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Introduction To Engineering
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1. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Tie
Is able to learn
Time and angles
Gravity - weight - load
2. 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
Stress
Pulley
Invention
Chemical reactions
3. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
256
Steel reinforced concrete
Plow
Work
4. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Bus
Structural failure
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Horsepower
5. 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
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Bascule
A rock used to test metal for quality
Microprocessor
6. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Resistive sensor
Design loop
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Gears
7. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Actuators
Manipulator
Extend and retract
Bending and shearing
8. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Elasticity
The structure will be lighter
It didn't always point at the North Star
Aqueducts
9. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Battered
Sensing systems
Brain
First- class lever
10. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Byte
Horsepower
Pulley
Stress
11. The force applied to a lever
Effort
The growth of Christianity
Laser rod
Tension structures weigh less
12. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Axes
Stone - concrete - or steel
Load
High technology robots
13. Which robots are capable of spray painting?
High tech robots
The cable- stayed bridge
Generate many alternative solutions
Tower
14. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Beam bridge
Following white lines on the floor
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Second- class lever
15. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Ramp
Imaginary
Second- class lever
Neutral axis...
16. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Compression at the bottom
1 or 0
Neil Armstrong
How much a material has changed its shape
17. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Heavy
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
The number of pulley wheels
Energy
18. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
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19. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Flexible
Rankine and Kelvin
Innovation
Ends
20. Builders made the original versions of me out of wedge- shaped stones that fit snugly together. They were held in place with the pressure of the weight of the bridge
Bend and rotation
Hung
Arch
The number of pulley wheels
21. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
XYZ
Beam bridge
1 or 0
Any place on the arch
22. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
Galileo
Specifications
Critical load/weight of the structure
Energy
23. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
True
Pulley
Mechanical advantage
24. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Foot- pounds
Energy
Plow
Rack and pinion gears
25. Energy of position
Brainstorming
Potential energy
Shape
Microcomputer
26. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Optoelectronic sensor
Following white lines on the floor
Prototypes
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
27. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Any place on the arch
Solutions
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Silicon
28. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
Bridge failure
Innovations
Piers
How far it can reach
29. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Specifications
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Read only memory
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
30. 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?
Invisible
Microcomputer
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
31. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Bridge failure
Battered
Neil Armstrong
Third- class lever
32. The controller is what part of the robot?
Program
Ergonomics
Brain
Romans
33. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Rack and pinion gears
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Size - shape - and type of material
34. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges
Most famous
Chain hoist
Microprocessor
Kinetic energy
35. Materials change shape as they expand and contract with...
Temperature changes
Cantilever
Medium technology robot
Horizontal braces
36. How can an ultrasonic sensor measure movement and distance?
Flexible
Innovation
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Temperature changes
37. A force that opposes motion
Friction
High technology robots
Effort
Operator of a battering ram
38. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
Twisting
The cable- stayed bridge
Low technology robots
Time and angles
39. The generation of ideas for solutions
Grippers
Up
Block and tackle
Brainstorming
40. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Neutral axis...
Bit
Fire extinguisher
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
41. What marked the engineering efforts of the Greeks?
First- class levers
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Block and tackle
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
42. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Suspension
Byte
Wind tunnel testing
Gripper
43. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Appearance model
Bending and shearing
Worm gears
Soft clay tablets
44. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
The structure will be lighter
Structural failure
Extend and retract
Arch
45. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...
Lever
Tie
Aqueducts
Cantilever
46. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
High technology robots
XYZ
The lack of pressure to continue development
Solutions
47. Compression is best described as...
increasing the area over which the force acts
Main - frame computer
Pushing
Equilibrium
48. The turning point of a lever
Work
Protect other people working around them
Design brief
Fulcrum
49. 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?
Location of the trustline
Axes
the permanent loads on a structure
Irrigation
50. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Balanced
Weight of the roof...
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
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