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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. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Gripper
Beam - arch - and suspension
Temperature changes
To do jobs that would be boring to people
2. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Bend and rotation
the permanent loads on a structure
Bimetallic sensor
Microprocessor
3. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Neutral axis...
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Collapse or break
4. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Keystone
Instruction set
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
5. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
Irrigation systems
Silicon
Guard rails
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
6. The three types of arches are...
Elasticity
Cloud chamber
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Rankine and Kelvin
7. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Stone - concrete - or steel
Guard rails
Galileo
Chemistry
8. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
The number of pulley wheels
Axes
Fixed pulley
Interstate highway system
9. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Chain hoist
Bimetallic sensor
Heavy
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
10. 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
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
The calendar
The cable- stayed bridge
11. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Overflows of the Nile
Pulling
Design loop
Movable pulley
12. The controller is what part of the robot?
Battered
Main - frame computer
Brain
Measurement - evaluation - and control
13. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Plow
Hard automation
Microprocessor
Bimetallic sensor
14. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Instruction set
Worm gears
Generate many alternative solutions
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
15. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Steam engines
Horizontal braces
Bimetallic sensor
Nylon
16. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Main - frame computer
Weight of the roof...
Sliding
17. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Second- class lever
Is able to learn
Fixed pulley
Bimetallic sensor
18. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Stone - concrete - or steel
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Problems
Effort
19. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Collapse or break
Tie
Manipulator
ENIAC
20. The I- beam is very strong because...
Neutral axis...
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Beam - arch - and suspension
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
21. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Deck
Temperature changes
Optoelectronic sensor
Romans
22. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
Strong anchorages
High tech robots
Clock
Potential energy
23. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder
Screw
Bending moment or lever arm
Overflows of the Nile
Time and angles
24. The Mesopotamian number system was based on 60 and formed the basis for our measure of
Time and angles
Cloud chamber
Design brief
1 or 0
25. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Technology
Lasers
Structural failure
Operator of a battering ram
26. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
Brainstorming
Papyrus
Steel reinforced concrete
Beam
27. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
Bell Laboratories
Innovation
The calendar
Steel reinforced concrete
28. The longer the suspension bridge - the ____ the towers need to be
Taller
Ultrasonic sensor
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Operator of a battering ram
29. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Up
Axes
Kinetic energy
Bus
30. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Yaw
Newton - meter
Optoelectronic sensor
Neil Armstrong
31. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Beam
Foot- pounds
Brainstorming
Invisible
32. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Fire extinguisher
Pushing
Resistive sensor
Low technology robots
33. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Science
Worm gears
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Horsepower
34. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Medium technology robot
Span
Tension structures weigh less
Worm gears
35. Work divided by time
Axes
The lack of pressure to continue development
Axes
Power
36. The force that has the most impact in arch bridges
Compression
Irrigation
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Work
37. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Worm gears
1 or 0
Silicon
Main - frame computer
38. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
Fulcrum
Twisting
Two story building
Extend and retract
39. What are I/O devices?
Problems
Laser rod
Input/Output devices
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
40. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?
Innovation
Input/Output devices
Resistive sensor
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
41. The force applied to a lever
Effort
Imaginary
Invention
Lever
42. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Memory addresses
Horsepower
Truss
Bridge failure
43. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
add a diagonal member
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
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Wheel and axle
44. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Design brief
Innovation
Gears
Effort
45. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
Read only memory
Memory addresses
Medium technology robot
Ultrasonic sensor
46. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Elasticity
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Bending and shearing
A waist twisting
47. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Effort
Irrigation
Tip over
The wheel and axle
48. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Lever
Overflows of the Nile
Optoelectronic sensor
Fulcrum
49. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
A cantilever bridge
Tower
Trial and error
Low technology robots
50. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Tip over
Location of the trustline
Extend and retract
Is able to learn