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Introduction To Engineering
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Subject
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engineering
Instructions:
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 was the first synthetic fiber - developed at duPont in 1938?
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Nylon
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Prototypes
2. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Following white lines on the floor
Up and down
Ends
Resistance
3. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Bascule
Program
3000 feet
Width of the beam
4. Compression is best described as...
Suspension
Pushing
Stress
Chemical reactions
5. What is the smallest amount of memory available to the computer?
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Bit
Input/Output devices
Energy
6. What is the name of the part that connects all the other parts of the computer to the CPU?
Bus
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
Problems
add a diagonal member
7. What device is the brain of the microcomputer?
The lack of pressure to continue development
Medium technology robot
Microprocessor
Gears
8. The I- beam is very strong because...
A cantilever bridge
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Chemical reactions
Most of the material is located where it is needed
9. 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
Suspension
The problem solving process
Piers
Irrigation
10. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
Extend and retract
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
True
Invention
11. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Input/Output devices
Cloud chamber
Two story building
12. What was the 'first great man - made trigger of change?'
Plow
Chemistry
Its depth
The structure will be lighter
13. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as...
Friction
Brainstorming
Design brief
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
14. How are scale models of large buildings and bridges tested to determine the way they react to wind loads?
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Wind tunnel testing
Manipulator
Interstate highway system
15. In the past it was commonly used to cross narrow distances like small streams or rivers
Mechanical advantage
Gravity - weight - load
Actuators
Beam
16. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Technology
Arch
Is able to learn
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
17. What kind of robot is able to be programmed to many different tasks easily?
Invisible
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
High technology robots
Keystone
18. The controller is what part of the robot?
The bowstring girder
Third- class lever
Instruction set
Brain
19. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
Input/Output devices
Design loop
Innovations
Third- class lever
20. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
How much a material has changed its shape
To do jobs that would be boring to people
Timers - cams - electrical stops - and mechanical stops
Grippers
21. In which two temperature measurement scales is absolute zero at zero degrees/
Rankine and Kelvin
Input/Output devices
Bimetallic sensor
Axes
22. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Functional models
Neil Armstrong
Plow
Lever
23. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Width of the beam
XYZ
Cable- stayed
Brainstorming
24. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Protect other people working around them
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Cloud chamber
Optoelectronic sensor
25. The scientific formula for work is...
W = F x d
Optoelectronic sensor
Newton - meter
A library
26. Servo controls offer roots what advantage?
Weight of the roof...
Compression at the bottom
The ability to make adjustments to its surroundings
Wheel and axle
27. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Design loop
Generate many alternative solutions
Solve problems
Keystone
28. An arch will support the load equally well at...
Any place on the arch
Gripper
Horizontal braces
Ends
29. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Spur gears
Design brief
Second- class lever
Bell Laboratories
30. Levers in which the fulcrum is always placed between the effort and the load are called
Problems
First- class levers
It didn't always point at the North Star
Compression
31. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Triangular lateen sail
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Stress
W = F x d
32. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Beam
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
A small degree of flexibility
33. The weight of the obect being moved
Gripper
Ends
Axes
Resistance
34. 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
Taller
Low technology robots
Solutions
Arch
35. The best way to prevent a rectangle from distorting is...
Hung
Work
add a diagonal member
Tower
36. What is the device in the microcomputer that keeps timing for the microcomputer?
James Watt
Irrigation
Trial and error
Clock
37. A fallen tree is used to cross a stream is an example of a...
Beam bridge
Byte
A library
Irrigation systems
38. The deck of a suspension bridge is ____ from the cables
Foot- pounds
Computer language
Hung
Invention
39. Two of the most common ways of classifying robots are:
Horizontal braces
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Tie
Specifications
40. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Bascule
XYZ
Gears
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
41. Energy of position
Potential energy
Its depth
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
Beam - arch - and suspension
42. 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
Load
Pulley
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
the permanent loads on a structure
43. Who developed the first efficient steam engine?
Shear
James Watt
First- class levers
Beam
44. Who is considered to be the first modern engineer?
Input/Output devices
Overflows of the Nile
Two story building
Galileo
45. Strain is a measure of...
The wheel and axle
How much a material has changed its shape
increasing the area over which the force acts
Galileo
46. Which of the following would probably not be a tension structure?
Beam
Two story building
Invisible
Work
47. The group of people responsible for developing the arch bridge
Invisible
Beam
Gripper
Romans
48. The strength of my design lies in the use of triangles
Truss
A small degree of flexibility
Wheel and axle
Bell Laboratories
49. Vertical supports that hold up the beam bridge
Mechanical advantage
Piers
Neutral axis...
increasing the area over which the force acts
50. Why did the nomads living in the high grasslands leave their settlements and head for the river valleys?
Design loop
An increase in the summer temperature - a reduction in rainfall - food sources began to disappear
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Trial and error