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Problem Name: Set No. 5 Statics Course & Year: Date

1. This document contains 10 statics problems involving forces, weights, beams, ladders, and springs. The problems ask the reader to calculate things like fulcrum positions, tensions in cables, magnitudes and directions of forces, and locations to place weights. 2. The problems provide diagrams and information about object lengths, weights, distances, and applied forces. The reader is asked to find values like tensions, locations to place weights, and magnitudes and directions of forces needed for equilibrium. 3. Solutions to the problems are not shown, rather blanks are provided for the reader to show their work and write their answers.

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Problem Name: Set No. 5 Statics Course & Year: Date

1. This document contains 10 statics problems involving forces, weights, beams, ladders, and springs. The problems ask the reader to calculate things like fulcrum positions, tensions in cables, magnitudes and directions of forces, and locations to place weights. 2. The problems provide diagrams and information about object lengths, weights, distances, and applied forces. The reader is asked to find values like tensions, locations to place weights, and magnitudes and directions of forces needed for equilibrium. 3. Solutions to the problems are not shown, rather blanks are provided for the reader to show their work and write their answers.

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Problem Name:

Set No. 5 STATICS Course & Year:


Date:

1. Weights of 2, 4, 6 and 8 N are fastened to the corners of a 2 m  2 m frame. If it weighs


10 N, where would the fulcrum (the support point) be placed to balance the frame and the
weights?

Ans.

2. A ladder 12 m long leans against a vertical frictionless wall with its lower end 3 m from
the wall. The ladder weighs 40 N. Find the magnitude and direction of the force exerted
on the lower end of the ladder.

Ans.

3. A uniform 25 N beam 6 m long is carried by two men A and B, one at each end of the
beam.

a) If A exerts a force of 20 N, where must a load of 45 N be placed on the beam?


b) What force does B exert?

Ans. a)
b)

4. A 3 m long weightless beam is supported at each end by cables. A painter weighing 900
N stands 1 m from the left cable. Calculate the tension in each cable.

Ans.

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5. Where must a 500 N weight be hung on a uniform 150 N pole with a length of 5 m so
that a girl at one end supports ¼ as much as a man at the other end?

Ans.

6. Find the tension in each cord in Fig. 5.6 if the weight W of the suspended body is 150 N.

350 650

250 A 550 A B
B

C C

W
W

Fig. 5.6
Ans.

7. Find the magnitude and direction of F3 in Fig. 5.7 for the given system to be in
equilibrium.

F3 F 2 = 15N

 25 0

75 0

F 1 = 30N

Fig. 5.7

Ans.

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8. A uniform pole 20 ft. long and weighing 80 lbs is held by a boy 2 ft from one end while
a man carries the same pole 5 ft from the other end. At what point should a load of 100
lbs be placed so that the man will carry twice as much weight as the boy.

Ans.

9. A springboard diver of weight 582 N stands at one end of a uniform 4.48 m diving board
of weight 142 N. The board is attached to two pedestals, one at the other end of the
board and the second pedestal 1.55 m from the first. Find the force in each of the two
pedestals.

Ans.

10. A ladder, whose length is 10 m and whose mass is 40 kg rests against a frictionless
vertical wall. Its upper end is a distance of 7.7 m above the ground. The center of mass
of the ladder is 1 3 of the way up the ladder. The coefficient of static friction between the
ladder and the ground is 0.53. If a carpenter climbs 85% of the way up the ladder before
it starts to slip, find the mass of the carpenter.

Ans.

70

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