ENGINEERING MECHANICS – PRACTICE ELEMENTS

1. A box suspended by a rope is pulled to one side a. Less mass and less weight
by a horizontal force. The tension in the rope b. Less mass and the same weight
a. is less than before c. The same mass and less weight
b. is unchanged 7. A car towing a trailer is accelerating on a level
c. is greater than before road. The car exerts a force on the trailer whose
d. any of the above magnitude is
2. The dimension of acceleration and mass is the a. The same as that of the force the trailer
same unit as that of exerts on the car
a. Length b. The same as that of the force the trailer
b. Work exerts on the road
c. Weight c. The same as that of the force the road
d. Section modulus exerts on the road
3. The coefficient of friction for dry surfaces: d. Greater than that of the force the trailer
a. Depends on the materials and the finish exerts on the car
condition of the surface 8. In Newton’s third law of motion, the action and
b. Depends only on the finish condition of the reaction forces
surfaces a. Act on the same object
c. Does not depend on the materials b. Act on different objects
d. Depends on the composition of the c. Do not necessarily have the same
materials only magnitude and do not necessarily have the
4. Relative to the force needed to keep a box same line of action.
moving at constant velocity across a floor, to d. Have the same magnitude but do not have
start the box moving usually needs necessarily the same line of action.
a. Less force 9. A jumper of weight w presses down on the floor
b. The same force with a force of magnitude F, and the jumper
c. More force leaves the floor as a result. The force the floor
d. Any of the above, depending on the natures exerted on the jumper must have had a
of the surface in contact magnitude
5. When two surfaces are in contact, the frictional a. Equal to w and less than F
force between them depends on which one or b. Equal to w and equal to F
more of the following? c. More than w and equal to F
a. The normal force pressing one surface d. More than w and more than F
against the other 10. Kinematics is the study of _____ without
b. All of these reference to the forces that causes the body to
c. Whether the surface are stationary or in move.
relative motion a. Motion
d. Whether a lubricant is used or not b. Force
6. Compared with her mass and weight on Earth, c. Forces and motion
an astronaut on Venus, where the acceleration d. Matter
of gravity is 8.8 m/s2, has 11. What are the three fundamental quantities?

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 a. Volume, weight, time a. Acceleration
b. Density, mass, volume b. Distance
c. Length, mass, time c. Displacement
d. Speed, distance, time d. Velocity
12. Which of the following is a measure of the 17. Which of the following is not a vector quantity?
inertia of a body? a. Velocity
a. Weight b. Acceleration
b. Volume c. Speed
c. Density d. Displacement
d. Mass 18. The ability of moving body to perform work is
13. What is the speed of a projectile if it is at the called:
top of its path? a. Internal energy
a. Unchanged b. Kinetic energy
b. Minimum c. Potential energy
c. Doubled d. Flow work
d. Maximum 19. The direction of the _____ is toward the center
14. What happens to the mechanical advantage of of the circle in which the body moves
a lever if its effort distance increases? a. Centripetal acceleration
a. Increases b. Radial acceleration
b. Remains the same c. Centrifugal acceleration
c. Decreases d. Tangential acceleration
d. Becomes zero 20. The process of obtaining the resultant of any
15. An object’s acceleration as-it starts to fall is: number of vectors/
a. Equal to g a. Scalar quantity
b. Less than g b. Vector quantity
c. Greater than g c. Vector composition
d. Zero d. Vector resolution
16. Which of the following is a scalar quantity? - End -