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Introduction To Engineering
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1. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Any place on the arch
Strong anchorages
2. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Nylon
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Temperature changes
Tip over
3. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Instruction set
Solve problems
Sensing systems
Overflows of the Nile
4. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Invisible
A small degree of flexibility
Grippers
Design
5. Who was the first to conclude that the Earth is a giant magnet?
Gripper
Pulling
William Gilbert
Technology
6. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Structural failure
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Memory addresses
The bowstring girder
7. The three types of arches are...
Block and tackle
Gravity - weight - load
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Technology
8. Force times distance
High technology robots
Memory addresses
Work
Invention
9. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
Worm gears
The cable- stayed bridge
Invisible
Neutral axis...
10. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Design loop
Ends
Microcomputer
Unstable
11. The ability to do work
Computer language
Tie
Energy
W = F x d
12. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
Clock
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
13. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
Nylon
Hard automation
Memory addresses
How far it can reach
14. The most important factor in determining the strength of a beam is...
Trial and error
Tie
add a diagonal member
Its depth
15. 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
Bascule
256
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
It didn't always point at the North Star
16. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
Twisting
Deck
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Is able to learn
17. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
Brainstorming
Design loop
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
True
18. The longer the suspension bridge - the ____ the towers need to be
Ramp
Shear
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Taller
19. What is a touchstone?
Effort
Cable- stayed
A rock used to test metal for quality
Prototypes
20. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Byte
Wind tunnel testing
Potential energy
Resistive sensor
21. Which of the following are two advantages of using robotics technology?
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
Steel reinforced concrete
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Tip over
22. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder
Innovation
Temperature changes
Beam
Screw
23. The weight or resistance on a lever
Trial and error
High technology robots
Load
First- class lever
24. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
Cloud chamber
Fixed pulley
Computer language
Deck
25. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Design loop
Its depth
Power
Specifications
26. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
lever
Ergonomics
Axes
To do jobs that would be boring to people
27. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Innovation
James Watt
Width of the beam
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
28. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Pulley
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Work
Compression at the bottom
29. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?
How much a material has changed its shape
Gravity - weight - load
Structural failure
Axes
30. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...
Trial and error
Protect other people working around them
Gravity - weight - load
Instruction set
31. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Brainstorming
Spur gears
Weight of the roof...
Flexible
32. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
James Watt
Stress
Bevel gears
Design loop
33. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Keystone
Protect other people working around them
Ramp
Medium technology robot
34. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
The structure will be lighter
How far it can reach
Interstate highway system
Ends
35. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
A waist twisting
Hung
Invention
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
36. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Fire extinguisher
Up
Suspension
37. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Foot- pounds
Movable pulley
Neil Armstrong
Bending moment or lever arm
38. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges
Work
Most famous
Law of Conservation of Energy
Overflows of the Nile
39. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Fulcrum
Block and tackle
Equilibrium
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
40. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Input/Output devices
Irrigation
Triangular shapes
The structure will be lighter
41. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Solutions
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Keystone
Second- class lever
42. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
Elasticity
Up
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Hung
43. What are I/O devices?
True
Any place on the arch
Overflows of the Nile
Input/Output devices
44. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Resistive sensor
Block and tackle
Grippers
Third- class lever
45. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Generate many alternative solutions
3000 feet
Stone - concrete - or steel
Appearance model
46. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Size - shape - and type of material
Up
Worm gears
Design loop
47. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Wheel and axle
increasing the area over which the force acts
Block and tackle
Input/Output devices
48. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Triangular lateen sail
Beam - arch - and suspension
A small degree of flexibility
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
49. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Bending moment or lever arm
Steel reinforced concrete
The calendar
Operator of a battering ram
50. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Rack and pinion gears
Effort
Optoelectronic sensor
Microcomputer
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