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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. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
A cantilever bridge
Beam - arch - and suspension
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Functional models
2. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
The problem solving process
Up and down
Bus
Overflows of the Nile
3. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...
Kinetic energy
Up and down
Axes
Innovations
4. In the past it was commonly used to cross narrow distances like small streams or rivers
Microprocessor
The lack of pressure to continue development
Aqueducts
Beam
5. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?
256
Bend and rotation
Random access memory
Newton - meter
6. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Spur gears
Innovation
Design brief
Work
7. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
Sliding
Work
Soft clay tablets
The number of pulley wheels
8. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
Axes
Time and angles
Extend and retract
Design loop
9. A pulley that makes work easier
Kinetic energy
Movable pulley
Axes
Ergonomics
10. What is the definition of stress
Beam
Yaw
Design
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
11. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
Romans
Gears
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
XYZ
12. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Axes
Protect other people working around them
13. The probblem with very large compression structures is that they are...
Resistive sensor
Width of the beam
Up and down
Heavy
14. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Up
Functional models
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
15. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Laser rod
Manipulator
Design brief
Work
16. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
Beam bridge
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Imaginary
William Gilbert
17. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
W = F x d
Axes
Neil Armstrong
Worm gears
18. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Gears
A waist twisting
Beam bridge
Memory addresses
19. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Cloud chamber
Hard automation
Bell Laboratories
Optoelectronic sensor
20. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Technology
The calendar
Manipulator
Innovation
21. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on
Sensing systems
Soft clay tablets
Ramp
Law of Conservation of Energy
22. What type of arch bridge did the Romans build? (They were made from stone with the road on top of the arch)
The deck arch
Overflows of the Nile
Work
The lack of pressure to continue development
23. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Bimetallic sensor
Twisting
Compression - tension
The number of pulley wheels
24. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Truss
ENIAC
Load
Location of the trustline
25. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
Rankine and Kelvin
Ergonomics
Two story building
Any place on the arch
26. The safety factor is...
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Horizontal braces
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
27. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Yaw
Technology
Two story building
High tech robots
28. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
A rock used to test metal for quality
Temperature changes
Neil Armstrong
Ends
29. 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
Chemistry
lever
Irrigation
XYZ
30. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Design brief
Beam
Keystone
Newton - meter
31. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
Bend and rotation
James Watt
William Gilbert
Ultrasonic sensor
32. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace
Horsepower
Cable- stayed
Overflows of the Nile
New jobs
33. When generating ideas for a solution to a problem - it is important to do which of the following in order to effectively and visually communicate these ideas for use in construction drawings?
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Mechanical advantage
Computer language
34. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
The wheel and axle
Irrigation
Rankine and Kelvin
Overflows of the Nile
35. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Law of Conservation of Energy
Solve problems
Actuators
Steel reinforced concrete
36. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
The bowstring girder
The problem solving process
Up
37. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Time and angles
Triangular lateen sail
Bending moment or lever arm
Taller
38. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Invention
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Imaginary
Actuators
39. What is binary?
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Computer language
add a diagonal member
Fixed pulley
40. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Size - shape - and type of material
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
Up
the permanent loads on a structure
41. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Manipulator
Triangular lateen sail
Shape
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
42. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Kinetic energy
Design loop
Instruction set
Strong anchorages
43. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Axes
Brain
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Appearance model
44. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Operator of a battering ram
Fire extinguisher
Weight of the roof...
Microprocessor
45. The weight of the obect being moved
Resistance
True
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Heavy
46. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Beam
The growth of Christianity
Wind tunnel testing
Irrigation
47. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
Heavy
Block and tackle
Brain
Neutral axis...
48. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Work
Taller
To do jobs that would be boring to people
A waist twisting
49. Torsion is best described as...
Compression
Twisting
Tower
First- class levers
50. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges
Rankine and Kelvin
Most famous
Prototypes
Hard automation and soft automation