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Principles Of Engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The rotating member of an electrical machine
Piston
Design Modification
Standar Deviation
Rotor
2. Used to transport fluid in a circuit
Hydraulics
Variance
Reliability
Transmission Lines
3. A group of machined or handmade parts that fit together to form a self- contained unit.
Strain
Assembly
Concurrent Force Systems
Electromagnetic Induction
4. A truss composed of triangles - which will retain its shape even when removed from supports.
Ampere
Voltage
Digital Signal
Simple Truss
5. A type of pressure control valve that limits the maximum pressure in a hydraulic or pneumatic circuit.
Pressure Releif Valve
Additive Process
Consensus
Median
6. A structure or body which is over- constrained such that there are more unknown supports than there are equations of static equilibrium.
Statically Indeterminate
Receiver Tank
Nondestructive Testing
Rupture Strength
7. The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.
Boyle's Law
Check Valve
Vector Quanitity
Friction
8. The ratio of the magnitude of the resistance and effort forces applied a system.
Problem Solving
Flowchart
Sensor
Actual Mechanical Advantage
9. Test methods used to examine an object - material - or system causing permanent damage to its usefulness
Pneumatics
Destructive Testing
Strain
Efficiency
10. The loss of the load- bearing ability of a material under repeated load application - as opposed to a single load
Roller Support
Resultant Force
Fulcrum
Fatigue
11. A type of lever that is a wheel with a groove in its rim - which is used to change the direction or multiply a force exerted by a rope or cable.
Pulley
Recycling
Biomass
Resistance
12. The resultant of a system of force is the vector sum of all forces.
Temperature
Resultant Force
Series Circuit
Tension Force
13. The law that if two bodies are in thermal equilibrium with a third body then the first two bodies are in thermal equilibrium with each other
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Flow Rate
Solid Modeling
Deformation
14. The condition of unrestrained motion in a gravitational field.
Mechanical Properties
Flowchart
Quality Assurance
Free Fall
15. The condition of a string - wire - or rod that is stretched between two points
Consensus
Idler Gear
Rupture Strength
Tension
16. Individual fuel cells that are combined in series.
Transistor
Fuel Cell Stack
Axial Stress
Electricity
17. A sliding piece moved by or moving against fluid pressure which usually consists of a short cylindrical body fitting within a cylindrical chamber or vessel along which it moves back and forth.
Piston
Flow Meter
Quality Assurance
Factor of Safety
18. A circuit in which all parts are connected end to end to provide a single path of current
Series Circuit
Statically Indeterminate
Method of Joints
Tolerance
19. An energy source that will never run out
Fuel Cell Stack
Compression
Pump
Inexhaustible Energy
20. The transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity; Energy is transferred through collisions from one molecule to another
Quality Control
Conduction
Digital to Analog
Additive Process
21. The use of heat from within the Earth or from the atmosphere near oceans
Flowchart
R- value
Geothermal Energy
Pressure Regulator
22. A mathematical property of a cross section that is concerned with a surface area and how that area is distributed about a centroidal axis.
Raw Material
Check Valve
Moment of Inertia
Composite
23. The difference between samples
Fossil Fuel
Resistance
Variance
Roller Support
24. The turning effect of a force about a point equal to the magnitude of the force times the perpendicular distance from the point to the line of action from the force.
Assembly
Directional-Control Valve
Normal Distribution
Moment
25. A substance that tapers to a thin edge and is used for splitting - raising heavy bodies - or for tightening by being driven into something.
Magnitude
Design Statement
Wedge
Design Process
26. A quantity that has both a magnitude and direction.
Forming
Roller Support
Opeen Loop System
Vector Quanitity
27. A machine for producing power in which a wheel or rotor is made to revolve by a fast- moving flow of water - steam - gas - or air
Pascal's Law
Tension Force
Turbine
Reliability
28. Energy in transit due to a temperature difference between the source from which the energy is coming and a sink toward which the energy is going
Simple Machine
Piston
Heat
Data
29. The change of motion of the body is proportional to the net force imposed on the body and is in the direction of the net force.
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30. A negative temperature coefficient - also known as a thermistor - is a sensitive resistor whose primary function is to exhibit a change in electric resistance with a change in temperature.
NTC Resistor
Programmable Logic Controller
Ideal Mechanical Advantage
Newton's First Law
31. A general agreement
Consensus
Fixed Support
Process Control
Kinetic Energy
32. Pressure exerted by a confined fluid acts undiminished equally in all directions
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33. Measure of data scatter
Static Equilibrium
Torque
Data Variation
Gusset
34. An organization that works to develop and enforce regulations that implement environmental laws enacted by Congress
Assembly
Design Brief
Environmental Protection Agency
Passive Solar Energy Collection
35. A rough drawing representing the main features of an object or scene and often made as a preliminary study.
Resistance
Pulley
Sketch
Potential Energy
36. The law stating that the stress of a solid is directly proportional to the strain applied to it
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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
Normally Closed
Distance
Sprocket
Voltage
38. A vector quantity that includes the speed and direction of an object.
Inexhaustible Energy
Distance
Velocity
Concurrent Force Systems
39. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
Sample Space
Resisitance
Moment
Ampere
40. The collection - evaluation - and interpretation of data
Ohm
Statistics
Nonrenewable Energy
Kinetic Energy
41. The return to the input of a part of the output of a machine - system - or process
Flowchart
Boyle's Law
Hydraulics
Qualitative Data
42. A system of discrete states: high or low - on or off - 1 or 0.
Digital Signal
Flow Meter
Elastic Limit
Moment of Inertia
43. If one object exerts a force on another object - then the second object exerts a force of equal streangth in the opposite direction on the first object.
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44. A body subjected to pull.
Tension Force
Gusset
Flange
Pictorial Sketch
45. The type of charge an atomic particle has
Switch
Shear Stress
Normally Closed
Polarity
46. The volume of a gas at constant temperature varies inversely with the pressure exerted on it.
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47. Stages a product goes through from concept and use to eventual withdrawal from the marketplace
Product Life Cycle
Resilience
Lubricator
Static Equilibrium
48. Graphical representation of a material's mechanical properties
Stress -Strain Curve
ABET
Raw Material
Efficiency
49. A support that only prevents a beam from translating in one direction.
Entropy
Roller Support
Ohm
Stress -Strain Curve
50. Used to control which path fluid takes in a circuit.
Median
Sketch
Directional-Control Valve
Static Equilibrium