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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Laser rod
Up
Sensing systems
Generate many alternative solutions
2. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Up and down
Nylon
Instruction set
Low technology robots
3. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
The growth of Christianity
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Fixed pulley
Tension structures weigh less
4. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Neil Armstrong
Keystone
Gravity - weight - load
5. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Second- class lever
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
6. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Work
Battered
Sensing systems
W = F x d
7. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Gears
Chain hoist
Gravity - weight - load
Collapse or break
8. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
First- class levers
Cable- stayed
Medium technology robot
9. The I- beam is very strong because...
Fixed pulley
True
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Axes
10. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
The calendar
Optoelectronic sensor
The growth of Christianity
11. What is a touchstone?
Second- class lever
Newton - meter
Cable- stayed
A rock used to test metal for quality
12. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Bevel gears
3000 feet
Plow
Screw
13. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
Chain hoist
Two story building
Chemical reactions
Bell Laboratories
14. 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
Beam - arch - and suspension
the permanent loads on a structure
A waist twisting
15. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Grippers
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Horizontal braces
Cloud chamber
16. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Pulley
Gears
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
How far it can reach
17. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Rack and pinion gears
Beam - arch - and suspension
Foot- pounds
Lasers
18. Builders made the original versions of me out of wedge- shaped stones that fit snugly together. They were held in place with the pressure of the weight of the bridge
Arch
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Chemical reactions
19. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Width of the beam
The bowstring girder
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Gripper
20. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Main - frame computer
Third- class lever
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Overflows of the Nile
21. The deck of a suspension bridge is ____ from the cables
Hung
The number of pulley wheels
Ergonomics
Heavy
22. Stress can be lowered by
increasing the area over which the force acts
Friction
Tension structures weigh less
Wind tunnel testing
23. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Hard automation and soft automation
Design loop
Plow
Irrigation systems
24. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
Functional models
the permanent loads on a structure
Mechanical advantage
Program
25. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
Up
Fire extinguisher
256
Innovations
26. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Main - frame computer
Kinetic energy
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Axes
27. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?
Read only memory
Chemical reactions
Laser rod
Suspension
28. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Bell Laboratories
Design loop
Taller
Overflows of the Nile
29. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Fulcrum
Mechanical advantage
Irrigation systems
Trial and error
30. Which of the following was not a development of Roman culture?
The calendar
Suspension
Chemistry
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
31. The improvement of things already invented
Second- class lever
Innovation
Input/Output devices
Triangular shapes
32. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Brainstorming
Guard rails
Up and down
XYZ
33. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Measurement - evaluation - and control
The problem solving process
Pulley
Science
34. The safety factor is...
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Operator of a battering ram
Overflows of the Nile
35. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
Tower
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Strong anchorages
Width of the beam
36. The force applied to a lever
Elasticity
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Effort
256
37. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Protect other people working around them
Beam - arch - and suspension
Bending and shearing
Grippers
38. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Microprocessor
Horsepower
Computer language
39. Strain is a measure of...
First- class lever
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
How much a material has changed its shape
40. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder
Hard automation
Cantilever
The problem solving process
Screw
41. 550 foot- pounds per second
Horsepower
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Design brief
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
42. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Second- class lever
The structure will be lighter
Bit
Up and down
43. What was the forerunner of the robot?
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Suspension
Hard automation
Gears
44. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
Silicon
The number of pulley wheels
Hard automation and soft automation
Lever
45. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Resistive sensor
The lack of pressure to continue development
A waist twisting
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
46. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Bend and rotation
Operator of a battering ram
It didn't always point at the North Star
XYZ
47. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Design loop
Location of the trustline
Chain hoist
48. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Steam engines
Triangular shapes
Functional models
Its depth
49. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Keystone
Clock
Gears
Technology
50. The five types of stress are...
High technology robots
lever
Elasticity
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending