KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

BE23ME401 – ENGINEERING MECHANICS

QUESTION BANK

UNIT – I STATICS OF PARTICLES

PART – A (TWO MARK QUESTIONS)
1. Define engineering mechanics and classify its branches.
2. Distinguish between statics and dynamics.

3. What is the difference between a particle and a rigid body?

4. Define principle of transmissibility of forces.
5. List out the different system of forces.

6. Define Resultant force.

7. Define parallelogram law of forces.

8. Define triangle law of forces.

9. Distinguish between Equilibrium and Equilibrant.

10. Write the necessary and sufficient conditions of equilibrium for the coplanar concurrent force system.

11. Define Lami’s theorem.

12. What is a free body diagram?

13. Define unit & position vector.

14. Write the importance of engineering mechanics.

15. Define kinetics and kinematics.

16. Differentiate between ‘Resultant’ and ‘Equilibrant’

17. Define polygon law of forces.

18. What is resolution of a force?

19. Write a force in space in Cartesian coordinator.
20. Distinguish the following system of forces with a suitable sketch. a) Coplanar b) Collinear

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 PART – B (13 MARK QUESTIONS)

1. The forces shown in the figure below are in equilibrium. Determine the forces

F1 and F2

2. (i) Design the tension in cables AB & AC to hold 40 Kg load shown in fig.

(ii) Three coplanar concurrent forces are acting at a point as shown in fig. Determine
the resultant in magnitude and direction

3 A tower guy wire shown below is anchored by means of a bolt at A as shown.

The tension in the wire is 2500kN. Find (a). The components Fx, Fy&Fz of the
force acting on the bolt (b). The angles _x, _y, _z .defining the direction of the
force

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4. (i) A force P is applied at ‘O’ to the string AOB as shown in fig. If the tension in
each part of string is 50 N. Find the direction and magnitude of force P for
equilibrium conditions.

(ii) Determine the resultant of system of forces acting as shown in fig.

5. A string ABCD, attached to two fixed points A and D has two equal weights of 1000N
attached to it at B and C. The weights rest with the portions AB and CD inclined at
angles of 300 and 600 respectively, to the vertical as shown in fig. Find the tensions in
the portions AB, BC and CD of the string, if the inclination of the portion BC with the
vertical is 1200.

6. Two identical rollers each of weight 50N are supported by an inclined plane
and vertical wall as shown in fig. Find the reactions at the points of supports A,
B, and C.

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7. Three smooth pipes each weighing 20KN and of diameter 60 cm are to be placed in a
rectangular channel with horizontal base as shown in fig. Calculate the reactions at the
points of contact between the pipes and between the channel and the pipes. Take width
of channel as 160 cm.

8. A string of length 310 mm has its extremites attached to two fixed points situated 250
mm apart in a horizontal line. If the string can bear any tension up to 36 N, find the
greatest load that can be supported at a point of string distant 240 mm from one
extremity.

9. Three concurrent forces in space, F1, F2 and F3 are acting at A as shown in fig. An
unknown force F, attached to the system makes the particle A in equilibrium. Find the
magnitude and direction of unknown force F.

10 The line of action of three forces are concurrent at the origin ‘O’ passes through points
A,B and C having coordinates, (3,0,-3), (2,-2,4), (-1,2,4) respectively. If the
magnitudes of the forces are 10N, 30N, and 40N, find the magnitude and direction of
their resultant.

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 UNIT II –STATICS OF RIGID BODIES
PART – A (TWO MARK QUESTIONS)

1. State Varignon’s theorem.

2. What is a couple?

3. What is a moment of a couple?

4. A force vector F has the components Fx = 150N, Fy= -200N and Fz = 300N. Determine
the magnitude “F”and the angle made by the force with coordinate axes.
5. Design the different types of supports.

6. Write down the conditions of equilibrium of a particle in space.

7. List the different types of beams?

8. Distinguish between couple and moment.

9. Define force-couple system.

10. Define rigid body.

11. What are the characteristics of a couple?

12. How will you analyze equilibrium of rigid bodies in three dimensions?

13. How will you write a moment in vector form?

14. Define beam.

15. What is statically determinate beam? Give examples.

16. A force vector of magnitude 100N is represented by a line of coordinates A (1, 2, 3) and
B (5, 8, 12).Determine components of the force along X, Y and Z axes.
17. Find the unit vector along the force F = 2i + 3j + 5k

18. Explain the concept of moment of a force about an axis.

19. List out the steps to be followed to draw the free body diagram of a rigid body.

20. What is moment law of equilibrium?

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 PART – B (13 MARK QUESTIONS)

1. Four forces act on a 700mm X 375mm plate as shown in fig. a) Find the
resultant of these forces b) Locate the two points where the line of action of
the resultant intersects the edge of the plate.

2. Four coplanar non concurrent non parallel forces act on a square plate of side
2m as shown in fig. Find the resultant forces.

3 ABCD is a weightless rod under the action of a four forces P, Q, S and T as shown in
fig. If P = 10N, Q = 4N, S = 8N and T= 12N, calculate the resultant and mark the same
in direction with respect to end A of the rod.

4. Find the support reactions of the beam as shown in fig.

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5. Find the reactions at the supports A and B of the beam as shown in fig.

6. (i) A simply supported overhanging beam 20m long carries a system of loads and a
couple as shown in fig. Determine the reactions at supports A and B.

(ii) Determine the support reactions of a beam shown in fig.

7. ((i) Four parallel forces of magnitudes 10N, 15N, 20N and 35N are shown in
fig.Determine the magnitude and direction of the Resultant. Find the distance of the
resultant from point A.

(ii) Four the parallel forces shown in fig. determine the magnitude, direction and
location of the Resultant forces.

8. A pipe AC, 6m long is fixed at C, and stretched by a cable from A to B on the vertical
wall, as shown fig. If the tension in the cable is 400 N, determine (i) the moment of the
force exerted at A, about C and (ii) the moment of the force exerted at B, about C.

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9. A rectangular plate 1m x 0.8m is supported by two pins and by a wire BD as shown in
fig. If the tension in the wire is 140N, determine the moment about A, and about E, of
the force exerted by the wire on point B

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10 Determine the support reactions of a SS beam, subjected to the loads as shown in fig

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 UNIT III –PROPERTIES OF SURFACES & SOLIDS
PART – A (TWO MARK QUESTIONS)

1. State parallel axis theorem.

2. State perpendicular axis theorem.

3. Define principal axes.

4. Distinguish between centroid and center of gravity.

5. Define polar moment of inertia.

6. Differentiate between ‘Mass moment of inertia’ and ‘Area moment of inertia’

7. Design Radius of gyration

8. Define centre of gravity.

9. Write the expression to find the moment of inertia of a plane area by integration.

10. Define product of inertia.

11. Define principal moment of inertia.

12. Define mass moment of inertia of a solid body.

13. What is the relation between area moment of inertia and mass moment of inertia?

14. How will you determine the mass moment of inertia of thin plate?

15. How will you determine the mass moment of inertia of composite solid body?

16. What are the methods to determine centre of gravity?

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17. Write the expression to determine the centre of gravity of a composite solid figure.

18. Write the formula for Moment of inertia.

19. State Pappusguildinus area theorem.

20. Analyze the Pappusguildinus volume theorem

PART – B (13 MARK QUESTIONS)

1. Locate the centroid of the L- section as shown in fig.

(ii) Determine the product of inertial of the angle section as shown in fig. with respect
to its centroidal axes.

2. Determine the co-odinates of centroid of the shaded area shown in figure.

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3 Find the moment of inertia of a T section of a flange 100mm X 30 mm and web 20
mm X 80 mm about its centroid.

4. Find the moment of inertia of aun symmetrical I section shown in fig. About its
centroidal axes.

5. Find the Moment of inertia of the an angle section shown in fig. about its centroidal
axes.

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6. Find the moment of inertia of the section shown in the figure about its
horizontal centroidal axis.

7. Locate the principal axes and determine the principal moment of inertia of an angle
section, shown in fig.

8. Find the mass momemt of inertia of the plate shown in fig with respect to the
axis AB. Thickness of the plate is 5mm and density of the material is
6500Kg/m3.

9. Locate the principal axes and determine the principal moment of inertia of an I section,
shown in fig.

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10 For the I section shown in fig. calculate the polar moment of inertia about the polar
axes, and also find the radius of gyration.

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 UNIT - IV FRICTION & RECTILINEAR MOTION OF PARTICLES
PART – A (TWO MARK QUESTIONS)

1. Define friction
2. Classify the types of friction.
3. Define limiting friction.
4. Discuss about the coefficient of static friction.
5. State the coulomb’s laws of dry friction.

6. What is coefficient of rolling resistance?

7. Define rolling resistance.

8. What is impending motion?

9. Define angle of repose.

10. Show that the mathematical definitions of velocity and acceleration.

11. What are the different types of plane rigid body motion?

12. Define translation motion. How it is classified?

13. What are general plane motions? Give some examples.

14. Define angular displacement and angular velocity.

15. Define angular acceleration.

16. Compare Co-efficient of friction and angle of friction

17. Compare and Contrast Ladder friction and Wedge friction.

18. Define belt friction.

19. Define cone of friction.

20. Define wedge friction.

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 PART – B (13 MARK QUESTIONS)

1. Block (2) rests on block (1) and is attached by a horizontal rope AB to the wall
as shown in fig. What force P is necessary to cause motion of block (1) to
impend? The co-efficient of friction between the blocks is ¼ and between the
floor and block (1) is 1/3. Mass of blocks (1) and (2) are 14kg and 9 kg
respectively.

2. Block A weighing 1000 N rests on a rough inclined plane whose inclination to

the horizontal is 45°. It is connected to another block B, weighing 3000 N rests
on a rough horizontal plane by a weightless rigid bar inclined at an angle of
30° to the horizontal as shown in fig. Find the horizontal force required to be
applied to the block B just to move the block A in upward direction. Assume
angle of friction as 15° at all surfaces where there is sliding.

3 In a screw jack, the pitch of the square threaded screw is 5.5 mm and means diameter
is 70 mm. The force exerted in turning the screw is applied at the end of lever 210 mm
long measured from the axis of the screw. If the co-efficient of friction of the screw
jack is 0.07, Predict the force required at the end of the lever to (i) raise a weight of 30
KN (ii) lower the same weight.
4. (i)A rope is wrapped 3 times around the rod as shown in the fig. Design the
force required at the free end of the rope to support the load
w=20KN.Takeμ=0.3

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 (ii) A rope is wound over a pulley as shown in. If the tension which pulls the
belt on one end is 4 KN, determine the necessary tension on the other side of
belt to resist? Take μ = 0.25

5. A uniform ladder 3m long weight 180N.It is placed against a wall making an angle
600 with the force as shown in fig. the coefficient of friction between the wall and the
ladder is 0.25 and that between the floor and the ladder is 0.35.the ladder in addition to
its own weight has to support a man weighing 200 N at its top at A. Calculate (i) the
horizontal force F to be applied to the ladder at the floor level to prevent slipping (ii) if
the force F is not applied what should be the minimum inclination of the horizontal so
that there is no slipping of it with the man at the top?

6. Two weights each of 1000N are suspended from a compound pulley as shown in fig.
find (i) angular acceleration of pulley (ii) linear acceleration of the blocks A & B (iii)
tension in the string. Take weight of the pulley as 300 N and its radius of gyration 0.25
m.

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7. A composite pulley of weight 500 N and radius of gyration of 0.4 m is attached with
two blocks A and B of weights 1000N and 2000N respectively, as shown in fig.
determine the angular acceleration of the pulley and the tension in the string by using
D’ Alembert’s principle.

8. In the engine system shown in figure, the crank AB has a constant clockwise
angular speed of 3000 r.p.m. For the crank position indicated, Analyze (i) the
angular velocity of the connecting rod BP (ii) velocity of piston P.

9. A pulley two loads , connected by an inextensible cord is shown in fig. if the load B
moves downward with an initial velocity of 1.5 m/s, and uniform acceleration of 0.75
m/s2 , determine (i) number of revolution executed by the pulley in 2 sec. (ii) velocity
and position of the load After 2 sec.

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10 Load A is connected to a double pulley by one of the two inextensible cables shown
in fig. the motion of the pulley is controlled by cable B, which has a constant
acceleration 0f 1 m/ s2 and an initial velocity of 1.5 m/s, both directed to the right.
Determine (i) number of revolution executed by the pulley in 5 sec. (ii) the velocity
and change in position of the load A, after 5 sec.

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 UNIT - V DYNAMICS OF PARTICLES
PART – A (TWO MARK QUESTIONS)

1. Differentiate between kinematics and kinetics.

2. Differentiate between rectilinear motion and curvilinear motion.

3. Define velocity.

4. Define acceleration.

5. What is relative motion?

6. Write the equation of motion in a straight line with uniform acceleration

7. What is curvilinear motion?

8. Define normal and tangential accelerations.

9. Write the expression for velocity and acceleration in Cartesian system.

10. Write the expression for velocity and acceleration in polar coordinate system.

11. State Newton’s laws of motion.

12. Define linear momentum of a body.

13. Sate D’Alembert’s principle.

14. What is dynamic equilibrium equation?

15. Define Work and Energy.

16. Define potential and kinetic energy.

17. State the law of conservation of energy and also write the work energy equation.

18. What is impulsive force?

19. Define momentum. What is impulse momentum principle and equation.

20. Differentiate between direct impact and oblique impact.

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 PART – B (13 MARK QUESTIONS)

1. (i) A train starts from rest and attains a velocity of 45 km per hour in 2 minutes, with
uniform acceleration. Calculate, (i) acceleration (ii) distance travelled in this time, 2
min, (iii) time required to reach a velocity of 36 km per hour.

(ii) A particle moves along a straight line with acceleration. If the displacement is
measured in m, and given by relation in terms of time taken t, as below.
S=3t3 + 2t2 + 7t +3. Determine (i) the velocity of the particle at start and after 3
seconds. (ii) The acceleration of the particle at start and after 3 seconds.
2. A train is travelling from A to D along the track shown in fig. Its initial velocity
at A is zero. The train takes 5 min to cover the distance AB, 2250 m length and
2.5 minutes to cover, the distance BC, 3000 m in length, on reaching the
station C, the brakes are applied and the train stops 2250 m beyond, at D (i)
Find the retardation on CD, (ii) the time it takes the train to get from A to D,
and (iii) its average speed for the whole distance.

3 The position of the particle is given by the relation S=1.5t3-9t2-22.5t+60,

where S is expressed in meters and t in seconds. Determine (i) the time at
which the velocity will be zero (ii) the position and distance travelled by the
particle at that time (iii) the acceleration of the particle at that time and (iv) the
distance travelled by the particle from t = 5s to t = 7s.
4. (i) The motion of a particle along a curved path is given by equations. X= t 2 + 8t + 4,
and Y = t3 + 3t2 + 8t + 4. Determine (i) initial velocity of the particle (ii) velocity of
the particle at t = 2 sec (iii) acceleration of the particle at t = 0 and (iv) acceleration of
the particle at t= 2 sec.
(ii) The motion of a body moving on a curved path is given by the equations, x=4sin 3t
and y=4cos 3t. Find the velocity and acceleration after 2 seconds.

5. Two Blocks A and B of weight 100 N and 200 N respectively are initially at rest
on a 30° inclined plane as shown in figure. The distance between the blocks is
6 m. The co efficient of friction between the block A and the plane is 0.25 and
that between the block B and the plane is 0.15. If they are released at the same
time, in what time the upper block (B) reaches the Block (A).

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6. Two blocks of weight 150 N and 50 N are connected by a string and passing
over a frictionless pulley as shown in figure. Predict the acceleration of blocks
A and B and the tension in the string.

7. Two weights 80 N and 20 N are connected by a thread and move along a

rough horizontal plane under the action of a force 40 N, applied to the first
weight of 80 N as shown in figure. The coefficient of friction between the
sliding surfaces of the wrights and the plane is 0.3. Design the acceleration of
the weights and the tension in the thread using work-energy equation.

8. Two blocks A and B of weight 120N and 100N are hung to the ends of a rope, which
is passing over an ideal pulley as shown in fig. The velocity of the system is increased
from 1m/s to 2m/s. How much the distance, these blocks will move? Also calculate the
tension in string? Use work energy method.

9. (i) The fig shows two blocks of weight 60 N and 140 N, placed on two inclined
surface and connected by an inextensible string. Calculate the acceleration of the
system and the tension in the string. Take μ= 0.2.

(ii) Two weights 80 N and 20 N are connected by a thread and move along a
rough horizontal plane under the action of a force 40 N, applied to the first
weight of 80 N as shown in figure. The coefficient of friction between the
sliding surfaces of the wrights and the plane is 0.3. Determine the velocity of
the system after 2 sec. also calculate the tension in the string using impulse
momentum equation.

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10 (i)Two bodies one of mass 30 kg, moves with a velocity of 9 m/s strikes on an another
body of mass 15 kg, moving in the opposite direction with velocity of 9 m/s centrally.
Find the velocity of each body after impact, if the coefficient of restitution is 0.8.

(ii) A ball of mass 4 kg moving with velocity 2 m/s impinges directly on another mass
of 5 kg moving with velocity 1 m/s in the opposite direction. If ‘e’ be 0.5, find the
velocities of the balls after impact. Find also the loss of kinetic energy due to the
impact.

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