Engineering Mechanics filed by LCSAWAL SY 2012-2013 Department of Environment and Sanitary Engineering (ENSE) First Semester S.Y.

2012-2013 FINAL EXAM Name: _______________________________ Test I. Multiple Choice: (Encircle the letter only) 1. A car moving at 20m/s along a horizontal road has its brakes suddenly applied and eventually comes to rest. What is the shortest distance in which it can be stopped if the friction coefficient between tires and road is 0.90? Assume that all four wheels brake identically. A. 15.8 m B. 18.9 m C 22.7 m D. 32.2 m 2. What power in kW is supplied to a 12 hp motor having an efficiency of 90 percent when it is delivering its full rated output? A. 10.5 kW B. 9.95 kW C. 13.4 kW D. 8.25 kW 3. A train is travelling with a speed of 60 mi/hr is brought to an emergency stop in 2000 ft. What is the time required for the train to stop? A. 50 s B. 35 s C. 46 s D. 60 s 4. A 20 kg electric motor is mounted on four vertical springs, each having a spring constant of 30N/cm. Find the period with which the motor vibrates vertically. A. 0.154 s B. 0.384 s C. 0.456 s D. 0.256 s 5. How much heat energy is needed to raise the temperature of 20 kg of liquid water from 5 Celsius to 20 Celsius? A. 1257 KJ B. 1487 KJ C. 2514 KJ D. 2154 KJ 6. A certain hydraulic jack in a gas station lifts a 900kg car a distance of 0.25 cm when a force of 150N pushes a piston through a distance of 20cm. Find its efficiency. A. 50% B. 80% C. 74% D. 63% 7. A hoop of mass 6 kg and radius of gyration 40cm is rotating at 300 rpm. Find its rotational Kinetic Energy. A. 473 J B. 376 J C. 250 J D. 545 J 8. An object is thrown outward from a cliff 1102.5 m high with a horizontal velocity of 20 m/s. Calculate the horizontal distance travelled by the object by the time it reaches the ground. A. 300 m B. 350 m C. 250 m D. 140 m 9. An object is dropped from rest from a height of 49 meters. What is the speed of the object as it hits the ground? A. 35 m/s B. 31 m/s C. 28 m/s D. 19 m/s 10. A jackscrew has a lever arm of 40cm and a pitch of 5mm. If the efficiency is 30 percent, what force F is required to lift a load w of 270 kg? A. 18.7 N B. 25.4 N C. 12.4 N D. 17.5 N Program: ___________ Date:___________

Engineering Mechanics filed by LCSAWAL SY 2012-2013 11. An 8g bullet is fired horizontally into a 9kg block of wood and sticks in it. The block, which is free to move, has velocity of 40cm/s after impact. Find the initial velocity of the bullet. A. 450 m/s B. 350 m/s C. 220 m/s D. 510 m/s 12. When a mass m is hung on a spring, the spring stretches 9cm. Determine its period of vibration if it is then pulled down a little and released. A. 0.51 s B. 0.35 s C. 0.49 s D. 0.60 s 13. A ball dropped from a height h above a tile floor and rebounds to a height of 0.65h. Find the coefficient of restitution between the ball and the floor. A. 0.91 B. 0.81 C. 0.53 D. 0.75 14. A tuning fork makes 284 vib/s in air. Compute the wavelength of the tone emitted at 31 Celsius. A. 1.55 m B. 2.12 m C. 1.23 m D. 2.22 m 15. A 0.25hp motor is used to lift a load at the rate of 5.00 cm/s. How great a load can it lift at this constant speed? A. 381 kg B. 350 kg C. 421 kg D. 400 kg 16. By the use of a pulley a man raises a load 120lb to a height of 40 ft in 65 s. Find the average horsepower required. A. 0.18 hp B. 0.19 hp C. 0.13 hp D. 0.04 hp 17. A 200 N force is applied to an object that moves in the direction of the force. If the object travels with a constant velocity of 10 m/s, calculate the power expended on the object. A. 20 W B. 2000 W C. 200 W D. 2,200 W 18. A spring whose constant is 2 N/m is stretched 0.4 m from its equilibrium position. What is the increase in the elastic potential energy of the spring? A. 0.26 J B. 0.16 J C. 1.02 J D. 2.01 J 19. A stone is thrown straight downward with initial speed 8m/s from a height of 25 m. Find the speed with which it strikes the ground. A. 25 m/s B. 15 m/s C. 23.5 m/s D. 19 m/s 20. A 0.5 kg ball falls past a window that is 1.5 m in vertical length. How much did the kinetic energy of the ball increase as it fell past the window? A. 14.72 J B. 0.75 J C. 7.35 J D. 3 J 21. A ball is dropped from an initial height of 6 m above the floor. How high will the ball rebound if the coefficient of restitution between the ball and the floor is 0.92? A. 5.08 m B. 3.15 m C. 4.18 m D. 6.07 m 22. A 1300 kg car is to accelerate from rest to a speed of 30 m/s in a time of 12 s as it climbs a 15 degree hill. Assuming uniform acceleration, what minimum horsepower is needed to accelerate the car in this ways? A. 132 hp B. 142 hp C. 150 hp D. 128 hp

Engineering Mechanics filed by LCSAWAL SY 2012-2013 23. A solid disk flywheel (l=200 kg-m) is rotating with a speed of 900 rpm. What is the rotational kinetic of the flywheel? A. 888 kJ B. 778 kJ C. 878 kJ D. 977 kJ 24. An 8g bullet is fired horizontally into a 9kg block of wood and sticks in it. The block, which is free to move, has velocity of 40cm/s after impact. Find the initial velocity of the bullet. A. 350 m/s B. 520 m/s C. 450 m/s D. 480 m/s 25. A certain 1200kg car can accelerate from rest to a speed of 25m/s in a time of 8.00s. What average power must the motor produce to cause this acceleration? Ignore friction losses. A. 62.8 Hp B. 50.2 Hp C. 52.8 Hp D. 60.2 Hp 26. A projectile is fired with a horizontal velocity of 30m/s from the top of a cliff 80m. How far from the foot of the cliff will it strike? A. 112 m B. 230 m C. 121 m D. 151 m 27. The position of an object is +35 meters at 2.0 seconds and is +87 meters at 15 seconds. Calculate the average velocity of the object. A. 7.18 m/s B. 11.65 m/s C. 4 m/s D. 6 m/s 28. A 5 kg object travels clockwise in a horizontal circle with a speed of 20 m/s. If the radius of the circular path is 25 m, calculate the centripetal force on the object. A. 80 N B. 60 N C. 50 N D. 45 N 29. What average force is necessary to stop a bullet of mass 20 gm and speed 250 m/s as it penetrates wood to a distance of 12 cm? A. 5.208 N B. 3.280 N C. 1.520 N D. 2.020 N 30. A 0.9 kg body attached to a cord is whirled in a vertical circle of radius 2.5m. What minimum speed must it have at the top of the circle so as not to depart from the circular path? A. 2.86 m/s B. 3.36 m/s C. 5.78 m/s D. 4.95 m/s 31. What is the maximum speed at which a car can round a curve of 100 m radius on a level road if the coefficient of static friction between the tires and road is 0.78? A. 17.45 m/s B. 27.65 m/s C. 25.64 m/s D. 18.15 m/s 32. A 5 kg gun fires a 2- gm bullet. If the bullet exits the gun at 800 m/s, calculate the recoil velocity of the gun. A. 0.52 m/s B. 0.32 m/s C. 0.65 m/s D. 0.17 m/s 33. A 100-N object is moved 2 meters up an inclined plane whose end is lifted 0.5 m from the floor. If a force of 50 N is needed to accomplish this task, calculate the efficiency of the inclined plane. A. 50% B. 55% C. 60% D. 0% 34. A horizontal force of 140 N is needed to pull a 60 kg box across the horizontal floor at a constant speed. What is the coefficient of friction between the floor and the box? A. 0.238 B. 0.620 C. 0.302 D. 0.421

Engineering Mechanics filed by LCSAWAL SY 2012-2013 35. A car wheel 30 cm in radius is turning at a rate of 8 rev/s when the car begins to slow uniformly to rest in a time of 14 s. Find the number of revolutions made by the wheel in this time. A. 40 rev. B. 106 rev. C. 56 rev. D. 98 rev. 36. A uniform solid sphere rolls on a horizontal surface at 20m/s and then rolls up the incline. If friction losses are negligible, what will be the value of h where the ball stops? A. 28.6 m B. 26.8 m C. 18.7 m D. 14.8 m 37. What is the maximum speed at which a car can round a curve of 25m radius on a level road if the coefficient of static friction between the tires and road is 0.80? A. 17 m/s B. 14 m/s C. 25 m/s D. 18 m/s 38. An ideal gas has a volume of 1 liter at 1 atm and -20 Celsius. To how many atmospheric pressure must it be subjected to be compressed to liter when the temperature is 40 Celsius? A. 3.54 atm B. 5.47 atm C. 2.47 atm D. 3.74 atm 39. An automobile moving at 30 m/s is approaching a factory whistle that has a frequency of 500Hz. If the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, what is the apparent frequency of the whistle as heard by the driver? A. 544 Hz B. 456 Hz C. 654 Hz D. 454 Hz 40. A car has wheels of radius 30cm. It starts from rest and accelerates uniformly to a speed of 15 m/s in a time of 8s. Find the number of rotations one wheel makes in this time. A. 25 rev B. 32 rev C. 45 rev D. 30 rev 41. A pendulum whose bob weighs 12 N is lifted and released from a vertical height of 0.40 m from its equilibrium position. Calculate the velocity of the bob at the equilibrium point. A. 3.5 m/s B. 2.5 m/s C. 2.8 m/s D. 1.6 m/s 42. A runner makes one lap around a 200 m track in a time of 25s. What was the runners average velocity in meter per second? A. 8 B. 4 C. 0 D. 2 43. An object travelling in a circular path makes 1200 revolutions in 1 hour. If the radius of the path is 10 m, calculate the speed of the object. A. 19 m/s B. 21 m/s C. 20 m/s D. 22 m/s 44. A 0.5 kg object travelling at 2 m/s east collides with a 0.3kg object at 4 m/s west. After the collision, the 0.3 kg object is travelling at 2.0 m/s east. What is the magnitude and the direction of the velocity of the first object? A.1.6 m/s west B. 1.8 m/s east C. 2.1 m/s west D. 1.2 m/s east 45. A boat travels 10 m/s in still water. If it heads 60 degrees S of W in a current that moves at 12 m/s due east, what is the resultant velocity of the boat? A. 11.1 m/s @ 51 degrees S of E B. 21.1 m/s @ 51 degrees S of E C. 12.1 m/s @ 51 degrees S of W D. 14.1 m/s @ 51 degrees N of E

Engineering Mechanics filed by LCSAWAL SY 2012-2013 46. A man in a hot-air balloon drops an apple at a height of 100 m. If the balloon is rising at 15 m/s, find the highest point reach by the apple. A. 100.2 m B.111.5 m C. 89.74 m D. 95.97 m 47. A stone is thrown straight upward and it rises to a height of 20 cm. With what speed was it thrown? A. 12.6 m/s B. 19.8 m/s C. 17.7 m/s D. 23.8 m/s 48. A 4-tonner trailer traverses a 250 m highway curve. At what maximum velocity will the trailer be given to maintain motion along the curve if the coefficient of friction between the tires and the pavement is 0.30? A. 97.65 kph B. 107.4 kph C. 86.75 kph D. 110.7 kph 49. An organ pipe resonates to a frequency of 224.00Hz when the temperature is 15 Celsius. What will be its resonance frequency when the temperature is 24 Celsius? A. 227.6 Hz B. 223.7 Hz C. 145.5 Hz D. 235.1 Hz 50. A 15g bullet is fired horizontally into a 3kg block of wood suspended by a long cord. The bullet sticks in the block. Compute the velocity of the bullet if the impact causes the block to swing 10cm above its initial level. A. 450 m/s B. 281 m/s C. 381 m/s D. 152 m/s