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Introduction To Engineering
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1. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Elasticity
Design loop
Bending moment or lever arm
Overflows of the Nile
2. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
Brain
The calendar
Twisting
add a diagonal member
3. Robots fit into two categories:
Potential energy
Hard automation and soft automation
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Sensing systems
4. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Balanced
Shear
Silicon
Suspension
5. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Microprocessor
Screw
Neutral axis...
Specifications
6. The deck of a suspension bridge is ____ from the cables
Cloud chamber
Twisting
Hung
Bending and shearing
7. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Energy
Beam
Gripper
Laser rod
8. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
New jobs
Keystone
Cable- stayed
XYZ
9. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Neil Armstrong
Sensing systems
Microcomputer
Physical characteristics and work envelope
10. What are computer chips made from?
Silicon
Tip over
Rack and pinion gears
Work
11. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
Compression - tension
Resistance
Critical load/weight of the structure
Law of Conservation of Energy
12. What is binary?
Triangular shapes
Arch
Taller
Computer language
13. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?
Its depth
Laser rod
Tension structures weigh less
Neil Armstrong
14. The energy of motion
256
Kinetic energy
It didn't always point at the North Star
Microprocessor
15. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Location of the trustline
Pulley
Aqueducts
Suspension
16. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Suspension
17. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Optoelectronic sensor
Computer language
Piers
Aqueducts
18. I am one of the oldest and simplest bridge designs. Today I can be quite a complex bridge - but like my ancestors - I support my own weight and the loads I have to bear - on vertical piers.
Appearance model
Gears
Beam
Gears
19. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
Piers
A small degree of flexibility
How far it can reach
Compression at the bottom
20. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Instruction set
Foot- pounds
Beam
Width of the beam
21. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Prototypes
Friction
256
Beam
22. A force that opposes motion
Cantilever
Fulcrum
Friction
Ultrasonic sensor
23. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Manipulator
Instruction set
Axes
Actuators
24. A system of pulleys that consists of one rope wound around two separate sets of pulley - each of which is free to rotate independently on the same axle
Block and tackle
Critical load/weight of the structure
Chemical reactions
Heavy
25. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Resistance
Piers
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Prototypes
26. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
Shear
Design
Program
Potential energy
27. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
Bridge failure
Pulley
Main - frame computer
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
28. Which is not a true statement about gears?
The wheel and axle
Program
High tech robots
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
29. The scientific formula for work is...
W = F x d
Twisting
Cloud chamber
Specifications
30. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
Bend and rotation
Program
Cloud chamber
Ultrasonic sensor
31. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Tip over
First- class levers
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Third- class lever
32. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Pulley
A small degree of flexibility
Main - frame computer
Abutments
33. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Yaw
Up and down
Science
34. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Bending moment or lever arm
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Unstable
Program
35. 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?
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Pulley
36. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
Horsepower
Wind tunnel testing
Lever
Actuators
37. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Lever
Gears
Extend and retract
Bus
38. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
A waist twisting
Main - frame computer
Gravity - weight - load
Stone - concrete - or steel
39. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Cable- stayed
Brainstorming
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Design brief
40. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Heavy
Tower
Byte
Axes
41. A fixed wheel with a rope or chain that is attached to a load - used to change the direction of a force or to lift heavy objects - is a
How far it can reach
Pulley
Structural failure
Suspension
42. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Beam bridge
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Lasers
43. My bridge design is popular when the span is less than 3000 feet - mainly because I do not need anchorages or many piers
Pulley
Cable- stayed
3000 feet
Computer language
44. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Specifications
Cloud chamber
add a diagonal member
Third- class lever
45. What marked the engineering efforts of the Greeks?
Stone - concrete - or steel
Tension structures weigh less
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
46. 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
Aqueducts
Suspension
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Block and tackle
47. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Aqueducts
Rankine and Kelvin
48. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Bimetallic sensor
Strong anchorages
The wheel and axle
Optoelectronic sensor
49. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
A cantilever bridge
First- class lever
Microprocessor
Compression - tension
50. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Following white lines on the floor
A library
3000 feet
Arch
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