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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.
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. Distance between the piers
Energy
Innovations
Span
Beam
2. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Brainstorming
Horsepower
Balanced
Aqueducts
3. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
It didn't always point at the North Star
W = F x d
Yaw
First- class levers
4. Horizontal framework that rests on piers
Beam
Soft clay tablets
Unstable
Stone - concrete - or steel
5. A side effect of bending is called...
Spur gears
Is able to learn
Bending moment or lever arm
Yaw
6. When the limits of stress and strain are exceeded - parts of a structure will...
Effort
Brainstorming
XYZ
Collapse or break
7. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Bimetallic sensor
Size - shape - and type of material
First- class levers
Collapse or break
8. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Technology
Two story building
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Lasers
9. What type of arch bridge did the Romans build? (They were made from stone with the road on top of the arch)
The deck arch
Cable- stayed
Second- class lever
The wheel and axle
10. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Galileo
Nylon
Bevel gears
How much a material has changed its shape
11. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Invention
Keystone
High technology robots
Triangular shapes
12. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Steel reinforced concrete
Bimetallic sensor
Brainstorming
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
13. 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
Arch
Program
Microprocessor
The deck arch
14. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Taller
Invisible
Random access memory
15. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Fire extinguisher
First- class lever
Silicon
Work
16. What is binary?
Computer language
A library
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Block and tackle
17. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
First- class levers
Lasers
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Fixed pulley
18. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Kinetic energy
Manipulator
Romans
Resistance
19. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Irrigation systems
Movable pulley
A rock used to test metal for quality
Solve problems
20. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Medium technology robot
Location of the trustline
Sensing systems
The cable- stayed bridge
21. Which of the following is not a robot arm movement?
The number of pulley wheels
Main - frame computer
Suspension
Yaw
22. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
Power
Suspension
Block and tackle
Fire extinguisher
23. What are I/O devices?
Galileo
3000 feet
Gripper
Input/Output devices
24. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
Flexible
The number of pulley wheels
Width of the beam
Bit
25. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Low technology robots
New jobs
Equilibrium
Lasers
26. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
Hard automation
Steam engines
Sensing systems
Balanced
27. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Extend and retract
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Random access memory
28. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Main - frame computer
Effort
Beam
The deck arch
29. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
Structural failure
Energy
Location of the trustline
Second- class lever
30. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Size - shape - and type of material
Newton - meter
Balanced
31. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Worm gears
Equilibrium
Prototypes
Twisting
32. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Read only memory
Beam
The bowstring girder
Rack and pinion gears
33. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Extend and retract
Design loop
Time and angles
Tension structures weigh less
34. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
Clock
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Neutral axis...
Arch
35. Torsion is best described as...
A rock used to test metal for quality
Brainstorming
256
Twisting
36. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
Program
Third- class lever
Random access memory
Science
37. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
add a diagonal member
Resistance
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Tie
38. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?
Solve problems
Neil Armstrong
ROM
Brainstorming
39. What is the definition of stress
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
High technology robots
Prototypes
3000 feet
40. The English unit of measuring work
Foot- pounds
Critical load/weight of the structure
A library
True
41. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Keystone
Bending and shearing
Specifications
Pulley
42. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
Taller
Neutral axis...
the permanent loads on a structure
Design brief
43. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Plow
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Beam bridge
44. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace
Sliding
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
New jobs
Axes
45. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/
Brainstorming
A cantilever bridge
Rankine and Kelvin
The calendar
46. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
A rock used to test metal for quality
Design brief
Microprocessor
47. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Generate many alternative solutions
Pulley
Microcomputer
The structure will be lighter
48. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Nylon
Cantilever
Mechanical advantage
49. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Unstable
Bevel gears
Hard automation
Cloud chamber
50. What are computer chips made from?
Silicon
Balanced
Read only memory
Triangular shapes