Mechanical Aptitude Test?

Think you know your stuff? How's your electrical knowledge? Got your gears & pullies down? Leverage?

Check it out here, and tell us how you do. I thought I did well, but only scored 58% the first time.

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zoombot
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dwcars
78% still failed.

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John Poulos

Got a 72 first time thru..Thought I knew more..LOL

Dave B.

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mcavanti

John and I must have been copying each others answers. . . I got the same

78%. I got real bored 10 question in and just start giving quick answer. If I thought about it. . . it would have been more like 48%

Rick

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Rick Courtier
94% was my score. Since there were 50 questions, I don't understand how one would score 94%. I do wish they would tell you which ones that you missed, though.

Jim Bradley '64 Daytona HT "Rerun" Remove HAT to reply

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Jim Bradley

Did much better the 2nd time (79%) after I actually read through the questions.

My oldest nephew ran the nuclear reactor on the USS Abraham Lincoln at the start of the latest Gulf actions, and scored a 96%. He was sure he'd ace the test!

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zoombot

Duh, I'm glad that it wasn't a math quiz! 50 questions results in 2% per answer. Never mind.....

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Jim Bradley wrote:

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Jim Bradley

Well, I got 78 and still didn't pass.

JT

(Not smarter than a fifth grader...)

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Grumpy AuContraire

I got this from another group. Scored 60% and am afraid to take it a second time.

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itraseecab

Engineer! Engineer! I got 80% and thought I did better. I agree that it would be nice to find what you missed. Paul Johnson

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Paul Johnson

I got a 90, but then again, I did get a BSME so I guess I had an unfair advantage (actually a little embarassed that I didn't do better)

nate

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Nate Nagel

I got 96%

Some of the questions are poorly framed, like the one with the two boxes on an unequal seesaw. The "right" answer, which I picked, assumes the mass of the box to act at the end of its arm. The PROPER answer should have the lever arm's length defined by the box's center of mass.

The one I got wrong was the one with two fans. I think there's room for debate on that. Is the pair of fans acting as a fluid coupling, with the unpowered fan being dragged in the same direction as the powered one, or is it acting as a turbine, in which case it SHOULD rotate backwards, as the airflow is counter to that it would create if powered up.

Gord Richmond

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Gordon Richmond

maybe you missed the math skills Jim... 47/50 = 94%

;-))

Brooksie

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Brooksie

Hell, I were an injunear,mechanical. Nevertheless, I drop the screw under the rotating plate when changing points, so who wood hyr mi?

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Karl Haas

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The Other Dave

at the end

on that. Is

case it SHOULD

Or what about the 'lectricity the "pushed" fan might generate...

JT

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Grumpy AuContraire

at the end

on that. Is

case it SHOULD

Yep, their diagram didn't match the answers. My downfall was pulleys, I think, but I did score 90%.

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WayneC

Some of the questions are poorly framed, like the one with the two boxes on an unequal

Yeah... I got the centrifugal question with the green balls correct, BUT... if the connecting arms and center "hub" were "fixed" (non-moveable)..... it wouldn't do anything. They don't tell you if the center lower hub, or the upper one.... is floating

Ray ... 90%

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Studeman
96%..... screwed up on a SIMPLE gear problem and my eyes are too poor to see ALL the strings on the one pulley question

BTW, you CAN see which ones you missed.... at the end, there is an icon on the right to 'review test'

Lee DeLaBarre Daytona62

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Lee

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