MCQs > Engineering & Manufacturing > Applied Engineering MCQs > Hydraulics and Pneumatics MCQs

Hydraulics and Pneumatics MCQ

What does the acronym "NO" refer to in fluid power?

Answer

Correct Answer: Normally-Open

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the state of the output when it is normally open?

Answer

Correct Answer: ON

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the state of output or valve when it is normally closed?

Answer

Correct Answer: OFF

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the state of the output or switch when it is Normally-Open?

Answer

Correct Answer: OFF (not passing current)

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the state of the output or switch when it is Normally-Closed?

Answer

Correct Answer: ON

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Normally-Closed is defined as what?

Answer

Correct Answer: The state of the output or switch is ON (passing current) with no external influence.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the output of a NOR device if all control signals assume the logical 0 state?

Answer

Correct Answer: Logical 1 state

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a non-threaded exhaust port?

Answer

Correct Answer: An exhaust port without internal threads to prevent connection.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the term applied to exhaust ports without internal threads to prevent connection?

Answer

Correct Answer: Non-Threaded

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the unit of kinematic viscosity in the English system?

Answer

Correct Answer: Newt

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the typical flow rate for a needle valve?

Answer

Correct Answer: Low flow rates

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the primary use of a needle valve?

Answer

Correct Answer: Precise regulation of flow

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a muffler?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device for reducing gas flow noise

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does the term "Momentary" mean in relation to electronics?

Answer

Correct Answer: The design intention of a device to return to the normal punctuated state after the operator force is removed.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does "momentary" mean?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device that returns to the normal punctuated state after the operator force is removed.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the definition of "Memory"?

Answer

Correct Answer: The tendency of a material to return to its original shape after deformation.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is Memory?

Answer

Correct Answer: Tendency of a material to return to original shape after deformation.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the maximum inlet pressure?

Answer

Correct Answer: The maximum rated gauge pressure applied to the inlet port of the regulator.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a Manifold Block?

Answer

Correct Answer: A manifold that is open to the atmosphere and returns fluid to the reservoir.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a manifold?

Answer

Correct Answer: A conductor that provides multiple connection ports.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does a lubricator do?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device that adds controlled or metered amounts of lubricants into a fluid power system.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a working line?

Answer

Correct Answer: A line that conducts fluid power.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a Line, Return?

Answer

Correct Answer: A pipe (conductor) to return the working fluid to the reservoir.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a line?

Answer

Correct Answer: A tube, pipe or hose for conducting fluid.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a joint connecting lines which have relative operational rotation called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Rotary

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a joint?

Answer

Correct Answer: A line positioning connector

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the modern form of the Ideal Gas Law equation?

Answer

Correct Answer: Relates pressure, volume, and temperature

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the temperature used in the equation of state?

Answer

Correct Answer: Kelvin (SI) or Rankin (Imperial)

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a heat exchanger?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device that transfers heat through a conducting wall from one fluid to another.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is impedance?

Answer

Correct Answer: Imaginary ration of pressure drop and transient mass flow in which pressure drop leads flow.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is an inhibitor?

Answer

Correct Answer: A substance which, when present in small proportions, slows, prevents or modifies chemical reactions.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the combination of hydraulic and pneumatic fluid power called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Hydro Pneumatics

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the meaning of Hydro Pneumatics?

Answer

Correct Answer: Pertaining to the combination of hydraulic and pneumatic fluid power.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the nominal size of a hose?

Answer

Correct Answer: The inside diameter

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does a pressure gauge measure?

Answer

Correct Answer: Pressure

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does a pressure gauge indicate?

Answer

Correct Answer: The pressure in the system to which it is connected.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the sensing element in a Gauge?

Answer

Correct Answer: Dial

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the name of the sensing element in a gauge?

Answer

Correct Answer: Diaphragm

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the purpose of a Gauge Damper?

Answer

Correct Answer: To prevent damage to the gauge mechanism caused by rapid fluctuations of fluid pressure

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the definition of a Gauge?

Answer

Correct Answer: An instrument or device for measuring, indicating, or comparing a physical characteristic.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the purpose of the Flow Characteristic Curve?

Answer

Correct Answer: To show the change in regulated pressure that occurs when the rate of airflow changes

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is flow?

Answer

Correct Answer: Movement of air or gas generated by pressure differences.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a digital component or circuit with two stable states and sufficient hysteresis so that it has "memory" called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Flip Flop

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the Flash Point?

Answer

Correct Answer: The temperature at which a liquid can form a mixture with air that can be ignited by a flame.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the meaning of "Flared"?

Answer

Correct Answer: A pre-formed flare at the end of the tube.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a flared fitting?

Answer

Correct Answer: A fitting that seals and grips by a pre-formed flare at the end of the tube.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a Flange?

Answer

Correct Answer: A fitting that utilizes a radially extending collar for sealing and connection.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a compression fitting?

Answer

Correct Answer: A fitting that seals and grips by manual lines and passages.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a fitting?

Answer

Correct Answer: A fitting is a device that seals and grips by manual lines and passages.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does the word "pneumatic" mean?

Answer

Correct Answer: Relating to air or other gases

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What are pneumatic fittings?

Answer

Correct Answer: Connectors or closures for pneumatic lines and passages

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the purpose of a By-Pass filter?

Answer

Correct Answer: To provide an alternative unfiltered flow path around the filter element when a pre-set differential pressure is reached.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the primary function of a filter?

Answer

Correct Answer: The removal by porous media of insoluble contaminants from a liquid or a gas.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does a durometer measure?

Answer

Correct Answer: Numerical scale of rubber hardness.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the definition of "Droop"?

Answer

Correct Answer: The deviation for reducing the moisture content of the working medium.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a diverter valve?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device whose power source at one input port is diverted to one of two or more output ports.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is dither?

Answer

Correct Answer: A low amplitude, relatively high frequency periodic electrical signal

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is Volumetric Displacement?

Answer

Correct Answer: Volume absorbed or displaced per stroke of a cylinder or per cycle of a pump or motor.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the temperature at which vapors in the gas condense?

Answer

Correct Answer: Dew Point

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the design intention of a device to maintain the state of its last actuation after the operator force is removed?

Answer

Correct Answer: To keep the device in the same state as the last actuation

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does "detented" mean?

Answer

Correct Answer: Maintained

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a desiccant?

Answer

Correct Answer: A material that tends to remove moisture from compressed air.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the primary function of a conductor?

Answer

Correct Answer: Contain and direct fluid.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does a conductor do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Direct fluid

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the process of changing a vapor into a liquid condensate by the extraction of heat?

Answer

Correct Answer: Condensation

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a compressor?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device that converts mechanical force and motion into pneumatic fluid power.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is compressibility?

Answer

Correct Answer: The change in volume of a unit volume of a fluid when subjected to a unit change in pressure.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the Compression Set?

Answer

Correct Answer: The amount by which a rubber specimen fails to return to original shape after release of the compressive load.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a circuit that established the order in which two or more phases of a circuit occur?

Answer

Correct Answer: Sequential circuit

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does the acronym "MET" stand for in "Metered-Out"?

Answer

Correct Answer: Metered-Out

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does the term "Metered-In" mean in the context of the definition?

Answer

Correct Answer: The supply flow to the actuator is regulated

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What happens to the volume of a fixed mass of gas when the absolute temperature decreases?

Answer

Correct Answer: The volume decreases

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is Charles' Law?

Answer

Correct Answer: The volume of a fixed mass of gas varies directly with absolute temperature, provided the pressure remains constant.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is cavitation?

Answer

Correct Answer: A localized gaseous condition within a liquid stream that occurs where the pressure is reduced to the vapor pressure.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the measure of resistance to compressibility of a fluid?

Answer

Correct Answer: Bulk Modulus

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is bulk modulus?

Answer

Correct Answer: The measure of resistance to compressibility of a fluid.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is breathing capacity?

Answer

Correct Answer: A measure of flow rate through an air breather.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is Breathing Capacity a measure of?

Answer

Correct Answer: Flow rate through an air breather

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the meaning of "breakout"?

Answer

Correct Answer: The force necessary to inaugurate sliding.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the definition of "breakout?"

Answer

Correct Answer: Force necessary to inaugurate sliding

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Boyle's Law states that the pressure of a fixed mass of gas:

Answer

Correct Answer: Varies inversely as the volume

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

The absolute pressure of a fixed mass of gas varies inversely as what?

Answer

Correct Answer: The volume

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a bleed orifice?

Answer

Correct Answer: A small hole that helps the valve to open or close using the line pressure

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Bernoulli's Law applies to ____________.

Answer

Correct Answer: A flowing frictionless liquid

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the name of the gas law that states that equal volumes of all gases contain the same number of molecules?

Answer

Correct Answer: Avogadro's Law

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the ratio between the outlet pressure and the inlet (control) pressure?

Answer

Correct Answer: Amplification

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the ratio between the output power variation and the corresponding input (control) power variation called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Amplification

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does AP stands for?

Answer

Correct Answer: Amplification, Power

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the term for the ratio between the output signal variations and the control signal variations for analog devices only?

Answer

Correct Answer: Amplification

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does an air motor do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Converts pneumatic power into mechanical force and motion

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the meaning of "air breather"?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device permitting air movement between atmosphere and the component in which it is installed

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does an air breather do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Permits air movement between atmosphere and the component in which it is installed

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is an air bleeder?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device for the removal of air.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does an air bleeder do?

Answer

Correct Answer: Removes air

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is air mainly composed of?

Answer

Correct Answer: Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the standard temperature of "standard air" in gas industries?

Answer

Correct Answer: 60.8° F

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the dew point of Saturated Air?

Answer

Correct Answer: Equal to the temperature

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is air at 100% relative humidity with a dew point equal to temperature called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Saturated

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the legal definition of "air?"

Answer

Correct Answer: Air at ambient temperature, pressure, relative humidity and density.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is air with moisture content lower than the maximum allowed for a given application?

Answer

Correct Answer: Dried air

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does the term "air dried" mean?

Answer

Correct Answer: Air with moisture content lower than the maximum allowed for a given application.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is air at any pressure greater than atmosphere called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Compressed air

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What does air at any pressure greater than atmosphere mean?

Answer

Correct Answer: Air, Compressed (pressure)

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is an air motor?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device that converts pneumatic fluid power into mechanical torque and motion

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the meaning of "additive"?

Answer

Correct Answer: A chemical added to fluid to impart new properties or to enhance those that already exist.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

A device in which power is transferred from one pressurized medium to another without intensification is called?

Answer

Correct Answer: Actuator

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is an actuator?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device in which power is transferred from one pressurized medium to another without intensification.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is an active device?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device that has an input(s) that controls a power supply to the device.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is the modulus of elasticity for acetal plastic?

Answer

Correct Answer: High

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is a Hydro pneumatic accumulator?

Answer

Correct Answer: A device in which the liquid and gas are separated by an elastic bag or bladder.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is an accumulator?

Answer

Correct Answer: A container in which fluid is stored under pressure as a source of fluid power.

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one