The document provides instructions and 10 problems for a statics of rigid bodies take-home midterm exam. Students are to show detailed solutions on bond paper using proper formatting and units. They may collaborate but must individually present solutions. Problems involve determining resultants and moments of forces acting on structures such as barges, posts, plates, and booms.
The document provides instructions and 10 problems for a statics of rigid bodies take-home midterm exam. Students are to show detailed solutions on bond paper using proper formatting and units. They may collaborate but must individually present solutions. Problems involve determining resultants and moments of forces acting on structures such as barges, posts, plates, and booms.
The document provides instructions and 10 problems for a statics of rigid bodies take-home midterm exam. Students are to show detailed solutions on bond paper using proper formatting and units. They may collaborate but must individually present solutions. Problems involve determining resultants and moments of forces acting on structures such as barges, posts, plates, and booms.
The document provides instructions and 10 problems for a statics of rigid bodies take-home midterm exam. Students are to show detailed solutions on bond paper using proper formatting and units. They may collaborate but must individually present solutions. Problems involve determining resultants and moments of forces acting on structures such as barges, posts, plates, and booms.
follow when performing your detailed solutions. Failure to comply with those requirements will be given a corresponding deduction.
a. Use long (8.5” x 13”) bond paper.
b. Show all the pertinent solutions on the following problems. Include necessary figures/illustrations/diagrams. 3. The force R is the resultant of the forces c. Use italics in expressing scalars while P1, P2, and P3 acting on the rectangular boldface for vectors. plate. Find P1 and P2 if R = 40 kN and P3 = d. Watch out for the proper units for every 20 kN. required quantity. e. Express your answers in 4 decimal places. f. Collaborating with other students will be permitted but the presentation of the activity should be individually performed.
1. The two tugboats apply the forces P and Q
to the barge, where P = 76 kN and Q = 52 kN. Determine the resultant of P and Q using parallelogram law.
4. The magnitude of the force Q is 250 N.
Determine the moments of Q about (a) point O; and (b) point C.
2. The vertical post is secured by three
cables. The cables are pre-tensioned so that the resultant of the cable forces F, Q, and P is directed along the z-axis. If F = 120 lb, find P and Q. 5. The moment of the force F about the x- 8. Two cable tensions and a couple act on axis is 1080 m.N. Determine the moment the rod OAB. Determine the equivalent of F about the axis AB. force-couple system with the force acting at O.
6. Determine the combined moment of the
couple C and the force P about the axis AB. Use C = 80 m.N and P = 400 N.
9. The resultant of the three cable tensions
acts along the y-direction. Determine T1 and T3 given that T2 = 980 lb.
7. Replace the force and the couple shown
by an equivalent force-couple system with the force acting at (a) at point B; and (b) 10. Referring on the figure on item (9), point D. determine the resultant of the three cable tensions that act on the horizontal boom if T1 = 900 lb, T2 = 500 lb, and T3 = 300 lb.
