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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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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 points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?
Bending moment or lever arm
Axes
Shape
Width of the beam
2. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Chemical reactions
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
A waist twisting
3. What is the name of the robot's arm?
First- class levers
Design loop
Manipulator
Gravity - weight - load
4. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Pulling
Medium technology robot
A small degree of flexibility
Design brief
5. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Design
Bimetallic sensor
Nylon
Bell Laboratories
6. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
1 or 0
Optoelectronic sensor
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
7. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Galileo
Hard automation
Measurement - evaluation - and control
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
8. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
William Gilbert
A cantilever bridge
Problems
Taller
9. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Solutions
Irrigation systems
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Two story building
10. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Size - shape - and type of material
Triangular lateen sail
Is able to learn
Medium technology robot
11. Work divided by time
Chain hoist
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Interstate highway system
Power
12. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
Romans
Up
Heavy
The growth of Christianity
13. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Beam
Suspension
Microprocessor
Unstable
14. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
How far it can reach
Gravity - weight - load
Grippers
15. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
Bimetallic sensor
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Taller
Arch
16. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Bending and shearing
Generate many alternative solutions
Appearance model
17. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Invention
Beam
Design
18. The force (push or pull) used to do work
Effort
A small degree of flexibility
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
19. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Prototypes
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Flexible
20. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Design brief
Invention
Resistive sensor
Plow
21. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Screw
Chain hoist
Brainstorming
22. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Bus
Cloud chamber
Overflows of the Nile
Input/Output devices
23. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Steel reinforced concrete
XYZ
New jobs
Soft clay tablets
24. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Spur gears
Design loop
Grippers
Computer language
25. The controller is what part of the robot?
Yaw
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
Brain
Design
26. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Block and tackle
Bit
It didn't always point at the North Star
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
27. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Compression - tension
Innovations
Shape
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
28. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Brainstorming
Microprocessor
Guard rails
Pulling
29. The weight or resistance on a lever
Design loop
Design
Guard rails
Load
30. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
W = F x d
Design
Load
Papyrus
31. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
Bus
Appearance model
Solve problems
Spur gears
32. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Strong anchorages
Unstable
Lasers
Work
33. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Horizontal braces
Read only memory
Hung
Irrigation
34. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Gears
The bowstring girder
Shear
Pulley
35. The ability to do work
Cantilever
Energy
Papyrus
Pulling
36. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
Arch
Location of the trustline
Effort
The bowstring girder
37. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Bevel gears
Most famous
Brain
W = F x d
38. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Invention
Width of the beam
Compression
ROM
39. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
Beam
Compression
Ultrasonic sensor
Hard automation
40. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Effort
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Clock
Second- class lever
41. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Fixed pulley
Pushing
Wheel and axle
42. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Keystone
Aqueducts
Hung
Block and tackle
43. The metric unit for measuring work
A waist twisting
Movable pulley
Computer language
Newton - meter
44. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum - used to overcome a resistance or to raise a weight when force is applied is a
Interstate highway system
Piers
Battered
lever
45. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
Irrigation
The number of pulley wheels
3000 feet
Shape
46. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Instruction set
Bimetallic sensor
Beam
Arch
47. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Chemical reactions
Weight of the roof...
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Energy
48. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Irrigation
Potential energy
Cable- stayed
Ramp
49. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
1 or 0
The number of pulley wheels
First- class lever
Specifications
50. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Read only memory
Movable pulley
Up and down