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Introduction To Engineering
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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. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Suspension
Friction
Resistance
Spur gears
2. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Abutments
Beam
Stone - concrete - or steel
Arch
3. I am a new bridge design that includes elements from a cantilever and a suspension bridge. I am easier to build than either of those but I am limited to spanning shorter distances
Bascule
Third- class lever
Cable- stayed
Science
4. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Beam
Manipulator
Plow
Gravity - weight - load
5. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
How much a material has changed its shape
Wheel and axle
Overflows of the Nile
Optoelectronic sensor
6. The English unit of measuring work
Irrigation
Foot- pounds
Send out a light signal
Critical load/weight of the structure
7. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Papyrus
Axes
Microprocessor
8. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
Movable pulley
Beam bridge
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Compression at the bottom
9. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Microprocessor
Block and tackle
Deck
10. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
James Watt
Shape
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Cloud chamber
11. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Actuators
Horizontal braces
Spur gears
Screw
12. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Two story building
Neil Armstrong
Law of Conservation of Energy
Stone - concrete - or steel
13. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?
Is able to learn
Send out a light signal
Pulley
Memory addresses
14. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Invention
Equilibrium
Unstable
Temperature changes
15. The development of something completely new
Invention
Sensing systems
Lever
Up and down
16. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
Galileo
The deck arch
Span
Cantilever
17. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Load
ROM
Irrigation
Piers
18. What is binary?
Computer language
Energy
Rankine and Kelvin
Cantilever
19. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
The cable- stayed bridge
ENIAC
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Design loop
20. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
The number of pulley wheels
Balanced
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Law of Conservation of Energy
21. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Wind tunnel testing
Aqueducts
The cable- stayed bridge
22. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
Specifications
Bus
The problem solving process
Optoelectronic sensor
23. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Collapse or break
Screw
Truss
Lasers
24. The _______ of structural components is more important than the type of material from which they are made
Shape
Axes
Tie
Flexible
25. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Byte
Taller
add a diagonal member
Solutions
26. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Design brief
Invention
Bending moment or lever arm
Microcomputer
27. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Problems
3000 feet
Potential energy
Sensing systems
28. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Unstable
Structural failure
Horizontal braces
Fulcrum
29. For a tower to be built higher - the walls can be...
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Battered
Bridge failure
Block and tackle
30. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Work
Span
The number of pulley wheels
Send out a light signal
31. The scientific formula for work is...
W = F x d
Stone - concrete - or steel
ENIAC
Problems
32. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Unstable
Optoelectronic sensor
XYZ
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
33. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Ultrasonic sensor
Bit
Bridge failure
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
34. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
ROM
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Romans
Invisible
35. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Brain
Bridge failure
Twisting
Guard rails
36. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
Bimetallic sensor
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Imaginary
37. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:
Battered
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Fire extinguisher
38. Strain is a measure of...
Sliding
Innovation
How much a material has changed its shape
Galileo
39. Suspension bridges have the problem of being...
Mechanical advantage
Flexible
Axes
Wind tunnel testing
40. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Second- class lever
Low technology robots
Hung
Mechanical advantage
41. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?
ROM
Specifications
Cantilever
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
42. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Rankine and Kelvin
Stress
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Kinetic energy
43. The ability to do work
Battered
Chemical reactions
Energy
Solutions
44. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
Block and tackle
The structure will be lighter
Problems
Beam
45. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
increasing the area over which the force acts
Lever
Shear
Gripper
46. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Design loop
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Heavy
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
47. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Axes
Sliding
Shear
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
48. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?
Hung
Random access memory
Elasticity
A waist twisting
49. The improvement of things already invented
Technology
Innovation
Brain
Sensing systems
50. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
Steam engines
W = F x d
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Triangular lateen sail