Anjalai Ammal Mahalingam Engineering College, Kovilvenni 614403

Unit Test I
Questions and answers – One mark
(30X1= 30marks)

1. The property by which a body returns to its original shape after removal of the force is called
__________
a) Plasticity
b) Elasticity
c) Ductility
d) Malleability
2. When too many people stand on a bridge it collapses, why?
a) Due to increase in stress
b) Due to overweight
c) Due to improper construction
d) Due to friction

3. When a rope is pulled on either side, what is the stress acting on it?
a) Compressive stress
b) Tensile stress
c) Normal stress
d) Tangential stress

4. Which type of elasticity is involved in tangential push on the upper face of a block?
a) Bulk modulus
b) Young’s modulus
c) Rigidity modulus
d) Elastic limit

5. According to Hooke’s law of elasticity, if stress is increased, the ratio of stress to strain?
a) Increased
b) Decreased
c) Becomes zero
d) Remains constant

6. The relation between the three modulus of elasticity is

9 K
a )Y 
3K  
9K  
b)Y 
3 K
9 K
c)Y 
3 K
3 K
d )Y 
9K  

7. The breaking stress of a wire depends upon ___________

a) Length of the wire
b) Radius of the wire
c) Material of the wire
d) Shape of the cross-section

8. What will happen to the elastic property of Gold when Potassium is added to gold?
a) The elastic property of gold decreases
b) The elastic property of gold remains unaltered
c) The elastic property of gold increases
d) Gold loses its elastic property

9. Which of the following affects the elasticity of a substance?

a) Hammering and annealing
b) Change in temperature
c) Impurity in substance
d) All of the mentioned

10. A thick wire is suspended from a rigid support and no load is attached to its free end but the wire
is under stress.
a) True
b) False

11. Formula for the torque per unit twist is___________

 r 4
b)C 
2L
 r 4
a )C 
2L
 r 4
2
c)C 
2L
 r
d )C 
2L

12. A pendulum ‘A’ oscillating continuously comes to rest after sometime. Now make both
pendulums ‘A’ and ‘B’ to oscillate simultaneously. What will happen?
a) A comes to rest earlier than B
b) B comes to rest earlier than A
c) A and B comes to rest simultaneously
d) A and B oscillate forever

13. In the torsional pendulum, the ____________of the wire is equal to the work done in twisting the
disc there by creating a restoring couple.
a) Kinetic energy
b) Potential energy
c) Total energy
d) All the above

14. The layer which is neither elongated nor shortened in bending of a beam is called as
a) Axis of load
b) Neutral axis
c) Center of gravity
d) None of the above

15. General formula for the period of oscillation of a pendulum is

Displacement
a )T  2
Acceleration
Acceleration
b)T  2
Displacement
Acceleration
c)T  2 2
Displacement
Displacemen
d )T  2 2
Acceleration

16. Unit for the moment of inertia of the disc is

a) Kgm2
b) Kgm-2
c) N/m2
d) N/m-2

17. Formula for the rigidity modulus of the wire is

8Il
a )  2 4
T r
8Il
b)  4 2
T r
8Il
c)  2
Tr
8Il
d )  2
Tr

18. When a simply supported beam is loaded with a point load at the centre, the maximum tensile
stress is developed on the
a) Top fiber
b) Bottom fiber
c) Neutral fiber
d) None of the above

19. In a cantilever beam loaded with uniformly distributed load (U.D.L) over the whole span, the
stress at the top of the fiber will be
a) Tensile
b) Compressive
c) Depends upon the intensity of U.D.L
d) Both a and c
20. An example of perfectly plastic body is
a) Quartz
b) Crystal
c) Rubber
d) Putty

21. Uniform bending produces ____________ in the beam

a) Depression
b) Elevation
c) Compression
d) Elongation

22. In non uniform bending the

a) Load is applied at the centre of the beam
b) Load is applied at one corner of the beam
c) Load applied equally on two sides of the beam
d) None of the above

23. The formula for the depression of a cantilever is

4 Mgl 3
y
a) bd 3Y
4 Mgl 2
y
b) bd 3Y
Mgl 2
y
c) 4bd 2Y
Mgl 2
y
d) 4bd 3Y

24. I shape girders are

a) Less economic and highly efficient
b) Highly economic and less efficient
c) Highly economic and highly efficient
d) Less economic and efficient

25. I - shape girders are used in

a) Construction of bridges and buildings
b) Iron rails in railways
c) Construction of boilers
d) Both a and b

26. What happens when the stress applied to the body is increased beyond the maximum value and is
removed after sometime?
a) The body will come back to its original position
b) The body will oppose the stress
c) The body become shot
d) The body cannot return to its original position

27. Depression of an I-shape girder can be reduced by

a) Decreasing the length of the girder
b) Increasing the thickness of the girder
c) Increasing the breadth of the girder
d) Decreasing the load applied on the girder

28. If the diameter of the suspension wire is doubled without changing the length in case of a
torsional pendulum, the time period
a) Will increase
b) Will not be affected
c) Will decrease
d) Will be double

29. If the thickness of the beam which is under uniform bending is reduced to half without changing
the breadth and length of the beam, the elevation
a) Will increase
b) Will not be affected
c) Will decrease
d) Will be double

30. Two wires A and B of the same length. The diameters are in the ratio 1:2 and the Young’s
modulus is in the ratio 2:1. If they are pulled by the same force, then their elongation will be in ratio
a) 4:1
b) 1:4
c) 1:2
d) 2:1

Anjalai Ammal Mahalingam Engineering College, Kovilvenni 614403

 Unit Test I
Questions and answers – Two marks
(15X2= 30marks)
1. Which is more elastic?
a) Water
b) Air
c) Solid
d) Crystal

2. Calculate the Young’s modulus in the cantilever depression method .The length is 1m which is
suspended with a load of 150gm. The depression is found to be 4cm. The thickness of the beam is
5mm and breadth is 3cm.
a) 3.92×1010 N/m2
b) 9000×1010 N/m2
c) 4000×1010N/m2
d) 1.245×1010 N/m2

3. A copper wire of length 3m and 1mm diameter is subjected to a tension of 5N. Calculate the
elongation produced, if the young’s modulus of copper is 120GPa.
a) 15m
b) 1800m
c) 0.125×10-3m
d) 15.9×10-3m

4. An iron bar of length l and cross section A is pulled by a force, so as to produce elongation. Which
of the following statement is correct?
a) Elongation is inversely proportional to length
b) Elongation is directly proportional to area
c) Elongation is inversely proportional to area
d) Elongation is directly proportional to young’s modulus

5. The symbols Y, K, and n represents the young’s, bulk and rigidity modulus of the material of the
body. If n = 3K then?
a) Y =2.5K
b) Y =3.5K
c) Y = 4.5K
d) Y =5.5K

6. In an experiment to determine the Young’s modulus of the material of the beam, the length of the
beam and mass suspended are doubled. The Young’s modulus of the beam
a) Becomes double
b) Becomes four times
c) Remains unchanged
d) Becomes half

7. The following wires are made of the same material. Which of these will have the largest extension,
when the same tension is applied?
a) Length = 50cm, diameter = 0.5mm
b) Length = 100cm, diameter = 1mm
c) Length = 200cm, diameter = 2mm
d) Length = 300cm, diameter = 3mm

8. A copper wire 2m long and 2 mm in a diameter is stretched 1mm .what tension is needed?
Young’s modulus for copper is 117.6 ×109N/m2.
a) 184632N
b) 184.632N
c) 1846.32N
d) 1.84632N
9. Approximately how large a force is required to stretch a 2 cm diameter steel rod by 0.01 percent?
Young’s modulus for steel is 196000 MPa.
a) 6.1N
b) 610N
c) 61000N
d) 6100N
10. Uniform rectangular bar 1m long, 2 cm broad and 0.5 cm thick is supported on its flat face
symmetrically on two knife edge 70cm apart. If loads of 200g are hung from the two ends the
elevation of the center of the bar is 48 mm. Find out the Young’s modulus of the bar.
a) Y =0.018×1010N/m2
b) Y =0.18×1010N/m2
c) Y =1.8×1010N/m2
d) Y =18.0×1010N/m2

11. What has a weight of 9.8 Newtons?

a) A 50-gram standard mass
b) A hundred-pound box
c) A 20-mL graduated cylinder
d) A one-kilogram mass

12. We are able to break a wire by repeated bending due to the loss of elastic property of the
material. This Phenomenon is called
a) Hammering
b) Fracture point
c) Elastic fatigue
d) frictional force

13. Steel is more elastic than rubber because steel comes back to its original shape faster than rubber
when the deforming forces are removed. For a given stress,
a) Strain is much smaller in steel than in rubber
b) Strain is much larger in steel than in rubber
c) Force is much smaller in rubber than in steel
d) Force is much larger in rubber than in steel

14. A copper and steel wire are connected end to end. A deforming force F is applied to this
composite wire which causes a total elongation of 1cm. The two wires will have
a) Same stress
b) Different strain
c) Same strain
d) Both (a) and (b)

15. A truck is pulling a car out of a ditch by means of a steel cable that is 9.1 m long and has a radius
of 5 mm. When the car just begins to move, the tension in the cable is 800 N. How much has the
cable stretched? (Young’s modulus for steel is 2 x 1011 N/m2)
a) 0.5 × 10-3 m
b) 0.05× 10-3 m
c) 0.2× 10-3 m
d) 0.7× 10-3 m