Advanced Internal Combustion Engines MCQ

1. What is the process by which a substance changes from vapor to the liquid state?

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Correct Answer: Condensation

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2. What does "Concentric" mean?

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Correct Answer: Having a common center

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3. What is the "air pump" called which provides compressed air for a diesel engine?

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Correct Answer: Compressor

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4. What is the compression stroke?

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Correct Answer: The stroke of the piston during which the air charge in the cylinder is compressed by the piston movement.

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5. What do compression rings do?

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Correct Answer: Seal against loss of compression pressure and against gas blowing.

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6. What is a compression relief?

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Correct Answer: A device to reduce the compression in a cylinder and thus to make cranking easier.

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7. WHAT IS COMPRESSION PRESSURE?

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Correct Answer: The pressure of the air charge at the end of the compression stroke.

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8. What is the definition of compression?

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Correct Answer: The act or result of pressing a substance into a smaller space.

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9. What is the combustion chamber?

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Correct Answer: The space above the piston in which the fuel-air mixture starts to burn

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10. What is combustion?

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Correct Answer: The rapid oxidation, or combination, of a combustible such as carbon, hydrogen, or sulfur, with oxygen of air.

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11. What is a coefficient?

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Correct Answer: A ratio; a factor or quantity that remains constant.

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12. Clearance is the space between a moving and a stationary part that is required to allow for what?

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Correct Answer: Lubrication and for expansion and contraction with a change of temperature.

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13. What is the main function of a check valve?

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Correct Answer: To stop, or check, reverse flow.

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14. What is a Chamfer?

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Correct Answer: A beveled corner.

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15. What is cetene?

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Correct Answer: A hydrocarbon

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16. What is the cetane number?

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Correct Answer: A percentage indicating the ignition quality of diesel fuels.

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17. What is cetane?

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Correct Answer: A hydrocarbon used in testing the ignition quality of diesel fuels.

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18. What is the name of the force that tends to pull objects away from the axis of rotation?

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Correct Answer: Centrifugal force

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19. What is carbon monoxide?

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Correct Answer: Gas composed of molecules made up of one atom of carbon and one of oxygen.

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20. Carbon dioxide is a(n) ___________?

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Correct Answer: Gas

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21. What is the main constituent of liquid and solid fuels?

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Correct Answer: Carbon

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22. What is the "cam follower"?

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Correct Answer: That part of the push rod that is in contact with the cam.

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23. What is the camshaft?

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Correct Answer: The shaft which carries the various cams required for the operation of inlet, exhaust, fuel, and starting-air valves.

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24. What is the purpose of a cam?

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Correct Answer: To impart a desired motion to poppet valves

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25. What does the term "by-pass" refer to?

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Correct Answer: A passage which permits a liquid or gas to take a course other than that normally used.

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26. What is burning commonly substituted for?

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Correct Answer: Combustion

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27. How many degrees Fahrenheit does one British thermal unit raise the temperature of one pound of water?

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Correct Answer: One degree Fahrenheit

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28. What does bmep stand for?

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Correct Answer: Brake mean effective pressure

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29. What is the useful horsepower delivered by an engine that may be found by the use of a prony brake?

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Correct Answer: Brake horsepower

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30. What is the escape of gases from the engine cylinder into the crankcase called?

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Correct Answer: Blow-by

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31. What is the interior diameter of an engine or compressor cylinder called?

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Correct Answer: Bore

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32. What is the bedplate?

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Correct Answer: The lower part of the engine resting on the foundation.

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33. What is bock pressure?

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Correct Answer: The resistance to the normal flow of gases and liquids.

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34. What is Babbitt used for?

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Correct Answer: Lining bearings

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35. What is an Axis?

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Correct Answer: A line about which a body rotates or about which it is arranged.

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36. What does the word "Axial" mean?

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Correct Answer: Parallel to the center line of a cylinder or shaft.

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37. What does it mean to atomize?

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Correct Answer: To break up a liquid into extremely fine particles.

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38. What is the pressure of the atmosphere at sea level?

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Correct Answer: 14.7 psi

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39. What is the range of Diesel fuel's API gravity?

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Correct Answer: 18 to 41 API

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40. What is API gravity?

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Correct Answer: A scale to designate the specific gravity of mineral oils

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41. What does API stand for?

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Correct Answer: American Petroleum Institute

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42. What is another name for a precombustion chamber?

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Correct Answer: Antechamber

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43. At what temperature does the mixture of aniline and oil become turbid or cloudy?

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Correct Answer: The aniline number

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44. What is a general term describing all methods of injecting fuel without the use of compressed air?

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Correct Answer: Airless injection

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45. What does an air filter do?

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Correct Answer: Prevent particles of dust from entering the engine.

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46. From which part of the engine does air flow back into the cylinder?

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Correct Answer: Air cell

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47. What is the meaning of "advance"?

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Correct Answer: The distance ahead of top or bottom

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48. What is the meaning of the word "Adiabatic"?

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Correct Answer: No pass through

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49. What is the rate at which the speed of an object increases called?

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Correct Answer: Acceleration

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50. What does it mean to accelerate?

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Correct Answer: To increase the speed of movement

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51. What is the temperature above absolute zero?

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Correct Answer: Absolute temperature

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52. What is perfect vacuum pressure?

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Correct Answer: Absolute zero pressure

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53. What is the unit of measurement for absolute pressure?

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Correct Answer: Psi

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54. Which of the following is NOT a method used to start an IC engine?

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Correct Answer: Flywheel

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55. What is the full name for speed control-cruise control?

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Correct Answer: Automatic electric-mechanical control system

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56. What is the purpose of a spark plug?

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Correct Answer: To initiate combustion in an SI engine

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57. What is a push rod?

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Correct Answer: Mechanical linkage between the camshaft and valves

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58. What is the function of piston rings?

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Correct Answer: To form a sliding surface against the cylinder walls

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59. What is the Piston?

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Correct Answer: The cylindrical-shaped mass that reciprocates back and forth in the cylinder

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60. What is the oil sump?

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Correct Answer: Reservoir for the oil system of the engine, commonly part of the crankcase.

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61. How is an oil pump most commonly driven?

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Correct Answer: Mechanically by the engine

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62. What is the function of an oil pan?

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Correct Answer: To hold oil for the engine

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63. How many main bearings would be equal to the number of pistons?

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Correct Answer: One between each set of pistons plus the two ends

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64. What does a head gasket do?

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Correct Answer: Gasket which serves as a sealant between the engine block and head where they bolt together

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65. Which of the following is true about a head?

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Correct Answer: It closes the end of the cylinder

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66. What does the head of a cylinder usually contain?

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Correct Answer: Part of the clearance volume of the combustion chamber

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67. What is a glow plug?

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Correct Answer: A small electrical resistance heater used to preheat the combustion chamber of a CI engine

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68. How is a fuel pump powered?

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Correct Answer: Electrically or mechanically

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69. Many modern automobiles have a fuel pump that is _____?

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Correct Answer: Electric

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70. What does a fuel injector do?

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Correct Answer: Sprays fuel into the incoming air on SI engines or into the cylinder on CI engines

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71. What is the purpose of a flywheel?

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Correct Answer: Stores energy and furnishes a large angular momentum to keep the engine rotating between power strokes.

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72. What does an engine-driven fan do?

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Correct Answer: Increases air flow through the radiator and engine compartment

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73. What is the exhaust system?

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Correct Answer: Flow system for removing exhaust gases from the cylinders, treating them, and exhausting them to the surroundings.

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74. What is an exhaust manifold?

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Correct Answer: A piping system which carries exhaust gases away from the engine cylinders

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75. What are the circular cylinders in the engine block?

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Correct Answer: Cylinders

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76. What is the crankshaft?

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Correct Answer: Part of the engine block that surrounds the rotating crankshaft.

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77. What are cooling fins?

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Correct Answer: Metal fins on the outside surfaces of cylinders and head of an aircooled engine.

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78. What is a connecting rod bearing?

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Correct Answer: Bearing where connecting rod fastens to crankshaft.

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79. The size of the combustion chamber changes with what?

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Correct Answer: The position of the piston

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80. The size of the combustion chamber _______?

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Correct Answer: Continuously changes

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81. What is a catalytic converter?

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Correct Answer: Chamber mounted in exhaust flow containing catalytic material that promotes reduction of emissions by chemical reaction.

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82. What is the Venturi flow device?

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Correct Answer: A device which meters the proper amount of fuel into the air flow by means of a pressure differential

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83. What is the purpose of the Camshaft?

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Correct Answer: To push open valves at the proper time in the engine cycle

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84. What is the Block Body of an engine made of?

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Correct Answer: Cast Iron or Aluminum

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85. What is Fuel Injected (FI)?

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Correct Answer: A system for metering fuel into an internal combustion engine

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86. Where is the overhead camshaft mounted?

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Correct Answer: In the engine head

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87. What is an overhead valve?

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Correct Answer: A valve mounted in the engine head

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88. What is the Brake Maximum Torque (BMT)?

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Correct Answer: Speed at which maximum torque occurs.

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89. What is the ratio of mass of fuel to mass of air input into an engine called?

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Correct Answer: Fuel-Air Ratio (FA)

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90. What is the Air-Fuel Ratio (AF)?

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Correct Answer: The ratio of mass of air to mass of fuel input into engine.

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91. What does a smart engine do?

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Correct Answer: Regulate operating characteristics such as air-fuel ratio, ignition timing, valve timing, exhaust control, intake tuning, etc.

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92. What is the formula for displacement?

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Correct Answer: Displacement = Volume displaced by the piston as it travels through one stroke

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93. What is the minimum volume in the combustion chamber with the piston at TDC?

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Correct Answer: Clearance volume

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94. What is the definition of "stroke?"

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Correct Answer: Movement distance of the piston from one extreme position to the other: TDC to BDC or BDC to TDC.

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95. What is the full form of TDC?

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Correct Answer: Top Dead Centre

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96. What is the bore diameter?

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Correct Answer: The cylinder or diameter of the piston face, which is the same minus a very small clearance

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97. What is Indirect Injection?

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Correct Answer: Fuel injection into the secondary chamber of an engine with a divided combustion chamber

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98. What is BDC position of the piston?

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Correct Answer: The point closest to the crankshaft

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99. What is the position called when an occurrence happens before TDC?

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Correct Answer: BTDC

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100. What does the acronym TDC stand for in engine terminology?

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Correct Answer: Top-Dead-Center

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101. What is the other name for Compression Ignition?

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Correct Answer: CI

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102. What is a Spark Ignition engine?

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Correct Answer: An engine in which the combustion process in each cycle is started by use of a spark plug.

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103. What is meant by Internal Combustion?

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Correct Answer: The burning of fuel inside an engine

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104. What is the full form of "Ie"?

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Correct Answer: Internal Combustion

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