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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. What kind of robot makes up 1/3 of the industrial robots in the Unites States?
Suspension
Irrigation
Low technology robots
Steam engines
2. The difficulties we must overcome
Fixed pulley
Gears
Problems
Load
3. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?
Work
ROM
Technology
XYZ
4. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
The deck arch
A library
Imaginary
5. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Optoelectronic sensor
Twisting
Balanced
6. What is binary?
Generate many alternative solutions
Fire extinguisher
The cable- stayed bridge
Computer language
7. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Ramp
Location of the trustline
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Protect other people working around them
8. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Ramp
Aqueducts
A waist twisting
Wind tunnel testing
9. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge
A rock used to test metal for quality
Ends
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Microprocessor
10. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Third- class lever
Collapse or break
Low technology robots
3000 feet
11. Robots fit into two categories:
The structure will be lighter
Hard automation and soft automation
Up
add a diagonal member
12. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?
High technology robots
Second- class lever
Problems
Load
13. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Equilibrium
Sensing systems
Cloud chamber
14. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Shape
Random access memory
James Watt
Design loop
15. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Tip over
Following white lines on the floor
True
Ends
16. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Bending and shearing
1 or 0
Prototypes
Second- class lever
17. The dead load of a structure is
Axes
Triangular shapes
the permanent loads on a structure
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
18. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
Nylon
Lasers
Random access memory
19. Who was the first to conclude that the Earth is a giant magnet?
William Gilbert
Technology
Protect other people working around them
Gears
20. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:
W = F x d
lever
Axes
Physical characteristics and work envelope
21. The planned process of change
Horsepower
Design
Operator of a battering ram
The deck arch
22. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
True
Design loop
Bending and shearing
Tie
23. 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.
Worm gears
Beam
Resistive sensor
Steam engines
24. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Beam
Sensing systems
Shape
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
25. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
The lack of pressure to continue development
Gripper
Beam - arch - and suspension
Rack and pinion gears
26. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Extend and retract
Technology
Bit
27. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Low technology robots
Work
Silicon
Monolithic - three pin - and two pin
28. Operating parameters are the abilities and limitations of robots that determine their design and tasks. Which of the following is not a robotics operating parameter?
Axes
Third- class lever
First- class lever
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
29. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Papyrus
Stone - concrete - or steel
Microcomputer
Beam
30. Operational models used to test the mechanical or electrical systems
Fire extinguisher
Mechanical advantage
Shear
Functional models
31. A side effect of bending is called...
Stress
Bending moment or lever arm
Manipulator
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
32. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Ends
Mechanical advantage
Functional models
Yaw
33. When a horizontal beam bends downward - the top surface is in ______ and the bottom surface is in ______.
Bend and rotation
A waist twisting
Extend and retract
Compression - tension
34. Work divided by time
Plow
Input/Output devices
Tie
Power
35. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Imaginary
Tower
A library
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
36. 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
The deck arch
Fire extinguisher
Gripper
Suspension
37. Technology has advanced so much in the last 20 years that automation has become:
Horsepower
Resistance
Invisible
High tech robots
38. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Pulley
The deck arch
Cable- stayed
Effort
39. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
add a diagonal member
Specifications
The growth of Christianity
Program
40. Provides problem clarification and specification
Design brief
Hung
Energy
Guard rails
41. The metric unit for measuring work
Newton - meter
Hard automation
ROM
Design loop
42. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
The deck arch
Effort
Measurement - evaluation - and control
The number of pulley wheels
43. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
A waist twisting
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Resistive sensor
44. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
The bowstring girder
Prototypes
Brainstorming
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
45. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Low technology robots
Horizontal braces
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Triangular shapes
46. Suspension bridges have the problem of being...
Specifications
The calendar
Beam
Flexible
47. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...
Beam
Program
Computer language
Gravity - weight - load
48. A bit is the presence of voltage or no voltage. By what symbols is it represented?
Lever
Heavy
Up
1 or 0
49. 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
Temperature changes
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
50. What are I/O devices?
Load
Pulley
Taller
Input/Output devices