MCQ’S

1. Newton’s first law of motion is also known as b) The internal forces of the body
the law of:
c) The body without any forces
a) Inertia
d) The resultant force only
b) Acceleration
7. The SI unit of force is:
c) Momentum
a) Newton
d) Action-reaction
b) Joule
2. Newton’s second law of motion gives the
c) Watt
relationship between:
d) Pascal
a) Force and acceleration
8. Friction force always acts:
b) Force and velocity
a) Perpendicular to the surface
c) Force and inertia
b) Parallel to the surface
d) Force and energy
c) In the direction of motion
3. Newton’s third law states that for every
action there is: d) Opposite to the direction of motion
a) An equal and opposite reaction 9. Static friction is:
b) A greater reaction a) The friction that occurs when a body is in
motion
c) A lesser reaction
b) The friction before motion starts
d) No reaction
c) Independent of surface roughness
4. The parallelogram law is used to find the
resultant of: d) Greater than limiting friction
a) Two non-parallel forces 11. The coefficient of friction is defined as the
ratio of:
b) Two parallel forces
a) Normal force to friction force
c) Concurrent forces
b) Friction force to normal force
d) Non-concurrent forces
c) Limiting friction to normal force
5. The law of transmissibility states that the
force acting on a body can be moved: d) Static friction to kinetic friction
a) Anywhere on its line of action 12. Which of the following best describes
limiting friction?
b) Perpendicular to its line of action
a) Friction acting on a body at rest
c) Along the axis of the body
b) The maximum static friction before motion
d) Anywhere in space
starts
6. A free body diagram represents:
c) The friction during motion
a) The external forces acting on a body
 d) The friction acting on rough surfaces only 18. Which of the following is true for
equilibrium of forces?
13. Which law is used to resolve forces into
perpendicular components? a) The sum of all forces is zero

a) Law of transmissibility b) The sum of moments is zero

b) Parallelogram law c) Both a and b

c) Varignon’s theorem d) The body is moving with constant velocity

d) Newton’s second law 19. What is the role of the friction cone?

14. According to Newton’s gravitational law, the a) To represent the angle of friction
force between two masses is:
b) To depict the limits of frictional force
a) Inversely proportional to the square of the
c) To determine whether sliding will occur
distance between them
d) To measure normal force
b) Directly proportional to the square of the
distance between them 20. A body in equilibrium has:
c) Independent of the distance a) No unbalanced forces
d) Depends on the shape of the objects b) Balanced torques but unbalanced forces
15. Varignon’s theorem helps in calculating the: c) Constant velocity with unbalanced forces
a) Resultant force of non-concurrent forces d) Constant acceleration
b) Moment of a force 21. Two forces of 10 N and 20 N act at an angle
of 90°. The resultant force is:
c) Equilibrium of forces
a) 10 N
d) Acceleration of a body
b) 30 N
16. Which of the following is true for the system
of coplanar concurrent forces? c) 22.36 N
a) All forces intersect at a common point d) 14.14 N
b) Forces act parallel to each other 22. A box weighing 50 N is placed on an inclined
plane with a coefficient of static friction of
c) Forces are perpendicular to each other
0.5. The limiting friction is:
d) Forces are in equilibrium
a) 25 N
17. A force system where all forces lie in the
b) 50 N
same plane but do not meet at a single point
is: c) 75 N
a) Coplanar concurrent forces d) 100 N
b) Coplanar non-concurrent forces 23. If a force of 5 N acts on a body at 30° to the
horizontal, the horizontal component of the
c) Spatial concurrent forces
force is:
d) Parallel forces
a) 4.33 N
 b) 2.5 N b) The object will remain at rest or move with

c) 3 N constant velocity.
c) The object will rotate.
d) 5 N
d) The object will fall.
24. A system of three forces acting at a point is
in equilibrium. The forces are 5 N, 8 N, and 29. When using Lami's theorem, what do the
a third force F. The value of F is:
angles represent?
a) 3 N
a) The angles between the forces
b) 13 N
b) The angles of elevation
c) 5 N c) The angles of friction
d) 8 N d) The angles of rotation

25. A body of mass 10 kg is sliding on a surface 30. What type of friction acts on an object that
with a coefficient of kinetic friction of 0.2.
is at rest?
The frictional force is:

a) 19.6 N a) Kinetic friction

b) 2 N b) Static friction
c) Rolling friction
c) 98 N
d) Fluid friction
d) 39.2 N
31. What is friction?
26. Which of the following is NOT a
requirement for a body to be in static a) A type of energy
equilibrium?
b) A force that opposes motion between two
a) The sum of horizontal forces must be zero. surfaces
b) The sum of vertical forces must be
zero. c) A measure of speed
c) The sum of moments about any point must be d) A type of acceleration
zero.
d) The body must be moving at a constant 32. The term "resultant" in the context of force
speed. systems refers to what?
27. In a free-body diagram, what do the arrows
a) The total mass of the system
represent?
b) The combined effect of multiple forces acting
a) The direction and magnitude of forces
on a body
b) The weight of the object
c) The maximum force acting on a body
c) The type of material
d) The average of all acting forces
d) The speed of the object
33. How do you calculate the resultant of two
28. If the forces acting on an object are
forces acting at an angle?
balanced, what can you conclude?
a) By multiplying the two forces
a) The object will accelerate.
b) By using the Pythagorean theorem 38. The frictional force on a 20 kg box moving at
c) By using the sine and cosine law constant velocity across a floor with a
coefficient of friction of 0.3 is:
d) By adding the forces directly
a) 60 N
34. What is the primary purpose of resolving
b) 6 N
forces into their components?
c) 58.8 N
a) To simplify complex force systems for analysis
d) 3 N
b) To increase the magnitude of the
39. A ladder is leaning against a wall. The angle
resultant
of friction between the ladder and the floor
c) To determine the direction of motion is 30°. The coefficient of friction is:
d) To find the weight of the object
a) 0.5
35. If a force of 50 N acts at an angle of 30° to the b) 0.577
horizontal, what is the horizontal component
c) 0.866
of the force?
d) 1.0
a) 25 N 40. In a system of coplanar non-concurrent
b) 43.3 N forces, the moment about any point is:
c) 15 N a) The same for all points
d) 50 N
b) Different for different points
36. What is the resultant of three forces of 10 N, c) Zero at the center of mass
15 N, and 20 N acting in the same direction?
d) Only dependent on the applied forces
a) 25 N 41. A body is in static equilibrium when:
b) 35 N
a) It is at rest
c) 45 N
b) All forces and moments are balanced
d) 55 N
c) Only the forces are balanced
37. What is the condition for a system of
d) Only the moments are balanced
coplanar concurrent forces to be in
equilibrium? 42. To achieve equilibrium for a system of
coplanar concurrent forces, the sum of the
a) The sum of all forces is equal to the
forces in the x-direction should be:
weight of the object.
a) Equal to zero
b) The sum of all horizontal and vertical
components of forces must be zero. b) Equal to the sum in the y-direction
c) The forces must be equal in magnitude. c) Double the resultant force
d) The forces must act at right angles. d) Greater than zero
43. If three forces acting on a point are in 48. Which type of friction acts when an object
equilibrium, what can be said about their rolls over a surface?
magnitudes?
a) Static friction
a) They are all equal.
b) Kinetic friction
b) Their vector sum is zero.
c) Rolling friction
c) They must act in the same direction.
d) Fluid friction
d) They must be parallel.
49. The friction angle is defined as the angle
44. Lami's theorem applies to which type of
between:
force system?
a) Normal force and frictional force
a) Only parallel forces
b) Coplanar concurrent forces b) Applied force and frictional force
c) Coplanar non-concurrent forces c) Resultant force and normal force
d) Non-coplanar forces d) Frictional force and contact surface
45. According to Lami's theorem, which 50. The coefficient of kinetic friction is always:
equation correctly represents the a) Greater than static friction
relationship between three forces acting at a
b) Equal to static friction
point?
c) Less than static friction
a) F1/sin(α) = F2/sin(β) = F3/sin(γ)
d) Dependent on the weight of the body
b) F1 + F2 + F3 = 0
51. The resultant force in a system of concurrent
c) ΣF = 0
coplanar forces is found using:
d) F = ma
a) Parallelogram law
46. What is the first step in analyzing a system b) Law of transmissibility
of coplanar concurrent forces
c) Varignon’s theorem
a) Measure the angles d) Newton’s second law
b) Draw a free-body diagram
52. The unit of the moment of force is:
c) Calculate the resultant
a) Newton-meter
d) Apply Lami's theorem.
b) Joule
47. What is the term for the maximum force of c) Pascal
static friction that must be overcome to start d) Watt
moving an object?
53. What is the parallelogram law of forces?
a) Kinetic friction
a) The sum of forces acting on a body is
b) Limiting friction
zero.
c) Dynamic friction
d) Static force
 b) The resultant of two forces is equal to the a) By a single resultant force
square root of the sum of the squares of b) By a polygon of forces
the individual forces. c) By a line segment
c) The resultant of two forces acting at an d) By parallel lines
angle can be represented as the diagonal
57. What is the effect of adding a force that is
of a parallelogram.
equal in magnitude and opposite in direction
d) The force is equal to mass times
to the resultant of a system of forces?
acceleration.
a) The system will remain unchanged.
54. What is meant by co-planar forces?
b) The resultant will become zero.
a) Forces acting in different dimensions c) The resultant will increase.
b) Forces acting in the same plane d) The resultant will change direction.
c) Forces that do not meet at a point
58. What is the significance of the equations of
d) Forces acting in opposite directions
equilibrium in engineering mechanics?
55. What is the resultant of two equal forces of 5
a) They determine the type of material used.
N acting in opposite directions? b) They help in calculating forces acting on
a body in motion.
a) 10 N
c) They ensure that structures can support
b) 5N loads without movement.
c) 0N d) They provide information on material
properties.
d) 2.5 N

56. In a co-planar non-concurrent force system,