Mechanical Engineering Quiz # 25

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

10mm

2mm

15mm

5mm

What type of follower is used on the cam?

Roller follower

Linear follower

Quadratic follower

Manual follow

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

6mm radius

10mm radius

7mm radius

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

DA

CA

BA

CB

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

The velocity and acceleration line of the stationary end

The time it takes for the crank to make one revolution

The velocity and acceleration line of the moving end

The displacement vector

What is the study of motion without regard to forces?

Mechanics

Kinematics

Statics

Kinetics

What is a machine?

A machine that helps you do something

A tool that has been designed to make physical work easier

A tool used to produce or obtain a result

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

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

Latitude

Degrees of freedom

Angular momentum

Coordinates

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

North Pole

Pure Rotation

South Pole

Equator

What is the purpose of points describing parallel paths?

To communicate between controllers

All points in a body describe parallel paths

Points on a path describe the distance and direction travelled

To compute the movement of points on a body

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

Impulse motion

Complex motion

Simple motion

Locomotion

What is the name of the link with two nodes?

Network link

Grey link

Binary link

Bus link

What type of link is a ternary link?

A link with two nodes and a third node

A link with one node

A link with three nodes

A link with two nodes and a hyperlink

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

Branch

Link

Tip

Node

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

Transfer

Dwell

Velocity

Output

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

Newton

Grashof

Hendrik Lorentz

Einstein

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

Rotatability

Link pager

Rotational

Link rotator

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

Fixed link

Evolvability

Rigidity

Flexibility

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

Mathematical modelling

Systematic search

Qualitative synthesis

Iterative re-estimation

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

Progression

Reciprocation

Function Generation

Conversion

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

Point control

Point navigation

Path generation

Point placement

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

Pivot mechanism

Return mechanism

Brake mechanism

Pulley

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

Random Path Generation

Digraphs

Coupler Curves

Euler's Formula

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

Cognate

Homogeneous

Parallel

Congruent

What does a linkage of different geometry generate?

Three point junction

Line

Couple curve

Curve

What does the Cayley Diagram Schematic define?

Lengths and shapes of cognates

The order of a word's constituent parts

A set of ordered pairs

A system of notation for mathematic

What is another name for a Cayley Diagram?

Network

Pareto Chart

Schematic

Venn diagram

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

Complex Vectors

Real Numbers

Algebra

Imaginary Numbers

To what is a relative position compared?

A body that is not moving

Two bodies that are touching each other

Two bodies with the same speed

Two bodies simultaneously in separate positions

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?

Chasles' theorem

Euler's theorem

Torricelli's theorem

Pully's theorem