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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
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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. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Compression - tension
Brainstorming
The calendar
2. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
The bowstring girder
The problem solving process
Weight of the roof...
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
3. Provides direction for the work of the designer
Optoelectronic sensor
Design loop
Soft clay tablets
Design brief
4. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
The number of pulley wheels
Compression at the bottom
Bell Laboratories
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
5. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
A small degree of flexibility
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Irrigation
Mechanical advantage
6. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Horsepower
3000 feet
Design loop
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
7. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum - used to overcome a resistance or to raise a weight when force is applied is a
lever
Any place on the arch
Design
Hard automation
8. The probblem with very large compression structures is that they are...
Work
Heavy
The number of pulley wheels
Tie
9. 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
Main - frame computer
Bit
Optoelectronic sensor
Cable- stayed
10. Shear is best described as...
Operator of a battering ram
Computer language
Sliding
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
11. The generation of ideas for solutions
Piers
Random access memory
Brainstorming
Bell Laboratories
12. The lesson used an illustration of a robot filling boxes. The sensors detected if the box had moved. What kind of sensor was used?
Law of Conservation of Energy
Keystone
Optoelectronic sensor
Program
13. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
Medium technology robot
Balanced
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Microprocessor
14. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Any place on the arch
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
15. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Soft clay tablets
Pulley
Bus
Low technology robots
16. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Ultrasonic sensor
Innovation
Tip over
Suspension
17. Provides problem clarification and specification
Interstate highway system
Block and tackle
Design brief
Bell Laboratories
18. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Ramp
Actuators
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
W = F x d
19. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Lever
Bevel gears
Aqueducts
20. The difficulties we must overcome
Problems
Plow
Steel reinforced concrete
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
21. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Size - shape - and type of material
Up
How far it can reach
Neil Armstrong
22. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
Ramp
The number of pulley wheels
Rack and pinion gears
Block and tackle
23. What is a touchstone?
A rock used to test metal for quality
Chain hoist
Gravity - weight - load
Microprocessor
24. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
How far it can reach
Gravity - weight - load
Steam engines
Chemical reactions
25. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Tower
Sensing systems
Shear
26. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Functional models
Location of the trustline
Axes
Bell Laboratories
27. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Design brief
lever
The growth of Christianity
Appearance model
28. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Microprocessor
Horizontal braces
Bit
Romans
29. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
The growth of Christianity
Law of Conservation of Energy
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
Input/Output devices
30. Which is not a true statement about gears?
ROM
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Gripper
31. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Solutions
Imaginary
Potential energy
Width of the beam
32. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Byte
Yaw
increasing the area over which the force acts
Invention
33. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Truss
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Ultrasonic sensor
Microcomputer
34. Compression is best described as...
Spur gears
add a diagonal member
Pushing
Brainstorming
35. What was the forerunner of the robot?
Science
The calendar
Any place on the arch
Hard automation
36. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Microprocessor
Tension structures weigh less
Location of the trustline
37. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Tie
Screw
Stress
38. Stress can be lowered by
increasing the area over which the force acts
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Piers
Steel reinforced concrete
39. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Two story building
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Size - shape - and type of material
40. 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
Block and tackle
Optoelectronic sensor
Plow
Arch
41. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
Any place on the arch
Balanced
High tech robots
Bevel gears
42. The weight or resistance on a lever
XYZ
Load
Hard automation and soft automation
Flexible
43. 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 calendar
Axes
Program
Load
44. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Structural failure
Axes
the permanent loads on a structure
Yaw
45. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
High tech robots
Prototypes
Twisting
Actuators
46. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Byte
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
Resistance
Irrigation
47. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Weight of the roof...
Triangular shapes
Lever
48. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Elasticity
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Innovation
Stone - concrete - or steel
49. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Optoelectronic sensor
Strong anchorages
Block and tackle
Up and down
50. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Computer language
Deck
Shear
Microprocessor