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Introduction To Engineering
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1. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Suspension
Is able to learn
Cantilever
2. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Design loop
The number of pulley wheels
Galileo
Byte
3. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Beam
The number of pulley wheels
Optoelectronic sensor
Nylon
4. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Generate many alternative solutions
Optoelectronic sensor
Piers
Imaginary
5. What are I/O devices?
Energy
Input/Output devices
Rankine and Kelvin
Compression
6. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Chain hoist
Overflows of the Nile
Microprocessor
Second- class lever
7. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder
increasing the area over which the force acts
Optoelectronic sensor
Problems
Screw
8. What is the definition of stress
Fire extinguisher
Twisting
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
9. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Resistive sensor
Twisting
Taller
Actuators
10. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Tension structures weigh less
The growth of Christianity
Microcomputer
Fixed pulley
11. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Bell Laboratories
Lasers
Unstable
Stone - concrete - or steel
12. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Measurement - evaluation - and control
ROM
Instruction set
It didn't always point at the North Star
13. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Beam
Design brief
Axes
Optoelectronic sensor
14. Which of the following was not a development of Roman culture?
Chemistry
Galileo
The calendar
Extend and retract
15. What major landmark was located at Alexandria?
A library
3000 feet
Friction
Brain
16. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Third- class lever
Flexible
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
17. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Instruction set
Optoelectronic sensor
Main - frame computer
3000 feet
18. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Steel reinforced concrete
Two story building
lever
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
19. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
Bit
Memory addresses
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Arch
20. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Taller
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Tie
Interstate highway system
21. An optoelectronic emitter is used to do what/
Innovations
Flexible
Send out a light signal
Battered
22. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Brainstorming
Grippers
Microcomputer
Tip over
23. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Extend and retract
Fixed pulley
Fire extinguisher
Most of the material is located where it is needed
24. 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?
The problem solving process
Axes
lever
Overflows of the Nile
25. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Mechanical advantage
Newton - meter
A small degree of flexibility
Time and angles
26. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
Pulley
Shape
The calendar
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
27. What is the memory that cannot be changed by the computer operator?
Span
Work
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Read only memory
28. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
Shape
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
Rack and pinion gears
Piers
29. The weight or resistance on a lever
Load
Sliding
Byte
A small degree of flexibility
30. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
Science
Papyrus
Strong anchorages
Most famous
31. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
The calendar
Program
Chemical reactions
Screw
32. 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
Bend and rotation
Two story building
Pulley
Beam
33. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
Power
Low technology robots
Equilibrium
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
34. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Send out a light signal
Truss
Hard automation
Bit
35. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Tie
Heavy
New jobs
Technology
36. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Block and tackle
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
A waist twisting
37. What is binary?
Computer language
Compression at the bottom
Beam
Specifications
38. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Invisible
Neutral axis...
Beam
Microcomputer
39. Stress can be lowered by
increasing the area over which the force acts
Aqueducts
A cantilever bridge
Shape
40. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
add a diagonal member
Screw
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Gears
41. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
Twisting
Neutral axis...
Time and angles
Bending and shearing
42. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Bus
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
XYZ
Horizontal braces
43. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
The growth of Christianity
Prototypes
Resistive sensor
Microprocessor
44. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Invisible
Its depth
Design loop
Spur gears
45. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
256
Gears
Work
Design loop
46. Distance between the piers
Span
The number of pulley wheels
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Most of the material is located where it is needed
47. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
Program
Cantilever
Ergonomics
Axes
48. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
High tech robots
Newton - meter
The structure will be lighter
Functional models
49. The force applied to a lever
Span
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Rankine and Kelvin
Effort
50. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Bending and shearing
Appearance model
Pulley
Wheel and axle
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