Bef Mathematics

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1. In the matrix equation px = q, which is a necessary c. negative value

condition for the existence of at least one solution d. zero
for the unknown vector x?
a. Matrix p must be singular 7. Napierian logarithm has a base closest to _______.

b. Augmented [pq] must have the same rank as
matrix p a. 0
c. Matrix p must be square b. 2.718
d. Vector q must have only non-zero element c. 3.1416
d. 1
2. A non-homogeneous system of linear equations

representing mathematically an over determined 8. A statement that follows with little or no proof
system will be _______. required from an already proven statement.
a. Consistent having many solutions. a. Hypothesis

b. Inconsistent having no solution. b. Axiom
c. Consistent having a unique solution. c. Corollary
d. Inconsistent having a unique solution. d. Analysis
3. A linear system is inconsistent if it has _______. 9. In Mathematics, _______ is an expression or a

proposition, often algebraic, asserting the equality of
a. no solution two quantities.
b. exactly two distinct solution
c. infinite number a. Coefficient
d. unique solution b. Graph
c. Term
d. Equation
4. The equation in which roots are the reciprocal of the
roots of 2x2 – 3x – 5 = 0 is ______.
10. _______ is a mathematical process to combine
a. 2x2 + 3x – 5 = 0 numbers and/or variables into an equivalent
b. 5x2 + 3x – 2 = 0 quantity, number or algebraic expression.
c. 2x2 + 5x – 3 = 0
d. 3x2 – 3x + 2 = 0 a. Subtraction
b. Addition
c. Factoring
5. A branch of mathematics which uses the properties d. Polynomial
of numbers by using symbols or letter to represent
variables and unknown quantities and numbers in
arithmetic operations which usually involves the use 11. A fraction where the numerator, denominator, or
and rearranging of equations. both contains a fraction.
a. Algebra a. Binomial Fraction

b. Calculus b. Complex Fraction
c. Statistics c. Proper Fraction
d. Geometry d. Improper fraction
6. Logarithm of 1 to any base is equal to _______. 12. A fraction which has a top number larger than (or
equal to) the bottom number.
a. one
b. undefined a. Improper fraction
b. complex fraction of increased unemployment since there is a lower

c. Composite fraction level of demand in the economy and which can lead
d. Compound Fraction to an economic depression.
a. inflation
13. An angular unit equivalent to 1/4000 of the b. deflation
circumference of a circle is called _______. c. appreciation
d. depreciation
a. grad
b. radian
c. mil 19. The amount transferred to depreciation is a fixed
d. degree ratio of the undepreciated balance for the item.
a. Discrete Periodic Cash Flow

14. A line that meets a plane but not perpendicular to it b. Straight Line method of depreciation
in relation to the plane is _______. c. Discounted Payback Period
d. Declining Balance Depreciation (DBD)
a. coplanar
b. parallel
c. oblique 20. What is a state of substance which possesses no
d. collinear definite volume and is compressible?
a. Gas
15. In economics, what is the point at which total cost b. Vapor
and total revenue are equal and there is no net loss or c. Solid
gain? d. Crystal
a. Payback period
b. Value added 21. Fundamental substances of which all matter is
c. Pay back composed.
d. Breakeven
a. Polymer
b. Elements
16. What is the difference between the present worth c. Compound
and the worth at some future time? d. Molecules
a. Credit
b. Discount 22. In relation to the proton, the electron is _______.
c. Debit
d. Profit a. about the same mass and of the same charge
b. much lighter and of opposite charge
c. about the same mass and of opposite charge
17. A financial report made at the end of the fiscal year d. about the same mass and with no charge
which gives the past year's financial transactions and
the results.
23. What is the family of curves which intersect a given
a. Income report family of curves at an angle less than 90°?
b. Annual report
c. Business report a. intersecting curves
d. Profit report b. orthogonal
c. acute angle
d. isogonal
18. It is caused by a decrease in government, personal or
investment spending which tends to have side effect
24. How many independent elastic constant/s is/are b. homogeneous system

required to express the stress-strain relationship for a c. heterogeneous system
linearly elastic isotropic material? d. isolated system
a. One
b. Two 30. Which of the following statements is correct?
c. Three
d. Four a. Critical point involves equilibrium of solid and
liquid phases
b. Critical point involves equilibrium of solid,
25. The deformation of a bar under its own weight or liquid and vapor phases
compared to that when subjected to a direct axial c. Triple point involves equilibrium of solid, liquid
load equal to its own weight will be _______. and vapor phases
d. Critical point involves equilibrium of solid and
a. double vapor phases
b. the same
c. triple
d. half 31. The normal stress is the same in all directions at a
point in a fluid when _______.
26. Two closed-coil springs are made from the same a. the fluid is at rest, regardless of its nature
small diameter wire, one wound on 2.5 cm diameter b. the fluid is frictionless and incompressible
core and the other on 1.25 cm diameter core. If each c. the fluid is frictional
spring had 'n' coils, what is the ratio of their spring d. the fluid has zero viscosity and is rest
constants?
a. 1/8 32. Resultant pressure of the liquid in case of an

b. 1 immersed body acts through _______.
c. 1/4
d. 0 a. Center of pressure
b. Center of gravity
c. Center of buoyancy
27. For a harmonic oscillator, the graph between d. Metacenter
velocity and displacement is _______.
a. Circular 33. What is buoyant force?

b. Elliptical
c. Hyperbolic a. Resultant force acting on a submerged body
d. Linear b. Resultant force acting on the water
c. Resultant hydrostatic force on a body due to
fluid surrounding it
28. Kinetic theory of heat states that _______. d. Resultant force due to water on a body
a. at absolute zero there is absolutely no vibration

of molecules 34. If a vessel containing liquid moves downward with
b. at low temperature all bodies are in solid state constant acceleration g, then which of the following
c. temperature should fall during freezing is correct?
d. temperature should rise during boiling
a. the pressure in the liquid mass is greater than the
hydrostatic pressure
29. A system comprising a single phase is called a b. the pressure throughout the liquid mass is
_______. greater than atmospheric
c. the pressure throughout the liquid mass is
a. closed system atmospheric
d. there will be vacuum in the liquid 40. The function f(x) = is called _______.
a. Linear function
35. For incompressible fluid, the equation of continuity b. Identity function
is given by _______. c. Constant function
d. Polynomial function
Note: A - area
V - velocity
T - Temperature 41. What is a branch of math that deals with integrals,
derivatives & rates of change?
a. A1V1 = A2V2
b. A1V1T1 = A2V2T2 a. Algebra
c. ρ1Q1 = ρ2A2V2 b. Trigonometry
d. none of these c. Calculus
d. Geometry
36. Convective acceleration of the fluid is due to

_______. 42. Which one of the following statements is not true?
a. steady flow a. In a negative skewed distribution,

b. laminar flow mode>mean>median
c. non-uniform flow b. In a symmetric distribution, the value of mean,
d. uniform flow mode and median are the same.
c. The measure of skewness is dependent upon the
amount of dispersion.
37. At t=0, then the function f(t)=sint/t has d. In a positive skewed distribution mean>median>
mode
a. a maximum
b. a point of inflection
c. a continuity 43. To take a longest possible jump, one should make an
d. a minimum angle of _______.
a. 0° with the ground

38. A cubic polynomial with real coefficients ________. b. 45° with the ground
c. 60° with the ground
a. may have up to four extrema and up to three d. 90° with the ground
zero crossing
b. can possibly have no extrema and no zero
crossing 44. A man of weight mg is moving upwards inside a
c. will always have an equal number of extrema rocket having acceleration 3g. What is the apparent
and zero crossing weight of the man inside the rocket?
d. cannot have more than two extrema and more
than three zero crossings a. 4g
b. 3g
c. mg
39. Consider function f(x)=(x2-(4))2 where x is real d. 1g
number. Then, the function has _______.
a. three maxima 45. Centers of mass of body _______.

b. three minima
c. only one minima a. Lies always outside the body
d. only two minima b. Can be inside or outside the body
c. Lies at geometrical center
d. Lies always inside the body
46. The polar moment of inertia for the area of a ring of 52. A set of linear equations is represented by the matrix
radii r1 and r2 is ______. equation Ax = b. What is the necessary condition for
the existence of a solution for this system?
a. π (r24 – r14) / 2
b. π (r22 – r12) / 2 a. b must be linearly dependent on the columns of
c. π (r22 + r12) / 2 A
d. π (r23 – r13) / 2 b. b must be linearly independent of the columns
of A
c. A must be invertible
47. What is the ratio of moment of inertia of a triangle d. None of the above
and a rectangle having same base and height with
respect to their bases?
53. The convergence of the bisection method is
a. 1:2 _______.
b. 2:1
c. 1:4 a. triangular
d. 4:1 b. cubic
c. quadratic
d. linear
48. The earth can be assured as uniform sphere. Suppose
the earth shrinks by 1 % in diameter, the new day
period will be _______. 54. What is a proposition with little applicability except
that it forms part of the proof of a larger theorem?
a. reduce by about 2%
b. increase by about 1% a. Hypothesis
c. not change from 24 h b. Corollary
d. reduce by about 1% c. Lemma
d. Postulate
49. If A and B are symmetric matrices of same order and

are scalars, then which of the following is false? 55. A fraction that is less than one, with the numerator
less than the denominator.
a. A - A' is symmetric
b. k1A + k2B is symmetric a. Improper fraction
c. AB + BA is symmetric b. Decimal fraction
d. B - BA is skew-symmetric c. Proper fraction
d. Mixed number
50. What is the product of two orthogonal matrices?

56. What is a root of this quadratic equation, 30x2 + 49x
a. unit matrix + 20 = 0?
b. unitary matrix
c. unitary a. 0.8
d. None of these b. -0.8
c. 0.6
d. -0.6
51. What are the eigen values of a skew- symmetric
matrix?
57. In geometry, it is a line or plane which touches a
a. Either zero or pure imaginary given curve or solid at a single point.
b. always zero
c. always real a. a segment
d. always pure imaginary b. a secant
c. a tangent
d. a sector d. Perpetual life
58. A curve on a plane surrounding two focal points 63. An annuity that has no end, or a stream of cash
such that a straight line drawn from one of the focal payments that continues forever is called _______.
points to any point on the curve and then back to the
other focal point has the same length for every point a. Perpetuity
on the curve is called _______. b. Ordinary annuity
c. Annuity due
a. an ellipse d. Deferred annuity
b. directrix
c. a hyperbola
d. translated axis 64. What is the price that can be obtained from the sale
of property or second hand?
59. A ______ is set of all points in a plane which are an a. Market value
equal distance away from a given point and given b. Book value
line. c. Salvage value
d. Fair value
a. a circle
b. an ellipse
c. a parabola 65. A currency trade in a foreign exchange market for
d. a hyperbola which the demand is consistently high in relation to
its supply.
60. A periodic cost that remains more or less unchanged a. Certificate of deposit
irrespective of the output level or sales revenue, such b. Treasury bill
as depreciation, insurance, interest, rent, salaries, c. Money market
and wages. d. Hard currency
a. Increment cost
b. Fixed cost 66. What is the estimated value at the end of the useful
c. Variable cost life?
d. Differential cost
a. Compounded annually
b. Economic life
61. What is a separate legal entity that has been c. Salvage value
incorporated either directly through legislation or d. Book Value
through a registration process established by law?
a. Corporation 67. What is an artificial expense that spreads the

b. Enterprise purchase price of an asset or another property over a
c. Partnership number of years?
d. Sole Proprietorship
a. Sinking fund
b. Depreciation
62. Period over which an asset (machine, property, c. Bond
computer system, etc) is expected to be usable, with d. Amnesty
normal repairs and maintenance, for the purpose it
was acquired, rented, or leased.
68. It is a series of equal payments accounting at equal
a. Physical life interval of time where the first payment is made
b. Write off period several periods, after the beginning of the payment.
c. Economic life
a. Progressive annuity b. 28.4 mi/h

b. Simple annuity c. 38.6 mi/h
c. Delayed annuity d. 42.4 mi/h
d. Deferred annuity
74. The earth exerts a gravitational force of a 2 x 1020 N

69. Which of the following statement is correct for an on the moon, and the moon travels 2.4 x 109 m each
element? time it orbits the earth. How much work does the
earth do on the moon in each orbit?
a. the atomic number is equal to the number of
protons in the atom a. 0
b. the mass number is equal to the number of b. 4.8 x 1026 kJ
electrons in the atom c. 4.8 x 1026 J
c. the number of protons always equals the number d. 4.8 x 1026 MJ
of neutrons in the atom
d. the atomic number is equal to the number of
neutrons in the atom 75. The number of elastic constants for a completely an
isotropic elastic material which follows Hooke' s law
is _______.
70. What is the volume of a 14.5 g piece of metal with a
density of 10.53 g/cm3? a. 1
b. 3
a. 1.46 cm3 c. 5
b. 0.88 cm3 d. 7
c. 1.38 cm3
d. 138 cm3
76. A cantilever beam of rectangular cross-section is
subject to a load W at its free end. If the depth of the
71. An " overflow" can brimful of water is suspended beam is doubled and the load is halved, the
from the hook of a spring balance. After a small deflection of the free end compared to original
block of wood is placed in water, the balance deflection will be _______.
reading is _______.
a. one-sixteenth
a. unaffected b. one-eight
b. increased by weight of wood block c. one fourth
c. decreased by weight of wood block d. half
d. decreased by weight of wood block
77. A solid circular shaft is subjected to pure torsion.

72. At her highest point, a girl on a swing is 7 ft above What would be the ratio of maximum shear to
the ground, and at her lowest point she is 3 ft above maximum normal at any point?
the ground. What is her maximum velocity?
a. 2:3
a. 4 ft/s b. 1:1
b. 8 ft/s c. 1:2
c. 12 ft/s d. 2:1
d. 16 ft/s
78. Which of the following statements is correct?

73. A 3000 lb. car has an engine which can deliver 80 hp
to the rear wheels. What is the maximum velocity at a. The slope of vaporization curve is always
which the car climbs a 15° hill? positive
b. The slope of sublimation curve is negative for
a. 22.8 mi/h all pure substances
c. The slope of fusion curve is positive for all pure 84. All experiments far indicate that there can be a
substances laminar flow in a pipe if the Reynolds number is
d. The slope of vaporization curve is always _______.
negative
a. 2000
79. What is a gas which obeys kinetic theory perfectly? b. 2300
c. 20000
a. ideal gas d. 4300
b. monoatomic gas
c. diatomic gas
d. real gas 85. The continuity equation deals with the law of
conservation of ________.
80. Which of the following is not property of the a. energy

system? b. momentum
c. mass
a. Specific volume d. none of these
b. Heat
c. Temperature
d. Pressure 86. A flow is rotational if _______.
a. fluid particles do not rotate about their mass

81. Which one of the following statements is true to a centers while moving along a streamline
two-dimensional flow of ideal fluids? b. fluid element undergoes net rotation in a plane
about an axis normal to the plane
a. Stream function may or may not exist c. fluid element undergoes liner deformation
b. Stream function will exist but potential function d. fluid flows in a circular path
may or may not exist
c. Potential function exists if stream function exists
d. Both potential function and stream function 87. In a mass of continuum that is rotating like a rigid
must exist for every flow body, the vorticity is _______.
a. equal to the angular velocity of that rotation

82. For an irrotational flow, the velocity potential lines b. twice the angular velocity vector of that rotation.
and the streamlines are always _______. c. trice the angular velocity of that rotation
d. none of these
a. orthogonal to each other
b. parallel to each other
c. inclined to the horizontal 88. The integral of cos x with respect to x is _______.
d. coplanar
a. sec x + C
b. csc x + C
83. Which of the following forces act on a fluid at rest? c. sin x + C
d. - sin x +C
1. Gravity force
2. Hydrostatic force
3. Surface tension 89. Consider a company that assembles computers. The
4. Viscous force. probability of a faulty assembly of any computer is
P. The company therefore, subjects each computer to
a. 1,3 and 4 a testing process. This testing process gives the
b. 2 and 4 correct result for any computer with a probability
c. 1,2 and 3 _______.
d. 1,2,3 and 4
a. (1-q) p
b. P + q 95. Two bodies of moment of inertia I1 and I2 where I1 is

c. pq + (1-p) (1 -q) more than I2, and have same angular momentum, the
d. (1-p) q body having higher kinetic energy is _______.
a. First body
90. How many permutations can be made out of the b. Second body
letters in the word DIEGO taken 3 at a time? c. Data insufficient
d. Both have same kinetic energy
a. 30 ways
b. 50 ways
c. 90 ways 96. The deflection of a spring with 20 active turn under
d. 120 ways a load of 1 000 N is 10 mm. The spring is made into
two pieces each of 10 active turns and placed in
parallel under the same load. The deflection of this
91. How many permutations can be made out of the system is ________.
letters of the word ENGINEERING?
a. 2.5 mm
a. 272 700 b. 5 mm
b. 227 700 c. 10 mm
c. 277 200 d. 20 mm
d. 200 270
97. Which of the following if false?

92. A bag contains 3 white balls and 5 red balls. If two
balls are drawn at random, find the probability that a. If A a unitary matrix, then A-1 is not unitary
both are white. b. If A is a nilpotent matrix, then A=0
c. If A and B are two unitary matrices, then the
a. 0.10714 product of A and B is also unitary
b. 0.28671 d. If A is an orthogonal matrix, then A-1 is also
c. 0.37541 orthogonal
d. 0.46667
98. A and B are the matrices of same order such that

93. For a given material, the modulus of rigidity is 100 AB+A and BA = B, then A and B are _______.
GPa and Poisson' s ratio is 0.25. The value of
modulus of elasticity is GPa is _______. a. unitary matrices
b. orthogonal matrices
a. 200 c. nilpotent matrices
b. 250 d. idempotent matrices
c. 150
d. 125
99. An array of m x n quantities which represents a
single number system composed of elements in rows
94. When the acceleration and velocity are acting and columns is known as _______.
perpendicular to each other than the trajectory of
motion is _______. a. Determinant
b. Transposed matrix
a. hyperbolic c. Cofactor of a matrix
b. straight line d. Matrix
c. circular
d. parabolic
100. Who among the following is associated with a
technique of solving a system of linear equations?
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a. Cramer a. Sin (A - B)
b. Hermite b. cos (A - B)
c. Sarrus c. cos 2 (A - B)
d. Cayley d. Tan (A - B)
101. If the roots of an equation are zero, then they are 107. Log M - log N is equal to _______.
classified as _______.
a. Log (N-M)
a. extraneous roots b. Log MN
b. trivial solution c. Log(m-n)
c. zero function d. Log M/N
d. hyperbolic solution
108. In polar coordinate system, the polar angle is

102. In the equation x2 + x = 0, one root is equal to positive when _______.
_______.
a. measured at the terminal side of 0
a. 5 b. measured clockwise
b. 0.25 c. measured counterclockwise
c. 1 d. none of these
d. none of these
109. A conic section whose eccentricity is less than

103. Find the values of x in the equation one (1) is known as _______.
24x + 5x – 1 = 0.
2
a. an ellipse
a. (1/2, 1/5) b. a hyperbola
b. (1/8, -1/3) c. a parabola
c. (1/6, 1/3) d. a circle
d. (1/6, 1/5)
110. When two lines are perpendicular, the slope of

104. Determine k so that the equation one is _______.
4x2 + kx + 1 = 0 will have just one real solution.
a. equal to the reciprocal of the other
a. 4 b. equal to the negative reciprocal of the other
b. 5 c. equal to the other
c. 6 d. equal to the reciprocal of the other
d. 7
111. In polar coordinates system, the length of the

105. Given the equation 3x2 + Bx + 12 = 0. What is ray segment from a fixed origin is known as
the value of B so that the roots of the equation are _______.
equal?
a. Radius vector
a. 6 b. Minimum point
b. -6 c. Hypotenuse
c. -12 d. Amplitude
d. 12
112. What is the length of time, usually in years, for

106. Sin A cos B - cos A sin B is equivalent to cumulative net annual profit equal to the
_______. investment?
a. Price earning ratio a. Atomic weight minus mass number

b. Payback period b. Atomic number minus mass number
c. Return of investment c. Mass number minus atomic weight
d. Receivable turn over d. Mass number minus atomic number
113. What is the type of interest that is periodically 119. What refers to the minimum amount of energy
added to the amount of loan so that the subsequent required to initiate a chemical reaction?
interest is based on the cumulative amount?
a. Initial energy
a. Simple interest b. Reaction energy
b. Compound interest c. Atomic energy
c. Sinking fund d. Activation energy
d. Interest rate
120. A garden hose with a cross-sectional area of 3

114. What is the additional cost of producing one sq. cm. carries water at a rate of 10 L/min. How high
more unit of a product? will the water rise from the outlet if the outlet is
maintained straight upward?
a. Variable cost
b. Fixed cost a. 16 cm
c. Marginal cost b. 1.6 cm
d. Sunk cost c. 48 cm
d. 4.8 cm
115. Things that cannot be quantitively measured or

valued such as items of costs and physical assets. 121. The weight of a body on earth is 500 kgf where
g = 9.8 m/s. What will be its weight on the moon
a. Investment where local gravity is 1.7 m/s?
b. Capital
c. Tangibles a. 2880 kgf
d. Intangibles b. 288 kgf
c. 86.3 kgf
d. 67.8 kgf
116. When all of the atoms of a molecule are the
same, the substance is called _______.
122. Convert 100°F to K.
a. A chemical
b. A compound a. 38 K
c. An ion b. 311K
d. An element c. 498 K
d. 560 K
117. What controls the amount of electricity a battery

can produce? 123. A 10-liter pail is full of water. Neglecting the
weight of the pail, how heavy is its water content?
a. Strength of the acid
b. Discharge load a. 5 kg
c. Thickness of the plane b. 5.5 kg
d. Plate surface area c. 6.67 kg
d. 10 kg
118. Neutron number is equal to the _______.

124. Power may be expressed in units of ______.
a. Btu/hr c. Isometric process

b. Ft-lb d. Isobaric process
c. hp-hrs
d. kW-hrs
130. In the polytropic process equation PVn =
constant, if n = 0, the process is termed as _______.
125. If a thick cylindrical shell is subjected to internal a. constant temperature
pressure, then hoop stress, radial stress and b. adiabatic
longitudinal stress at a point in the thickness will be c. constant pressure
_______. d. constant volume
a. all tensile
b. tensile, compressive and tensile respectively 131. In the polytropic process equation PVn =
c. all compressive constant, if n is infinitely large, the process is termed
d. tensile, compressive and compressive as _______.
respectively
a. adiabatic
b. constant volume
126. The characteristics of a common logarithm of a c. constant pressure
number greater than 1 is ______. d. constant temperature
a. Zero and positive

b. Positive 132. A tank contains 5.75 kg of gas. The addition of
c. Negative 286.4 kJ increases the temperature of the gas from
d. Zero 20°C to 85°C. Determine the specific heat of the gas,
in kJ/kg-K.
127. The maximum shear stress occurs on the a. 614

outermost fibers of a circular shaft under torsion. In b. 0.762
a close coiled helical spring, where does the c. 0.716
maximum shear stress occur? d. 0.819
a. End coils
b. Innermost fibers 133. The pressure gage at elevation 8 m on the side
c. Fibers at mean diameter of the tank containing liquid reads 100 kPa. Another
d. Outermost fibers gage at elevation 4m reads 45 kPa. The specific
gravity of the liquid is _______.
128. A solid block which is resting on a frictionless a. 1.1

surface gets hit by a bullet which gets embedded into b. 1.4
it. During this process _______. c. 1.5
d. 1.6
a. Nothing can be said
b. Both momentum and kinetic energy are
conserved 134. A pipe is connected in series to another pipe
c. Only momentum is conserved where in diameter is twice and length is 32 times
d. Only kinetic energy is conserved that of the first pipe. The ratio of frictional head
losses for the first pipe to those for the second pipe
is (both the pipes have the same frictional constant).
129. This is evidently the same as a process carried
out according to Boyle' s Law. a. 1
b. 4
a. Isothermal process c. 8
b. Adiabatic process d. 16
135. Separation of fluid flow is caused by _______. 141. The number of successful outcomes divided by
the number of possible outcomes is called _______.
a. presence of adverse pressure gradient
b. reduction of pressure in the direction of flow a. Permutation
c. presence of favorable pressure gradient b. Probability
d. reduction of the boundary layer thickness c. Odd
d. Combination
136. If a vessel containing liquid moves downward

with constant acceleration g, then _______. 142. Possible outcome of an experiment is called
_______.
a. there will be vacuum in the liquid
b. the pressure throughout the liquid mass is a. Random point
greater than atmospheric pressure b. Sample space
c. the pressure throughout the liquid mass is c. Finite set
atmospheric d. Event
d. the pressure in the liquid mass is greater than the
hydrostatic pressure
143. Kinetic energy of a body is increased by 300%,
then percentage change in the momentum is
137. Assumption/s made in deriving the Bernoulli' s _______.
equation are as follows _______.
a. 100%
a. The flow is incompressible b. 150%
b. The flow is steady c. 300%
c. The fluid is real d. 400%
d. All of the above
144. A force F acting on a body moving in a circle of

138. Which of the following devices is used to radius r is always perpendicular to the velocity v.
measure velocity of a fluid? The work done on the body is _______.
a. Notch a. F
b. Orifice meter b. Fxr
c. Venturimeter c. F x πr
d. Pitot tube d. Fxv
139. Calculus was invented by _______. 145. Kinetic energy for a projectile of range R is
minimum for a distance of ______.
a. Newton and Leibniz
b. Newton a. 0.25 R
c. Gauss b. 0.75 R
d. Leibniz c. 0.5 R
d. R
140. For a given function, it is found that f(t) = f(-t).

What type of symmetry does f(t) have? 146. Spring constant of a coil-spring is _______.
a. Quarter-wave symmetry a. Inversely proportional to the compression or

b. Rotational symmetry extension produced.
c. Odd symmetry b. Inversely proportional to number of coils in the
d. Even symmetry spring
c. Directly proportional to the compression or 152. The degree of a polynomial or equation is the
extension produced. _______.
d. Directly proportional to the square of the
number of coils in the spring. a. Exponent of the first variable
b. Maximum exponent of x
c. Maximum sum of exponents in one term
147. A unit matrix of order n is of rank _______. d. Maximum exponent
a. n
b. 0 153. The value of 3 log (3+2log2) is _______.
c. 1
d. 2 a. log106
b. log108
c. log110
148. What is a collection of numbers or letters used d. log112
to represent a number arrange properly in rows and
columns?
154. The true statement of the following is _______.
a. Determinant
b. Equation a. log (xy) = logx + logy
c. Matrix b. log (xy) = logx x logy
d. Array c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of these
149. Which of the following cannot be an operation

of matrices? 155. The matrix obtained from a given matrix by
changing rows into columns is called _______.
a. Division
b. Subtraction a. skew-symmetric matrix
c. Addition b. orthogonal matrix
d. Multiplication c. symmetric matrix
d. None of these
150. If two rows of a determinant are interchange, the

determinant _______. 156. The equation x+y=2; 4x+3y=7; x-2y=1 are
_______.
a. changes sign and value
b. changes sign a. consistent but have many solutions
c. becomes the inverse of the former b. inconsistent
d. remain unchanged c. consistent and have unique solutions
d. None of these
151. Which of the following statements applies to the

bisection method used for finding roots of functions? 157. The solution of the equations x+2y-z=3;
3x-y+2z=1; 2x-2y+3z=2 are _______.
a. It is faster than the Newton-Raphson method
b. Converges within a few iteration a. x = 4, y = 4, z = -1
c. It requires that there will be no error in b. x = -1, y = -1, z = 4
determining the sign of the function c. x = -1, y = 4, z = 4
d. It is guaranteed to work for all continuous d. x = 4, y = -1, z = 4
functions
158. An algebraic expression which can be

represented as a quotient of two polynomials.
a. Rational algebraic expression a. Double Declining balance Method

b. Complex algebraic expression b. Sinking Fund Method
c. Irrational algebraic expression c. Matheson Formula Method
d. Reduced algebraic expression d. Service output method
159. The vibration produced in stretched wire of 165. The efficiency of an investment is known as
musical instrument is _______. _______.
a. Free transverse a. effective rate of interest

b. Forced transverse b. rate of return
c. Free longitudinal c. rate of discount
d. Forced longitudinal d. rate of interest
160. What are the two kinds of irrational numbers? 166. What is a depreciation method where
depreciation charge for any period is charged on the
a. Geometric numbers and Transcendental basis of the service that has been rendered during the
numbers period?
b. Algebraic numbers and transcendental numbers
c. Algebraic numbers and Geometric numbers a. service output method
d. Algebraic numbers and Trigonometric numbers b. sinking fund
c. declining balance
d. straight line
161. The arc length equal to the radius of the circle is
called _______.
167. What is a form or report stating the financial
a. 1 quarter circle status of an individual or firm at a particular point in
b. 1 grad time?
c. 1 radian
d. π radian a. financial statement
b. trial balance
c. balance sheet
162. The area bounded by two concentric circles is d. income statement
called _______.
a. Ring 168. This represents the ownership of stockholders

b. Segment who have a residual claim on the assets of the
c. Sector corporation after all other claims have been settled.
d. Annulus
a. incorporators stock
b. common stock
163. What is the sum of the sides of a polygon? c. preferred stock
d. authorized capital
a. Perimeter
b. Area
c. Circumference 169. The product of mass and velocity of a moving a
d. Volume body is called _______.
a. moment
164. Aside from the straight-line method of b. momentum
depreciation, what other method assumes a uniform c. power
annual depreciation? d. impulse
170. What refers to a chemical formula that shows 176. Which of the following tools is the hardest?
how atoms are bonded to one another in a molecule?
a. Ceramic tools
a. Structural formula b. Carbide tools
b. Standard formula c. High speed steel tools
c. Bonding formula d. High carbon steel tools
d. Molecular formula
177. What is the property by which an amount of

171. A compound distinguished by a high molar energy is absorbed by a material without plastic
mass, ranging into thousands and millions of grams, deformation?
and made of many repeating cells is called _______.
a. resilience
a. Oxoacid b. ductility
b. Nucleotide c. toughness
c. Electrolyte d. impact strength
d. Polymer
178. Which one of the following features improves

172. What is the pH level for base? the fatigue strength of a metallic material?
a. Less than 7 a. Scratching the surface

b. Greater than 7 b. Increasing the temperature
c. Exactly 7 c. Under stressing
d. Greater than 14 d. Overstressing
173. Joule (J) is the unit of _______. 179. Strain in a direction at a right angle to the
direction of applied force is known as ________.
a. work
b. torque a. shear strain
c. power b. volumetric strain
d. momentum c. lateral strain
d. yield strain
174. Momentum = Force x _______.

180. There is always a limiting value of load up to
a. Velocity which the strain totally disappears on the removal of
b. ½ Velocity load, the stress corresponding to this load is called
c. Time ________.
d. (Velocity)2
a. unit stress
b. elastic limit
175. A simply supported laterally beam was found to c. yield stress
deflect more than a specified value. Which of the d. fracture
following measures will reduce the deflection?
a. Select a different material having lesser modulus 181. Dryness fraction of steam is defined as
of elasticity ________.
b. Increase the magnitude of the load
c. Increase the area of moment of inertia a. mass of water vapor in suspension/mass of dry
d. Increase the span of the beam steam
b. mass of water vapor in suspension/ (mass of
water vapor in suspension + mass of dry steam)
c. mass of dry steam/mass of water vapor in a. Stream function will exist but potential function
suspension may or may not exist
d. mass of dry steam/ (mass of dry steam + mass of b. Both potential function and stream function
water vapor in suspension) must exist for every flow
c. Potential function exists if stream function exists
d. Stream function may or may not exist
182. The process or systems that do not involve heat
are called _______.
187. Water hammer in pipelines takes place when
a. adiabatic process ________.
b. isothermal processes
c. equilibrium processes a. fluid is flowing with high pressure
d. thermal processes b. flowing fluid is suddenly brought to rest by
closing a valve
c. flowing fluid is brought to rest by gradually
183. Which of the following can describe isothermal closing a valve
process? d. fluid is flowing with high velocity
a. pressure remains constant

b. change in internal energy is zero 188. Solutions composed of two or more metals are
c. temperature increases gradually called ________.
d. temperature remains constant
a. Unsaturated solution
b. Alloys
184. A person of mass 80 kg jumps from a stationary c. Supersaturated solution
helicopter with his parachute open. After falling d. Saturated solution
through 60m height he gains a speed of 10m/s. The
work done by the viscous air drag is _______.
189. Euler equation for water turbine is derived on
a. -44000 J the basis of _______.
b. 22000 J
c. -10000 J a. rate of change of angular momentum
d. -40000 J b. conservation of mass
c. rate of change of velocity
d. rate of change of linear momentum
185. Which of the following statement/s is/are
correct:
190. The maximum inclination of the jet issuing from
The metacentric height of a floating body depends a nozzle with horizontal is ________.
1. directly on the shape of its water-line area
2. on the volume of liquid displaced by the body a. 30°
3. on the distance between the metacenter and the b. 45°
center of gravity c. 60°
4. on the second moment of water-line area d. 90°
a. 1 and 4
b. 1 and 2 191. If mode of a data is 18 and mean is 24, then
c. 2 and 3 median is ________.
d. 3 and 4
a. 18
b. 22
186. Which one of the following statements is true to c. 24
a two-dimensional flow of ideal fluids? d. 26
192. A ball and socket joint _______. 198. The determinant of m x n matrix is defined if
________.
a. can resist moment along all the three axes x, y
and z a. m=n
b. can resist moment along y-axis b. m ≠ -n
c. cannot resist moment along any axis c. m2 = n2
d. cannot resist moment along x-axis d. None of these
193. Radius of gyration is independent of _______. 199. If the row and column of determinant are
interchanged, the value of the new determinant will
a. velocity be ________.
b. mass
c. axis of rotation a. unchanged
d. None of these b. (-1) times
c. 3 times
d. None of these
194. Determine the percentage change in the time
period of simple pendulum if its length is increased
by 8%. 200. Which of the following is false?
a. 4% a. If the elements of a row (or column) are divided

b. 8% by 1/3, then the value of the new determinant is
c. 16% 3 times the value of the original determinant
d. 64% b. The determinant of a square is always defined.
c. If any two rows (or column) of a determinant
are identical then the value of determinant will
195. For simple harmonic motion acceleration is be zero
directly dependent upon ________. d. The value of determinant can never be negative
a. Linear velocity
b. Frequency 201. Gauss-Seidel iterative method can be used for
c. Displacement solving a set of _______.
d. Amplitude
a. Linear algebraic equations only
b. Both linear and non-linear algebraic equations
196. If the displacement increases, the time period of c. Both linear and non-linear differential equations
oscillation of a simple pendulum ________. d. Non- linear differential equation only
a. decreases
b. increases 202. Is kind of force acting on an object which is
c. may increase or decrease defined as the vector sum of all force acting on the
d. remains same object.
a. Net force
197. If a shaft carries two rotors at it ends, the b. Gross force
number of nodes will be ________. c. Total force
d. Contact force
a. One
b. Two
c. Three 203. For a given function, it is found that f(t) = f(-t).
d. Nil What type of symmetry does f(t) have?
a. rotational symmetry
b. quarter-wave symmetry d. coupon bond

c. odd symmetry
d. even symmetry
210. A type of bond issued jointly by two or more
corporations.
204. All the diagonal elements of skew-symmetric
matrix are ________. a. collateral trust bond
b. registered bond
a. real c. joint bond
b. pure imaginary d. debenture bond
c. zero
d. None of these
211. If the security of the bond is a mortgage on
certain specified asset of a corporation, this bond is
205. A polygon with 10 sides is said to be ________. classified as ________.
a. decahedron a. mortgage bond

b. dodecagon b. registered bond
c. dodecahedron c. preferred bond
d. decagon d. all of these
206. A line that meets a plane but is not 212. A possible or chance events which when they
perpendicular to it in relation to the plane _______. occur will involve a large amount of expenditures.
a. Oblique a. Contingencies
b. collinear b. Contract
c. Coplanar c. Exaggerated
d. Parallel d. Lease
207. How do you call the distance of a point from the 213. A body falling from a height of 20 m rebounds
y-axis? from hard floor. If it loses 25% energy in the impact,
then coefficient of restitution is _______.
a. coordinates
b. ordinate a. 0.86
c. polar distance b. 0.52
d. Abscissa c. 0.43
d. 0.18
208. Which of the following is not a central conic?

214. Which of the following best describes a
a. hyperbola scientific law?
b. parabola
c. ellipse a. It implies experimentation results.
d. oblique b. It summarizes observed acts.
c. It describes and describes physical results.
d. It implies experimentation results.
209. A type of bond which does not have security
except a promise to pay by issuing corporation.
215. All forms of matter are composed of the same
a. collateral trust bond building blocks called _______.
b. debenture
c. registered bond a. Atom
b. Ions 221. If the colliding object has a mass less than that
c. Protons of the stationary target, after impact the ________.
d. Elements
a. the colliding object continues its motion in the
same direction with reduced speed
216. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic b. the lighter object bounces off the heavier one
of non-metals? c. colliding object stops
d. the colliding object continues its motion in the
a. Non-metals are oxidizing agents. same direction with the same speed
b. Non-metals has negative oxidation number
c. Non-metals form positive ions.
d. Non-metals have high electron affinities 222. With one fixed end and other free end, a column
of length 'L' buckles at load Pl. Another column of
same length and same cross-section fixed at both
217. An acid can react with a base to produce a ends bucklers at load P2. The ratio of P2/P1 is
_______. ________.
a. Oxide a. 4
b. Hydroxide b. 8
c. Hydrogen c. 16
d. Salt d. 18
218. The product of force and the time during which 223. The Poisson' s ratio of a material which has
it acts is known as ________. Young' s modular of 120 GPa and shear modulus of
50 GPa is ________.
a. work
b. impulse a. 0.2
c. impact b. 0.4
d. momentum c. 0.5
d. 0.8
219. In physics, work is defined in terms of the force

acting through a distance. The rate at which the work 224. The deformation of a bar under its own weight
is done is called ________. as compared to that when subjected to a direct axial
load equal to its own weight will be ________.
a. energy
b. momentum a. one fourth
c. power b. half
d. force c. double
d. the same
220. A wire is suspended vertically from ceiling by

attaching a weight of 100 N to the lower end. The 225. In the case of biaxial state of normal stresses,
weight stretches the wire by 2mm. The clastic the maximum shear stress is equal to ________.
potential energy stored in the wire is ________.
a. half the difference of normal stresses
a. 0.1 J b. half the sum of normal stresses
b. 0.2 J c. the sum of the normal stresses
c. 2J d. the difference of normal stresses
d. 20 J
226. What is the ratio of average shear stress to the 232. A helium filled easily expandable balloon,
maximum shear stress in a beam with a square cross originally 2 ft in diameter at ground level, rises to an
section? elevation where the diameter is noted to be 4 ft.
Assuming an isothermal atmosphere, estimate the
a. 1/4 local pressure at the higher elevation. Atmospheric
b. 1 pressure = 3.8 psi.
c. 2/3
d. 1/3 a. 0.4 psi
b. 1.2 psi
c. 1.9 psi
227. What is the ratio of Young' s modulus of d. 2.8 psi
elasticity to modulus of rigidity for a material having
Poisson' s ratio 0.2?
233. If a process can be stopped at any stage and
a. 5/12 reverse so that the system and surroundings are
b. 12/5 exactly restored to their initial states, it is known as
c. 2/5 _______.
d. 5/2
a. isothermal process
b. frictionless process
228. The phase gap between displacement and c. adiabatic process
disturbing force, in case of resonance is ________. d. ideal process
a. 30°
b. 60° 234. The water 2-meter-deep flows over the top of a
c. 90° 4-meter salt water (S.G. = 1.04). The pressure at the
d. 180° bottom in kPa absolute is _______.
a. 148.355
229. Castellated beams are used for ________. b. 152.525
c. 161.755
a. Loads net passing through the shear center d. 166.528
b. Section subjected to alternate compressive and
shear stress
c. Resisting bending moment only 235. An important characteristics of fluid property
d. Light construction involved in the phenomenon of cavitation.
a. temperature
230. Oxygen freezes at -362°F. What is the Celsius b. surface tension
equivalent of this temperature? c. vapor pressure
d. viscosity
a. 183.33°C
b. -183.33°C
c. 219°C 236. What is the correct sequence in ascending order
d. -219°C of the magnitude of the given parameters?
a. momentum thickness, boundary layer thickness,

231. Only throttling calorimeter is used for displacement thickness
measuring ________. b. momentum thickness, displacement thickness,
boundary layer thickness
a. dryness fraction of only high pressure steam c. boundary layer thickness, momentum thickness,
b. dryness fraction of only low pressure steam displacement thickness
c. very high dryness fraction up to 0.98 d. displacement thickness, boundary layer
d. very low dryness fraction up to 0.7 thickness, momentum thickness
237. Which of these statements is/are correct? d. Discharge through rectangular notch - Discharge
through rectangular notch
1. Piezometer is used to measure small variation of
pressure above or below ambient pressure
2. Thixotropic fluid exhibits decrease in viscosity 242. Which of the following ratios describes
with time. Reynolds number?
a. Only 1 a. drag forces/buoyant forces

b. only 2 b. viscous forces/drag forces
c. Neither 1 nor 2 c. buoyant forces/inertial forces
d. Both 1 and 2 d. inertial forces/viscous forces
238. In a boundary layer developed along the flow, 243. In a floating body, what do you call the distance
the pressure decreases in the downstream direction. between the center of gravity and the metacenter?
The boundary layer thickness would ________.
a. metacentric head
a. increase gradually b. metacentric height
b. tend to decrease c. submerged height
c. remain constant d. buoyancy head
d. increase rapidly
244. As the pressure increases, the heat of

239. Irrotational flow occurs when ________. vaporization per pound of water _______.
a. there is no net rotation of the fluid element a. decreases

about its mass center b. increases
b. fluid element does not undergo any change in c. first increases then decreases
size or shape d. remains constant
c. flow takes place in a duct of uniform cross-
section at constant mass flow rate
d. streamlines are curved 245. Let X be a random variable following normal
distribution with mean +1 and variance 4. Let Y be
another normal variable with -1 and variance
240. What is the ratio of the number of moles of one unknown. If P (X ≤ -1) = P (X ≥ 2), the standard
component of a solution to the total number of moles deviation of Y is ________.
of all the components?
a. 1
a. Formality b. 2
b. Mole fraction c. 3
c. Molarity d. 4
d. Molality
246. According to the law of equilibrium, two forces

241. Theoretical discharge through a trapezoidal are said to be in an equilibrium only if they are
notch or weir is given by ________. ________.
a. Discharge through rectangular notch + a. collinear in action

Discharge through rectangular notch b. equal in magnitude and opposite in direction
b. Discharge through rectangular notch + c. opposite in direction
Discharge through triangular notch d. both (a) and (b)
c. Discharge through rectangular notch -Discharge
through triangular notch
247. What is the energy used if a 1/3 hp pump runs d. the kinetic energy remains constant
for 20 minutes?
a. 0.25 kW 253. The point of concurrency of the perpendicular

b. 0.11 kW-hr bisector of the sides of the triangle is called
c. 0.08 MJ _______.
d. 0.30 MJ
a. Centroid
b. Circumference
248. When two rows are interchanged in position, the c. Orthocenter
value of the determinant will ________. d. Circumcenter
a. Become zero
b. Become infinite value 254. Any combination of symbols and numbers
c. Be multiplied by -1 related by the fundamental operation of algebra is
d. Remain unchanged called a/an ________.
a. Algebraic sum
249. If A and B are square matrices of equal degree, b. Algebraic expression
then which one is correct among the following? c. Algebraic equation
d. Equation
a. A+B=A–B
b. AB = BA
c. A+B=B+A 255. If P is a square matrix, then the matrix P+P is
d. A–B=B–A ________.
a. horizontal
250. The matrix obtained from a given matrix by b. skew-symmetric
changing rows into columns is called ________. c. symmetric
d. diagonal
a. skew-symmetric matrix
b. symmetric matrix
c. orthogonal matrix 256. The logarithm of the negative number is
d. None of these ________.
a. irrational
251. To find the angle of a triangle, given only the b. notional
lengths of the sides, what is the best and appropriate c. rational
law to use? d. Imaginary
a. law of tangents
b. law of cotangents 257. The conic equation x2 + y2 + Dx + Ey + F = 0
c. law of cosines represents ________.
d. law of sines
a. circle
b. Parabola
252. What is the best statement for elastic collision? c. hyperbola
d. ellipse
a. the initial kinetic energy is equal to the final
kinetic energy
b. the initial kinetic energy is greater than to the 258. A parabola has an eccentricity ________.
final kinetic energy
c. the final kinetic energy is less than the initial a. Equal to 1
kinetic energy b. Less than 1
c. Brake even purchase the same amount of goods or services over

d. Greater than 1 time.
a. Inflation
259. A conic characterized by locus of a moving b. Depletion
point in a plane so that the difference of its distance c. Expansion
from two fixed point (foci) is constant. d. Reduction
a. parabola
b. circle 265. The term used to express the series of uniform
c. hyperbola payments occurring at equal interval of time is called
d. ellipse ________.
a. Penalty
260. A conic section sharing a common focus. For b. Depreciation
example, an ellipse and a hyperbola having same c. Annuity
foci. d. Perpetuity
a. Confocal
b. Central conics 266. What is an estimate of asset' s net market value
c. Median conics at the end of its estimated life?
d. Quartic conics
a. Book value
b. Cash flow
261. The plane curve traced out by a fixed point on c. Salvage value
the circle as the circle rolls along a line. d. Depreciation
a. Cycloid
b. Hypocycloid 267. Which of the following law states that "When
c. Epicycloids free competition exist the price of a product will be
d. Lemniscates that value where supply is equal to the demand"?
a. law of supply
262. A plane curved traced by a fixed point on a b. Law of diminishing return
circle as is rolls along inside of a fixed circle. c. law of demand
d. law of supply and demand
a. Lemniscates
b. Cycloid
c. Hypocycloid 268. What is the common unit used to indicate the
d. Epicycloids mass of a particle?
a. Atomic mass unit (amu)

263. The process of repaying the net investment that b. Charge unit
has been put into a project. This includes net c. imperial unit
salvage, interest and principal repayment. d. SI unit
a. Return of investment
b. Investment cost 269. What is the unit for the charge of a particle?
c. Over-all cost
d. Capital Recovery a. SI unit
b. Charge unit
c. imperial unit
264. Expressed as a percentage per time (% per year), d. Atomic mass unit
it is an increase in the amount of money required to
270. The human body is composed of how many b. Bending moment, twisting moment and shar
percent oxygen? force
c. Bending moment and shearing force
a. 55% d. Bending moment and twisting force
b. 50%
c. 65%
d. 60% 276. There are two points P and Q on a planar rigid
body, what is the best statement for the relative
velocity between the two points?
271. The procedure for separating a liquid from a
mixture by vaporizing the liquid and condensing the a. should always be along PQ
vapor is called _______. b. can be oriented along any direction
c. should always be perpendicular to PQ
a. Maturization d. should be along QP when the body undergoes
b. Purification pure translation
c. Evaporation
d. Distillation
277. Two beams, one having square cross-section
and another circular cross-section are subjected to
272. What will happen to the momentum of a body if the same amount of bending moment. If the cross-
the velocity doubled in value? sectional are as well as the material of both the
beams are the same, what is the best statement to
a. will also doubled describe this?
b. will tripled
c. stays the same a. as the material is same both the beams will
d. will decrease by haft experience same deformation
b. minimum bending stresses developed in both the
beams are the same
273. For perfectly elastic collision, the coefficient of c. the square beam experiences more bending
restitution (e) is equal to ________. stress than the circular one
d. the circular beam experiences more bending
a. certain constant stress than the circular one
b. 1
c. negative value
d. 0 278. A steel rod of length l and diameter d, fixed at
both ends is uniformly heated to a temperature rise
of delta T (∆T). The Young' s modulus is E and the
274. A soccer ball is kicked vertically from the coefficient of linear expansion is α. The thermal
ground level with a speed of 20 m/s. At what height stress in the rod is equal _______.
is the gravitational potential energy of the ball
maximum? a. Eα∆T
b. α∆Tl
a. 5m c. α∆T
b. 10m d. Eα∆Tl
c. 15m
d. 20m
279. The basic assumption of the plane section
normal to the new axis before bending, remaining
275. A cantilever beam turned in place and subjected plane and normal to neutral axis after bending leads
to lateral loads will develop ________ at any to _______.
section.
a. uniform strain over the beam cross-section
a. Bending moment and sharing force b. linearly varying strain
c. linearly hold strain
d. uniform stress under the cross- section a. Cp x Cv

b. Cp – Cv
c. Cp + Cv
280. A certain body in motion is subjected to coriolis d. Cp / Cv
acceleration, which of the following best describe
the situation?
286. When is Bernoulli' s equation applicable
a. in plane translation with variable velocity between any to points in a flow field?
b. in plane motion which is a resultant of plane
reconstruction and rotation a. The flow is steady, compressible and irrotational
c. restrained to rotate while sliding over another b. The flow is unsteady, incompressible and
body irrotational
d. in plane rotation with variable velocity c. The flow is steady, incompressible and
irrotational
d. The flow is unsteady, incompressible and
281. The main cause of the irreversibility in a system rotational
is called ________.
a. unrestricted expansion 287. A beaker of water is falling freely under the

b. heat transfer with a finite temperature difference influence of gravity. Point B is on the surface and
c. mechanical and fluid friction point C is vertically below B near the bottom of the
d. All of the above beaker. If PB is the pressure at point B and PC the
pressure of point C, then, which one of the following
282. If all the variables of a stream are independent a. PB = CP

of time it is said to be in _______. b. PB > PC
c. PB = PC
a. steady flow d. PB < PC
b. open flow
c. closed flow
d. unsteady flow 288. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. A perfect gas obeys the law pv = RT but no

283. The state of substance whose evaporation from variable specific heat capacities
its liquid state is complete is known as _______. b. A perfect gas does not obey the law pv = RT
c. A perfect gas obeys the law pv = RT but have
a. vapor variable specific heat capacities
b. steam d. A perfect gas obeys the law PV = mRT and has
c. perfect gas constant specific heat
d. air
289. In fluid mechanics, flow separation is caused by

284. In SI units, the value of the universal gas _______.
constant is _______.
a. a positive pressure gradient
a. 8314 J/moIe/K b. reduction of pressure to local vapor pressure
b. 831.4 J/mole/K c. increase of pressure to local vapor pressure
c. 0.8314 J/moIe/K d. a negative pressure gradient
d. 83.14 J/mole/K
290. A cipolette weir means

285. The ideal gas constant (R) is equal to the
_______. a. a trapezoidal weir having a slope 4:1
b. a triangular weir of varying dimension
c. a trapezoidal weir having a slope 1:4 a. increasing with altitude

d. a rectangular weir of varying dimensions b. more at the equator of the earth than at poles
c. decreasing with altitude
d. same at all places
291. Head loss due to friction for laminar flow
through pipe is _______.
297. The principle of conservation of momentum is
a. inversely proportional to average velocity value for ________.
b. directly proportional to dynamic viscosity
c. inversely proportional to pipe length a. heavy body collisions
d. indirectly proportional to dynamic viscosity b. mix body collisions
c. light body collisions
d. all types of collisions
292. Which of the following best describe Stokes
theorem?
298. Four forces P, 2P,3P and 4P act along four sides
a. connects a line integral and a volume integral of a square taken in order. The resultant force is
b. connects gradient of a function and its surface _______.
integral
c. connects gradient of a function and its volume a. 4P
integral b. 2 √2P
d. connects a line integral and a surface integral c. 2P
d. 2P√2
293. Point of the derivatives, which do not exist (and

so equals zero) are called _______. 299. Two blocks A and B are resting on a frictionless
surface connected by a spring. If they are held apart
a. maximum point and the released by speed va and vb, then the sum of
b. constant point their momentums is _______.
c. minimum point
d. stationary point a. zero
b. ma x va + mbvb
c. mava + mbvb
294. A frequency curve which is composed of a d. max va – mbvb
series of rectangles constructed with the steps as the
basis and the frequency as the height.
300. If ka and kb are the kinetic energies of two
a. Histogram blocks A and B connected by a spring and having
b. Clustered column mass ma and mb respectively, what is the
c. Bar graph relationship of mass and kinetic energy of two
d. frequency distributor blocks?
a. ka + kb = 0
295. What is your observation on an iron ball and a b. maka > mbkb
cotton ball of same mass release from a height h in c. maka = mbkb
air? d. ka - kb = 0
a. the cotton ball will reach the ground first

b. the cotton ball will reach the ground first 301. What is the equivalent work in an isothermal
c. both balls reach the ground at the same time quasi-equilibrium process involving an ideal gas?
d. both will not reach the ground
a. P1V1 ln(V2/V1)
b. V1 (P2-P1)
296. Acceleration due to gravity is ________. c. P2 (V2-V1)
d. mRT V2/V1 a. Rhombus coordinates system

b. Oblique coordinates system
c. Parallelogram coordinates system
302. Which of the following is associated with a d. Polar coordinates system
technique of solving a system of linear equations?
a. Hermite 308. A horizontal line has a slope of ________.

b. Sarrus
c. Cartesian a. Negative
d. Cramer b. Constant
c. Zero
303. It is impossible to construct a continuously d. Positive
operating engine that takes heat from a source and
performs an exactly equivalent amount of work.
309. The curved traced by a point moving in a plane
a. Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics is shown as the _______ of the point.
b. First Law of Thermodynamics
c. Second Law of Thermodynamics a. locus
d. Third Law of Thermodynamics b. formula
c. pattern
d. Parameter
304. What do you call a triangle having three unequal
sides?
310. If eccentricity of a certain conic is less than one,
a. scalene then the curve is _______.
b. Isosceles
c. obtuse a. Circle
d. Oblique b. Parabola
c. Ellipse
d. Hyperbola
305. A branch of mathematics which uses the
properties of numbers by using symbols or letters to
represent variables and unknown quantities and 311. The flow of money into and out of a company
numbers in arithmetic operations which usually due to project or activity. Revenues are cash inflows
involves the use and rearranging of equations. carry a positive (+) sign; expenses are outflows and
carry a negative (—) sign.
a. Trigonometry
b. Algebra a. Capital Flows
c. Geometry b. Economic flow
d. Mechanics c. Cash Flow
d. Business transaction
306. In Cartesian plane, what is a term also known as

the x-coordinates? 312. The interest rate incurred to obtain capital
investment funds. It is usually a weighted average
a. Abscissa that involves the cost of debt capital (loans, bonds,
b. radius vector and mortgages) and equity capital (stocks and
c. Ordinate retained earnings).
d. polar ordinate
a. Rate of Capital
b. Investment rate
307. Is a Cartesian coordinates system in which the c. Cost of Capital
axes are not perpendicular. d. Minimum Attractive Rate of Return (MARR)
313. Expected trade-in, market, or scrap value at the acts from right to left and does 50 J of work on the
end of the estimated life or the study period. box. What is the resulting velocity of the box after?
a. Salvage Value a. 4 m/s

b. Final cost b. 5 m/s
c. Trade value c. 7 m/s
d. Investment cost d. 10 m/s
314. What is a term that refers to the number of 319. The momentum of a moving object is the
atoms of a specific element? For example, Carbon product of its mass (m) and velocity (v). Newton' s
has 12. second law of motion says that the ratio of change of
momentum with respect to the time is _______.
a. Avogadro' s number
b. molar mass a. Energy
c. atomic mass b. Momentum
d. mole c. Power
d. Passivity
315. What is a special kind of dipole-dipole

interaction formed when a hydrogen atom bonded to 320. What is the resulting velocity if water flows
a highly electro-negative atom is attracted to the lone through a ½ inch inside diameter hose at 3 gpm?
pair of a nearby electronegative atom?
a. 5
a. hydro bond b. 8
b. hydrate bond c. 15
c. hydrogen bond d. 20
d. Hydride bond
321. A 3000 lb car has an engine which can deliver

316. When the maximum amount of solute is 80 hp to the rear wheels. What is the maximum
dissolved in the given solvent at a stated velocity at which the car climbs a 15° hill?
temperature, the solution formed is ________.
a. 38.6 mi/h
a. supersaturated b. 25.8 mi/h
b. saturated c. 284 mi/h
c. critical point d. 28.4 mi/h
d. Unsaturated
322. One horsepower is equal to _______.

317. What is the temperature at which the vapor
pressure corresponds to the actual atmospheric a. 42.4 Btu/hr
pressure? b. 33000 ft-lb/sec
c. 424 Btu/hr
a. Boiling point d. 746 N-m/s
b. Saturation point
c. Critical point
d. Melting point 323. When two mutually perpendicular principal
stresses are unequal but like, the maximum shear
stress is represented by _______.
318. Two forces push simultaneously a stationary 2
kg box in opposite directions: F1 acts from left to a. one fourth the diameter of Mohr' s circle
right and does 150 J of work on the box while F2 b. one eight the diameter of Mohr' s circle
c. half the diameter of Mohr' s circle
d. one third the diameter of Mohr' s circle a. specific heats and enthalpy
b. temperature and entropy
c. temperature and specific heats
324. Which of the statements is best to describe two d. temperature only
shafts connected in series?
a. torsional stiffness of each shaft is same 330. For any reversible process, the change in
b. torque in each shaft is the same entropy of the system and surroundings is ________.
c. neither (a) and (d)
d. shear stress in each shaft is the same a. zero
b. positive
c. infinite
325. If the value of Poisson’s ratio is zero then it d. negative
means _______.
a. the material is rigid 331. Kind of obligation which has no condition

b. there is not longitudinal strain in the material attached.
c. the longitudinal strain in the material is absolute
d. the material is perfectly elastic a. tender
b. gratuitous
c. contract
326. A market whereby there is only one buyer of an d. Private
item for which there are no goods substitute.
a. Monopsony 332. Isentropic flow is classified as _______.

b. Oligopoly
c. Super market a. frictionless irreversible flow
d. Oligopsony b. reversible adiabatic flow
c. frictionless reversible flow
d. irreversible adiabatic flow
327. What is the reason why cracks in helical springs
used in railway carriages usually start on the inner
side of the coil? 333. A homogeneous solid of any arbitrary shape
floats upright in a homogeneous liquid with
a. it has a higher curvature than the outer side. immersed volume V and is in stable equilibrium. If
b. it has a lower curvature than the outer side. the solid is overturned and made to float upside
c. it is subjected to a higher cyclic loading than the down in a different homogeneous liquid with exactly
outer side same volume V ab
d. it is subjected to the higher stress than the outer
side a. unstable
b. stable
c. inactive
328. In thermodynamics, a control volume refers to d. may or may not be stable
________.
a. open system 334. Which property of mercury is the main reason

b. a closed system why it is usually used in barometers?
c. a constant mass
d. an isolated system a. Low compressibility
b. Very high vapor pressure
c. Very low vapor pressure
329. Internal energy of a perfect gas depends on d. High compressibility
________.
335. Which of the following is true for stability of a 340. This occurs in a situation where a commodity or
floating body under the influence of gravity alone? service is supplied by a number of vendors and there
is nothing to prevent additional vendors entering the
a. Metacenter should be above center of gravity market.
b. Metacenter and center of gravity must lie on the
same horizontal line a. Perfect competition
c. Metacenter and center of gravity must lie on the b. Oligopoly
same vertical line c. Monopoly
d. Metacenter should be below center of gravity d. Elastic demand
341. The unit of specific weight in SI system is

336. Which of the following statements is correct? _______.
a. The change in entropy may be regarded as a a. Nm3

measure of the rate of the availability of heat for b. Nm-3
transformation into work c. N/m3
b. The entropy represents the maximum amount of d. m3/N
work obtainable per degree drop in temperature
c. The increase in entropy is obtained from a given
quantity of heat at a low temperature 342. Fluid Static' s deals with _______.
d. All of the above
a. a combination of fluid
b. study of fluid in motion
337. A series of uniform accounts over an infinite c. study of fluid
period of time. d. study of fluid at rest
a. Depreciation
b. Annuity 343. Fluid kinematics deals with _______.
c. Perpetuity
d. Inflation a. geometry of motion of fluids by considering
cause for motion
b. geometry of motion of fluids without
338. Consists of the actual counting or determination considering force
of the actual quantity of the materials on hand in c. geometry of motion of fluids
specific given date. d. All of the above
a. Physical inventory
b. Material update 344. Dry friction is mostly applicable in _______.
c. Technological assessment
d. valuation a. bearings operation
b. heat transmission
c. power transmission
339. Decrease in value of a physical property due to d. heat generation
the passage of time. Example are cellphones,
computers, motor bike, etc.
345. Two forces of equal magnitude M, act at an
a. Depreciation angle Ɵ between each other. Their resultant is given
b. Inflation by _______.
c. Depletion
d. Recession a. 2M cos Ɵ
b. 2M cos (Ɵ/2)
c. 2M cos - (Ɵ/2)
d. 2M cos (Ɵ-2)
346. In thermodynamics process, the quantity PV d. sometimes zero and sometimes positive
represents _______.
a. Flow work 352. In any square matrix, when the elements of any
b. work rows are exactly the same, the determinant is
c. kinetic energy ________.
d. Enthalpy
a. Zero
b. negative integer
347. The state at which the properties of a boiling c. Positive integer
liquid and its vapor become equal is known as d. Unity
_______.
a. critical state 353. This term connotes a statement with a simple

b. reduced state proof and/or a theorem of no particular importance.
c. boiling state
d. triple point a. Postulate
b. Proposition
c. Conclusion
348. A condition where only few individuals produce d. Hypothesis
a certain product and that any action of one will lead
to almost the same action of the others.
354. The product of two orthogonal matrices is called
a. Oligopoly ________.
b. Semi-monopoly
c. Monopoly a. unitary
d. Perfect competition b. unit matrix
c. unitary matrix
d. sole matrix
349. Liquid assets such as cash and other assets that
can be converted quickly into cash, such as accounts
receivable and merchandise are called ________. 355. Which of the following is false?
a. Fixed assets a. The determinant of a square is always defined.

b. Total assets b. The value of determinant can never be negative
c. Current assets c. If the element of a row (or column) are divided
d. business fund by 1/3, then the value of the new determinant is
3 times the value of the original determinant
d. If any two rows (or column) of a determinant
350. The provision in the contract that indicates the are identical then the value of determinant will
possible adjustment of material cost and labor cost. be zero
a. Secondary clause
b. Contingency clause 356. Which of the following is true for center of mass
c. Escalatory clause and center of gravity of the body?
d. Main clause
a. they always coincide with center of mass
b. Center of gravity can be above center of mass
351. The absolute value of a non-zero number is c. Center of mass depends upon acceleration due
________. to gravity of the place
d. Center of gravity can be slightly below the
a. Always zero center of mass
b. Always negative
c. Always positive
357. A line passing through the focus and b. molecular length

perpendicular to the directrix of a parabola is called c. atomic length
_________. d. atomic radius
a. foci line
b. secant line 363. Which of the following is not a unit of work?
c. latus rectum
d. Axis of parabola a. N-m
b. erg
c. kg-m2/s2
358. It is a locus of points on a side of a circle which d. dyne
rolls along a fixed line.
a. hypocycloid 364. The momentum of a moving object can change

b. Cardioid in all of the following ways except:
c. Cycloid
d. Epicycloids a. A change in the mass of the object.
b. A change in the speed of the object.
c. A change in the direction of the object's mass.
359. As applied to a capitalized asset, the distribution d. A change in the shape of the object.
of the initial cost by a periodic change to operation
as in depreciation or the reduction of a debt by either
periodic or irregular prearranged program is called 365. Linear momentum is a Product of mass and
________. velocity and this can be expressed also as a function
of ________.
a. Annuity
b. Capital recovery a. force, acceleration and time
c. Annuity factor b. force, velocity and time
d. Amortization c. force and time
d. force and displacement
360. A method of computing depreciation in which

the annual charge is a fixed percentage of the 366. Rankine-Gordon formula for buckling is valid
depreciation book value at the beginning of the year for ________.
to which the depreciation applies.
a. long column
a. Straight lime method b. short column
b. Sinking fund method c. short and long column
c. SYD method d. very long column
d. Declining balance method
367. If failure is shear along 45° planes is to be

361. What is the "identity number" of an atom? avoided then a material subjected to uniaxial tension
should have its shear strength equal to at least
a. Atomic number ________.
b. mass number
c. atomic mass a. tensile strength
d. atomic weight b. compressive strength
c. half the difference between tensile and
compressive strength
362. The distance between the nuclei of two bonded d. half the tensile strength
atoms is called _______.
a. Bond length
368. If the Poisons for a material is 0.5, then the 373. In Carnot cycle, what happen when the working
elastic modulus of the material is _______. substance gives heat to the sink?
a. 3 times its shear modulus a. temperature of the sink increase

b. 4 times its shear modulus b. temperature of the sink remains the same
c. equal to its shear modulus c. temperature of the source decreases
d. indeterminate d. temperatures of both the sink and the source
decrease
369. Two shafts having same length and material are

joined in series. If the ratio of their diameters is 2, 374. What is the effect on Carnot engine's efficiency
then the ratio of their angles of twist shall be equal if the temperature of the source is increased?
to ________.
a. decreases
a. 16 b. increases
b. 12 c. does not change
c. 8 d. will be equal to the efficiency of a practical
d. 4 engine
370. When a beam is loaded downwards, maximum 375. Which of the following is the correct statement?
compressive stress will be developed in ________.
a. All the reversible engines operating between the
a. top fibers same temperature levels have the same
b. bottom fibers efficiency
c. neutral axis b. All the reversible and irreversible engines have
d. both end of the beam the same efficiency
c. Irreversible engines have maximum efficiency
d. All engines are designed as reversible in order to
371. If the shear force acting at every section of a obtain maximum efficiency
beam is of the same magnitude and of the same
direction then it represents a ________.
376. A fluid is substance which deforms continuously
a. Simply supported beam with a concentrated load under the action of ________.
at the center.
b. Overhung beam having equal overhung at both a. shearing force
supports and carrying equal concentrated loads b. tensile force
acting in the same direction at the free ends. c. compressive force
c. Cantilever subjected to concentrated load at the d. none of these
free end.
d. Simply supported beam having concentrated
loads of equal magnitude and in the same 377. At atmospheric pressure, the maximum density
direction acting to equal distances from the of water occurs at ________.
supports
a. 0°C
b. 3°C
372. Is a thermodynamic process particularly useful c. 4°C
for characterizing expansion and compression d. -4°C
processes, which include heat transfer?
a. polytropic process 378. In System International (SI) unit, the physical

b. isothermal process unit of dynamic viscosity is _______.
c. isometric process
d. isenthalpic process a. Pa-s
b. Pa/s a. only one minima

c. Poise b. only two minima
d. Stokes c. three minima
d. three maxima
379. In CGS unit, dynamic viscosity is expressed in

_______. 385. The ratio of tension on the tight side to that on
the slack side in a flat belt drive is ________.
a. Poise a. proportional to the product of coefficient of

b. Pa-s friction and lap angle
c. Stokes b. an exponential function of the product of
d. Pa/s coefficient of friction and lap angle
c. proportional to the lap angle
d. proportional to the coefficient of friction
380. Which of the following functions is not
differentiable in the domain (-1,1)?
386. This is the point where the concavity of a curve
a. f(x)=x2 changes of when the slope of the curve is either
b. f(x)=x-1 increasing or decreasing. What is this point?
c. f(x)=2
d. f(x)=maximum (x, -x) a. Maximum point
b. Minimum point
c. Point of tangency
381. It is a measure of how a function changes as its d. point of inflection
input changes.
a. Antiderivative 387. During in elastic collision of two particles,

b. Logarithm which one of the following is conserved?
c. Derivative
d. Integral a. Total linear momentum only
b. Total kinetic energy only
c. Both linear momentum and kinetic energy
382. A function whose range consist of only one d. Neither linear momentum nor kinetic energy
number is called ________.
a. Variable function 388. Any pair of elements (x, y) having a first

b. Constant function element x and a second element y is called
c. Step function ________.
d. Signum function
a. Range
b. coordinates
383. The function f(x)=x5-(5x)4+(5x)3-1 has c. domain
________. d. ordered pair
a. one minima and two maxima

b. two minima and one maxima 389. A different equation is considered to be ordinary
c. two minima and two maxima if ________.
d. one minima and maxima
a. one independent variable
b. more than one dependent variable
384. Consider function f(x)=(x2-4)2 where x is real c. one dependent variable
number. Then, the function has ________. d. more than one independent variable
390. This is the measures of central tendency defined d. 40%

as the most frequent score. How do you call this
measure of central tendency?
396. Two bodies of moment of inertia I1 and I2
a. Median where I1 is more than I2, and have same angular
b. Mode momentum, the body having higher kinetic energy is
c. Mean ________.
d. Deviation
a. First body
b. Both have same kinetic energy
391. It is an arrangement of objects in a definite c. Data insufficient
order. d. Second body
a. Probability
b. permutation 397. If center of mass lies at origin of coordinate
c. mathematical expression system then the sum of the first mass moments of the
d. expression system about the center of mass is ________.
a. Greater than zero

392. The relation F = μN is used for ________. b. is always zero
c. Can be equal to zero
a. belt friction d. Less than zero
b. fluid friction
c. rolling friction
d. for incipient motion of bodies with dry contact 398. Which of the following is true for center of mass
surfaces and center of gravity of the body?
a. they always coincide with center of mass

393. The dimensional relation for angular momentum b. Center of gravity can be above center of mass
is ________. c. Center of mass depends upon acceleration due
to gravity of the place
a. ML-2T-1 d. Center of gravity can be slightly below the
b. ML2T-1 center of mass
c. MLT-1
d. ML-2T-2
399. If there are as many equations as unknowns, the
matrix of the coefficient is a ________.
394. A spherical shell initially rolls and then finally
slips while moving down an inclined plane, the ratio a. Row matrix
of acceleration is ________. b. Column matrix
c. square matrix
a. 2:5 d. rectangular matrix
b. 5:2
c. 10:3
d. 3:5 400. An array of m x n quantities which represent a
single number and is composed of elements in rows
and columns is known as ________.
395. If a sphere of moment of inertia I rolls down and
inclined plane then what is the percentage of rotation a. Transpose of a matrix
kinetic energy. b. Determinant
c. co-factor of a matrix
a. 23% d. matrix
b. 28%
c. 70%
401. If a, b, c are three consecutive integers, then log 407. What is the value of slope m in line equation y =
(ac+1) is equal to _______. mx + b if the slope is downwards from left to right?
a. log (2b) a. Less than zero

b. log (3b + a) b. Greater than zero
c. 2 log b c. equal to 1
d. b log 3 d. equal to 1
402. Is half of a great circle terminated by the North 408. In hyperbola or ellipse, what is the ratio of the
pole and South Pole? distance between the foci to the distance between the
vertices?
a. Longitude
b. declination a. Eccentricity
c. latitude b. Latus rectum
d. Meridian c. focus
d. foci
403. A skew-symmetric matrix cannot be of rank

________. 409. Is a line such that the distance between the curve
and the line approaches zero as they tend to infinity.
a. 2
b. 1 a. latus rectum
c. greater than 1 b. Asymptote
d. 0 c. Directrix
d. line segment
404. A polygon with equal sides is called _______.

410. The standard equation of a straight-line y – y1 =
a. square m (x – x1) is called _______.
b. triangle
c. Rhombus a. Point - slope form
d. Trapezoid b. Slope form
c. Slope - intercept form
d. Two - point form
405. If the determinant of coefficient of the system of
homogeneous linear equation is zero, then the
system has _______. 411. Is characterized by a locus of points are
equidistant from a fixed point called focus and a
a. infinite solutions fixed line called the directrix.
b. non-trivial solution
c. trivial solution a. Ellipse
d. No solution b. Parabola
c. circle
d. hyperbola
406. If a square matrix A is real and symmetric, then
the Eigen values are _______.
412. An association of two or more persons for a
a. always real and negative purpose of engaging in a profitable business.
b. always real and positive
c. always real and zero a. Trading
d. occur in complex conjugate pairs b. Enterprise
c. Partnership
d. Corporation
413. What is the minimum number of incorporators b. T-bills

in order that a corporation be organized? c. Certificate of deposit
d. All of these
a. 2
b. 5
c. 6 419. The strong bond between hydrogen atoms is
d. 7 known as _______.
a. Ionic bond
414. Land, buildings, plant and machinery are b. Ionic and metallic bond
examples of ________. c. metallic bond
d. covalent bond
a. Current assets
b. Trade investments
c. Fixed assets 420. The amount of heat needed to change solid to
d. hidden assets liquid at same temperature level is called ________.
a. Condensation
415. An increase in the value of a capital asset due to b. Cold fusion
business transaction is called ________. c. Latent heat of fusion
d. Solid fusion
a. Profit
b. Capital gain
c. Capital expenditure 421. According to this law, "the force between two
d. Capital stock charges varies directly as the magnitude of each
charge and inversely as the square of the distance
between them".
416. It denotes the fall in the exchange rate of one
currency against others. The term usually applies to a. Law of universal gravitation
floating exchange rates. b. Coulombs law
c. Newton' s Law
a. Currency shortage d. D' Alembert law
b. Currency devaluation
c. Currency float
d. Currency depreciation 422. A free-falling body is a body in a rectilinear
motion with constant ________.
417. The amount of company' s profit that the board a. Acceleration

of directors of the corporation decides to distribute b. Speed
to ordinary shareholders. c. Deceleration
d. Velocity
a. investment opportunity
b. Dividend
c. Return 423. Momentum is a product of mass and ________.
d. Share stock
a. Velocity
b. Acceleration
418. A form of fixed interest security issued by c. gravity
central or local government, companies, banks or d. Force
other institutions. They are usually a form of long-
term security, buy may be irredeemable, secured or
unsecured. 424. When a close coiled helical spring is subjected
to a couple about its axis, the stress induced in the
a. Bond wire material of the spring is ________.
a. bending stress only 430. In thermodynamics, isentropic process is always

b. direct shear stress only ________.
c. a combination of torsional shear stress and
bending stress a. reversible and adiabatic
d. a combination of bending stress and direct shear b. irreversible and adiabatic
stress c. reversible and isothermal
d. no energy loss
425. During a tensile testing of a specimen using a

universal testing machine the parameters actually 431. Which of the following will best describe the
measured includes _______. first law of thermodynamics for steady flow?
a. deformation
b. Poisson' s ratio and young' s modulus a. is primarily concerned with heat transfer
c. actual stress and strain b. deals with all energy entering and leaving a
d. load and elongation control volume
c. is an energy balance for a specified mass of
fluid
426. The strain energy stored by the body within d. is an expression of the conservation of linear
elastic limit when loaded externally is called momentum
________.
a. modulus of resilience 432. The second law of thermodynamics statement

b. proof stress that "it is impossible to devise a cyclically operating
c. modulus of elasticity device, the sole effect of which is to absorb energy
d. resilience in the form of heat from a single thermal reservoir
and to deliver an equivalent amount of work."
427. The maximus shear stress in I-beam is located at a. Kelvin-Planck's

________. b. Clausius
c. Carnot
a. middle of web d. Conservation of energy
b. top of flange
c. junction of flange and web
d. bottom of the flange 433. The efficiency of an ideal Carnot engine
depends mainly on _________.
428. In case of a circular section, the maximum shear a. the temperatures of both the source and the sink
stress is _______ percent more than the mean shear b. the working substance
stress. c. heat rejected and work done by the system
d. the temperature of the sink only
a. 50
b. 10
c. 66 434. The efficiency of the Carnot cycle may be
d. 33 increased by ________.
a. increasing the highest temperature

429. Which of the following condition will describe a b. decreasing the highest temperature
pure bending of a beam? c. increasing the lowest temperature
d. decreasing the lowest temperature
a. shear force in beam is zero
b. shear force in the beam is uniform throughout
c. bending moment in the beam is uniform 435. What is the effect on entropy when heat is
throughout absorbed by the gas?
d. bending moment in beam is zero
a. increase a. Dilatant fluid

b. decrease b. Bingham plastic
c. stays the same c. Pseudo-plastic
d. constant d. Viscoelastic
436. 1 m2/s is equal to ________. 442. Cleaning of clothes using soap is due to
________.
a. 104 Stoke a. increase in the surface tension of the solution
b. 103 Stoke b. chemical reaction with the cloth
c. 102 Stoke c. decrease in the surface tension of the solution
d. 10 Stoke d. friction between soap and clothes
437. What is the effect of heating a gas in a 443. A solution which resists change in its pH value
container? in addition of acid/alkali is called ________.
a. gas becomes heavy a. neutral solution

b. Molecular interchange between adjacent layers b. ideal solution
increases c. buffer solution
c. Viscosity of the gas increases d. zero pH
d. Viscosity of the gas decreases
444. Consider a company that assembles computers.

438. Which of the following describes real fluid? The probability of a faulty assembly of any
computer is P. The company therefore, subjects each
a. display viscosity and so are capable of being computer to a testing process. This testing process
subjected to low levels of shear stress gives the correct result for any computer with a
b. non-viscous and compressible probability
c. viscous and incompressible
d. viscous only a. pq + (1 -p) (1 -q)
b. (1-q) p
c. (1-p) q
439. A fluid characterized by "stress is directly d. pq
proportional to rate of strain".
a. Non-newtonian 445. Impulse is the product of ________.

b. Newtonian
c. Navier-stoke a. F and d
d. Viscous fluid b. m and a
c. F and t
d. F and m
440. What is the equivalent water head of standard
atmospheric pressure?
446. The moment the inertia of a rectangular whose
a. 10.3 m base is A and height B about its base is equal to
b. 101.325 m ________.
c. 14.696 m
d. 0.103 m a. AB3/12
b. AB2/4
c. AB3/3
441. Sewage sludge is an example of ________. d. AB3/36
447. If a ring is rolled down in an inclined plane, the d. natural logarithm

ratio of rotational and linear kinetic energy is
_______.
453. A logarithmic operation using 10 as base is
a. 1:2 called ________.
b. 1:1
c. 1:3 a. common logarithm
d. 1:4 b. Decimal logarithm
c. Scientific logarithm
d. Any of the above
448. A cylinder of mass m and radius r rolls down an
inclined plane of inclination Ɵ. The linear
acceleration of the axis of cylinder is _______. 454. A system of equations is said to be consistent in
there is existing _______ solution/s for the system.
a. g sin Ɵ
b. 1/3 g sin Ɵ a. zero
c. 2/3 g sin Ɵ b. at least one
d. Any of the above c. two
d. three
449. Center of mass of a system of particles in

independent of ________. 455. The angle which the line of sight to the object
makes with the horizontal measured above.
a. volume of the particles
b. Forces acting on the particles a. Angle of depression
c. Position of particles b. Angle of elevation
d. Relative distance amongst the particles c. acute angle
d. bearing
450. When the total kinetic energy of system is the

same as before and after collision of two bodies, it is 456. Defined as the future value minus the present
called ________. value.
a. Plastic collision a. Interest

b. Inelastic collision b. Discount
c. Elastic collision c. Rate of return
d. Static collision d. Capital
451. It is a statement that has been proven on the 457. Which of the following logarithmic relationship
basis of previously established statements. is correct?
a. Theorem a. log (xy) = logx + logy

b. Postulate b. log (xy) = logx x logy
c. Conclusion c. log (xy) = logx - logy
d. Axiom d. log (xy) = logx / logy
452. A polynomial which is exactly divisible by two 458. A straight line from the vertex of a triangle to
or more polynomials is called ________. the midpoint to the opposite side is known as
________.
a. common logarithm
b. Least common denominator a. Median
c. Common multiple b. center
c. Altitude 464. What happens to the atomic size of the elements

d. Chord from top to bottom in a group within Period table of
Elements?
459. What do you call the axis of hyperbola that a. It remains the same
passes through the center, the foci and vertices? b. It increases
c. It decreases
a. Major axis d. it is always one
b. Transverse axis
c. Conjugate axis
d. Asymptotic axis 465. What bond is formed when electrons are shared
between atoms?
460. If the eccentricity is less than one, then the curve a. Ionic bond
is _______. b. metallic bond
c. Covalent bond
a. hyperbola d. electronic bond
b. parabola
c. circle
d. Ellipse 466. The interest rate at which the present work of
the cash flow on a project is zero of the interest
earned by an investment.
461. What do you call the present worth of the
property which is equals to the original cost less a. Nominal rate
depreciation? b. Effective rate
c. Rate of return
a. Appraised value d. Yield
b. Book value
c. Scrap value
d. Market value 467. When can we say that a molecule is polar?
a. When the centers of positive and negative

462. Which of the following is common to both the charge coincide
fixed and operating cost of an enterprise? b. When there is no positive nor negative charge
c. When there is only one charge, either negative
a. Depreciation or negative.
b. Interest d. When a center of positive and negative charge
c. Taxes does not coincide
d. Profit
468. Change in kinetic energy in a system takes place

463. An "annuity" is defined as ________. by _______.
a. A series of equal payments occurring at equal a. Both internal and external forces
periods of time. b. Only internal forces
b. Earned interest due at the end of each interest c. Only external forces
period. d. it is always constant
c. Cost of producing a product or rendering a
service.
d. Amount paid for any debit or credit 469. Which of the following equations apply in
determining the amount of energy needed to freeze
water from 0°C (liquid) to 0°C Ice?
Note: Lf and Lv are the latent heat of fusion and
vaporization, respectively.
a. Q = -mLv c. Both True and False

b. Q = mLv d. Statement is incomplete
c. Q = mLf
d. Q = -mLf
475. Which of the following are the statically
determinate beams?
470. A beam is subjected to a constant moment along
its length, then what will happen to the shear force? a. Cantilever beam
b. Overhanging beam
a. also have a constant value everywhere along its c. Simply supported beam
length d. All of the above
b. be maximum at the center along the beam
c. be maximum at the center and zero at the ends
d. zero at the center and maximum at the ends 476. Bending moment at supports in case of simply
supported beams is always ________.
471. In a simple bending theory, one of the a. zero

assumptions is that the material of the beam is b. less than unity
isotropic. Which of the following will further c. more than unity
describe this assumption? d. always equal to 1
a. normal stress remains constant in all directions

b. normal stress varies linearly in the material 477. Proof resilience is the mechanical property of
c. elastic constants are same in all the directions materials which indicates their capacity to carry
d. elastic constants vary linearly in the material ________.
a. static tensile loads

472. Whenever a material is loaded within elastic b. shocks
limit, stress is _______ strain. c. static compressive load
d. bending load
a. equal to
b. directly proportional to
c. inversely proportional to 478. The characteristic equation of gases PV=mRT Is
d. equal to 1 used only for ________.
a. monoatomic gases
473. Compression members under load always tend b. diatomic gas
to buckle in the direction of the ________. c. real gases
d. ideal gases
a. perpendicular to the axis of load
b. minimum cross section
c. axis of load 479. Which of the following statements is correct
d. strongest location according to Clausius statement of second law of
thermodynamics?
474. A concentrated load P acts at the middle of a a. It is impossible to transfer heat from a body at a
simply supported beam of span L and flexural lower temperature to a body at a higher
rigidity El. Another simply supported beam of temperature
identical material, geometry and span is being acted b. It is impossible transfer heat from a body at a
upon by equivalent distributed load [W=P/L] spread lower temperature to a body at a higher
over the entire beam. temperature, without the aid of an external
source
a. True
b. False
c. It is possible to transfer heat from a body at a d. Force on a horizontal projection plane of the
lower temperature to a body at a higher curve surface
temperature by using refrigeration cycle
d. All of the above
485. Which of the following statement is true when
the hypotenuse of a right spherical triangle is less
480. The property of a working substance which than 90°?
increases or decreases in the system once heat is
supplied or removed in a reversible manner is known a. two legs are on the same quadrant
as ________. b. The two legs are on the different quadrant
c. one leg is on the first quadrant and the other on
a. enthalpy the second quadrant
b. internal energy d. Any of the above
c. entropy
d. external energy
486. What is the best scenario that a solid body will
float in a liquid?
481. The main cause for the irreversibility in
thermodynamic system is ________. a. weight of the liquid displaced by the body is
greater than the weight of the body
a. mechanical and fluid friction b. weight of the liquid displaced < weight of the
b. unrestricted expansion body
c. heat transfer with a finite temperature difference c. density of the body material < density of liquid
d. All of the above d. none of these
482. Capillarity is defined as the phenomenon of 487. At t=0, then the function f(t)=sint/t has
________. ________.
a. adhesion of liquid particles to the surface a. a minimum

b. combined action of adhesion and cohesion b. a discontinuity
c. cohesion of liquid droplets to the surface c. a point of inflection
d. none of these d. a maximum
483. The angle of contact (Ɵ) between water and 488. Stokes theorem connects _______.
glass tube in case of capillary rise is ________.
a. A line integral and a surface integral
a. 180° b. A surface integral and a volume integral
b. 45° c. A line integral and a volume integral
c. 0° d. Gradient of a function and its surface integral
d. 128°
489. Which one of the following statements is not

484. The vertical component force directed to a true?
submerged body is equal to ________.
a. The measure of skewness is dependent upon the
a. Weight of the fluid vertical below the curved amount of dispersion
surface b. In a negative skewed distribution,
b. Weight of the fluid vertically above the curved mode>mean>median
surface c. In a positive skewed distribution mean>median>
c. Force on a vertical projection plane of the mode
curved surface d. In a symmetric distribution, the value of mean,
mode and median are the same
490. If P and Q are two random events, then which of 495. A set of linear equations is represented by the
the following is true? matrix equation Ax = b. The necessary condition for
the existence of a solution for this system is
a. Probability (P∩Q) ≤ Probability (P) ________.
b. Independence of P and Q implies that
probability (P∩Q) = 0 a. A must be invertible
c. Probability (P∩Q) = 0 ≥ Probability (P) + b. b must be linearly dependent on the columns of
probability (Q) A
d. If P and Q are mutually exclusive, then they c. b must be linearly independent of the columns
must be independent of A
d. A must be equal to B
491. A ball A is projected horizontally with a

velocity v from one point. Another ball B is dropped 496. It is a series of equal payments occurring at
vertically from the same point. Which of the equal intervals of time where the first payment is
following is true? made after several periods, after the beginning of the
payment.
a. Both balls will reach the ground simultaneously
b. Ball A will reach the ground first a. Deferred payment
c. Ball B will reach the ground first b. Progressive annuity
d. Balls A and B will not reach the ground c. Delayed annuity
d. Simple annuity
492. The true value of interest rate computed by

equations for compound interest for a 1-year period 497. In the matrix equation PX = q, which of the
is known as: following is a necessary condition for the existence
of at least one solution for the unknown vector x?
a. expected return
b. Interest a. Augmented [pq] must have the same rank a
c. Nominal interest matrix p
d. Effective interest b. Vector q must have only non-zero element
c. Matrix p must be singular
d. Matrix p must be square
493. The value which is disinterested third party,
different from the buyer and seller, will determine in
order to establish a price acceptable to both parties. 498. What is the study of the properties of figures of
three dimensions?
a. Market value
b. Goodwill value a. Physics
c. Fair value b. Solid geometry
d. Franchise value c. Plane geometry
d. Trigonometry
494. The coefficient of friction for dry surfaces

________. 499. As applied to a capitalized asset, the distribution
of the initial cost by a periodic change to operation
a. Does not depend on the materials as in depreciation or the reduction of a debt by either
b. Depends on the materials and the finish periodic or irregular prearranged program is called
condition of the surfaces ________.
c. Depends only on the finish condition of the
surfaces a. annuity
d. Depends on the composition of the materials b. Annuity factor
only c. Capital recovery
d. Amortization
500. An index of short-term paying ability is called

_______.
a. receivable turn over

b. current ratio
c. profit margin ratio
d. acid-test ratio

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1. In the matrix equation px = q, which is a necessary c. negative value

a. Matrix p must be singular 7. Napierian logarithm has a base closest to _______.

2. A non-homogeneous system of linear equations

a. Consistent having many solutions. a. Hypothesis

3. A linear system is inconsistent if it has _______. 9. In Mathematics, _______ is an expression or a

a. Algebra a. Binomial Fraction

b. complex fraction of increased unemployment since there is a lower

a. Discrete Periodic Cash Flow

24. How many independent elastic constant/s is/are b. homogeneous system

a. 1/8 32. Resultant pressure of the liquid in case of an

a. Circular 33. What is buoyant force?

a. at absolute zero there is absolutely no vibration

36. Convective acceleration of the fluid is due to

a. steady flow a. In a negative skewed distribution,

a. 0° with the ground

a. three maxima 45. Centers of mass of body _______.

49. If A and B are symmetric matrices of same order and

50. What is the product of two orthogonal matrices?

d. a sector d. Perpetual life

a. Corporation 67. What is an artificial expense that spreads the

a. Progressive annuity b. 28.4 mi/h

74. The earth exerts a gravitational force of a 2 x 1020 N

77. A solid circular shaft is subjected to pure torsion.

78. Which of the following statements is correct?

80. Which of the following is not property of the a. energy

a. fluid particles do not rotate about their mass

a. equal to the angular velocity of that rotation

b. P + q 95. Two bodies of moment of inertia I1 and I2 where I1 is

97. Which of the following if false?

98. A and B are the matrices of same order such that

108. In polar coordinate system, the polar angle is

109. A conic section whose eccentricity is less than

110. When two lines are perpendicular, the slope of

111. In polar coordinates system, the length of the

112. What is the length of time, usually in years, for

a. Price earning ratio a. Atomic weight minus mass number

120. A garden hose with a cross-sectional area of 3

115. Things that cannot be quantitively measured or

117. What controls the amount of electricity a battery

118. Neutron number is equal to the _______.

a. Btu/hr c. Isometric process

a. Zero and positive

127. The maximum shear stress occurs on the a. 614

128. A solid block which is resting on a frictionless a. 1.1

136. If a vessel containing liquid moves downward

144. A force F acting on a body moving in a circle of

140. For a given function, it is found that f(t) = f(-t).

a. Quarter-wave symmetry a. Inversely proportional to the compression or

149. Which of the following cannot be an operation

150. If two rows of a determinant are interchange, the

151. Which of the following statements applies to the

158. An algebraic expression which can be

a. Rational algebraic expression a. Double Declining balance Method

a. Free transverse a. effective rate of interest

a. Ring 168. This represents the ownership of stockholders

177. What is the property by which an amount of

178. Which one of the following features improves

a. Less than 7 a. Scratching the surface

174. Momentum = Force x _______.

a. pressure remains constant

a. 4% a. If the elements of a row (or column) are divided

b. quarter-wave symmetry d. coupon bond

3. A linear system is inconsistent if it has _. 9. In Mathematics, _ is an expression or a