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Introduction To Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge






2. A pulley that makes work easier






3. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?






4. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...






5. The five types of stress are...






6. The ability to do work






7. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?






8. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?






9. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...






10. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:






11. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point






12. What factors determine the weight if a structure?






13. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...






14. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?






15. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?






16. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?






17. The difficulties we must overcome






18. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?






19. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)






20. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the






21. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?






22. Tension is best described as...






23. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...






24. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?






25. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...






26. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?






27. What are computer chips made from?






28. Which of the following was not a development of Roman culture?






29. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?






30. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?






31. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?






32. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a






33. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?






34. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities






35. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective






36. The efficiency rating of a structure is...






37. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...






38. 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






39. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges






40. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...






41. What type of arch bridge did the Romans build? (They were made from stone with the road on top of the arch)






42. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?






43. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?






44. 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?






45. An arch will support the load equally well at...






46. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by






47. The controller is what part of the robot?






48. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called






49. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck






50. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?







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