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Introduction To Engineering - 7
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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. Two gear wheels that intermesh in the same plane - regulating the speed or force of motion and reversing its direction
Specifications
Newton - meter
Generate many alternative solutions
Spur gears
2. Ways of overcoming difficulties
Solutions
Generate many alternative solutions
Effort
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
3. The generation of ideas for solutions
Wheel and axle
Brainstorming
Innovations
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
4. The force (push or pull) used to do work
Mechanical advantage
Potential energy
Effort
Design loop
5. When a machine multiplies the effort being used
Mechanical advantage
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Horsepower
Effort
6. A shaft with a screw thread that meshes with a toothed wheel to alter the direction of motion - and change the speed and force
Worm gears
Modify your design ideas and choose another alternative
Work
Wheel and axle
7. The difficulties we must overcome
Law of Conservation of Energy
Functional models
Problems
Rack and pinion gears
8. Work divided by time
Invention
Power
Movable pulley
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
9. Energy of position
Technology
Potential energy
Design loop
Bevel gears
10. An inclined plane which is wrapped around a cylinder
Screw
Block and tackle
Chain hoist
Technology
11. The weight or resistance on a lever
Wheel and axle
Effort
Load
Design loop
12. A lever in which the fulcrum is between the effort and the load
Science
First- class lever
Power
Screw
13. Provides a structure for thinking and doing
Gears
Design loop
Bevel gears
Potential energy
14. Two wheels that intermest at an angle to change the direction of rotation - also altering speed and force if necessary
Bevel gears
Functional models
Innovations
Work
15. Provides a framework for design and problem solving work
First- class levers
Brainstorming
Lever
Design loop
16. The ability to do work
Innovations
Energy
Fixed pulley
Movable pulley
17. 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
Horsepower
Generate many alternative solutions
Pulley
lever
18. Models that function and look like the finished product but are usually hand- built
Gears
Prototypes
Screw
Invention
19. The study of how human beings best interact with technology
Ergonomics
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Work
Effort
20. The improvement of things already invented
Innovation
The problem solving process
Chain hoist
Horsepower
21. The turning point of a lever
Block and tackle
Fulcrum
Screw
Prototypes
22. Consists of an endless chain looped around three pulleys
Bevel gears
Wheel and axle
Work
Chain hoist
23. Machines are used to make work easier. How does a machine accomplish this?
Solutions
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Work
Lever
24. The generation of ideas for solutions by a group is known as
Movable pulley
Chain hoist
Effort
Brainstorming
25. The weight of the obect being moved
All gears are shaped like wheels with straight teeth that mesh with other wheels with straight teeth
Pulley
Technology
Resistance
26. The metric unit for measuring work
Power
Innovation
Load
Newton - meter
27. Toothed wheels that intermesh with other toothed wheels to transmit motion and force are
Design loop
The number of pulley wheels
The problem solving process
Gears
28. A pulley that makes work easier
Movable pulley
Spur gears
Design loop
Pulley
29. A wheel fixed to a support with a rope that is run over the wheel to change the direction of a force applied to the rope
Rack and pinion gears
Movable pulley
Put your ideas - designs - and calculations on paper
Pulley
30. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the effort is at the other end
Second- class lever
Fulcrum
Invention
Ergonomics
31. A system of pulleys that consists of one rope wound around two separate sets of pulley - each of which is free to rotate independently on the same axle
Block and tackle
Fixed pulley
Appearance model
Energy
32. The amount of effort needed to raise a load by using a pulley system is determined by
First- class levers
Wheel and axle
Brainstorming
The number of pulley wheels
33. 550 foot- pounds per second
Movable pulley
Horsepower
Specifications
Block and tackle
34. Provides problem clarification and specification
Prototypes
Design brief
Functional models
Chain hoist
35. A pulley that changes direction of effort but provides no mechanical advantage
Chain hoist
Foot- pounds
Spur gears
Fixed pulley
36. The process of how solutions to problems are developed is
The number of pulley wheels
The problem solving process
Science
Foot- pounds
37. A bar or rod that tilts on a pivot - or fulcrum
Screw
Worm gears
Rack and pinion gears
Lever
38. Seeks to meer our needs and wants and to extend our capabilities
Work
Third- class lever
Power
Technology
39. Involves the effort you put in and the distance over which you maintain the effort
Science
Rack and pinion gears
Potential energy
Work
40. The energy of motion
Kinetic energy
Potential energy
Pulley
Newton - meter
41. Changes and improvements made to products already invented are
Bevel gears
Design
Innovations
lever
42. A lever in which the fulcrum is at one end - and the load is at the other end
Innovation
Third- class lever
Effort
Movable pulley
43. When designing a solution to a problem - a problem solver should always
Second- class lever
Potential energy
Generate many alternative solutions
Innovations
44. Come in a variety of sizes with their teeth straight or curved and inclined at a variety of angles
Gears
Functional models
Design brief
Brainstorming
45. Shows what a product will look like when it is produced
Functional models
Wheel and axle
Appearance model
Foot- pounds
46. A force that opposes motion
Friction
Technology
Ergonomics
Appearance model
47. A guide to help make problem solving in technology more effective
Design loop
Power
Kinetic energy
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
48. The scientific formula for work is
Fixed pulley
Horsepower
W = F x d
Problems
49. Energy may change form but the amount of energy remains the same
Law of Conservation of Energy
Spur gears
The number of pulley wheels
Kinetic energy
50. The planned process of change
Generate many alternative solutions
Block and tackle
Decreases the effort needed to move a load - transfers speed or force - and changes the direction of the effort applied
Design