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Introduction To Engineering
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Subject
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engineering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 improvement of things already invented
Laser rod
Innovation
Bus
The wheel and axle
2. What is binary?
Computer language
Weight of the roof...
Ultrasonic sensor
Fixed pulley
3. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Design loop
Load
Lever
Second- class lever
4. The lesson used an illustration of a robot filling boxes. The sensors detected if the box had moved. What kind of sensor was used?
Optoelectronic sensor
First- class lever
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
256
5. Torsion is best described as...
Gears
Rankine and Kelvin
Twisting
Design brief
6. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Prototypes
Triangular shapes
Imaginary
7. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Generate many alternative solutions
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Silicon
Operator of a battering ram
8. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
Program
Bell Laboratories
Wheel and axle
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
9. The generation of ideas for solutions
Input/Output devices
Brainstorming
W = F x d
Bimetallic sensor
10. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
Cloud chamber
The growth of Christianity
Stress
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
11. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
Functional models
Collapse or break
The wheel and axle
Is able to learn
12. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Arch
Technology
A small degree of flexibility
Twisting
13. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Bevel gears
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Design brief
Gripper
14. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Manipulator
Tip over
Block and tackle
Invisible
15. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
A cantilever bridge
Design loop
Fire extinguisher
Balanced
16. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
Papyrus
The cable- stayed bridge
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Operator of a battering ram
17. The force applied to a lever
Innovations
A library
Newton - meter
Effort
18. My bridge design is popular when the span is less than 3000 feet - mainly because I do not need anchorages or many piers
Computer language
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Cable- stayed
Bending moment or lever arm
19. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
A waist twisting
Neutral axis...
Second- class lever
A rock used to test metal for quality
20. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Deck
Random access memory
Up
Bit
21. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Spur gears
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Fire extinguisher
Arch
22. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Beam
Steam engines
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Unstable
23. What are computer chips made from?
Axes
Design loop
Silicon
Kinetic energy
24. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Work
Neil Armstrong
Size - shape - and type of material
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
25. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Third- class lever
A rock used to test metal for quality
Compression at the bottom
Design loop
26. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
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
Plow
Fulcrum
Wind tunnel testing
27. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
Strong anchorages
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Operator of a battering ram
Arch
28. A pulley that makes work easier
Grippers
Movable pulley
Computer language
Two story building
29. 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
Wheel and axle
W = F x d
lever
Actuators
30. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
256
Optoelectronic sensor
Gears
Specifications
31. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Operator of a battering ram
The number of pulley wheels
Triangular lateen sail
Gears
32. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Following white lines on the floor
Block and tackle
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Truss
33. More than one pulley working together
Beam
the permanent loads on a structure
Problems
Block and tackle
34. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Fixed pulley
Tip over
Medium technology robot
Up and down
35. Tension is best described as...
Pulling
1 or 0
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Critical load/weight of the structure
36. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Location of the trustline
Neutral axis...
Beam
Unstable
37. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
256
A waist twisting
Irrigation systems
Physical characteristics and work envelope
38. A side effect of bending is called...
Load
Shape
Bending moment or lever arm
Heavy
39. A lever in which the fulcrum is between the effort and the load
First- class lever
Bascule
The growth of Christianity
Pushing
40. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Lasers
Wind tunnel testing
First- class levers
Irrigation
41. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
ENIAC
Equilibrium
Bimetallic sensor
A cantilever bridge
42. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
Microcomputer
Sensing systems
Kinetic energy
How far it can reach
43. A wheel fixed to a support with a rope that is run over the wheel to change the direction of a force applied to the rope
High tech robots
Pulley
Microcomputer
The structure will be lighter
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?
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Ultrasonic sensor
the permanent loads on a structure
Two story building
45. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder
Screw
ENIAC
Lever
Arch
46. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?
Structural failure
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Design brief
New jobs
47. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Steel reinforced concrete
add a diagonal member
Gears
48. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Fire extinguisher
Prototypes
1 or 0
Width of the beam
49. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Ends
Size - shape - and type of material
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Computer language
50. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Overflows of the Nile
Mechanical advantage
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Pulley