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Introduction To Engineering
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1. What is the definition of stress
Low technology robots
Plow
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Yaw
2. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Axes
Bell Laboratories
Weight of the roof...
Steam engines
3. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world
Friction
Science
New jobs
Yaw
4. A wheel fixed to a support with a rope that is run over the wheel to change the direction of a force applied to the rope
Compression - tension
Gears
Bit
Pulley
5. What factors determine the weight if a structure?
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Size - shape - and type of material
Pulling
Power
6. The lesson used an illustration of a robot filling boxes. The sensors detected if the box had moved. What kind of sensor was used?
Work
Optoelectronic sensor
Shape
Cantilever
7. What was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
The cable- stayed bridge
Irrigation systems
Steel reinforced concrete
Nylon
8. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Guard rails
Location of the trustline
Main - frame computer
Functional models
9. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Program
Unstable
3000 feet
Chain hoist
10. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Chain hoist
Irrigation systems
Lever
Gears
11. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
Bus
Battered
Is able to learn
The wheel and axle
12. What problem made the use of a compass for navigation unreliable?
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13. The sides of a bridge where it is attached to the land that supports the arch
Any place on the arch
Abutments
Tower
Block and tackle
14. What are computer chips made from?
Beam
The cable- stayed bridge
Functional models
Silicon
15. Builders made the original versions of me out of wedge- shaped stones that fit snugly together. They were held in place with the pressure of the weight of the bridge
Arch
Cantilever
First- class lever
Functional models
16. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Piers
Axes
Main - frame computer
Hard automation
17. 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
Work
Rack and pinion gears
Interstate highway system
Suspension
18. 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
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Overflows of the Nile
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
19. What is the name of the temperature sensing device that checks how hard it is for power to flow through the device?
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Resistive sensor
Horsepower
20. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Beam
Beam
Rack and pinion gears
Bridge failure
21. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
Irrigation systems
Imaginary
Main - frame computer
Horizontal braces
22. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is...
The problem solving process
Bell Laboratories
Optoelectronic sensor
Spur gears
23. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Interstate highway system
Technology
True
Compression
24. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
Pulling
Low technology robots
Medium technology robot
Balanced
25. What is the advantage of using a gate in tension instead of in compression?
Guard rails
Memory addresses
The structure will be lighter
Grippers
26. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Brainstorming
Heavy
The structure will be lighter
27. What marked the engineering efforts of the Greeks?
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Rack and pinion gears
Axes
Triangular shapes
28. Force times distance
Optoelectronic sensor
Battered
Work
Bascule
29. What type of robot arm is able to move in three different dimensions and has a cube- shaped working envelope/
Horizontal braces
XYZ
It didn't always point at the North Star
The lack of pressure to continue development
30. The development of something completely new
Suspension
Random access memory
Invention
Weight of the roof...
31. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Ends
Romans
Gears
Cable- stayed
32. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
New jobs
Battered
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Collapse or break
33. The part of a structure that carries the load in tension is called a...
Low technology robots
Ergonomics
Galileo
Tie
34. A system of pulleys that consists of one rope wound around two separate sets of pulley - each of which is free to rotate independently on the same axle
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Resistance
Block and tackle
Instruction set
35. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:
Actuators
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Prototypes
Pushing
36. What development about 8000 years ago led to increased time to engage in activities that involved other than basic survival needs?
Functional models
Irrigation systems
Structural failure
Ergonomics
37. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Romans
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Read only memory
Problems
38. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Pulley
Any place on the arch
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Unstable
39. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?
First- class lever
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Neil Armstrong
The cable- stayed bridge
40. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Deck
Bimetallic sensor
Tip over
Steel reinforced concrete
41. The force that has the most impact in arch bridges
Beam bridge
Axes
Compression
Foot- pounds
42. Tension is best described as...
Sliding
Pulling
Extend and retract
Manipulator
43. The robot's wrist can sometimes move in two dimensions. What are they?
Axes
Bend and rotation
It didn't always point at the North Star
W = F x d
44. Stress can be lowered by
Foot- pounds
increasing the area over which the force acts
Beam
Abutments
45. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
Truss
Fire extinguisher
Instruction set
Ergonomics
46. Ways of overcoming difficulties
High technology robots
William Gilbert
Solutions
ENIAC
47. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
Yaw
Clock
Resistance
It didn't always point at the North Star
48. The deck of a suspension bridge is ____ from the cables
Gravity - weight - load
Tension structures weigh less
Irrigation
Hung
49. Measured in newtons per square inch - ______ is the intensity of the forces trying to push or pull a solid material apart
Clock
add a diagonal member
Bus
Stress
50. There are about 100 instructions that a typical robot inderstands. This collection of instructions is called what?
Instruction set
Heavy
A waist twisting
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