1.

Question:* What is a term for heat transfer between two objects in

contact, driven by a constant temperature difference?
Answer: steady state conduction

2. Question:* What aspect of machine virabtion is described in cycles per

second?
Answer: Frequency

3. Question:* What can be done to increase the capacity of a plate frame

heat exchanger?
Answer: Install additional plates

4. Question:* Which type of gear meshing should be employed to

transmit torque to a linear force?
Answer: Rack and Pinion

5. Question:* What is defined as the ratio of tensile stress to tensile

strain?
Answer: Young's modulus

6. Question:* Which of these manufacturing processes involves pouring

liquid metal into a mould?
Answer: casting

7. Question:* How do we describe the property of an object or material

which will restore it to its original shape after distortion?
Answer: Elasticity

8. Question:* The set of equations used to describe motion?

Answer: Kinematic

9. Question:* What are the three basic methods of heat tranfser?

Answer: Conduction, Convection and Radiation

10. Question:* Total mechanical energy is the sum of what two forms of
energy?
Answer: Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy

11. Question:* True or False: All matter with a temperature greater than
absolute zero emits thermal radiation.
Answer: True

12. Question:* What is the result of continous cyclic loads on a metal

object?
Answer: Metal fatigue

13. Question:* Newton's law of cooling states that the rate of heat loss of a
body is proportional to:
Answer: the difference in temperatures between the body and its
surroundings

14. Question:* Which value must be calculated into piping system

designs?
Answer: Expansion coefficient

15. Question:* True or False: Silicon can be used to make

microelectromechanical systems.
Answer: True

16. Question:* True or False: A perfect Carnot heat engine cannot be built
in reality.
Answer: True

17. Question:* What is the measure of a fluid's resistance to gradual

deformation by shear stress or tensile stress?
Answer: viscosity

18. Question:* True or False: Vapour compression used in most

household refrigerators is a non-cyclic process.
Answer: False

19. Question:* What is the rotational force exerted by a spinning shaft?

Answer: Torque
 20. Question:* What term describes the calculations related to objects
with greater than zero velocity?
Answer: Dynamics

21. Question:* What does ASME stand for?

Answer: American Society of Mechanical Engineers

22. Question:* Which device is used to store rotational energy?

Answer: flywheel

23. Question:* Which if these is NOT a component of aerodynamic force?

Answer: pinch

24. Question:* Why are fan assemblies usually designed with spring
isolators?
Answer: To minimize vibration

25. Question:* What are the units for Reynold's number?

Answer: no dimensions

26. Question:* What is a tool used for stamping metal by a press?

Answer: die

27. Question:* How is the heat energy that changes the state of an object
but not its temperature described?
Answer: Latent heat

28. Question:* What is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the
weight of an immersed object?
Answer: buoyancy

29. Question:* What describes the effect of a material expanding in the

directions perpendicular to its direction of compression?
Answer: Poisson Effect

30. Question:* What is the simple mechanics description of a force acting

upon an object to cause a displacement of the object?
Answer: Work

31. Question:* Which mechanism can convert rotational motion to

reciprocating motion?
Answer: slider-crank

32. Question:* Which machine tool rotates the workpiece on its axis?
Answer: lathe

33. Question:* Which fieldlines are instantaneously tangent to the velocity

vector of flow?
Answer: streamlines

34. Question:* What is the lowest stress that produces a permanent

deformation in a material?
Answer: Yield strength

35. Question:* What type of deformation may take place when large
amounts of tensile strain are localized in a small area of a material?
Answer: Necking

36. Question:* What is one advantage of multi-stage centrifugal pump

configurations over single-stage centrifugal pump configurations?
Answer: Higher pressures can be derived

37. Question:* What is the unit of measurement defined as "the amount of

heat needed to raise 1 pound of water 1 degree"?
Answer: BTU

38. Question:* How many degrees of freedom does a rigid body have in
three dimensional space?
Answer: six

39. Question:* Which stress acts in parallell with the cross section of a
material?
Answer: shear
 40. Question:* What is the term for the ability of a material to withstand the
force of being pulled apart?
Answer: Tensile strength

41. Question:* Which of these is a turbine for hydro power?

Answer: Pelton wheel

42. Question:* What is constant in an isochoric process?

Answer: volume

43. Question:* What is the purpose of simple machines such as pulleys

and levers?
Answer: To create mechanical advantage.

44. Question:* What force describes the principle of Newton's second Law
of Motion that objects naturally resist changes to their course of
motion?
Answer: Inertia

45. Question:* Which of these factors least affects the heat dissipation by
a heat sink?
Answer: mechanical pressure on heat sink

46. Question:* What must happen to fuel oil at the burner for efficient
combustion?
Answer: Atomization

47. Question:* The reduction in effectiveness of a vehicular brake is

called:
Answer: brake fade

48. Question:* Which term is used to describe the angle of the cutting face
relative to the cutting work?
Answer: Rake angle
 49. Question:* Which chemical can be added to a closed loop system to
prevent freezing?
Answer: Glycol

50. Question:* Place these in the correct order for torsion: T,L,J,theta
Answer: TL/Jtheta

51. Question:* Which of these is NOT a state function?

Answer: heat

52. Question:* Which is the most common stress used to evaluate the
yielding of ductile materials?
Answer: Von Mises Stress

53. Question:* Which of these processes involves melting the

workpieces?
Answer: welding

54. Question:* Creep is the tendency of a solid to:

Answer: deform permanently under mechanical stress

55. Question:* What kind of an engine does an Otto cycle describe?

Answer: spark ignition

56. Question:* What is designed into gear sets to provide the proper
amount of teeth clearance to avoid binding?
Answer: Backlash

57. Question:* When a material is compressed in one direction, it tends to

expand in the other two directions perpendicular to the direction of
compression. What is this effect called?
Answer: Poisson Effect

58. Question:* Which fan configuration is designed to add energy to

airflow passing straight through the fan blades?
Answer: Axial fan configuration
 59. Question:* What is another name for a gear traing's torque ratio?
Answer: mechanical advantage

60. Question:* What is the term for the cutting process where the tool and
cutting surface are perpendicular to each other?
Answer: Orthogonal cutting

61. Question:* Approximately how much does one gallon of water weigh?
Answer: 8.33 lbs

62. Question:* Which of these is a method used to evaluate new product

ideas?
Answer: SWOT analysis

63. Question:* What is the maximum allowable working pressure for a low
pressure steam boiler?
Answer: 15 psi

64. Question:* How do we describe the process for determining the

magnitudes of the components of a vector directed in two
dimensions?
Answer: Vector Resolution

65. Question:* What is the name of the 3 valve configuration designed to

continuously vent unwanted fuel away from it's point of use?
Answer: Block and bleed

66. Question:* Which law of thermodynamics captures the idea that higher
temperature materials will always gravitate toward cooler
temperatures?
Answer: The second law of Thermodynamics

67. Question:* According to Bernoulli's principle, what happens in an ideal

fluid with a decrease in pressure?
Answer: increase in speed
 68. Question:* What is the force that prevents a material from being torn
apart?
Answer: Tensile strength

69. Question:* According to Newton's first law, if the vector sum of all
forces acting on a body is zero, then its:
Answer: velocity is constant

70. Question:* What are the units for a moment of inertia?

Answer: kg.m^2

71. Question:* As related to steam production, what do the letters BHP

stand for?
Answer: Boiler horsepower

72. Question:* True or False: The force needed to extend a spring by a

certain distance is inversely proportional to that distance.
Answer: False

73. Question:* Cooling tons are calculated as the amount of heat energy
needed to turn one ton of ice into water over what time period?
Answer: 24 hours

74. Question:* What machinability rating has the American Iron and Steel
Institute (AISI) given to AISI No. 1112 carbon steel?
Answer: 100%

75. Question:* What two fuel types are commonly incorporated into dual
fuel burner design?
Answer: Natural gas and fuel oil

76. Question:* What type of fuel oil pump will deliver consistent pressure
and volume with minimal fluctuations to combustion eqiupment?
Answer: A positive displacement pump

77. Question:* What quality should shock resisting steel posses?

Answer: High Toughness

78. Question:* A four bar linkage system meets the Grashof condition if:
Answer: The shortest link can rotate fully with respect to a neighboring link.

79. Question:* What is the density of water?

Answer: 1000 kg/m^3

80. Question:* In relation to O-Ring sealing, what are back up seals.

Answer: Additional rings which help prevent O-Ring extrusion

81. Question:* Cogeneration commonly combines the production of what

two forms of energy?
Answer: Electricity and Steam

82. Question:* Doubling the thickness of a rectangular cantilever beam

will do what to the stiffness?
Answer: The beam becomes 8x stiffer.

83. Question:* In a heat exchanger application, what value does the term
"temperature delta" refer to?
Answer: The difference in temperature between supply and return on one
side of the system

84. Question:* A Mohr's circle reduces to a point when the body is

subjected to which of the following conditions?
Answer: Equal axial stress on two mutually perpendicular planes, the
planes being free of shear

85. Question:* Water can be raised in temperature by means of what type

of energy?
Answer: Sensible heat

86. Question:* For a completely isolated system, what is the entropy at

thermodynamic equilibrium?
Answer: maximum
 87. Question:* What is the ratio of the molar volume of a gas to the molar
volume of an ideal gas at the same temperature and pressure?
Answer: Compressibility factor

88. Question:* When dimensioning drawings with Inches which of these is

the correct format?
Answer: .05.01

89. Question:* Which thermodynamic cycle is ideally isobaric?

Answer: Brayton cycle

90. Question:* What is the term for the horizontal portion of a chimney
draft system extending from combustion equipment?
Answer: Breeching

91. Question:* For a machine resting on four legs, how do you describe
the leg not carrying equal weight to the other three?
Answer: The soft foot

92. Question:* What is the SI unit for thermal resistance?

Answer: Kelvins per Watt

93. Question:* What is the static head pressure of a column of water 2 ft

high?
Answer: .866 psi

94. Question:* What type of loading is applied to a coil spring in

compression?
Answer: Torsion

95. Question:* Which of these is NOT a type of truss?

Answer: Thomas truss

96. Question:* What is the function of unloaders in a reciprocating

compressors design?
Answer: To decrease the compressor capacity
 97. Question:* Which of these is a method for visualizing and analyzing
fluid flow?
Answer: Particle image velocimetry