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Introduction To Engineering
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engineering
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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. Structures would crumble or tip over if the forces acting on them were not in...
Specifications
The growth of Christianity
The deck arch
Equilibrium
2. Distance between the piers
Beam - arch - and suspension
Span
Galileo
Guard rails
3. If you generate alternative solutions and begin to build your best solution - but you have problems building your design - what should you do?
Cable- stayed
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Prototypes
Tying the feet together and building buttresses at the feet
4. Stress can be lowered by
Design loop
Cantilever
Width of the beam
increasing the area over which the force acts
5. The development of something completely new
Flexible
Compression - tension
Is able to learn
Invention
6. The turning point of a lever
Up
Compression at the bottom
Fulcrum
Time and angles
7. Beam bridges are especially prone to failure from...
Bend and rotation
Heavy
Shear
Taller
8. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
256
Width of the beam
Lasers
Strong anchorages
9. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Bending and shearing
Weight of the roof...
The lack of pressure to continue development
Compression at the bottom
10. How many combinations of eight bits are there?
256
Beam
Tip over
Actuators
11. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Following white lines on the floor
Manipulator
Appearance model
Chemistry
12. Thrust lines are the ____ lines that forces - caused by loads - follow as they are transmitted through the system to the ground
Beam
Imaginary
Compression
The structure will be lighter
13. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Design loop
add a diagonal member
Ultrasonic sensor
256
14. 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
Extend and retract
Pulley
Work
Triangular lateen sail
15. Tension is the force acting on the cables in a _______ bridge
Operator of a battering ram
Neutral axis...
Critical load/weight of the structure
Cable- stayed
16. For a tower to be built higher - the walls can be...
Prototypes
Shear
Byte
Battered
17. Structures that are not able to support the loads placed upon them will experience...
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
Physical characteristics and work envelope
Stress
Structural failure
18. An automated system responds to external changes in three steps:
Pushing
Measurement - evaluation - and control
Fulcrum
Instruction set
19. All suspension bridges have three things in common: two very tall towers - __________ - and cables made of many wires
Design brief
Strong anchorages
Beam bridge
Solutions
20. The ability to do work
The calendar
Axes
Microprocessor
Energy
21. What did the people trapped on the New York subway do when the power went out?
Movable pulley
Brain
True
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
22. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
Gears
Memory addresses
Is able to learn
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
23. The tower on a cable- stayed bridge supports a _________ portion of the deck
Potential energy
Balanced
Cable- stayed
Abutments
24. Shear near supports - crumbling piers - stretching cables - and uneven traffic are examples of...
Bridge failure
First- class levers
Equilibrium
Bascule
25. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
Optoelectronic sensor
Optoelectronic sensor
Bend and rotation
The number of pulley wheels
26. What is the definition of stress
Suspension
Appearance model
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
Manipulator
27. Robots are often equipped with wire cages - infrared light curtains - and/or surveillance cameras to
Design loop
Ultrasonic sensor
Protect other people working around them
Fire extinguisher
28. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
How far it can reach
Invention
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Bell Laboratories
29. When the thrustline wanders outside the middle of the tower - the tower becomes...
Kinetic energy
Unstable
Interstate highway system
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
30. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Spur gears
Aqueducts
Papyrus
Technology
31. 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?
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Beam bridge
High tech robots
Following white lines on the floor
32. The English unit of measuring work
Foot- pounds
Beam
Fulcrum
Friction
33. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
Span
Ramp
Energy
A waist twisting
34. Without what kind of systems - would the robot be deaf - blind - and dumb?
Sensing systems
Technology
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Innovations
35. The force that has the most impact in arch bridges
A waist twisting
Compression
Pushing
Foot- pounds
36. Tension is best described as...
Effort
Main - frame computer
Pulling
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
37. What is the advantage of having robots in industry?
Two story building
Computer language
Kinetic energy
To do jobs that would be boring to people
38. As late as the 1880's - bridge builders were stil improving their designs based on...
Trial and error
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Shear
Ramp
39. What is the difference between a tension and a compression structure?
Microprocessor
Tension structures weigh less
Bit
Compression at the bottom
40. Which device can check to see if a surface is level?
The bowstring girder
Sensing systems
Ultrasonic sensor
Ramp
41. The efficiency rating of a structure is...
Bell Laboratories
Critical load/weight of the structure
Plow
Fulcrum
42. The energy of motion
Kinetic energy
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
Most of the material is located where it is needed
Microprocessor
43. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
Design brief
Optoelectronic sensor
Irrigation systems
Resistive sensor
44. The ability of a material to return to its original shape when a load is removed is called
Tension structures weigh less
Elasticity
Actuators
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
45. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Beam
Gears
Soft clay tablets
Protect other people working around them
46. I am a new bridge design that includes elements from a cantilever and a suspension bridge. I am easier to build than either of those but I am limited to spanning shorter distances
Steam engines
Ergonomics
Fulcrum
Cable- stayed
47. The five types of stress are...
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
Taller
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Reduced labor costs and predictable output
48. Which of the following was not a development of Roman culture?
Size - shape - and type of material
Functional models
Chemistry
Pulley
49. An arm reaching out and pulling back is similar to what axes on the robot?
Extend and retract
Tip over
Appearance model
Guard rails
50. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Equilibrium
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Is able to learn
Grippers