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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. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
James Watt
Solve problems
Design loop
Keystone
2. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
Hard automation
Compression at the bottom
Its depth
Bell Laboratories
3. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Pulling
Compression - tension
Two story building
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
4. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Wheel and axle
Galileo
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Soft clay tablets
5. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Solutions
Resistance
Bus
Neutral axis...
6. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
Papyrus
Microprocessor
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Critical load/weight of the structure
7. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Movable pulley
Technology
Horizontal braces
Invisible
8. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Operator of a battering ram
Clock
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Protect other people working around them
9. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Design
Trial and error
Gripper
Weight of the roof...
10. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...
Trial and error
A library
Microprocessor
Kinetic energy
11. The force applied to a lever
Effort
Ultrasonic sensor
XYZ
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
12. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Most famous
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
The cable- stayed bridge
Ramp
13. Which device can hear sounds that the human ear cannot?
Ultrasonic sensor
Gears
Bimetallic sensor
To do jobs that would be boring to people
14. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/
Twisting
Overflows of the Nile
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Rankine and Kelvin
15. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
First- class levers
Tower
Lever
Invisible
16. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
add a diagonal member
Critical load/weight of the structure
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Twisting
17. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Rack and pinion gears
Plow
Span
Steam engines
18. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
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
Extend and retract
ENIAC
Structural failure
19. The energy of motion
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Following white lines on the floor
The growth of Christianity
Kinetic energy
20. Strain is a measure of...
William Gilbert
Tension structures weigh less
Lasers
How much a material has changed its shape
21. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Optoelectronic sensor
Optoelectronic sensor
Collapse or break
Up
22. The force that has the most impact in arch bridges
Compression
Location of the trustline
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Hung
23. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Pulley
Its depth
Any place on the arch
The growth of Christianity
24. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Two story building
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Bridge failure
Overflows of the Nile
25. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?
Random access memory
Flexible
Solve problems
Unstable
26. The limiting factor in the height of a structure is the...
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Location of the trustline
Beam
Solutions
27. The generation of ideas for solutions
Brainstorming
Up
Compression
Solutions
28. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Design brief
Compression
Equilibrium
29. The points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?
Axes
Load
Tie
Gears
30. Two examples of me are the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. They both have decks that hang from cables made of hundreds of steel wires - just like me
Manipulator
Stress
Suspension
New jobs
31. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?
Keystone
Temperature changes
A small degree of flexibility
Laser rod
32. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Is able to learn
Pulley
Lasers
A small degree of flexibility
33. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Beam bridge
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Third- class lever
34. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam
Design
Aqueducts
Deck
Beam
35. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Equilibrium
Two story building
A waist twisting
Suspension
36. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Problems
Stone - concrete - or steel
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
37. 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
Wind tunnel testing
Optoelectronic sensor
Steam engines
Bascule
38. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
Brainstorming
Papyrus
Fire extinguisher
ROM
39. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
Protect other people working around them
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Beam
Chemical reactions
40. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Cloud chamber
Chain hoist
41. A bit is the presence of voltage or no voltage. By what symbols is it represented?
1 or 0
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Steam engines
The structure will be lighter
42. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
Actuators
Microprocessor
Lever
Bimetallic sensor
43. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
The problem solving process
Triangular shapes
add a diagonal member
44. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Suspension
Byte
Gears
Ramp
45. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Extend and retract
Nylon
Operator of a battering ram
Bimetallic sensor
46. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Spur gears
Bimetallic sensor
It didn't always point at the North Star
47. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
True
Strong anchorages
the permanent loads on a structure
Its depth
48. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Up and down
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Read only memory
Screw
49. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
The cable- stayed bridge
Soft clay tablets
Read only memory
Design brief
50. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Operator of a battering ram
Wheel and axle
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
New jobs