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Engineering Mechanics Questions

This document contains 20 revision questions about engineering mechanics concepts for a unit 1 exam at St. Joseph's College of Engineering. The questions cover topics such as systems of forces, kinetics and kinematics, Lami's theorem, laws of forces, units and dimensions, transmissibility, vector operations, equilibrium, resultants, free body diagrams, and Newton's laws of motion.

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Engineering Mechanics Questions

This document contains 20 revision questions about engineering mechanics concepts for a unit 1 exam at St. Joseph's College of Engineering. The questions cover topics such as systems of forces, kinetics and kinematics, Lami's theorem, laws of forces, units and dimensions, transmissibility, vector operations, equilibrium, resultants, free body diagrams, and Newton's laws of motion.

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St Joseph’s College of Engineering

GE 8292 Engineering Mechanics


Unit I Revision Questions

1. Distinguish the following system of forces with a suitable sketch. a) Coplanar b) Collinear
2. Define Kinetics and Kinematics
3. State Lami’s theorem with a sketch.
4. State parallelogram law and triangle law of forces.
5. What are fundamental and derived units? Give examples
6. Distinguish between units and dimensions. Give examples.
7. Define principle of transmissibility.
8. A force vector F= 700i + 1500j is applied to a bolt. Determine the magnitude of the force
and angle form it’s the horizontal.
9. A force of magnitude 50 KN is acting along the line joining A (2,0,6) and B(3,-2,0)m.
Write the vector form of the force.
10. Two forces of magnitude 50 KN and 80 KN are acting on a particle, such that the angle
between the two is 135°. If both the force are acting away from the particle, calculate the
resultant and find its direction.
11. A 100N force acts at the origin in a direction defined by the angles θx = 75° and θy =
45°.Determine θz and the component of the force in the Z-direction.
12. Write the equations of equilibrium of a coplanar system of forces.
13. Differentiate between ‘Resultant’ and ‘Equilibrant’
14. Find the resultant of an 800N force acting towards eastern direction and a 500N force
acting towards north eastern direction.
15. Find the magnitude of the two forces such that if they act at right angles, their resultant is
10N. But if they act at 60° their resultant is 13N.
16. Differentiate between particle and rigid body.
17. What is free body diagram?
18. State the necessary and sufficient condition for static equilibrium of a particle in two
dimensions.
19. Define unit vector.
20. State Newton's three laws of motion.

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