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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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1. The weight of the obect being moved
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Optoelectronic sensor
Irrigation systems
Resistance
2. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?
Functional models
ROM
Collapse or break
Specifications
3. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam
ENIAC
Deck
Law of Conservation of Energy
Triangular shapes
4. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Galileo
Tower
The deck arch
Axes
5. What type of arch bridge did the Romans build? (They were made from stone with the road on top of the arch)
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Solve problems
Stress
The deck arch
6. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
Ultrasonic sensor
Specifications
Ergonomics
Hard automation and soft automation
7. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
The structure will be lighter
The problem solving process
Friction
Beam
8. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Low technology robots
Spur gears
Bit
Most famous
9. Materials change shape as they expand and contract with...
Fire extinguisher
Steel reinforced concrete
Neil Armstrong
Temperature changes
10. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch
Beam
Problems
Ultrasonic sensor
Abutments
11. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Abutments
Stress
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Pulling
12. What are computer chips made from?
Read only memory
3000 feet
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Silicon
13. The English unit of measuring work
Compression - tension
Lever
Block and tackle
Foot- pounds
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
Up
Bascule
Unstable
Stone - concrete - or steel
15. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Invisible
Two story building
Appearance model
Ultrasonic sensor
16. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
Papyrus
Weight of the roof...
Neutral axis...
Design brief
17. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Gears
A small degree of flexibility
Second- class lever
Load
18. Torsion is best described as...
Twisting
Byte
Bend and rotation
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
19. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
Tie
Structural failure
Up and down
Lever
20. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
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21. Force times distance
Byte
Movable pulley
Work
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
22. Compression is best described as...
Lasers
Heavy
Ergonomics
Pushing
23. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
New jobs
Medium technology robot
Tension structures weigh less
The lack of pressure to continue development
24. The generation of ideas for solutions
Solutions
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Fulcrum
Brainstorming
25. The scientific formula for work is...
3000 feet
How far it can reach
W = F x d
Rankine and Kelvin
26. The lesson used an illustration of a robot filling boxes. The sensors detected if the box had moved. What kind of sensor was used?
Optoelectronic sensor
Bascule
Ultrasonic sensor
Kinetic energy
27. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
Lasers
Law of Conservation of Energy
Operator of a battering ram
ROM
28. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
Fixed pulley
Optoelectronic sensor
Piers
Operator of a battering ram
29. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
Twisting
Cable- stayed
True
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
30. What is the definition of stress
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Is able to learn
Yaw
Axes
31. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Worm gears
Irrigation systems
Beam
Gears
32. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Microprocessor
Science
Design brief
Twisting
33. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Instruction set
Optoelectronic sensor
William Gilbert
Weight of the roof...
34. 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?
Axes
Bridge failure
Any place on the arch
First- class lever
35. The improvement of things already invented
Innovation
Strong anchorages
Cable- stayed
Steam engines
36. Stress can be lowered by
increasing the area over which the force acts
lever
Microprocessor
Sensing systems
37. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Solutions
The number of pulley wheels
Tension structures weigh less
The bowstring girder
38. Tension is best described as...
Compression at the bottom
Pulling
Fulcrum
Strong anchorages
39. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Ultrasonic sensor
Aqueducts
Program
Clock
40. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Ramp
Cloud chamber
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Following white lines on the floor
41. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Silicon
Time and angles
Abutments
Technology
42. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
Strong anchorages
A cantilever bridge
A rock used to test metal for quality
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
43. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
Hung
The wheel and axle
Movable pulley
Battered
44. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Gears
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Wind tunnel testing
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
45. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
Truss
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
High technology robots
Trial and error
46. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Ends
Axes
Piers
Load
47. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
The problem solving process
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Beam bridge
Work
48. Which of the following is not a robot arm movement?
Bevel gears
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Rack and pinion gears
Yaw
49. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Romans
Byte
Protect other people working around them
Bit
50. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/
Mechanical advantage
The lack of pressure to continue development
Rankine and Kelvin
Design