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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
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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. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
Rankine and Kelvin
The problem solving process
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Brain
2. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
Stone - concrete - or steel
Effort
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Cloud chamber
3. Robots fit into two categories:
Hard automation and soft automation
Yaw
3000 feet
Block and tackle
4. The points at which a robot can twist or bend are called what?
Arch
Axes
Program
ENIAC
5. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Collapse or break
Specifications
Time and angles
Tip over
6. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?
Memory addresses
Strong anchorages
High technology robots
Suspension
7. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam
increasing the area over which the force acts
Deck
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
8. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Overflows of the Nile
Bit
Lasers
Solutions
9. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Work
Problems
Neil Armstrong
Irrigation
10. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
Fixed pulley
Galileo
Manipulator
Beam - arch - and suspension
11. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Unstable
Protect other people working around them
Neutral axis...
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
12. The longer the suspension bridge - the ____ the towers need to be
Taller
The calendar
Tie
Keystone
13. The force that has the most impact in arch bridges
1 or 0
Following white lines on the floor
Compression
A waist twisting
14. Suspension bridges have the problem of being...
Flexible
Up and down
Send out a light signal
Actuators
15. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Overflows of the Nile
Silicon
Measurement - evaluation - and control
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
16. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Potential energy
Design loop
Ends
Third- class lever
17. 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.
Beam - arch - and suspension
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Beam
Deck
18. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Irrigation
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Shape
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
19. What factors determine the weight if a structure?
Neil Armstrong
Romans
Size - shape - and type of material
Twisting
20. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Any place on the arch
First- class levers
Innovations
Ultrasonic sensor
21. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
XYZ
Critical load/weight of the structure
Temperature changes
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
22. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Brain
A waist twisting
Triangular lateen sail
Up
23. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Rack and pinion gears
True
First- class lever
Grippers
24. The controller is what part of the robot?
Brain
Fixed pulley
Following white lines on the floor
Silicon
25. The definition of a robot's 'work envelope' is:
Romans
The lack of pressure to continue development
How far it can reach
Twisting
26. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
Technology
256
The lack of pressure to continue development
Optoelectronic sensor
27. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
Suspension
Hung
Cable- stayed
Microprocessor
28. Which of the following is not a robot wrist movement?
Invisible
Friction
Solutions
Gripper
29. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Imaginary
Resistive sensor
Innovation
30. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
Stress
Collapse or break
James Watt
Hard automation
31. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Brainstorming
Generate many alternative solutions
Axes
Optoelectronic sensor
32. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
Functional models
ROM
Work
Bend and rotation
33. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
A library
Horizontal braces
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Plow
34. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Fire extinguisher
The problem solving process
High tech robots
Compression at the bottom
35. 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
Suspension
Triangular lateen sail
Arch
Fire extinguisher
36. The three types of equilibrium are:
Load
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
37. A system of pulleys that consists of one rope wound around two separate sets of pulley - each of which is free to rotate independently on the same axle
Compression
Block and tackle
Irrigation systems
Nylon
38. What was mostly responsible for the decline of the Egyptian civilization?
Ergonomics
Problems
The lack of pressure to continue development
Block and tackle
39. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Guard rails
Optoelectronic sensor
Piers
Pulley
40. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
Triangular lateen sail
Generate many alternative solutions
The problem solving process
Most of the material is located where it is needed
41. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
James Watt
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Hard automation and soft automation
Size - shape - and type of material
42. The improvement of things already invented
Operator of a battering ram
Design
Innovation
Low technology robots
43. The most important factor in determining the strength of a beam is...
A library
Fixed pulley
Romans
Its depth
44. Tension is best described as...
Kinetic energy
Pulling
Horsepower
Power
45. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Piers
Science
Abutments
Measurement - evaluation - and control
46. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on
Rankine and Kelvin
Soft clay tablets
Ultrasonic sensor
Design loop
47. I am a new bridge design that includes elements from a cantilever and a suspension bridge. I am easier to build than either of those but I am limited to spanning shorter distances
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
New jobs
Cable- stayed
Ultrasonic sensor
48. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
Papyrus
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Beam bridge
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
49. What is concrete with steel rods placed in it called?
Steel reinforced concrete
Read only memory
First- class lever
Bus
50. Distance between the piers
Chemistry
Law of Conservation of Energy
Span
Optoelectronic sensor