Mechatronics MCQ
A generator converts one form of energy into what?
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Electrical energy
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What type of signal can be measured by an oscilloscope?
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Voltage or current
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What does an oscilloscope graph against?
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What gives a visual graph of voltage or current?
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Oscilloscope
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What is another name for an Electronically device used to transmit an electrical signal optically?
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Optocoupler
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Relay is a device that consists of an electromagnet and what?
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An armature
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What do the terms "resistance" and "inductance" describe?
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Property of a conductor
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What is it called when a conductor opposes the passage of current?
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Resistance
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Resistance is the property of a conductor by virtue of which the passage of what is opposed?
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What function could a mechanism perform?
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Complete functional motion
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What is a machine that is made up of moving parts performing a complete functional motion called?
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Mechanism
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In what system are binary digits usually expressed?
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The binary system
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What type of circuit is an amplifier?
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Electronic component or circuit
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What is a component or circuit for amplifying power, current, or voltage called?
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Amplifier
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What is an example of a substance that is nonconducting?
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Insulator
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What does insulator mean?
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Nonconducting substance
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What type of materials do pneumatics deal with?
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Air and other gases
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What type of properties does air have?
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Mechanical
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What is the only type of energy that can be transferred to an object and cause it to move a distance?
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Kinetic energy
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What type of energy can only be done by a force?
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What is voltage difference per unit of charge?
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The difference in electrical potential energy
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What is the difference in electrical potential energy per unit of charge between two points?
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Voltage difference
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What is another name for a transducer with integral active electronics?
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Transmitter
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What material is used to make transistors?
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Semiconducting
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What is the core of an amplifier or a digital switch?
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Transistor
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What can a transformer be used for?
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Transmission and/or safety purposes
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Safety purposes indicates that the device does what?
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Increase or decrease voltage
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What is a transducer?
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A device which when acted upon by a physical stimulus produces an electrical output
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A device that produces an electrical output in proportion to a stimulus is called what?
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Transducer
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What type of device varies in resistance by temperature?
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Thermistor
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What type of material does the thermistor in a thermostat consist of?
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What does the word tare mean?
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Amount deducted from gross weight
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How much is deducted from gross weight to determine net weight?
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A spectrum is a representation of what?
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The frequency content of a signal
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A representation of the frequency content of a signal is called what?
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What is the unit of measure used to measure the algebraic difference between the limits of the range from zero to full scale?
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What is an example of a series circuit?
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Electrical circuit with only one path for an electrical current to follow
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What is an example of a circuit with only one path for an electrical current to follow?
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Series circuit
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When does the semiconductor take on the properties of a conductor?
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When energy of some kind is added to it
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Electrical insulation that takes on the properties of a conductor when energy of what kind is added to it is known as what?
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Semiconductor
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When does saturation occur?
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Moving an electrical amplification or other system to the point where nonlinear behavior starts governing the system
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The point where nonlinear behavior starts governing a system is called what?
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Saturation
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Sampling is the process of what?
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Taking an analog signal and taking samples at a given frequency
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What is the process of taking an analog signal and taking samples at a given frequency to create a digital representation?
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At which frequency is a system considered to be in resonance?
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What is the process by which a system at its natural frequency vibration is converted to a system at an excited frequency?
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Resonance Vibration
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What does the term pressure mean?
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The measure of a force’s intensity
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What is the measure of a force's intensity?
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What is the power of doing work?
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The speed or rate of doing work
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What can be measured by a potentiometer?
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An electrical potential
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What is the name of the device that measures electrical potential by comparison with a known voltage?
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Potentiometer
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What type of circuit is a parallel circuit?
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Electrical
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What is the most common type of electrical circuit?
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Parallel circuit
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What does multiplexer allow?
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Transmission of multiple signals on the same line
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In what kind of equipment can multiple signals be transmitted?
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Multiplexer
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What opposes changes in the current?
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What does an inductor resist?
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Change in current
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What is Horsepower?
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Unit to measure the amount of power produced
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What is the name for the amount of power that a single Horsepower equals?
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746 watts
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What is a unit of frequency?
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How many Hertz are in a second?
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What term describes fluid being moved from one place to another?
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Hydraulics
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What does the term "hydraulics" mean?
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Systems that use the displacement of fluids to create mechanical work
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What is provided to the ground by a conductor?
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Conducting path
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What kind of charge is used for a conducting path?
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What is a Facility designed for?
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A particular purpose
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What does the term "medical facility" refer to?
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Facility A structure designed and constructed for a particular purpose, such as a medical facility
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Motor convert electrical energy into?
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Mechanical energy
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What is a device that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy?
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Electric motor
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What is a conducting path for electrons?
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Electrical circuit
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What is the flow of charges between two points caused by?
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A difference in electric potential
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What is it called when a material won't ordinarily carry an electric current?
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A nonconductor
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What type of material is an electric insulator?
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A material that won’t ordinarily carry an electric current; a nonconductor
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A medium through which an electric current can easily move is called?
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Electrical conductor
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What can easily move through electrical conductor?
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An electric current
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What will only allow current to pass through in one direction?
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What does a commutator do?
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Reversing the direction of current
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What is the name of the device that reverses the direction of current?
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Commutator
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What does Coulomb's law describe?
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The attractive or repulsive electric force between two charged objects
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Which law describes the attractive or repulsive electric force between two charged objects?
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Coulomb’s law
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What does the capacitor store?
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Electrical charge
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What is an electric charge storage device?
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Capacitor
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Calibration is the comparison of transducer outputs to what?
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The outputs of a reference standard
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Calibration is the comparison of what against a reference standard?
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Transducer outputs
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What does the combination of two or more cells joined to produce an electrical potential difference constitute?
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What type of connection is an Asynchronous?
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Used to describe a computer connection
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In what type of connection is the computer 'stand and wait'?
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Asynchronous
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What does the term 'Analog Continuous' mean?
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Having to do with the 'Real World'
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When studying a path in an analog continuous, one would study a path that involved what device?
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The 'Real World'
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What is another name for an Ampere?
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The metric unit of measurement for an electric current
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Ampere is the unit of measurement for electric current how many coulombs?
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What is the term used to describe a device that takes a digital signal and converts it?
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Digital-Analog converter
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What does D/A Converter convert the digital signal to?
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Control-signal-level voltage or amperage
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What type of current oscillates?
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Alternating current
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What type of current is alternating?
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What type of control could be used as an actuator?
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Computer control
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What can an actuator do to a system?
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Applying a force or displacement
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What is the term for applying a force or displacement to a system?
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Actuator Mechanism
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What are accelerometers usually based on?
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Piezoelectric materials
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What is an example of a device that measures acceleration?
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Accelerometer
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