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Introduction To Engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
The calendar
Microprocessor
Mechanical advantage
Chemical reactions
2. 550 foot- pounds per second
Horsepower
High technology robots
ENIAC
Protect other people working around them
3. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Nylon
Mechanical advantage
Manipulator
The growth of Christianity
4. What was the first computer - developed at the University of Pennsylvania?
3000 feet
Axes
ENIAC
Suspension
5. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
Microprocessor
Extend and retract
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
James Watt
6. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Wind tunnel testing
Deck
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Keystone
7. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Pulley
New jobs
Bell Laboratories
Low technology robots
8. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Beam
Memory addresses
A small degree of flexibility
Structural failure
9. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Gears
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Soft clay tablets
Beam bridge
10. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
First- class levers
Following white lines on the floor
Gripper
Location of the trustline
11. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Beam bridge
the permanent loads on a structure
Design loop
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
12. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Second- class lever
Specifications
Beam bridge
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
13. The energy of motion
Kinetic energy
High technology robots
Brainstorming
Weight of the roof...
14. 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?
Axes
3000 feet
Ends
Functional models
15. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Technology
A cantilever bridge
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Microprocessor
16. When generating ideas for a solution to a problem - it is important to do which of the following in order to effectively and visually communicate these ideas for use in construction drawings?
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Collapse or break
The lack of pressure to continue development
lever
17. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Steel reinforced concrete
Bending moment or lever arm
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Flexible
18. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Chain hoist
Extend and retract
Plow
19. Tension is best described as...
Pulling
Cable- stayed
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Design brief
20. Provides problem clarification and specification
Cable- stayed
Friction
The structure will be lighter
Design brief
21. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Program
Prototypes
Bell Laboratories
Gears
22. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Beam - arch - and suspension
Equilibrium
Cantilever
Imaginary
23. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Cable- stayed
Galileo
Fixed pulley
Actuators
24. The ability to do work
Rankine and Kelvin
Energy
Work
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
25. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Invisible
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Block and tackle
Lasers
26. 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
Brainstorming
Structural failure
Block and tackle
Rack and pinion gears
27. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Newton - meter
Gears
Yaw
Lever
28. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Bimetallic sensor
Low technology robots
Optoelectronic sensor
29. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
To do jobs that would be boring to people
A waist twisting
Load
Span
30. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Send out a light signal
Movable pulley
A waist twisting
Invisible
31. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
The growth of Christianity
Pulling
Galileo
Neutral axis...
32. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:
Random access memory
Ultrasonic sensor
Physical characteristics and work envelope
The growth of Christianity
33. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Ultrasonic sensor
Temperature changes
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Effort
34. Torsion is best described as...
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
Wind tunnel testing
Twisting
Innovation
35. Shear is best described as...
Irrigation
Sliding
The number of pulley wheels
The growth of Christianity
36. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
Span
Functional models
Medium technology robot
Trial and error
37. Distance between the piers
Arch
Span
Strong anchorages
Critical load/weight of the structure
38. Robots fit into two categories:
Hard automation and soft automation
Appearance model
Movable pulley
Specifications
39. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
The number of pulley wheels
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
40. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...
Innovations
The structure will be lighter
Medium technology robot
Strong anchorages
41. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Pulling
Potential energy
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Work
42. 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
Pulley
lever
Unstable
Flexible
43. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Bit
The deck arch
Second- class lever
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
44. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam
Width of the beam
Tie
Deck
Structural failure
45. The weight of the obect being moved
Law of Conservation of Energy
New jobs
Any place on the arch
Resistance
46. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Input/Output devices
Wind tunnel testing
Collapse or break
47. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
James Watt
Keystone
Aqueducts
Beam
48. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
add a diagonal member
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Fire extinguisher
The lack of pressure to continue development
49. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
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50. What type of bridge requires very strong abutments or supports?
Optoelectronic sensor
Effort
Axes
Arch