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Introduction To Engineering

Subject : engineering
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 550 foot- pounds per second






2. Because bridges like me are long - light in weight - and high in the air - our greatest enemy is the wind






3. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?






4. A bit is the presence of voltage or no voltage. By what symbols is it represented?






5. A memory chip that has instructions burned permanently into the chip is called what?






6. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?






7. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges






8. Energy of position






9. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point






10. The metric unit for measuring work






11. The downward forces acting on a bridge are...






12. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground






13. Which of the following are two advantages of using robotics technology?






14. What type of bridge has cables running from the tower directly to the roadway?






15. Seeks to explain and describe the physical world






16. What is the name of the amount of computer memory used for a computer 'word'?






17. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles






18. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work






19. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?






20. The longer the suspension bridge - the ____ the towers need to be






21. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it






22. The dead load of a structure is






23. Stress can be lowered by






24. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?






25. The weight of the obect being moved






26. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?






27. Which of the following is not a robot arm movement?






28. Who was the first to conclude that the Earth is a giant magnet?






29. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges






30. Strain is a measure of...






31. 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






32. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?






33. The force (push or pull) used to do work






34. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum






35. Inclined section that connects land to beam






36. For a machine to be a robot and not just considered automated - it must have?






37. What is the term used for the storage places in memory available to store informatoin?






38. 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






39. The controller is what part of the robot?






40. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities






41. Which of the following is a basic category of robot instructions?






42. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'






43. Anchorages are not necessary at the ____ of the cables on a cable- stayed bridge






44. 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






45. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?






46. Usually - the steel rod in a pre- stressed concrete beam will put the concrete in ____. The load will have to overcome this initial force.






47. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...






48. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a






49. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?






50. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?