S R K R Engineering College, Bhimavaram

Department of Civil Engineering

I Semester, II –Mid Examinations
Class: I/IV EEE A SEC ENGINEERING MECHANICS Date: 30/11/2017
Time: 90 min. Max Marks: 30M

1.
a. Find out the forces in the member of the truss, loaded and supported as shown in Fig 1-a. state
the nature of the force in each member.
b. State the assumptions made for a perfect truss.

OR
c. Find the force P required to pull block B shown in fig – 1 – c. Coefficient of friction between A
and B is 0.3 and between B and floor is 0.25. Weights of A = 20 kg and B = 30kg.
d. Define angle of repose and laws of friction.

Fig – 1 – a
Fig – 1 – c

2.
a. A stone is dropped gently from the top of a tower. During its last one second of motion it falls
through 64% of the height. Find the height of the tower.
b. The motion of a particle moving in a straight line is given by the expression s=t3-3t2+2t+5
where S is the displacement in meters and t is time in seconds. Determine the
i. Velocity and acceleration after 4 sec.
ii. Maximum or minimum velocity and corresponding displacement
iii. Time at which velocity is zero.

OR
c. A boy throws a ball so that it may just clear a wall 3.6m high. The boy is at a distance of 4.8m
from the wall. The ball was found to hit the ground at a distance of 3.6m on the other side of the
wall. Find the least velocity with which the ball can be thrown.
d. A motor gives disk A an angular acceleration of α A = (06t2 + 0.75) rad/sec2, where t is in seconds.
If the initial angular velocity of the disk is ωO = 6rad/sec, radius of the motor is 0.15m. determine
the magnitude of the velocity and acceleration of block B when t = 2sec
3.
a. Define D’Alemberts’ principle
b. In the system shown in fig – 3 – a, the pulleys are to be considered massless and frictionless. The
masses are in kg. Determine the acceleration of each mass and the tension in the fixed cord by
using D’Alemberts principle.

OR
c. Two blocks mA = 10kg and mB = 5kg are connected with cord and pulley as shown in fig – 3 – c.
determine the velocity of each block when system is started from rest and block B gets displaced
by 2m. Consider co efficient of kinetic friction is 0.2 between block A and horizontal surface.
d. A glass ball is dropped onto a smooth horizontal floor from which it bounces to a height of 6m.
What is the coefficient of restitution between the glass and the floor. Also determine the height
from where the glass ball was dropped.

Fig – 3 – c

Fig – 3 – a