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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. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
Its depth
Chain hoist
Cloud chamber
Any place on the arch
2. Materials change shape as they expand and contract with...
Specifications
It didn't always point at the North Star
The wheel and axle
Temperature changes
3. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Following white lines on the floor
Manipulator
Law of Conservation of Energy
4. Which of the following is NOT an example of an input/output device?
Compression - tension
Input/Output devices
Microprocessor
Critical load/weight of the structure
5. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Stone - concrete - or steel
Guard rails
The deck arch
Elasticity
6. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
Potential energy
Beam
True
Shear
7. What factors determine the weight if a structure?
Chemical reactions
Size - shape - and type of material
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Specifications
8. In the past it was commonly used to cross narrow distances like small streams or rivers
Arch
Steel reinforced concrete
Cable- stayed
Beam
9. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?
Input/Output devices
Beam
Extend and retract
Memory addresses
10. The force applied to a lever
Worm gears
Stone - concrete - or steel
Its depth
Effort
11. Which of the following are two advantages of using robotics technology?
Fixed pulley
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Bending and shearing
12. Robots fit into two categories:
How far it can reach
The number of pulley wheels
Fire extinguisher
Hard automation and soft automation
13. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Nylon
Lasers
Bimetallic sensor
Block and tackle
14. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
3000 feet
Functional models
Computer language
15. The three types of arches are...
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
How much a material has changed its shape
Program
Bell Laboratories
16. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Width of the beam
Bevel gears
William Gilbert
Random access memory
17. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Weight of the roof...
Read only memory
Arch
Microcomputer
18. What is a touchstone?
Bascule
Steam engines
A rock used to test metal for quality
Aqueducts
19. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Beam bridge
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Shear
Fire extinguisher
20. My bridge design is popular when the span is less than 3000 feet - mainly because I do not need anchorages or many piers
Equilibrium
Cable- stayed
Work
James Watt
21. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Protect other people working around them
Design brief
Irrigation systems
To do jobs that would be boring to people
22. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.
Compression at the bottom
Truss
Temperature changes
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
23. More than one pulley working together
Strong anchorages
1 or 0
Block and tackle
ROM
24. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Low technology robots
Power
Optoelectronic sensor
Manipulator
25. The generation of ideas for solutions
Wind tunnel testing
Low technology robots
Brainstorming
Second- class lever
26. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Hard automation and soft automation
Mechanical advantage
Send out a light signal
Any place on the arch
27. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
Functional models
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
It didn't always point at the North Star
Gripper
28. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Guard rails
Newton - meter
Neil Armstrong
29. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
Resistance
Ends
Random access memory
Shear
30. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
Medium technology robot
Grippers
increasing the area over which the force acts
Block and tackle
31. 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
Arch
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Brainstorming
32. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Irrigation
Low technology robots
Read only memory
Beam
33. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Pulley
The bowstring girder
Block and tackle
34. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Generate many alternative solutions
Temperature changes
Keystone
Extend and retract
35. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
A waist twisting
Tip over
James Watt
36. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Pulley
Microprocessor
Axes
Wheel and axle
37. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are...
Innovations
Shear
Random access memory
Up and down
38. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Design brief
Worm gears
Work
Design loop
39. Stress can be lowered by
Optoelectronic sensor
Functional models
Innovations
increasing the area over which the force acts
40. The three types of equilibrium are:
Beam bridge
Send out a light signal
Size - shape - and type of material
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
41. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Program
Bit
Stone - concrete - or steel
Read only memory
42. Programming - maintenance - and supervising are some of the ________ often created when robots are introduced into the workplace
Beam bridge
New jobs
Hard automation
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
43. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Strong anchorages
Beam bridge
Potential energy
Functional models
44. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Bevel gears
Collapse or break
How far it can reach
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
45. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
increasing the area over which the force acts
Balanced
The wheel and axle
Third- class lever
46. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Specifications
Cantilever
Design brief
Truss
47. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
Balanced
Elasticity
First- class lever
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
48. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Truss
Bimetallic sensor
Sliding
Law of Conservation of Energy
49. The planned process of change
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Design
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
A small degree of flexibility
50. A force that opposes motion
Friction
Cloud chamber
Extend and retract
Bus