Machine Kinematics MCQ

1. What is the path generated by a point on the circumference of a circle?

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Correct Answer: Cycloid

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2. What are mechanisms called that have a point that moves along a straight line?

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Correct Answer: Straight line motion mechanisms

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3. A body has translation if it moves so that all straight lines in the body move to what?

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Correct Answer: Parallel positions

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4. A body has plane motion, if all its points move in planes which are parallel to which reference plane?

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Correct Answer: Some reference plane

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5. What does Hooke's law state within elastic limits?

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Correct Answer: The strain is proportional to the stress

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6. What is a type of periodic motion?

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Correct Answer: Simple harmonic motion

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7. What is kinetic energy?

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Correct Answer: Energy that an object has by virtue of its position

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8. What is the definition of work?

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Correct Answer: The transfer of energy from one system to another

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9. N terms of moments, what does the principle of moments mean?

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Correct Answer: At equilibrium, the sum of the clockwise moments equals the sum of the counter-clockwise moments

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10. What is the product of a quantity and its perpendicular distance?

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Correct Answer: The moment

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11. What is dynamic equilibrium?

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Correct Answer: A dynamic equilibrium occurs when a system is in equilibrium and also in motion

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12. What does static equilibrium mean when applied to a system?

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Correct Answer: Stationary

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13. What is a system in equilibrium?

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Correct Answer: When the net forces and torques on that system are zero

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14. What happens to the velocity of an object in circular motion?

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Correct Answer: It constantly changes

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15. What is the force required to produce the centripetal acceleration?

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Correct Answer: Centripetal force

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16. What is the change in velocity required for an object to travel around a circle?

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Correct Answer: Centripetal acceleration

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17. What is the measurement of angle subtended by an object moving around the circumference of a circle?

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Correct Answer: Angular displacement

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18. What is the resistance an object encounters moving through a fluid called?

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Correct Answer: Drag

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19. What is tension force(T)?

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Correct Answer: A force that tends to stretch intermolecular bonds

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20. What is the force that opposes the motion of two objects in contact?

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Correct Answer: Friction force

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21. What does Newton's third law describe?

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Correct Answer: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

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22. What did Newton's second law say about the relationship between force and acceleration?

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Correct Answer: Proportional to

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23. Which law states that an object continues at rest, or at constant velocity, unless an external force acts on it?

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Correct Answer: Newton's first law

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24. What is the vector sum of all the forces acting on a body or system?

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Correct Answer: Net force

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25. What is the SI unit of force?

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Correct Answer: Newton

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26. What is the measurement of a body's resistance to acceleration?

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Correct Answer: Mass

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27. What is an example of acceleration?

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Correct Answer: Change in velocity

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28. What is the change in an object's position over time?

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Correct Answer: Velocity

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29. What is the magnitude of velocity?

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Correct Answer: Speed

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30. What does speed not have?

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Correct Answer: A direction

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31. What is the distance travelled but with a direction associated?

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Correct Answer: Displacement

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32. What did Galileo say distance was?

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Correct Answer: Length of the path that the object too

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33. What is the Time interval between two events called?

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Correct Answer: Elapsed time

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34. What is the name of an open chain of kinematic links?

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Correct Answer: Dyad

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35. What can be used to connect the complex motion with the ground?

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Correct Answer: Coupler

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36. What kind of behaviour does a link that has oscillatory behaviour have?

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Correct Answer: Pivoted to a ground

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37. What type of link is able to rotate?

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Correct Answer: Crank

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38. What is the distance below the nominal pitch circle that defines Dedendum?

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Correct Answer: The tooth height

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39. The angle between the axis and the velocity is called what?

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Correct Answer: Pressure angle

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40. What does the term axis of transmission mean?

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Correct Answer: The axis along which force is able to be transmitted

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41. The versatile and useful function generator is known as what?

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Correct Answer: Cam & follower

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42. What type of acceleration is present in the cam?

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Correct Answer: Cycloid

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43. What is the term that describes a change in how fast an object moves?

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Correct Answer: Jerk

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44. What is the variable that describes how fast a disease travels along the axis of transmission?

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Correct Answer: Velocity

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45. What does the axis of transmission represent?

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Correct Answer: Velocity along the axis

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46. The velocity of slip is what type of movement?

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Correct Answer: Sliding

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47. What is the velocity of a sliding joint between two links called?

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Correct Answer: Velocity of Slip

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48. The angle between the output link and the coupler is called what?

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Correct Answer: Transmission angle

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49. What term describes the motion of an object when travelling in a gravitational field?

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Correct Answer: Coriolis acceleration

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50. How many times the velocity of slip is the angular velocity?

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Correct Answer: 2 times

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51. What is the term for the path of the instant centre?

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Correct Answer: Centrode

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52. The advantage of the force being applied to the output force is known as what?

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Correct Answer: Mechanical advantage

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53. What is the inverse of the velocity ratio?

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Correct Answer: Torque ratio

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54. What is the relationship between the angular velocity of a gyroscope and the input and output of the gyroscope?

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Correct Answer: Velocity ratio

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55. What do three bodies have if they are in the presence of Kennedy's rule?

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Correct Answer: Exactly three instant centres

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56. What is the point common to two bodies in which the point has the same instantaneous velocity in each body?

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Correct Answer: Instant centre

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57. What term describes a double point that occurs where the coupler curve crosses itself creating multiple loop vectors?

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Correct Answer: Crunode

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58. What is a term for a sharp point on the curve that has the useful property of instantaneous zero velocity?

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Correct Answer: Cusp

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59. What is the term for the difference in velocity between two points in the same body?

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Correct Answer: Velocity difference

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60. What is the name of the circle describing the possible locations of the moving pivot?

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Correct Answer: Circle point

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61. What does the halo around the centerpoint represent?

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Correct Answer: Possible positions for the fixed pivot

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62. What is the theorem called that states that a rigid body's displacement is equivalent to the sum of a translation of one point on the body and a rotation of the body about an axis through that point?

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Correct Answer: Chasles' theorem

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63. To what is a relative position compared?

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Correct Answer: Two bodies simultaneously in separate positions

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64. The use of real and imaginary numbers to define the magnitude and angle of a line is called what?

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Correct Answer: Complex Vectors

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65. What is another name for a Cayley Diagram?

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Correct Answer: Schematic

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66. What does the Cayley Diagram Schematic define?

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Correct Answer: Lengths and shapes of cognates

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67. What does a linkage of different geometry generate?

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Correct Answer: Couple curve

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68. What is a linkage of different geometry that generates the same couple curve?

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Correct Answer: Cognate

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69. What is the term for the solution to the path generation problem?

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Correct Answer: Coupler Curves

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70. What is the name of the mechanism that causes the rocker to move from one position and back?

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Correct Answer: Return mechanism

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71. Point generation, control of a point such that it follows some prescribed path is called?

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Correct Answer: Path generation

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72. What is the act of correlating an input motion with an output motion in a mechanism called?

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Correct Answer: Function Generation

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73. What is the creation of potential solutions in the absence of a well-defined algorithm to predict the solution known as?

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Correct Answer: Qualitative synthesis

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74. A specific link in a chain that can rotate is called what?

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Correct Answer: Evolvability

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75. What is the term used to describe a link that rotates?

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Correct Answer: Rotatability

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76. Who discovered the link between the speed of light and the time it takes to rotate one's own axis?

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Correct Answer: Grashof

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77. What term means the output link remains stationary while the input link continues to move?

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Correct Answer: Dwell

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78. What is the name of the part of a link that branches off and becomes another link?

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Correct Answer: Node

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79. What type of link is a ternary link?

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Correct Answer: A link with three nodes

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80. What is the name of the link with two nodes?

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Correct Answer: Binary link

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81. What kind of motion is A simultaneous combination of rotation and translation?

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Correct Answer: Complex motion

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82. What is the purpose of points describing parallel paths?

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Correct Answer: All points in a body describe parallel paths

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83. What is the name of the point on the Earth that has no motion with respect to the frame of reference?

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Correct Answer: Pure Rotation

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84. How many parameters are needed to define a system's position in space?

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Correct Answer: Degrees of freedom

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85. What is a machine?

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Correct Answer: A system of elements arranged to transmit motion and energy in a predetermined fashion

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86. What is the study of motion without regard to forces?

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Correct Answer: Kinematics

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87. What does the crank represent on the velocity and acceleration diagram?

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Correct Answer: The velocity and acceleration line of the moving end

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88. What is the line perpendicular to the line from O to A?

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Correct Answer: BA

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89. What are the circles that represent rollers in the cam profile?

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Correct Answer: 7mm radius

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90. What type of follower is used on the cam?

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Correct Answer: Roller follower

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91. What is the radius of the roller in the cam follower?

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Correct Answer: 5mm

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92. What is the radius of the base circle?

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Correct Answer: 20mm

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93. What would the lines drawn from 1,2,3… be in a different camera?

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Correct Answer: Tangential to the offset circle

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94. For the construction of the cam, what is the diameter of the offset circle?

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Correct Answer: 10mm dia

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95. What's the dia. of the offset circle in the Cam case?

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Correct Answer: 10mm

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96. What is the name of the diagram that shows the placement of the cam points?

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Correct Answer: Displacement diagram

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97. What is the name for the construct base circle?

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Correct Answer: Cam profile

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