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Introduction To Engineering
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1. What is the name for the devices that make the manipulators move?
Power
Wheel and axle
Actuators
increasing the area over which the force acts
2. 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?
Axes
Clock
Nylon
Technology
3. What invention made possible three- dimensional pictures called holograms?
Innovation
Lasers
Power
Solve problems
4. What is the name of the sensor that detects light?
XYZ
Microprocessor
Optoelectronic sensor
Yaw
5. In what field did Denis Papin and Thomas Newcomen perform early research?
Is able to learn
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Steam engines
Cable- stayed
6. The word 'ROBOT' was chosen because of what quality?
Mechanical advantage
A small degree of flexibility
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
True
7. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Bevel gears
Technology
Compression at the bottom
New jobs
8. What is a touchstone?
Prototypes
A rock used to test metal for quality
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Rotational - vertical - and horizontal
9. The line in a beam where there is no tension or compression is called the...
Neutral axis...
Lasers
Memory addresses
Beam
10. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Beam
Law of Conservation of Energy
Fire extinguisher
Following white lines on the floor
11. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Prototypes
Overflows of the Nile
Program
Law of Conservation of Energy
12. The safety factor is...
Collapse or break
Pushing
Rankine and Kelvin
designing the structure to be stronger than the anticipated need
13. Provides problem clarification and specification
True
Design brief
Sending a sound out and monitoring the echo
Resistive sensor
14. What do truss bridges require to prevent them from falling over?
Solve problems
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
Horizontal braces
Twisting
15. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Solve problems
Optoelectronic sensor
Gears
Brainstorming
16. If a structure did not have rotational equilibrium - it would
Suspension
Tip over
Stress
Sliding
17. The robot's wrist can sometimes move in two dimensions. What are they?
William Gilbert
Operator of a battering ram
Bend and rotation
Tension structures weigh less
18. The controller is what part of the robot?
Brain
Collapse or break
Innovation
Innovations
19. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are...
Gears
The bowstring girder
Cantilever
Silicon
20. C. T. R. Wilson worked at the Ben Nevis Laboratory - observed a 'glory' - and eventually developed the
Axes
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Byte
Cloud chamber
21. Which of the following would not be a major factor in the design of a beam?
Cable- stayed
Cloud chamber
Width of the beam
Flexible
22. Which of the following is not a basic component of a robotics system?
Laser rod
Ergonomics
Piers
Balanced
23. What is binary?
Cantilever
Guard rails
Design loop
Computer language
24. Which of the following is not an example of a live load?
Weight of the roof...
High technology robots
Arithmetic - data handling - logic - and index register instructions
Piers
25. Mobile robots are able to maneuver around a factory floor by
Generate many alternative solutions
Following white lines on the floor
Block and tackle
Input/Output devices
26. What type of arch bridge is a type of truss?
The bowstring girder
Laser rod
Most famous
Ramp
27. Describes the limitations and requirements of the project's solution
Specifications
3000 feet
Battered
Truss
28. The robot's power supply provides what kind of energy for the robot?
Pushing
Tie
Electrical energy - pneumatic energy - and hydraulic energy
Weight of the roof...
29. Tension is best described as...
Pulling
Optoelectronic sensor
Tip over
Microprocessor
30. The robot's column rotation axis is similar to what movement on the human body?
A waist twisting
Pulley
Design brief
They thought experiments should be done only by slaves
31. Suspension bridges usually have the longest single span of all bridges
Design loop
True
Horizontal braces
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
32. A cable- stayed bridge easily spans distances under...
Pulley
Ate birthday cake and drank wine
3000 feet
256
33. In cable- stayed bridges - the cables are strung from the ______ to the deck
Tower
Soft clay tablets
Elasticity
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
34. When compared to a beam - the truss has the advantage of being...
More resistant to shear - light - and strong
Potential energy
Arch
Microprocessor
35. The downward bending of the cantilever part of the beam makes the beam in the adjoining bay bend...
Up
Generate many alternative solutions
Axes
Hung
36. What innovation first enabled greater flexibility in sailing ships?
Load
Triangular lateen sail
Gripper
Is able to learn
37. A machine in which a lever rotates around a fixed point
Spur gears
Movable pulley
The belief that nature has general laws of behavior which can be described by words
Wheel and axle
38. Magnet - vaccuum - and hand are types of robot __________.
Laser rod
Bridge failure
Grippers
Brainstorming
39. Special long arches that carry water from rivers to towns that need it
Aqueducts
Axes
Block and tackle
Triangular lateen sail
40. A wheel that meshes with a sliding toothed bar - converting rotary motion to reciprocating (to- and- fro)
Second- class lever
Gripper
The problem solving process
Rack and pinion gears
41. What are the three common criteria to determine robot use?
Dangerous job - heavy lifting - high accuracy required
Compression - tension - shear - torsion - and bending
lever
Beam
42. Some of the ________ bridges in the world are suspension bridges
Instruction set
Most famous
Optoelectronic sensor
ROM
43. The periodic rising and falling of the Nile River led to what development?
Design
Spur gears
The calendar
Block and tackle
44. The transistor was discovered in 1947 by a team of researchers with what company?
Balanced
Bell Laboratories
Generate many alternative solutions
The intensive development of borrowed ideas
45. What is the name of the largest of the three types of computers?
Main - frame computer
Axes
Microcomputer
A cantilever bridge
46. Otto von Guericke developed a vaccuum pump which was originally a
How far it can reach
Instruction set
Fire extinguisher
Silicon
47. The development of something completely new
Power
Imaginary
Invention
Invisible
48. The generation of ideas for solutions
Fixed pulley
Brainstorming
Cable- stayed
Axes
49. What is the most important advantage of the medium technology robot as compared to the low technology robot?
Is able to learn
The calendar
Beam bridge
the amount of force trying to push or pull a material apart
50. What type of bridge requires very strong abutments or supports?
Battered
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Arch
Memory addresses
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