1. What is Engineering Mechanics?

a) Study of bodies under motion without considering forces

b) Application of mechanics to issues involving common engineering aspects
c) Study of bodies only under rest
d) Study of bodies only under motion

2. What is Mechanics?
a) Branch of science which deals with failure analysis
b) Branch of science which deals with conditions of rest or motion of bodies
c) Branch of science which deals with the study of bodies only under rest
d) Branch of science which deals with the study of bodies only under motion

3. Which of the following is a branch of mechanics?

a) Statics and kinetics
b) Statics and dynamics
c) Kinematics and dynamics
d) Kinetics and kinematics

4. Which of the following is the basic law for mechanics?

a) Newton’s law of viscosity
b) Parallelogram law
c) Newton’s laws of motion
d) Hooke’s law

5. Which of the following is termed as an action of pull or push of a body at rest or

motion?
a) Torque
b) Momentum
c) Work
d) Force

6. What is Kinematics?
a) Branch of dynamics which deals with the study of bodies under motion without
considering forces
b) Branch of dynamics which deals with the study of bodies at rest
c) Branch of dynamics which deals with the study of bodies under motion by considering
forces
d) Branch of dynamics which deals with the study of bodies under the motion

7. Which of the following is the condition for the three-force theorem in mechanics?
a) The force system should be in equilibrium only
b) The force systems should be non-coplanar
c) The system should be co-planar, parallel
d) The force system should be in equilibrium, co-planar, concurrent, or parallel

8. Which of the following is the SI unit of force?

a) Kg m
b) Kg m2
c) Kg m2/s
d) Kg m/s2
9. According to which of the following laws of mechanics a body remains/continue in its
state of rest or motion until it is disturbed by an external agent?
a) Newton’s first law of motion
b) Newton’s second law of motion
c) Newton’s third law of motion
d) Superposition law

10. Which of the following is the characteristic of force?

a) Magnitude of force
b) Point of application of force
c) Direction of application of force
d) All of the mentioned

11. When can two forces be in equilibrium?

a) They are equal in magnitude
b) They are collinear
c) They are opposite in direction
d) All of the mentioned

12. Which of the following statements describes the resultant of two forces?
a) Force that maintains the system in equilibrium
b) Force that has the highest magnitude in the system
c) Force that has the same effect as the two forces
d) Force that has the same effect as one force

13. The point of application where the total weight can be expected to be concentrated if
the gravitational force is dispersed across the volume of the body is called ______
a) The surface of the body
b) The centroid of the body
c) Center of gravity of the body
d) Moment of inertia

14. What is a free-body diagram?

a) It’s a sketch of a moving body that shows internal forces of the body and reaction
forces
b) It’s a sketch of an undisturbed body that shows external forces of the body
c) It’s a sketch of an isolated body that shows external forces of the body and reaction
forces
d) It’s a sketch of a body in motion that shows bending forces of the body

15. The internal force in structures among the following is?

a) Gravity force
b) Compression force
c) Impact force
d) Bending force

16. Which of the following is a feature of friction?

a) Always acts in the direction opposite to the applied force
b) Not a self-adjusting force
c) Always acts in the direction of applied force
d) It is an active force
17. When there is no relative force between touching surfaces, which of the following
force is developed?
a) Dry friction
b) Dynamic friction
c) Fluid friction
d) Static friction

18. When the surfaces of two bodies come in contact, there is a limited amount of
resistance to sliding between them, which is known as _________
a) Lubrication
b) Friction
c) Internal forces
d) Attraction force

19. Which of the following doesn’t affect frictional force?

a) Surface roughness
b) Reaction of surface
c) Area of contact
d) Force tending cause motion

20. Which of the following is valid if two forces are represented by two sides of a triangle
in order?
a) The resultant of two forces is represented by the third side in the same sequence
b) The resultant of two forces is represented by the third side in reverse order
c) The resultant’s magnitude is zero
d) The resultant’s magnitude is greatest

21. What is the relationship between each force, if three concurrent forces acting on a
body according to Lami’s theorem?
a) Directly proportional to the sine of the angle between the other two forces
b) Inversely proportional to the cosine of the angle between the other two forces
c) Directly proportional to the cosine of the angle between the other two forces
d) Inversely proportional to the sine of the angle between the other two forces

22. Which of the following is a vector quantity?

a) Density
b) Mass
c) Volume
d) Acceleration

23. What is the the effect of a force upon a body according to the principle of
transmissibility of forces?
a) Different at various locations along its line of action
b) Minimum when acting at the body’s centre of gravity
c) Maximum when acting at the body’s centre of gravity
d) The same at all points along its line of action

24. The moment of the resultant of two concurrent forces to a center in their plane is
equal to
a) The algebraic sum of the moments of the components to the same centre
b) The algebraic sum of the moments of the components to a different centre
c) The difference in component moments with respect to a different centre
d) The difference between the components moments at the same centre

25. Which of the following conditions doesn’t affect the magnitude of the moment?
a) If the point of application of force is opposing the line of action
b) If the point of application of force is along the line of action
c) If the moment of centre is shifted along a line perpendicular to the line of action
d) If the resultant is maximal

26. Which of the following forces do not cause the rotation?

a) Non-Parallel
b) Non-concurrent
c) Parallel
d) Concurrent

27. The moment is the cross product of which of the following two vectors/scalars?
a) Force and Radius scalars
b) Radius and Force scalars
c) Force and Radius vectors
d) Radius and Force vectors

28. Which part of the truss section is made to employ the method of joints in the free
body diagram?
a) Combination of joint and the whole structure
b) The whole structure
c) Truss
d) Joints

29. Which element of the truss section is made to apply the method of sections in the
free body diagram?
a) The whole structure
b) Any section can be used
c) Joints
d) Truss

30. Which of the following contains moving parts?

a) Beam
b) Frames
c) Machines
d) Truss

31. The change in the moment is equal to which of the following?

a) Rotational moment
b) Bending moment
c) Total weight
d) Area under the shear diagram

32. Over a block of weight W, the theory of friction is described. Which of the following
describes the surface on which of the following block is located?
a) Coloured red
b) Having density in negative
c) The motion of that block is always horizontal
d) Non-rigid

33. Which of the following type of screws is used in the machines?

a) Round-threaded
b) Helical-threaded
c) Rectangle-threaded
d) Square-threaded

34. In the free body diagrams, the normal forces acting on the belt are in which of the
following direction for calculating the equilibrium equations?
a) Horizontally Left
b) Horizontally Right
c) Vertically Upward
d) Vertically Downward

35. In the journal bearings calculations, the moment is the cross product of which of the
following two vectors?
a) Force and Radius scalars
b) Radius and Force scalars
c) Radius and Force vectors
d) Force and Radius vectors

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