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Introduction To Engineering
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1. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Compression at the bottom
Optoelectronic sensor
Bending and shearing
2. What marked the engineering efforts of the Greeks?
Functional models
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Beam
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
3. The metric unit for measuring work
Program
Any place on the arch
Laser rod
Newton - meter
4. A lever in which the fulcrum is between the effort and the load
Fulcrum
Chemical reactions
First- class lever
W = F x d
5. Distance between the piers
Span
Clock
Shear
Prototypes
6. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
The cable- stayed bridge
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
A library
Stone - concrete - or steel
7. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Weight of the roof...
Cable- stayed
Fire extinguisher
Neil Armstrong
8. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Design loop
Screw
Deck
Abutments
9. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Compression - tension
Bending and shearing
Romans
Wheel and axle
10. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Invisible
Design
Romans
Law of Conservation of Energy
11. What type of bridge requires very strong abutments or supports?
Protect other people working around them
Soft clay tablets
Arch
Yaw
12. Force times distance
the permanent loads on a structure
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Bimetallic sensor
Work
13. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Size - shape - and type of material
Shear
Bell Laboratories
Fulcrum
14. 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
Shear
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Functional models
Bascule
15. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Triangular lateen sail
Optoelectronic sensor
Grippers
Actuators
16. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/
Lasers
How much a material has changed its shape
Rankine and Kelvin
Operator of a battering ram
17. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Brainstorming
Foot- pounds
Bell Laboratories
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
18. What is the name of the robot's arm?
The number of pulley wheels
Wheel and axle
Manipulator
Protect other people working around them
19. 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
Work
Size - shape - and type of material
Most famous
lever
20. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Design loop
Guard rails
Operator of a battering ram
Optoelectronic sensor
21. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Friction
Two story building
Microprocessor
Manipulator
22. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
The structure will be lighter
Bevel gears
Medium technology robot
Size - shape - and type of material
23. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Rankine and Kelvin
Pulley
Microprocessor
Chain hoist
24. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Deck
Keystone
increasing the area over which the force acts
25. Strain is a measure of...
Prototypes
Critical load/weight of the structure
Lever
How much a material has changed its shape
26. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Guard rails
Pulley
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Power
27. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Gears
Neil Armstrong
Bascule
Optoelectronic sensor
28. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Second- class lever
Galileo
Low technology robots
Load
29. Bridges like me are usually made from two beams - each supported by one pier
Pulling
Specifications
Cantilever
Effort
30. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Suspension
Interstate highway system
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
31. Materials change shape as they expand and contract with...
Temperature changes
Twisting
Effort
Pushing
32. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
Ultrasonic sensor
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
A waist twisting
Microprocessor
33. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Beam
Ends
Bimetallic sensor
Elasticity
34. Shear is best described as...
Sliding
Triangular lateen sail
Hung
Its depth
35. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
The bowstring girder
Neutral axis...
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
36. An optoelectronic emitter is used to do what/
Send out a light signal
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Brain
Ultrasonic sensor
37. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Horizontal braces
Spur gears
Time and angles
Chemistry
38. 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
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
The problem solving process
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Pulley
39. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Brainstorming
Medium technology robot
Steam engines
The number of pulley wheels
40. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Cable- stayed
Design brief
Fulcrum
Galileo
41. What is a touchstone?
lever
Cable- stayed
A rock used to test metal for quality
Load
42. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Gears
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Prototypes
43. A pulley that makes work easier
Beam
Movable pulley
Instruction set
Cantilever
44. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Following white lines on the floor
Pulley
45. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
1 or 0
The growth of Christianity
Main - frame computer
Rack and pinion gears
46. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Fixed pulley
Cable- stayed
Sensing systems
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
47. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Neutral axis...
Block and tackle
Gears
Strong anchorages
48. I am one of the oldest and simplest bridge designs. Today I can be quite a complex bridge - but like my ancestors - I support my own weight and the loads I have to bear - on vertical piers.
Imaginary
Beam
W = F x d
Innovation
49. The difficulties we must overcome
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Problems
Suspension
To do jobs that would be boring to people
50. 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?
Axes
A waist twisting
Gears
Deck
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