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Introduction To Engineering
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1. In Mesopotamia - engineers recorded information on
Bit
Soft clay tablets
Axes
Design brief
2. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Width of the beam
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
The number of pulley wheels
Most of the material is located where it is needed
3. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Clock
Shear
Pulley
The number of pulley wheels
4. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Gears
Chemical reactions
The lack of pressure to continue development
Irrigation systems
5. The force (push or pull) used to do work
Science
Effort
Solutions
Block and tackle
6. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
Pulley
Operator of a battering ram
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Pulley
7. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Bending moment or lever arm
Shear
Two story building
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
8. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Compression
Resistive sensor
Memory addresses
9. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Worm gears
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
the permanent loads on a structure
10. Bridges are subject to failure because of...
Hard automation and soft automation
Bending and shearing
Functional models
New jobs
11. Stress can be lowered by
Compression - tension
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Design brief
increasing the area over which the force acts
12. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
The calendar
Friction
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
A library
13. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Romans
Bending moment or lever arm
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Truss
14. What was primarily responsible for the development of water wheels and windmills?
Optoelectronic sensor
Taller
The growth of Christianity
Overflows of the Nile
15. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
A cantilever bridge
Bending and shearing
Pulley
Deck
16. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Structural failure
Science
Neutral axis...
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
17. 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.
Low technology robots
Bus
Beam
Functional models
18. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that is similar to a car's turn signal flasher?
Yaw
Block and tackle
Grippers
Bimetallic sensor
19. Inclined section that connects land to beam
Steel reinforced concrete
Pulley
Guard rails
Ramp
20. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Main - frame computer
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Is able to learn
21. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Gears
Truss
Bending moment or lever arm
22. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Block and tackle
XYZ
Invention
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
23. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
Wind tunnel testing
Load
Weight of the roof...
How much a material has changed its shape
24. What is the name of the robot's arm?
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Load
Manipulator
Horizontal braces
25. One material from which arch bridges are typically made
Kinetic energy
Mechanical advantage
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Stone - concrete - or steel
26. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Optoelectronic sensor
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Hard automation
Generate many alternative solutions
27. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Resistive sensor
ROM
High technology robots
Beam bridge
28. Robots fit into two categories:
Movable pulley
Hard automation and soft automation
Extend and retract
Cloud chamber
29. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Battered
Horsepower
Third- class lever
30. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Bevel gears
Effort
Yaw
Cloud chamber
31. The turning point of a lever
Fulcrum
Beam - arch - and suspension
Suspension
Microprocessor
32. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Functional models
Sensing systems
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
Microprocessor
33. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Nylon
Work
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
34. The improvement of things already invented
Friction
Size - shape - and type of material
add a diagonal member
Innovation
35. 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
A rock used to test metal for quality
First- class lever
The lack of pressure to continue development
36. Hard automation machinery was controlled by what?
Friction
Bascule
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Structural failure
37. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
Cable- stayed
Operator of a battering ram
Following white lines on the floor
Imaginary
38. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
Hung
The structure will be lighter
Its depth
Steel reinforced concrete
39. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Design
First- class levers
Weight of the roof...
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
40. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
Problems
Worm gears
Functional models
add a diagonal member
41. 550 foot- pounds per second
Horsepower
Flexible
Battered
Screw
42. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Compression at the bottom
Optoelectronic sensor
Irrigation
Bevel gears
43. What is the name for the set of instructions that a robot follows?
Microcomputer
Program
Hard automation and soft automation
The deck arch
44. Work divided by time
Power
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Work
Block and tackle
45. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Bus
Interstate highway system
Sliding
Unstable
46. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Any place on the arch
Irrigation systems
Extend and retract
Bridge failure
47. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Cable- stayed
Weight of the roof...
48. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
Ultrasonic sensor
The problem solving process
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Stress
49. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Hard automation
Bending moment or lever arm
1 or 0
Steam engines
50. What is the definition of stress
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Truss
Solutions
Temperature changes
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