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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?
Memory addresses
Second- class lever
ROM
Bevel gears
2. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Grippers
Gripper
Abutments
Two story building
3. 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?
Load
Design brief
Romans
Axes
4. 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
It didn't always point at the North Star
Spur gears
Pulley
Horsepower
5. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
ROM
Cloud chamber
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
1 or 0
6. The controller is what part of the robot?
Bend and rotation
How far it can reach
Brain
Ends
7. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
Optoelectronic sensor
The bowstring girder
W = F x d
1 or 0
8. The difficulties we must overcome
Problems
Chemistry
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Design brief
9. The turning point of a lever
Fulcrum
Axes
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Lever
10. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Brainstorming
Gravity - weight - load
Axes
11. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
ROM
Invention
Abutments
Shear
12. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Axes
Taller
Ends
Neil Armstrong
13. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
W = F x d
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Overflows of the Nile
Chemical reactions
14. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
Beam - arch - and suspension
The structure will be lighter
Cantilever
the permanent loads on a structure
15. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Chemistry
Protect other people working around them
Imaginary
Arch
16. Compression is best described as...
Load
Pushing
1 or 0
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
17. The five types of stress are...
Optoelectronic sensor
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Block and tackle
Weight of the roof...
18. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
Optoelectronic sensor
Span
Heavy
The growth of Christianity
19. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Imaginary
Resistive sensor
Gears
Axes
20. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
A library
Chemical reactions
Stone - concrete - or steel
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
21. What type of bridge requires very strong abutments or supports?
Extend and retract
Brainstorming
Beam
Arch
22. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Microcomputer
Up
Design loop
Most of the material is located where it is needed
23. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Following white lines on the floor
Elasticity
Bit
Main - frame computer
24. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Any place on the arch
Design loop
Manipulator
1 or 0
25. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Cantilever
Hard automation and soft automation
Gravity - weight - load
Operator of a battering ram
26. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Fire extinguisher
Innovation
Bit
27. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Piers
Low technology robots
Most famous
A small degree of flexibility
28. The dead load of a structure is
Up
the permanent loads on a structure
Science
Ends
29. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
It didn't always point at the North Star
Cable- stayed
Medium technology robot
Bimetallic sensor
30. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Trial and error
Nylon
Friction
31. Distance between the piers
Innovations
W = F x d
Operator of a battering ram
Span
32. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Tower
Keystone
Lever
Cantilever
33. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Laser rod
Spur gears
Instruction set
34. Tension is best described as...
Pulling
Newton - meter
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
Tower
35. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?
Truss
Size - shape - and type of material
Pulley
ROM
36. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
A waist twisting
Yaw
Its depth
James Watt
37. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Shear
The wheel and axle
Triangular lateen sail
38. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Appearance model
Up and down
Horsepower
39. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Irrigation
Fixed pulley
Bevel gears
High tech robots
40. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Energy
Input/Output devices
Tip over
The deck arch
41. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?
Plow
Structural failure
A library
Size - shape - and type of material
42. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Width of the beam
Bevel gears
Solutions
Weight of the roof...
43. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Bit
ENIAC
Bascule
Read only memory
44. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
A rock used to test metal for quality
Papyrus
Bridge failure
add a diagonal member
45. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Ends
Hard automation and soft automation
Second- class lever
XYZ
46. What was the first computer - developed at the University of Pennsylvania?
Block and tackle
The problem solving process
Truss
ENIAC
47. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Chain hoist
Nylon
The growth of Christianity
Aqueducts
48. Provides problem clarification and specification
Manipulator
Design brief
Generate many alternative solutions
Compression - tension
49. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
Is able to learn
Bimetallic sensor
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Structural failure
50. The improvement of things already invented
Up
Newton - meter
Guard rails
Innovation