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Introduction To Engineering
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1. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Medium technology robot
Structural failure
Hard automation and soft automation
Lasers
2. 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
the permanent loads on a structure
Movable pulley
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
3. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Effort
Beam bridge
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Piers
4. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Critical load/weight of the structure
Generate many alternative solutions
How far it can reach
Trial and error
5. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
The problem solving process
Innovation
The number of pulley wheels
Axes
6. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Design loop
Second- class lever
Triangular lateen sail
Foot- pounds
7. More than one pulley working together
Block and tackle
Gravity - weight - load
The bowstring girder
Elasticity
8. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Cable- stayed
Send out a light signal
Stress
Gears
9. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Brainstorming
Following white lines on the floor
Brainstorming
Read only memory
10. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam
Truss
The lack of pressure to continue development
Worm gears
Deck
11. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Invention
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
12. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace
New jobs
Unstable
Spur gears
Microprocessor
13. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Friction
Optoelectronic sensor
Design
Ramp
14. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Beam
Gravity - weight - load
Potential energy
Wheel and axle
15. The three types of arches are...
increasing the area over which the force acts
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Balanced
Tie
16. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Innovations
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
A small degree of flexibility
increasing the area over which the force acts
17. The planned process of change
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Bus
Design
18. Tension is best described as...
Computer language
Tip over
Fixed pulley
Pulling
19. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Worm gears
Two story building
Physical characteristics and work envelope
20. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Cable- stayed
Cantilever
Random access memory
Rankine and Kelvin
21. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Irrigation
Any place on the arch
The problem solving process
Second- class lever
22. The five types of stress are...
Rack and pinion gears
increasing the area over which the force acts
3000 feet
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
23. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?
Silicon
Block and tackle
Ultrasonic sensor
Ramp
24. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
Romans
Equilibrium
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
The calendar
25. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Microprocessor
Low technology robots
The bowstring girder
26. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
Bell Laboratories
A cantilever bridge
Work
Any place on the arch
27. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Beam
Piers
Worm 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
28. Which of the following was not a development of Roman culture?
Axes
Irrigation
Random access memory
Chemistry
29. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Stone - concrete - or steel
Flexible
Bell Laboratories
Cloud chamber
30. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Trial and error
Shape
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Fire extinguisher
31. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Cable- stayed
A waist twisting
It didn't always point at the North Star
Kinetic energy
32. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
A small degree of flexibility
Unstable
Beam
33. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
Law of Conservation of Energy
How far it can reach
Bascule
Program
34. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Chemistry
Cantilever
Ergonomics
35. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
First- class lever
Up and down
Beam - arch - and suspension
Arch
36. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
the permanent loads on a structure
The structure will be lighter
Tower
37. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Design
Appearance model
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
38. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind
Gears
Ultrasonic sensor
Suspension
Energy
39. Who was the first to conclude that the Earth is a giant magnet?
Invisible
William Gilbert
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Tip over
40. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Mechanical advantage
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Optoelectronic sensor
Axes
41. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Computer language
Arch
Technology
Byte
42. What is a touchstone?
Imaginary
A rock used to test metal for quality
Functional models
Beam
43. What are computer chips made from?
Silicon
1 or 0
Ends
Microprocessor
44. The difficulties we must overcome
Battered
Silicon
Problems
Hung
45. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Optoelectronic sensor
Send out a light signal
XYZ
Guard rails
46. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
A cantilever bridge
Guard rails
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Neil Armstrong
47. The scientific formula for work is...
Beam bridge
W = F x d
Bend and rotation
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
48. What type of arch bridge did the Romans build? (They were made from stone with the road on top of the arch)
Equilibrium
The deck arch
Solutions
Invisible
49. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
3000 feet
Brainstorming
Ergonomics
Science
50. The improvement of things already invented
Bending moment or lever arm
Innovation
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Read only memory
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