ENGINEERING MECHANICS
UNIT-I BASICS & STATICS OF PARTICLES
1. What is meant by mechanics? 2. What is meant by Engineering Mechanics? 3. State the different type of mechanics 4. Define Statics 5. Define Dynamics 6. Define Kinematics 7. Define Kinetics 8. What do you understand from the concept of Law of dimensional homogeneity? 9. State Parallelogram law. 10. State triangle law. 11. Define Lamis theorem 12. Define principle of transmissibility of forces 13. Define vectors 14. Define Unit vector. 15. The point of application of a force F = 5i + 10j 15k is displaced from the point I + 3k to the point 3i j 6K. Find the work done by the force 16. Given A = 2i 3j k and B = I + 4j 2k. Find A.B and A X B. 17. The following forces act at a point. Determine the resultant force. 18. Two forces F1 = 5i and F2 = 8.66j pass through a point whose coordinates are (2,1)m. Calculate the moment of the forces about the origin. 19. A couple of moment 60Nm acts in the plane of a paper. Indicate this couple with 30N forces. 20. A horizontal bar ABC is hinged at A and freely support over B. Calculate the reaction a B1 if a force of 6KN acts downwards at C. 21. A horizontal beam ABC is hinged at A and freely supported by B. Calculated the reaction at B due to clockwise moment of 12 Nm applied at C. 22. A force F has the components Fx = 50N, Fy = 75N and Fz = 100N. Find out the angles x, x, x that forms with the x, y and z axes. 23. Find the moment of the force about A. If the forces are acting as shown in figure. Figure (Q & A 6) 24. State Varigons theorem 25. Define moment of a force about a point. 26. Define a couple. 27. State the conditions for the equilibrium of a two dimensional rigid body.
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PART B
1. Two forces F 1 = (-2.0i + 3.3j - 2.9 K) N and F 2 = (-i + 5.2j - 2.9 K) N are concurrent at the point (2,2,-5). Find the magnitude of the resultant of these forces and the angle it makes with positive x-axis. 2. A force is represented by a vector F = 8i - 6j N. Find magnitude of the force and the CCW angle that it makes with +ve x-axis. 3. A force of 200N is directed along the line drawn from the point A(8,2,3)m to the point B(2,4.4,7.8). Find the magnitude of moment of this force about z-axis. 4. A 50N force is directed along the line drawn from point whose x,y,z coordinates are (8,2,3)m to the point whose coordinates are (2,-6,5)m. Find the moment of this force about z axis.
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7. Determine the resultant of three forces F 1 = 3i + 2 j + 5k , F 2 = 2i j + 4k and F 3 = 7i 3 j + 6k which are concurrent at the point (1, -6,5). The forces are in N and the distances are in metres. 8. A force F = 5i + 2 j + 4k is acting at a point A whose position vector is given by )4i + 2j 3k). find the moment of the force about the origin. 9. The coordinates of the initial and terminal points of a vectors are (4,5,2) and (6, -3,9) respectively. Determine the components of the vector and its angles with the axes. 10. An inclined plane makes 45 0with the horizontal. A body of weight 1000N is acted by three forces such F = 150N, T =1300N and R = 500N as shown in figure. Find the resultant force acting on that body.
11. Find the vector 2 A + 3B + 5C in terms of I, j, k and it magnitude. Take A =i-2j-3k; B =4i 3j+2k; C =0.5i +j-k 12. Find the vector (- A -2 B -3 C ) in terms of i,j,k and its magnitude. Take A =4i-3j+7k; B =3i 2j-5k; C = 2i-j-4k 13. Find the unit vector along the line which originates at the point (3,4, -3) and passes through the point (2,1,6). 14. Resolve the force 250N acting on the joint as shown in figure. Into components in the (a) x and y directions and (b) x 1 and y1 directions.
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15. A moment vector of magnitude 90Kgf. Starts at the point (2,3,4) and terminates at the point (5,-3,7). Find the vector expression for the moment. 16. A cantilever beam is loaded as shown in figure. Determine the moment of the forces about O.
17. A force F = 6i + 4.35 j + 2k is applied at point A(6,4.35,2). Find the moment of the force about the point B (6.5,3.75,-0.5) 18. Find the dot product and cross product of the following vectors. A =(3.3i -4.6j+5.5k)m B =(5.4-7.6j-3.7k)m 19. There are 3 concurrent vectors. A =(4i+3j+3k)m B = (i-3j+2k)m C = (-2i +4j + 6k)m What will be the volume enclose by these three concurrent vectors? 20. If vector A = I + 3j +2k, B = 2i -2j +3k (a) Find A X B and unit vector along it. (b) Find the included angle between vector A and vector resulting from the cross product. 21. What is the displacement vector from position (3,5,4)m to position (4,-1,2)m? What are its magnitude and direction cosines? 22. On a beam ABC, 10m long, forces are indicated as shown in figure. What is the moment of these forces about points A and B?
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23. A rectangular bar weighing 500N hangs from a point C, by two strings AC and BC. Ac is inclined at 300to the horizontal and BC is 450 to the vertical as shown in figure. Determine the forces in the strings AC and BC.
24. Find the magnitude and direction of the resultant R of four concurrent forces acting as shown in figure.
25. A cord supported at A and B carries a load of 20 KN at D and a load of W at C as shown in figure. Find the value of W so that CD remains horizontal.
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26. Two smooth spheres A and B rest in a box as shown in figure. A has a diameter of 250mm and weights 1000N. B has a diameter of 100mm and weights 2KN. The box is 500mm wide at the bottom. Find the reaction at the supporting surfaces.
27. A body is subjected to the five forces as shown in figure. Determine the direction of the force F so that the resultant is in X direction, When (a) F =5000N, (b) F = 3000N.
28. Determine the magnitude and direction of the resultant of forces acting at O as shown in figure.
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29. Five force are acting on a particle. The magnitude of the forces are 300N, 600N, 700N, 900N and P and their respective angles with the horizontal are 00,600,1350, 2100 and 2700 as shown in figure. If the vertical component of all these forces is -1000N. Find the value of P. Also calculate the magnitude and the direction of the resultant, assuming that the first force acts towards the point while all the remaining forces act away from the point.
30. Two spherical balls each of radius 200mm and weight 200N are kept between two vertical walls 600mm apart such that the first ball is resting on the ground and touching one of the vertical walls, the second ball is touching the first ball and the other vertical wall. Determine the reactions at the contact surfaces. 31. Find dot product and cross product of the following vectors: P = I + 2j -3k and Q = 4i -5j +6k 32. If vector A = 5i +3j+2k, B = I j-2k i) Find A X B and unit vector along it. ii) Find the included angle between vectors A and the vector resulting from the cross product. 33. The resultant of two concurrent forces is 1500N and the angle between the forces is 900. The resultant makes an angle of 360 with one of the force. Find the magnitude of each force. 34. A force vector of magnitude 40N, is directed from A(1,4) to B(6,7). Determine i) The components of the force along x,y axes. ii) Angles with x and y axes iii) Specify the force vector.
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36. A system of four forces acting on a body as shown in figure . Determine the resultant force and its direction.
37. A force of 300N forms angles of 300,450 and 1550, respectively with the x,y and z axes. Find the components Fx, Fy and Fz of the force. 38. Determine a) The x,y and z components of both forces b) The angles x,y and z that the force forms with the coordinate axes.
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PART B
1. 6.2m beam is subjected to the forces shown in figure. Reduce the given system of forces to a single force or resultant and the distance of the resultant from point A.
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3. A system of forces are acting on a rigid bar as shown in figure. Reduce this system to i) A single force ii) A single force and a couple at A iii) A single force and a couple at B.
4. The figure shown, two vertical forces and a couple of moment 200Nm acting on a horizontal rod which fixed at end A. i) Determine the resultant of the system ii) Determine an equivalent system through A.
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6. Determine the magnitude and direction of a single force which keeps the system in equilibrium. The system of forces acting is shown in figure.
7. Replace the given system of forces acting on the body by a single force and couple acting at the point A.
8. Forces acting on the Hexagon ABCDEF of side 40cm is shown in figure. Determine the Net moment about A.
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9. A simply supported beam of length 10m, carries the uniformly distributed load and two point loads as shown in figure. Calculate the reactions RA and RB.
10. A beam AB 6m long is loaded as shown in figure. Determine the reactions at A and B by analytical method.
11. Find the reactions at the supports A and B of the beam shown in figure.
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12. A beam AB of span 4m, over hanging on one side upto a length of 2m, carries a uniformly distributed load of 2Kn/m over the entire length of 6m and a point load of 2 KN/m as shown in figure. Calculate the reactions at A and B.
14. Determine the reactions at the fixed support A for the loaded frame shown in figure. Take the diameter of the pulley as 200mm.
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15. A horizontal beam AB is hinged to a vertical wall at A and supported at the point C by a tie rod CD as shown in figure. Find tension in the tie rod and the reaction at A due to a vertical load of 50N at B.
15. F1 = (10i + 6j + 7k)N acts at the origin while a force F2 = -F1 acts at the length of a rod of length 10m protruding from the origin with direction cosines l = 0.6 and m=0.8. What is the moment of the forces F1 and F2 about a point P whose position vector rp = (5i + 10j +15k)m. If the position vector of S is (7.4i + 6.8j + 12K)m, find the moment of the forces about the line PS. 16. A rod AB shown in figure is held by a ball and socket joint at A and supports a mass weighing 1000N at end B. The rod is in xy plane and is inclined to y axis at an angle of 180. The rod is 12m long and has negligible weight. Find the forces in the cable DF and EB.
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17. 5m post shown in figure is acted upon by a 30KN force (F) at C and is held by a ball and socket at A and by the two cable BD and BE. Determine the tension in each cable and the reaction at A.
18. A tension T of magnitude 10KN is applied to the cable attached to the top A of rigid mast and secured to the ground at B as shown in figure. Determine moment of the tension T about the z-axis passing through the base O.
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19. A pole shown in figure is supported by a ball and socket joint at its base and by cables AB and AC. Also it is subjected to forces 300N and 600N and the forces act in a plane parallel to x-y plane. Compute the forces in the cables and reaction at the ball and socket joint.
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11. Define Radius of gyration of a body 12. State parallel axes theorem 13. State perpendicular axes theorem 14. Define polar moment of inertia 15. What is section modulus? 16. Moment of inertia of a triangular about an axis passing through centre of gravity and parallel to the base is 17. The mass moment of inertia of a circular cylinder of radius e and height h about its axis is. 18. What is meant by product of inertia of a given are 19. What is the mass moment of inertia of a thin circular plate of mass M and radius r about its diameter 20. What is the use of rouths rule? 21. The theorem of parallel axis is not used in obtaining the moment of inertia of a .. 22. Give the expressions for maximum and minimum values of principal moment of inertia.
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33. Define product of inertia 34. Give the centroid of quarter circular arc. 35. What are principal axes? 36. Express radius of gyration of a body in terms of its mass moment of inertia 37. How would you find out the moment of inertia of a plane area? 38. Define polar axis of a cross section. What is the value of moment of inertial of a circular section of 50mm radius about this axis? 39. Calculate y for the shaded area as shown in figure
40. Calculate moment of inertia Ixx for plane are shown in figure. All dimensions are in mm.
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PART B
1. Find the moments of inertia of the section given in the figure about the horizontal and vertical centroidal axes. Also find the polar moment of inertia and minimum radius gyration (All dimensions are in mm).
2. State and prove perpendicular axis theorem. 3. A rectangle of width 480mm and height 600mm has semi circle of radius 240mm cut out with its diameter coinciding with shorter edge of the rectangle. Locate the centroid of the net area and the moment of inertia about the axis parallel to the shorter edge and passing through the centroid. 4. Find the centre of gravity of the lamina as shown in figure.
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5. Find the moment of inertia of a rectangular section shown in figure about a) Its centroidal axes XX, XY; b) About its short edge (IAA), and c) An axis BB which is 20mm distance from its short edge and parallel to it.
6. Find the centroid of an unequal angle section 100mm X 80mm X 20mm 7. A semi circular area is removed from a trapezium as shown in figure. Determine the centroid of the remaining area. (All dimensions in mm)
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8. Find the moment of inertia about 1-1 and 2-2 axes for the area shown in figure.
9. Find the moment of inertia of the shaded area for the figure about the centroidal axes, the axes being parallel to x and y axes.
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11. Determine the centroid of the cross-sectional area of an unequal I-section shown in figure.
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12. Calculate the moment of inertia and radius of gyration about the x-axis for the sectioned area shown in figure.
13. Determine the product of inertia of the sectioned area about the x-y axes shown in figure.
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14. Determine the centroidal coordinates of thee area shown in figure with respect to the shown x-y coordinate system.
15. Determine the second moment of area of the section shown in figure about its base axis a-a.
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16. Locate the centroid for the plane surface shown in figure.
17. Compute the second moment of area of the plane surface shown in figure about its horizontal centroidal axis.
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18. For the plane area shown in figure, located the centroid of the area.
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19. The cross-section of a culvert is shown in figure. Compute the moment of inertia about the horizontal A-A axis.
20. Determine the moment of inertia of the section shown in figure about centroidal XX and YY axes:
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21. Derive an equation for the mass moment of inertia of cone. 22. Find the second moment of area of the plane lamina shown in figure with respect to the given XX-axis.
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23. The cross-section of a hollow circular lamina is as shown in figure. Locate the position of the centroid of the net area and then work out the moments of inertia about both the
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24. Find the plane section shown in figure determine the moment of inertia about its horizontal and vertical centroidal axes.
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PART B
1. A stone falls past a window 2m high in 0.5s. Find the height above the window from where the stone is dropped. 2. A shot is fired with a velocity of 30m/s from a point 15m in front of a vertical wall 6m high. Find the angle of projection with the horizontal to enable the shot to just clear the wall. Explain the double answer. 3. A cage descends a vertical mineshaft with an acceleration of 0.5m/s2 from rest. After the cage has traveled 25m, a stone is dropped from the top of the shaft. Determine the time taken for the stone to hit the cage and the distance traveled by the before the impact. 4. A particle is projected at such an angle that the horizontal range is thrice the greatest height. Find the angle of projection. 5. A weight of 10N resting on an inclined plane that makes an angle of 300 with horizontal is connected by a string passing over a frictionless pulley at the upper end of the plane. On the free end of the string a weight of 20N is connected. If the coefficient of friction between the plane and 10N weight is 0.2, calculate the time taken by the hanging weight to descend by 1m. Adopt work-energy method. 6. A bullet of mass 20g is fired into a body of mass 10Kg which is suspended by a string 0.8m long. Due to this impact, the body swings through an angle of 300. Find the velocity of the bullet. 7. A particle moves along X axis and its position is expressed as S = 4t3 3t2.
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26. In a police investigation of tyre marks, it was concluded that a car while in motion along a straight level road skidded for a total of 60 metres after the brakes were applied. If the coefficient of friction between the tyres and the pavement is estimated as 0.5. What was the probable speed of the car just before the brakes were applied? 27. Two vehicles approach each other in opposite lanes of a straight horizontal roadway as shown in figure. Find the time and positions at which the vehicles meet if both continue to move with constant speed.
28. Two bodies of weight 20N and 10N are connected to the two ends of light inextensible string, passing over a smooth pulley. The weight of 20N is placed on a horizontal surface which the weight of 10N is hanging free in air as shown in figure. The horizontal surface is a rough one, having coefficient between the weight 20N and the plane surface equal to 0.3, using newtons second law of motion determine (i) the acceleration of the system (ii) the tension in the string.
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29. In the oblique central impact shown in figure, the co-efficient of restitution is 0.8. the flat disks shown, slide on a smooth horizontal surface. Determine the final velocity of each disk directly after impact.
30. Two electric trains A and B leave the same station on parallel lines. The train A starts with a uniform acceleration of 0.15 m/s2 and attains a speed of 40 Km/hr when the steam is reduced to keep the speed constant. The train B leaves1 minute after, with a uniform acceleration of 0.3m/sec2 to attain a maximum speed of 70 Km/hr. When the train B will overtake the train A? 31. The angle of rotation of a body is given as the function of time by the equation = 0 + at + bt2 where 0 is the initial angular displacement, a and b are constants. Obtain the general expression for a) The angular velocity
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PART B
1. A ladder 3m long and weighing 200N is resting on the horizontal floor and leaning against a vertical wall, making 300 with the floor. The friction coefficients at the ground and wall contact surfaces are 0.35 and 0.25 respectively. It has to support a weight of 100N at the top. To prevent slipping, a string is tied to the foot of the ladder and attached to the wall in the horizontal position. Determine the minimum tension required in the string for this
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7. Determine the smallest force P required to move the block B shown in figure. (i) Block A is restrained by cable CD as shown in figure and (ii) cable CD is removed. Take s = 0.30 and k = 0.25.
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8. Determine whether the block shown in figure (i) having a mass of 40 Kg is in equilibrium and find the magnitude and direction of the friction force. Take s = 0.40 and k = 0.30
. 9. A flat belt rolls over a pulley of diameter D, making contact angle when their respective tensions are T1 and T2. Derive a relationship between the tensions, angle of contact and coefficient of friction . Show that the diameter of the pulley is immaterial. 10. A block weighing 1350N is placed on an inclined plane whose inclination to the horizontal is 370. A force of 450 N acts on the body in the upward direction parallel to the plane. Determine whether the block is in equilibrium or not, and also find the frictional force between the body and the plane. The co-efficient of static and kinetic frictions are 0.25 and 0.20 respectively. 11. Two bodies of weight 40N and 20N are connected to the two ends of a light inextensible string, passing over a smooth pulley. The weight of 40 N is placed on a smooth horizontal
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13. A wheel of diameter 560mm rolls without slipping on a flat surface. The centre of wheel is moving a velocity 20m/s. Find the velocity of the point B,D, C as shown in figure.
14. A 60mm radius drum is rigidly attached to a 100mm radius drum as shown in figure. One of the drum rolls without sliding on the surface shown, and a card is wound around the other drum knowing that at the instant shown. The centre point velocity is 160mm/sec. and acceleration 60mm/sec2. Find the acceleration of the point A, B & C of the drum.
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15. In a crank connecting rod mechanism the lengths of crank and the rod are 75mm and 200mm. The crank is rotating at 2000rpm. Determine the velocity of the piston when the crank is at angle 400 with horizontal. 16. A flywheel 500mm diameter accelerated uniformly from rest to 300 rpm in 15 seconds. Find the velocity and acceleration of a point on the rim 2S after starting. 17. A bar AB of length 1m has its a and B constrained to move on horizontal floor and vertical wall respectively. The end A moves with constant velocity of 5 m/s. Find (i) angular velocity of the bar (ii) Velocity of end B and (iii) the velocity of the midpoint of the bar when the axis of bar makes an angle of 300 with the floor. 18. A wheel rotating about a fixed axis of 20 revolutions per minute is uniformly accelerated for 70 seconds during which time it makes 50 revolutions. Find the a) Angular velocity at the end of this interval b) Time required for the velocity to reach 100 revolutions per minute. 19. A 500mm diameter flywheel is brought uniformly from rest up to a speed of 300 rpm in 20 sec. Determine the velocity and acceleration of a point on the rim 2 sec after. Starting from rest. 20. The constant angular acceleration of a pulley is 4 rad/sec2 and is angular speed is 3 rad/sec. Determine the radius of the pulley if the total acceleration of a point on the rim of the pulley is 3.5 m/sec2.
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