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Engineering Systems and Control quiz - CCEA GCSE quiz

15questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. The moment of a force is calculated as:

  2. A force of 60 N acts 0.40 m from a pivot. What is the moment?

  3. For a lever to be balanced, the principle of moments states that:

  4. A driver gear has 15 teeth and the driven gear has 45 teeth. The gear ratio is:

  5. A pneumatic system uses what to do work?

  6. A single acting cylinder returns its piston using:

  7. The force a pneumatic cylinder produces is given by:

  8. A piston of area 0.0020 m squared runs at 400000 Pa. The force is:

  9. In the input-process-output model, an LDR (light sensor) is a(n):

  10. Which component is an output in an electronic system?

  11. Why are standard symbols used in circuit and system diagrams?

  12. Mechatronics is best described as the combination of:

  13. In a mechatronic system, the part that reads the sensors and decides what to do is the:

  14. Feedback in a control system means the system:

  15. Which is an example of a feedback (closed-loop) control system?