The Design Process
Circuits
Fluid Power
Projectile Motion
Miscellaneous
100
Two steps of the design process
What is Defining the problem, Generate concepts, Develop solution, Construct and test, Evaluate solution, Present solution?
100
Anything in a circuit that uses electricity
What is a load?
100
Form of fluid power that uses a gas.
What is pneumatics?
100
An object's speed and direction of motion
What is velocity?
100
2 or more simple machines working together
What is a compound machine?
200
Sketching falls under this step
What is Generate concepts?
200
What is a battery or power source?
200
Controls flow of fluid in system
What is a valve?
200
Acceleration value of 9.81 m/s2
What is acceleration due to gravity?
200
The twisting force applied to an object
What is torque?
300
A tool used to help make choices on material, overall design, and cost.
What is a decision matrix?
300
A device wired in series within circuit to measure current
What is a ammeter?
300
Overcomes the resistance to flow
What is pressure?
300
The term for velocity at the time something is launched
What is initial velocity?
300
The ratio can be displayed as 3:1 to describe a mechanical advantage.
What is gear ratio?
400
There are this many steps in the PLTW design process
What is 6?
400
Stays consistent in a parallel circuit
What is voltage?
400
Is equal to Gallons per minute x PSI
What is horse power?
400
The vertical velocity at the top of a projectiles parabola
What is zero m/s or ft/s?
400
Objects center of gravity or center of mass
What is a centroid?
500
A acceptable range outside of a products specific value
What is a Tolerance?
500
The sum of the currents into a _____ equal the sum of the currents out of a _____
What is a node?
500
States energy can not be destroyed just change forms
What is the law of conservation of energy?
500
At the peak of a projectile's trajectory the velocity only vertical or horizontal?
Horizontal only
500
Visual representation of force and an objects interaction.
What is a free body diagram?