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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
Instructions:
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. 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
Screw
ROM
Suspension
Design loop
2. Vertical travel is the name for the robot's movement in what direction?
Up and down
Bascule
Horsepower
Solve problems
3. Protective barriers along the desk which keep things from falling off the bridge
Guard rails
Load
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Location of the trustline
4. What device is made up of a light- emitting diode and a phototransistor?
Aqueducts
Optoelectronic sensor
Irrigation
Problems
5. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
Ends
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Potential energy
Microcomputer
6. The outward thrust of an arch can be resisted by...
Innovation
Newton - meter
Hard automation
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
7. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
The deck arch
Rack and pinion gears
Fixed pulley
Lasers
8. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
James Watt
Wheel and axle
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Unstable
9. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Ends
Following white lines on the floor
Silicon
Arch
10. What was the forerunner of the robot?
Hard automation
Actuators
Functional models
Flexible
11. The three basic types of bridges are...
Beam - arch - and suspension
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Truss
Bend and rotation
12. The planned process of change
Design
Invisible
The growth of Christianity
Arch
13. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Deck
The problem solving process
Extend and retract
Law of Conservation of Energy
14. A pulley that makes work easier
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
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
ROM
Movable pulley
15. The generation of ideas for solutions
Brainstorming
1 or 0
Axes
Bridge failure
16. My bridge design is popular when the span is less than 3000 feet - mainly because I do not need anchorages or many piers
Cable- stayed
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
A rock used to test metal for quality
ENIAC
17. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
First- class lever
Silicon
Up and down
Sensing systems
18. What is binary?
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Computer language
Heavy
Aqueducts
19. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
Balanced
Deck
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
Block and tackle
20. For a tower to be built higher - the walls can be...
Laser rod
Is able to learn
Size - shape - and type of material
Battered
21. What was the original meaning of 'ingeniator' which became the word 'engineer?'
Any place on the arch
Operator of a battering ram
The calendar
Potential energy
22. The ability to do work
Design
Energy
Cable- stayed
Cable- stayed
23. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Design loop
Bridge failure
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Technology
24. Foundation on which the roadway is built on top of the beam
Two story building
Deck
Neutral axis...
Aqueducts
25. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Elasticity
Piers
Beam
Most famous
26. The energy of motion
Battered
Suspension
Instruction set
Kinetic energy
27. Robots are often used in factories instead of people because they
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
Cable- stayed
the permanent loads on a structure
Bus
28. The force that has the most impact in arch bridges
Compression
Collapse or break
Nylon
Problems
29. Which memory can be changed by the computer user - allowing for temporary storage of information?
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Random access memory
Shear
Prototypes
30. In the 1950's - the ______ created a boom in bridge building
Shear
Taller
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Interstate highway system
31. Compression is best described as...
Spur gears
Pulley
Bimetallic sensor
Pushing
32. The I- beam is very strong because...
William Gilbert
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Block and tackle
Protect other people working around them
33. A lever in which the fulcrum is between the effort and the load
Flexible
Actuators
First- class lever
Technology
34. The development of irrigation systems and the establishment of land boundaries did not lead to which of the following?
James Watt
Cable- stayed
The wheel and axle
Axes
35. What type of bridge sags in the middle but hogs at both ends?
Gears
Cable- stayed
A cantilever bridge
Science
36. 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?
Block and tackle
Axes
Fire extinguisher
Pushing
37. What caused the 1965 power failure in the Northeastern United States?
Axes
A power relay in a Niagara Falls power station
Span
Equilibrium
38. 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
Pulley
Following white lines on the floor
Solutions
Triangular lateen sail
39. Which is not a true statement about gears?
A small degree of flexibility
Galileo
How much a material has changed its shape
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
40. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
Prototypes
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
True
Balanced
41. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Location of the trustline
Collapse or break
W = F x d
Beam bridge
42. The truss bridge uses beams that have members that form...
Triangular shapes
Law of Conservation of Energy
Lever
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
43. When generating ideas for a solution to a problem - it is important to do which of the following in order to effectively and visually communicate these ideas for use in construction drawings?
Resistance
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Wheel and axle
A waist twisting
44. The three types of equilibrium are:
Beam
Following white lines on the floor
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Guard rails
45. The scientific formula for work is...
W = F x d
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Design
Time and angles
46. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
Bending moment or lever arm
Cloud chamber
The structure will be lighter
Lever
47. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Pulley
A waist twisting
Pushing
Romans
48. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Second- class lever
Plow
The deck arch
Galileo
49. Which of the following is not a robot arm movement?
Wheel and axle
Unstable
Neutral axis...
Yaw
50. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges
Gravity - weight - load
Movable pulley
Microprocessor
Most famous