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Introduction To Engineering
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1. The points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?
Axes
William Gilbert
Grippers
Extend and retract
2. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Problems
1 or 0
Functional models
Clock
3. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Bridge failure
Chemical reactions
Suspension
Chemistry
4. What is a touchstone?
XYZ
The cable- stayed bridge
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
A rock used to test metal for quality
5. The generation of ideas for solutions
Neutral axis...
Brainstorming
Ergonomics
Invisible
6. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Lever
Generate many alternative solutions
Gears
7. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Beam
Tower
The calendar
Rankine and Kelvin
8. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...
Prototypes
Resistive sensor
Papyrus
Tie
9. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Lasers
Most of the material is located where it is needed
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Manipulator
10. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
The calendar
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Pulling
Design brief
11. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?
Solve problems
Ultrasonic sensor
Bimetallic sensor
A small degree of flexibility
12. The most important factor in determining the strength of a beam is...
Bending moment or lever arm
Microcomputer
Location of the trustline
Its depth
13. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges
Most famous
Up and down
Energy
Width of the beam
14. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Width of the beam
ENIAC
Design loop
Shape
15. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Papyrus
Bending moment or lever arm
Third- class lever
Design loop
16. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Stress
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Neil Armstrong
Collapse or break
17. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Solutions
Temperature changes
Resistive sensor
Steel reinforced concrete
18. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...
Trial and error
Gears
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
A rock used to test metal for quality
19. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Gears
Pulley
Innovations
Invisible
20. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Shear
Design loop
Optoelectronic sensor
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
21. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
Twisting
The bowstring girder
Critical load/weight of the structure
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
22. How can an ultrasonic sensor measure movement and distance?
add a diagonal member
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Actuators
Silicon
23. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
A waist twisting
First- class lever
Irrigation
Bell Laboratories
24. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Triangular shapes
A waist twisting
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
lever
25. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Law of Conservation of Energy
Design loop
Technology
Mechanical advantage
26. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Design loop
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Brainstorming
27. What is binary?
Battered
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Computer language
Fixed pulley
28. Provides problem clarification and specification
Gravity - weight - load
Mechanical advantage
Design brief
The growth of Christianity
29. The English unit of measuring work
Following white lines on the floor
Chain hoist
Brainstorming
Foot- pounds
30. The energy of motion
Read only memory
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Kinetic energy
A rock used to test metal for quality
31. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
Neutral axis...
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Equilibrium
Elasticity
32. What was the first computer - developed at the University of Pennsylvania?
The bowstring girder
Pulley
ENIAC
Generate many alternative solutions
33. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Hard automation and soft automation
Width of the beam
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Law of Conservation of Energy
34. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Resistive sensor
Pulley
Fire extinguisher
Bus
35. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Chain hoist
XYZ
Cloud chamber
Piers
36. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
Beam bridge
Ramp
The wheel and axle
A rock used to test metal for quality
37. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
Triangular lateen sail
Heavy
Yaw
Chemical reactions
38. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Arch
A waist twisting
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
Manipulator
39. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
Problems
True
Stress
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
40. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
Interstate highway system
Sliding
Suspension
Byte
41. Force times distance
Bend and rotation
Problems
Work
Pulley
42. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Beam bridge
Unstable
High technology robots
Optoelectronic sensor
43. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Stress
How much a material has changed its shape
ENIAC
Bending and shearing
44. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Generate many alternative solutions
Battered
Movable pulley
Most famous
45. The weight or resistance on a lever
Extend and retract
Block and tackle
The number of pulley wheels
Load
46. A system of pulleys that consists of one rope wound around two separate sets of pulley - each of which is free to rotate independently on the same axle
Operator of a battering ram
Third- class lever
W = F x d
Block and tackle
47. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
New jobs
Nylon
A rock used to test metal for quality
Second- class lever
48. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Bit
Bascule
Keystone
Suspension
49. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
Romans
Protect other people working around them
increasing the area over which the force acts
Critical load/weight of the structure
50. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Structural failure
Hung
Truss
Irrigation
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