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Introduction To Engineering
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1. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Any place on the arch
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Grippers
Memory addresses
2. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Width of the beam
A rock used to test metal for quality
Most famous
Equilibrium
3. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Ultrasonic sensor
Brainstorming
Overflows of the Nile
Equilibrium
4. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Input/Output devices
Microprocessor
Science
Newton - meter
5. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
Collapse or break
Chemical reactions
The growth of Christianity
XYZ
6. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
A cantilever bridge
Prototypes
Block and tackle
True
7. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
Compression at the bottom
Work
Fixed pulley
Galileo
8. Two examples of me are the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. They both have decks that hang from cables made of hundreds of steel wires - just like me
Second- class lever
Actuators
Suspension
A small degree of flexibility
9. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Fulcrum
Chain hoist
Bell Laboratories
ENIAC
10. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Optoelectronic sensor
Wind tunnel testing
Resistive sensor
Irrigation systems
11. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
The wheel and axle
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Potential energy
12. What are I/O devices?
Input/Output devices
Ergonomics
Elasticity
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
13. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Brainstorming
Microcomputer
Grippers
Foot- pounds
14. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Beam bridge
Triangular shapes
Irrigation systems
First- class lever
15. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Problems
Balanced
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
16. 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
Wind tunnel testing
Pulley
Sensing systems
Bending and shearing
17. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Overflows of the Nile
Structural failure
Beam - arch - and suspension
Most famous
18. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
W = F x d
Papyrus
Microprocessor
Effort
19. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Block and tackle
lever
Overflows of the Nile
Strong anchorages
20. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Load
Effort
Microprocessor
ENIAC
21. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam
Deck
Bell Laboratories
Papyrus
Design loop
22. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Wind tunnel testing
Keystone
Arch
Wheel and axle
23. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Invention
Irrigation
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Bascule
24. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Resistive sensor
Collapse or break
Trial and error
25. What is a touchstone?
Guard rails
Hard automation and soft automation
A rock used to test metal for quality
Beam bridge
26. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Gears
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
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
High tech robots
27. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
The deck arch
Innovation
Sensing systems
Rack and pinion gears
28. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
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
Irrigation
Romans
3000 feet
29. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
Solve problems
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Following white lines on the floor
Two story building
30. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Horizontal braces
lever
Strong anchorages
Read only memory
31. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
Horsepower
Bimetallic sensor
Pushing
Critical load/weight of the structure
32. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Ergonomics
Plow
33. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
The calendar
Arch
Suspension
increasing the area over which the force acts
34. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
Program
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Tower
Worm gears
35. An optoelectronic emitter is used to do what/
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
increasing the area over which the force acts
Send out a light signal
True
36. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
Hung
Wind tunnel testing
High tech robots
Bimetallic sensor
37. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Effort
Stone - concrete - or steel
Twisting
Invisible
38. The three types of equilibrium are:
Tower
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Papyrus
Bend and rotation
39. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
It didn't always point at the North Star
Ergonomics
Pulley
XYZ
40. What is binary?
Appearance model
Potential energy
Computer language
Bevel gears
41. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Invisible
Gravity - weight - load
Ramp
Bridge failure
42. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Structural failure
Newton - meter
Power
Microprocessor
43. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Power
Time and angles
First- class levers
Ergonomics
44. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Unstable
To do jobs that would be boring to people
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
Brainstorming
45. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Bimetallic sensor
True
Random access memory
Galileo
46. What was the first computer - developed at the University of Pennsylvania?
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Newton - meter
ENIAC
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
47. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
How far it can reach
Extend and retract
Battered
James Watt
48. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Triangular shapes
Steel reinforced concrete
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Fulcrum
49. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Silicon
Resistance
Protect other people working around them
Low technology robots
50. The generation of ideas for solutions
Arch
Brainstorming
Invisible
Structural failure
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