Machine design MCQ

1. The property of a material which enables it to resist fracture due to high impact loads is known as

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Correct Answer: Toughness

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2. The permissible stress for carbon steel under static loading is generally taken as

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Correct Answer: 4000-4500 kg/cm2

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3. The ultimate strength of steel in tension in comparison to shear is in the ratio of

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Correct Answer: 3 : 2

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4. What is an example of an undercut?

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Correct Answer: A cut having inward sloping sides with an overhanging edge

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5. What type of cut has inward sloping sides with an overhanging edge?

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Correct Answer: Undercut

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6. What is dedicated to making components?

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Correct Answer: Tooling

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7. What are the two definitions of a hand tool?

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Correct Answer: Powered by hand rather than a motor

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8. What is a device that is necessary to, or aids in the performance of a specific operation?

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Correct Answer: A tool

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9. What is the maximum limit of a dimension?

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Correct Answer: Upper

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10. What is used to control the manufacturing process more accurately?

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Correct Answer: Tolerances

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11. What is a border table usually located on?

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Correct Answer: The bottom or lower right-hand corner of a manufacturing drawing

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12. What is the name of the border table usually located on the bottom or lower right-hand corner of a manufacturing drawing?

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Correct Answer: Title Block

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13. What is a sort of thermal analysis that helps to tailor the thermal management solution for optimal performance?

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Correct Answer: Thermal Simulation

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14. What can be used to dissipate heat in a system?

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Correct Answer: Heatsinks and fans for air cooling

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15. What is the name for the ability to control the temperature of a system by means of technology based on Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer?

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Correct Answer: Thermal Management

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16. What can't be used to attach a fastener that has a tapped hole?

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Correct Answer: Nut and bolt

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17. In what material can you find a tapped hole?

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Correct Answer: Metals

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18. What kind of tool does a tap have?

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Correct Answer: Internal screw thread

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19. Architecture is a formal description and representation of a system organized in a way that supports what?

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Correct Answer: Reasoning

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20. What is the formal description and representation of a system?

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Correct Answer: Architecture description

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21. What kind of job is it to be an architect?

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Correct Answer: Technology professional

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22. What is a technology professional who defines and implements architecture of a complex system referred to as?

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Correct Answer: System Architect

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23. What is a type of Subassembly?

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Correct Answer: An assembled unit that is produced separately but is incorporated into a larger assembly

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24. What is an example of an assebly that is produced separately but is incorporated into a larger assembly?

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Correct Answer: Subassembly

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25. Standard for the Exchange of Product Data is better known as what?

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Correct Answer: Computer 3D model file format

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26. What kind of separator positions assemblies at predetermined distances?

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Correct Answer: Threaded

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27. What type of feature is faced on the spotface of a part?

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Correct Answer: Smooth, flat, accurately located contact surface

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28. What is the term for a cylindrical pattern of ridges or teeth on a drive shaft?

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Correct Answer: Spline

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29. What are commonly used to free-hand sketches?

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Correct Answer: Pen or a pencil

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30. Minimum permissible chamfer dimensions are four times taller than what?

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Correct Answer: Shoulder

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31. What are minimum dimensions of the shoulder planes of a shaft?

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Correct Answer: Four times taller

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32. What is a schematic called when it is of mechanical systems?

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Correct Answer: Structural or procedural diagram

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33. What is the ratio of size to actual size in a drawing with a scale of 1:5?

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Correct Answer: Downscaling

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34. A sample can represent a material or process without necessarily being in the form of what?

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Correct Answer: The design in progress

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35. What does a sample represent in a prototype?

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Correct Answer: A material or process

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36. What is the purpose of research when it is done on materials and sources?

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Correct Answer: Establish facts and reach new conclusions

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37. What two types of research are common during a project?

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Correct Answer: User research, competitor research

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38. What type of image is synthesized from 3D CAD model data?

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Correct Answer: Photorealistic or non-photorealistic

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39. What is the process of getting the final assembled animation scenes or pieces out of the computer in the format of a sequence of individual frames with rendered images?

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Correct Answer: Rendered Animation

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40. What kind of software is used to create 3D CAD images?

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Correct Answer: 3D CAD software

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41. What is a render used for when used in advertising?

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Correct Answer: Design visualization

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42. What does a relief groove provide for the cutting edge of a tool?

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Correct Answer: Clearance

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43. What type of technology allows a model to be created by adding layers of materials?

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Correct Answer: Rapid prototyping

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44. What is another term for rapid prototyping?

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Correct Answer: Additive layer manufacturing

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45. What does the rack do when the pinion is pushed into rotation?

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Correct Answer: Be driven linearly

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46. What is the term used to describe a type of linear actuator?

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Correct Answer: Rack’n’pinion

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47. Quality Management Systems are focused on achieving what?

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Correct Answer: Quality objectives

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48. What is expressed as the organizational structure, policies, procedures, processes and resources needed to achieve the desired standard of quality?

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Correct Answer: Quality Management Systems

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49. What is a process in which the quality of all factors involved in production is reviewed?

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Correct Answer: Quality Control

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50. Quality assurance is a way to improve and stabilize production by means of?

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Correct Answer: Preventing mistakes and defects

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51. How is a prototype used to evaluate a new design?

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Correct Answer: Digitally

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52. How could prototype be enhanced digitally?

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Correct Answer: With 3D models, renderings, and animations

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53. What can be used to build a prototype physically?

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Correct Answer: 3D printers

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54. In what area is Proposal used?

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Correct Answer: Design project

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55. Proposal is another word for what?

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Correct Answer: Act of putting forward or stating an approach to a design project for consideration

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56. What does "proposal" mean in the context of architecture?

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Correct Answer: An act of putting forward or stating an approach to a design project for consideration

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57. Along with a product, what may a project be defined as?

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Correct Answer: A piece of stand-alone research task or a conceptual development

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58. What are title blocks called?

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Correct Answer: On all individual drawings

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59. What is another name for the drawing commonly referred to as the production drawing?

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Correct Answer: Manufacturing Drawing

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60. What would increase the bearing rigidity?

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Correct Answer: Bearing preloading

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61. What does preloading a bearing do?

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Correct Answer: Increases bearing rigidity

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62. What is the name of the outer ring gear in an epicyclic gear train?

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Correct Answer: Annulus

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63. What is an example of an epicyclic gear train?

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Correct Answer: Planetary Gears

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64. Pitch is the distance between a point on one tooth and the corresponding point on an adjacent tooth. Pitch is also the distance between threads expressed in what?

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Correct Answer: Millimeters

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65. What is the term used to describe a gear that drives the other gear?

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Correct Answer: Pinion

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66. What is Pilot Run a small scale experimental production run to analyze the results for?

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Correct Answer: Necessary corrections

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67. What does a project have during its research phase?

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Correct Answer: Problem definition phase

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68. What is a term that refers to a distinct period or stage within a design program?

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Correct Answer: Phase In Design

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69. What type of data is managed in PDM?

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Correct Answer: Design data

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70. What is another term for BOMs?

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Correct Answer: Bills of Materials

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71. What are PCBs called when they have only one copper layer?

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Correct Answer: Single sided

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72. How many copper layers are on a double-sided PCB?

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Correct Answer: Two

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73. What is the English word for Pawl A?

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Correct Answer: Spring-loaded curved bar or lever

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74. A lever with a free end that engages with a cogwheel or ratchet at a steep angle, what is known as?

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Correct Answer: Pawl A

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75. What may a product be an assembly of multiple parts?

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Correct Answer: One part

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76. What kind of piece is a custom-designed part?

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Correct Answer: Mechanical

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77. What is an example of off-the-shelf software or hardware?

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Correct Answer: COTS - commercial off-the-shelf

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78. What is a common term for ready-made off-the-shelf software or hardware products?

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Correct Answer: COTS

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79. What is the initial sample created using?

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Correct Answer: Production tooling

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80. What is used to check design and tune the tooling prior to making production?

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Correct Answer: Off-Tool Sample

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81. OEMs produce complete, finished product for what other company?

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Correct Answer: Another company

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82. What is a contract manufacturer that produces complete, finished product for another company?

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Correct Answer: OEM

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83. What does ODM allow the brand firm to do?

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Correct Answer: Produce

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84. What does ODM stand for?

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Correct Answer: Original Design Manufacturer

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85. What is the default file format used by SolidWorks to store part models?

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Correct Answer: .SLDPRT

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86. What type of connection is a groove?

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Correct Answer: Reduced diameter

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87. What can be made in a mold?

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Correct Answer: Parts

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88. What is the name of the container used to produce parts by giving shape to molten liquid material?

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Correct Answer: Mold

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89. An approach that subdivides a system or a mechanism into smaller elements is called?

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Correct Answer: Modular design

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90. On a smaller scale than the original, what is a model called?

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Correct Answer: Model A

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91. What type of bodies are connected by joints?

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Correct Answer: Mostly rigid

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92. How are the bodies in a mechanism usually connected?

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Correct Answer: By joints

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93. Working together in a controlled manner in order to accomplish a desired force and/or motion transmission is known as what?

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Correct Answer: Mechanism

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94. What can a lug be used for?

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Correct Answer: Support, to be used as a handle, or to allow mounting or attaching of another component

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95. A projection attached to a metal part to provide support, to be used as a handle, or to allow mounting or attaching of another component is called what?

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Correct Answer: Lug

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96. The advance during a single revolution is called what?

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Correct Answer: The lead

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97. The axial travel in a single revolution is known as what?

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Correct Answer: Lead

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98. The use of knurls on handles and knobs is used to what?

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Correct Answer: Roughen a turned surface

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99. What is used to roughen a turned surface?

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Correct Answer: Knurling

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100. What type of cut is Keyway A?

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Correct Answer: Slot

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