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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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1. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Design brief
Invention
Bridge failure
Chain hoist
2. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
New jobs
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
3. What was the first computer - developed at the University of Pennsylvania?
Grippers
ENIAC
Neutral axis...
Its depth
4. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Steam engines
Any place on the arch
Bend and rotation
Technology
5. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Operator of a battering ram
The lack of pressure to continue development
Science
6. Compression is best described as...
Medium technology robot
Bending moment or lever arm
Pushing
The cable- stayed bridge
7. The weight or resistance on a lever
Steam engines
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Design loop
Load
8. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Horsepower
Galileo
Nylon
Equilibrium
9. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Design loop
William Gilbert
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Unstable
10. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
First- class lever
Block and tackle
Irrigation systems
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
11. A pulley that makes work easier
Third- class lever
Structural failure
Movable pulley
Compression - tension
12. The three types of arches are...
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Gripper
Location of the trustline
Manipulator
13. Tension is best described as...
Hung
First- class lever
Pulling
increasing the area over which the force acts
14. The generation of ideas for solutions
Brain
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Brainstorming
Input/Output devices
15. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Problems
The bowstring girder
Chemistry
Bending and shearing
16. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Byte
Microprocessor
Yaw
17. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
A rock used to test metal for quality
Newton - meter
Prototypes
A cantilever bridge
18. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
A small degree of flexibility
Location of the trustline
Potential energy
Imaginary
19. The weight of the obect being moved
Second- class lever
Manipulator
Tension structures weigh less
Resistance
20. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Bell Laboratories
A waist twisting
Interstate highway system
Design brief
21. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Brainstorming
Axes
The growth of Christianity
Elasticity
22. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch
Bascule
How much a material has changed its shape
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Abutments
23. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Low technology robots
Cantilever
Law of Conservation of Energy
Technology
24. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Design loop
The calendar
Load
Any place on the arch
25. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
add a diagonal member
Hung
Second- class lever
Fixed pulley
26. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?
Arch
Resistance
Ultrasonic sensor
Send out a light signal
27. Stress can be lowered by
increasing the area over which the force acts
Movable pulley
Axes
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
28. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
Third- class lever
Extend and retract
Design
Beam
29. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
How much a material has changed its shape
Keystone
Interstate highway system
Strong anchorages
30. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Up
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Axes
31. How can an ultrasonic sensor measure movement and distance?
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Stress
Papyrus
32. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Program
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
The number of pulley wheels
Design loop
33. The improvement of things already invented
Innovation
The problem solving process
Rack and pinion gears
Battered
34. The I- beam is very strong because...
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Optoelectronic sensor
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Mechanical advantage
35. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Beam bridge
Bevel gears
Tie
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
36. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Overflows of the Nile
Medium technology robot
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
37. One growing area in robotics is developing new ways for robots to:
Arch
The cable- stayed bridge
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Solve problems
38. What marked the engineering efforts of the Greeks?
Pulley
Stone - concrete - or steel
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
39. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Specifications
Triangular lateen sail
Two story building
Protect other people working around them
40. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Shape
Size - shape - and type of material
Ramp
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
41. In the Nile Valley - information was recorded on a paperlike material called
Gravity - weight - load
Papyrus
Beam
256
42. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Block and tackle
Elasticity
Work
Bus
43. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
Memory addresses
Tower
Gravity - weight - load
Nylon
44. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Triangular shapes
Innovation
Block and tackle
Pulley
45. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
A waist twisting
Lever
Bimetallic sensor
Lasers
46. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
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47. The top - center stone that all other stones in the arch bridge lean on - or push against - for support
Keystone
Effort
Imaginary
Potential energy
48. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Ultrasonic sensor
Solutions
Beam bridge
Cable- stayed
49. Robots fit into two categories:
Potential energy
High tech robots
Hard automation and soft automation
Microprocessor
50. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Ultrasonic sensor
The growth of Christianity
The structure will be lighter
Tip over