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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. What was the forerunner of the robot?
The deck arch
Hard automation
Weight of the roof...
Neil Armstrong
2. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Soft clay tablets
Mechanical advantage
Kinetic energy
Arch
3. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Shape
Effort
Generate many alternative solutions
Innovations
4. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Manipulator
Mechanical advantage
add a diagonal member
Equilibrium
5. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Fire extinguisher
Main - frame computer
Effort
Plow
6. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
It didn't always point at the North Star
Piers
Time and angles
Stone - concrete - or steel
7. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
Suspension
Prototypes
Block and tackle
The structure will be lighter
8. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch
How far it can reach
Bit
Resistive sensor
Abutments
9. Energy of position
Pulley
Suspension
Potential energy
Specifications
10. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Triangular lateen sail
Irrigation
Keystone
Ramp
11. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Guard rails
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Elasticity
Flexible
12. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Is able to learn
Critical load/weight of the structure
13. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Bevel gears
Gears
Block and tackle
Bell Laboratories
14. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Generate many alternative solutions
Design loop
A waist twisting
Solve problems
15. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Science
Medium technology robot
Overflows of the Nile
Sensing systems
16. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Invention
Ramp
Work
Up
17. 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
Twisting
Bascule
Chain hoist
New jobs
18. What is the definition of stress
Horsepower
Arch
Stone - concrete - or steel
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
19. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Elasticity
Manipulator
Byte
Work
20. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
High technology robots
A small degree of flexibility
Following white lines on the floor
Pulling
21. The metric unit for measuring work
Specifications
Design loop
Hung
Newton - meter
22. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
Structural failure
Is able to learn
Beam bridge
Spur gears
23. The generation of ideas for solutions
Trial and error
Bending and shearing
Brainstorming
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
24. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
Optoelectronic sensor
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Design brief
To do jobs that would be boring to people
25. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Ends
Technology
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Bending and shearing
26. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Triangular lateen sail
Computer language
ROM
Chemistry
27. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?
Gripper
Bell Laboratories
Random access memory
A library
28. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Problems
Bevel gears
Invisible
Microcomputer
29. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
The number of pulley wheels
Design
256
ROM
30. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:
Axes
Physical characteristics and work envelope
A waist twisting
Work
31. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
A cantilever bridge
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Second- class lever
Work
32. Suspension bridges have the problem of being...
Microprocessor
Flexible
The lack of pressure to continue development
Fixed pulley
33. In the past it was commonly used to cross narrow distances like small streams or rivers
Cable- stayed
Innovations
Deck
Beam
34. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Bevel gears
Bit
Brainstorming
ENIAC
35. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
Beam
The cable- stayed bridge
ROM
First- class levers
36. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Wind tunnel testing
Horizontal braces
True
Microprocessor
37. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Shape
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Brain
Truss
38. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Bell Laboratories
Bridge failure
Optoelectronic sensor
Law of Conservation of Energy
39. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Chain hoist
Operator of a battering ram
First- class levers
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
40. Shear is best described as...
Lever
Any place on the arch
Sliding
Triangular shapes
41. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Optoelectronic sensor
increasing the area over which the force acts
Third- class lever
Tension structures weigh less
42. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Load
Elasticity
Equilibrium
Sliding
43. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
The growth of Christianity
Memory addresses
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Power
44. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Horizontal braces
True
Laser rod
Design loop
45. The development of something completely new
Invention
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Design brief
Rankine and Kelvin
46. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
The wheel and axle
Prototypes
Bus
Block and tackle
47. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Protect other people working around them
Spur gears
Time and angles
Following white lines on the floor
48. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
First- class lever
The wheel and axle
Design loop
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
49. The planned process of change
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Microprocessor
Design
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
50. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
Beam bridge
Steel reinforced concrete
The lack of pressure to continue development
Microprocessor