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Introduction To Engineering

Subject : engineering
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Surplus food led to all of the following except:






2. Which robots are capable of spray painting?






3. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?






4. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?






5. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?






6. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...






7. The three basic types of bridges are...






8. Shear is best described as...






9. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end






10. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...






11. The planned process of change






12. Distance between the piers






13. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:






14. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?






15. 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






16. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...






17. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...






18. Provides a structure for thinking and doing






19. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?






20. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge






21. The difficulties we must overcome






22. What factors determine the weight if a structure?






23. More than one pulley working together






24. What are computer chips made from?






25. The English unit of measuring work






26. The weight or resistance on a lever






27. The force (push or pull) used to do work






28. The weight of the obect being moved






29. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...






30. What is binary?






31. 550 foot- pounds per second






32. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...






33. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called






34. A bit is the presence of voltage or no voltage. By what symbols is it represented?






35. The points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?






36. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?






37. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point






38. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:






39. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)






40. Ways of overcoming difficulties






41. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...






42. What is the definition of stress






43. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they






44. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?






45. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?






46. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?






47. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...






48. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built






49. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?






50. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?