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Introduction To Engineering
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Subject
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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. Compression is best described as...
Axes
Pushing
Prototypes
First- class levers
2. The most important factor in determining the strength of a beam is...
Triangular shapes
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Its depth
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
3. The planned process of change
Design
Critical load/weight of the structure
A rock used to test metal for quality
Horizontal braces
4. What was the forerunner of the robot?
Critical load/weight of the structure
Hard automation
Resistive sensor
Most of the material is located where it is needed
5. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Guard rails
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Ultrasonic sensor
6. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Power
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Microcomputer
7. The probblem with very large compression structures is that they are...
Heavy
First- class levers
Appearance model
Memory addresses
8. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?
Size - shape - and type of material
First- class levers
High technology robots
Bascule
9. Which of the following is not a robot arm movement?
Yaw
Strong anchorages
A waist twisting
Bit
10. The turning point of a lever
Fire extinguisher
Fulcrum
Battered
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
11. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
W = F x d
3000 feet
Optoelectronic sensor
Gears
12. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?
Tension structures weigh less
Invisible
ROM
Yaw
13. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Rack and pinion gears
Unstable
The growth of Christianity
Load
14. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Work
Work
Hard automation and soft automation
Gears
15. The three basic types of bridges are...
Nylon
Beam - arch - and suspension
Triangular lateen sail
Compression
16. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Memory addresses
Energy
Block and tackle
Bridge failure
17. The dead load of a structure is
Brain
Twisting
the permanent loads on a structure
Physical characteristics and work envelope
18. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Collapse or break
Ergonomics
The calendar
Technology
19. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
The number of pulley wheels
Resistive sensor
Byte
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
20. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Bending moment or lever arm
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Ends
Neutral axis...
21. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Equilibrium
Microprocessor
Shear
Steam engines
22. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Program
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Steel reinforced concrete
Plow
23. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Romans
Axes
Gravity - weight - load
Kinetic energy
24. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Pulley
Sliding
Gravity - weight - load
Width of the beam
25. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
Beam
Axes
Suspension
The lack of pressure to continue development
26. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Flexible
A library
Cantilever
27. Robots fit into two categories:
Microprocessor
Hard automation and soft automation
Horizontal braces
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
28. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Compression at the bottom
Balanced
Worm gears
the permanent loads on a structure
29. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
How far it can reach
Plow
Clock
30. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Power
Design loop
3000 feet
Brainstorming
31. Provides problem clarification and specification
3000 feet
Shear
Design brief
Ultrasonic sensor
32. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Gravity - weight - load
Fire extinguisher
Taller
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
33. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Nylon
Low technology robots
Fire extinguisher
Hung
34. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Elasticity
Invention
Plow
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
35. The force (push or pull) used to do work
The number of pulley wheels
Effort
Byte
Equilibrium
36. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Spur gears
Papyrus
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
37. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
Design loop
High tech robots
Lever
Functional models
38. Shear is best described as...
Sliding
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
First- class levers
Rankine and Kelvin
39. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
A small degree of flexibility
It didn't always point at the North Star
Horizontal braces
Nylon
40. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Ends
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Size - shape - and type of material
Beam
41. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Brainstorming
Pulley
Mechanical advantage
The wheel and axle
42. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Compression at the bottom
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Fixed pulley
Triangular shapes
43. The deck of a suspension bridge is ____ from the cables
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
256
Hung
Bimetallic sensor
44. The points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?
Axes
Work
Mechanical advantage
Stress
45. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
Computer language
Appearance model
Ultrasonic sensor
Axes
46. 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
Bascule
Functional models
Bridge failure
Nylon
47. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
Location of the trustline
A library
Any place on the arch
Operator of a battering ram
48. The I- beam is very strong because...
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Microcomputer
1 or 0
add a diagonal member
49. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
The structure will be lighter
Weight of the roof...
The wheel and axle
Send out a light signal
50. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Effort
The bowstring girder
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Nylon