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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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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. Which kind of robot can perform a wide range of tasks but is somewhat limited?
Medium technology robot
Clock
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Effort
2. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Bevel gears
A small degree of flexibility
Nylon
Brainstorming
3. On a high- tech robot the controller is what device?
Deck
Microcomputer
Protect other people working around them
Tension structures weigh less
4. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Block and tackle
Resistive sensor
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Appearance model
5. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Steam engines
The structure will be lighter
ROM
XYZ
6. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Piers
Grippers
New jobs
7. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Movable pulley
Sensing systems
Neutral axis...
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
8. What is binary?
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Invention
Block and tackle
Computer language
9. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Science
Abutments
A cantilever bridge
Flexible
10. The weight or resistance on a lever
Load
Prototypes
Taller
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
11. Distance between the piers
Span
Actuators
Yaw
Effort
12. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Computer language
Unstable
Axes
Send out a light signal
13. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Stone - concrete - or steel
Friction
Bridge failure
Instruction set
14. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Read only memory
Wind tunnel testing
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Actuators
15. A side effect of bending is called...
Bending moment or lever arm
Pushing
Pulling
Load
16. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
Beam - arch - and suspension
Second- class lever
Neil Armstrong
Imaginary
17. Force times distance
Block and tackle
First- class lever
New jobs
Work
18. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?
Ultrasonic sensor
Innovation
Cantilever
Fixed pulley
19. Which of the following are two advantages of using robotics technology?
Twisting
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Cable- stayed
Its depth
20. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Truss
Neil Armstrong
Keystone
Problems
21. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Tension structures weigh less
A waist twisting
Wheel and axle
Invisible
22. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Stress
Energy
Gripper
23. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Second- class lever
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Wheel and axle
How far it can reach
24. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
Ramp
The wheel and axle
William Gilbert
Send out a light signal
25. A pulley that makes work easier
High tech robots
Movable pulley
Temperature changes
Overflows of the Nile
26. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Innovation
Read only memory
Weight of the roof...
Horsepower
27. Why didn't the Greeks believe in the verification of ideas by experimentation?
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Compression at the bottom
Stress
Resistive sensor
28. 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
Optoelectronic sensor
Following white lines on the floor
Brain
lever
29. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Functional models
Any place on the arch
Tower
Fire extinguisher
30. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Optoelectronic sensor
Compression - tension
Cable- stayed
31. 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
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Plow
William Gilbert
Pulley
32. What events made it necessary to perform periodic surveying in the Nile Valley?
Compression at the bottom
Overflows of the Nile
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Science
33. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Bending and shearing
Specifications
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
add a diagonal member
34. Surplus food led to all of the following except:
Irrigation
Newton - meter
Specifications
Brainstorming
35. What was the first computer - developed at the University of Pennsylvania?
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Pulling
Energy
ENIAC
36. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Work
Shear
Input/Output devices
Ramp
37. More than one pulley working together
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Block and tackle
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Up
38. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Beam bridge
Axes
Twisting
Byte
39. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Galileo
Brainstorming
Second- class lever
Compression at the bottom
40. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Irrigation systems
1 or 0
Plow
Following white lines on the floor
41. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Trial and error
Truss
1 or 0
Law of Conservation of Energy
42. A robot can be driven by any of the following except
Bend and rotation
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Chemical reactions
Battered
43. What was the Greeks' most important contribution to the realm of science?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Compression
Lever
High tech robots
44. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Aqueducts
Prototypes
Beam bridge
Law of Conservation of Energy
45. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Most of the material is located where it is needed
A library
Brainstorming
Optoelectronic sensor
46. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Nylon
Chain hoist
Galileo
Horizontal braces
47. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
A small degree of flexibility
Aqueducts
A waist twisting
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
48. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
New jobs
Block and tackle
Second- class lever
Bimetallic sensor
49. What is a touchstone?
Rankine and Kelvin
Innovations
Twisting
A rock used to test metal for quality
50. What factors determine the weight if a structure?
Sensing systems
Size - shape - and type of material
Triangular lateen sail
Strong anchorages