3rd period Mechanical Engineering Vocab Quiz

What is the difference between hydraulics and pneumatics?

• one involves air and the other involves liquid

• one does work and one does not do work

• they are the same

• hydraulics can be used for toys and pneumatics can't

What is similar about pneumatics and hydraulics?

• they are both types of fluid dynamics

• nothing is similar

• you can use them in the exact same ways

• they both use compression of a fluid

What is the use of pressurized air for mechanical motion?

• pneumatics

• hydraulics

• mechanical engineering

• mechanical systems

What is "operated by a liquid moving in a confined space under pressure"?

• hydraulics

• pneumatics

• mechanical engineer

• mechanical systems

What does "IPO" stand for?

• inputs, processes, outputs

• initial public offering

• individual police officers

• independent processing offering

materials needed to produce something

• input

• processes

• output

• system

the activities done to the inputs make something new or different

• inputs

• processes

• outputs

• system

the product, or what comes out of the system

• input

• processes

• outputs

• systems

manage power to accomplish a task that involves forces and movement.

• inputs

• outputs

• processes

• mechanical systems

combines engineering, physics, and mathematics principles with materials science to design, analyze, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems

• mechanical systems

• mechanical engineering

• pneumatics

• hydraulics