my own weight and the loads I have to bear - on vertical piers.






21. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...






22. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems






23. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?






24. Stress can be lowered by






25. For a tower to be built higher - the walls can be...






26. An optoelectronic emitter is used to do what/






27. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind






28. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?






29. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?






30. What type of arch bridge did the Romans build? (They were made from stone with the road on top of the arch)






31. Builders made the original versions of me out of wedge- shaped stones that fit snugly together. They were held in place with the pressure of the weight of the bridge






32. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?






33. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge






34. Which of the following was not a development of Roman culture?






35. What is a touchstone?






36. The English unit of measuring work






37. Materials change shape as they expand and contract with...






38. A pulley that makes work easier






39. 550 foot- pounds per second






40. Provides direction for the work of the designer






41. The weight or resistance on a lever






42. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...






43. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made






44. Torsion is best described as...






45. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...






46. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?






47. Provides problem clarification and specification






48. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder






49. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?






50. Which is not a true statement about gears?