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Principles Of Engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A resource that cannot be replaced once used
Reservoir
Nonrenewable Energy
Problem Solving
Switch
2. The use of gas flowing under pressure to transmit power from one location to another.
Modulus of Elasticity
Fluid Power
Pneumatics
Idler Gear
3. A major or minor change in the design of an item - effected in order to correct a deficiency - to facilitate production - or to improve operational effectiveness.
Ceramic
Work
Statically Indeterminate
Design Modification
4. The rate at which work is performed or energy is expended
Career
Additive Process
Pinned Support
Power
5. A thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work
Designer
U-Value
Compression Force
Entropy
6. Stages a product goes through from concept and use to eventual withdrawal from the marketplace
Metal
Biomass
Screw
Product Life Cycle
7. A system of discrete states: high or low - on or off - 1 or 0.
Brainstorming
Toughness
Digital Signal
Sense
8. A condition where there are no net external forces acting upon a particle or rigid body and the body remains at rest or continues at a constant velocity.
Lever
Target Consumer
Static Equilibrium
Line of Best Fit
9. The measurement of how difficult it is for charges to flow through a material
Volt
Resisitance
Elastic Limit
Fixed Support
10. The pressure exerted by the weight of the atmosphere above the point of measurement.
Resilience
Atmospheric Pressure
Gay-Lussac's Law
Centroid
11. The volume of fluid that moves through a system in a given period of time.
Tension
Single-Acting Cylinder
Flow Rate
Problem Solving
12. A conductor wrapped around an iron core. The two ends of the conductor are attached to a power source. When current passes through the conductor - the iron core becomes magnetized.
Finishing
Electromagnet
Raw Material
Fulcrum
13. A body subjected to pull.
Torque
Nondestructive Testing
Flow-Control Valve
Tension Force
14. A diagram used to isolate a body from its environment - showing all external forces acting upon it.
Free Body Diagram
Moment
Programmable Logic Controller
Designer
15. The absolute value of a number
Gear
Magnitude
Cross -Sectional Area
Data
16. The absolute pressure of a confined gas is proportional to its temperature - provided its volume stays constant
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17. Stages a product goes through from concept and use to eventual withdrawal from the market place.
Static Equilibrium
Product Development Lifecycle
Scalar
Mode
18. The result of an experiment
Normally Open
Newton's First Law
Product Development Lifecycle
Outcome
19. A device for making - breaking - or changing the connections in an electrical circuit.
Career
Series Circuit
Renewable Energy
Switch
20. The ratio of the magnitude of the resistance and effort forces applied a system.
Free Body Diagram
Switch
Actual Mechanical Advantage
Transistor
21. An energy source that will never run out
Probability
Subroutine
Normal Distribution
Inexhaustible Energy
22. A support that prevents translation and rotation in a beam.
Ceramic
Destructive Testing
Standar Deviation
Fixed Support
23. The ratio of the useful energy delivered by a dynamic system to the energy supplied to it
Vector Quanitity
Newton's Third Law
Pneumatics
Efficiency
24. A condition where there are no net external forces acting upon a particle or rigid body and the body remains at rest or continues at a constant velocity.
Piston
Static Equilibrium
Normally Open
Scalar
25. Any of various elementary mechanisms including the lever - the wheel and axle - the pulley - the inclined plane - the wedge - and the screw.
Reliability
Failure Point
Tension
Simple Machine
26. The distance the fluid travels through a system in a given period of time.
Moment of Inertia
Purpose
Flow Velocity
Magnitude
27. A closed electrical circuit in which the current is divided into two or more paths and then returns via a common path to complete the circuit
Mode
Statistical Process Control
Parallel Circuit
Free Body Diagram
28. The connection points of members of a truss
Screw
Direction
Joint
Check Valve
29. The process in which an electric current is used to produce a chemical reaction - such as the decomposition of water
Toughness
Passive Solar Energy Collection
Electrolysis...
Valve
30. The condition or quality of being true - correct - or exact; precision; exactness.
Deviation
Centroid
Current
Accuracy
31. Those properties of a material that reveal the elastic and inelastic reaction when force is applied - or that involve the relationship between stress and strain; for example - the modulus of elasticity - tensile strength - and fatigue limit
Newton's Second Law
Mechanical Properties
Potential Energy
Gear
32. A group of machined or handmade parts that fit together to form a self- contained unit.
Recycling
Flow Meter
Assembly
Volume
33. A gear positioned between the driver and the driven gear used to change rotational direction.
Factor of Safety
Idler Gear
Pressure Regulator
Lubricator
34. A surface or shape exposed by making a straight cut through something at right angles to the axis.
Rupture Strength
Joint
Nondestructive Testing
Cross -Sectional Area
35. Produced by the combining of parts or elements to form a whole - rather than of natural origin; not real - artificial
Compressor
Synthetic
Potential Energy
Electromagnetic Energy
36. The condition of unrestrained motion in a gravitational field.
Free Fall
Microprocessor
Velocity
Member
37. The potential difference measured in volts. The amount of work to be done to move a charge from one point to another along an electric circuit
Elongation
Voltage
Pictorial Sketch
Resilience
38. Condition caused by collapse - break - or bending - so that a structure or structural element can no longer fulfill its purpose
Nondestructive Testing
Boyle's Law
Constraint
Failure Point
39. Used to transport fluid in a circuit
Newton's First Law
Electromagnet
Transmission Lines
Fixed Support
40. A vector quantity giving the straight- line distance and direction from an initial position to a final position.
Subroutine
R- value
Check Valve
Displacement
41. States that the volume of a confined gas is proportional to its temperature - provided its pressure remains constant
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42. A part of an axle or shaft bent out at right angles - for converting reciprocal to circular motion and vice versa.
Crank
Free Body Diagram
Roller Support
Design Modification
43. To monitor and control a process so that the quality of the output/product improves.
Flow Meter
Process Control
Power
Interface
44. A device that responds to a physical stimulus
Sensor
Induction
Velocity
Polymers
45. The rotating member of an electrical machine
Compression Force
Ampere
Rotor
Scalar
46. The place at which independent and often unrelated systems meet and act on or communicate with each other.
Interface
Pinned Support
Series Circuit
Voltage
47. A part of the physical world as described by its thermodynamic properties such as temperature - volume - pressure - concentration - surface tension - and viscosity.
Thermodynamic System
Scalar
Input
Flow Meter
48. The calculated likelihood that a given event will occur
Gusset
Concurrent Force Systems
Probability
Active Solar Energy Collection
49. A group technique for solving problems - generating ideas - stimulating creative thinking - etc. - by unrestrained spontaneous participation in discussion
Brainstorming
Mean Deviation
Codes
Efficiency
50. Properties other than mechanical properties that pertain to the physics of a material and can usually be measured without the application of force
Reliability
Subtractive
Biomass
Physical Properties