ENGINEERING MECHANICS PRACTICE ELEMENTS

1. A box suspended by a rope is pulled to one side

by a horizontal force. The tension in the rope
a. is less than before
b. is unchanged
c. is greater than before
d. any of the above
2. The dimension of acceleration and mass is the
same unit as that of
a. Length
b. Work
c. Weight
d. Section modulus
3. The coefficient of friction for dry surfaces:
a. Depends on the materials and the finish
condition of the surface
b. Depends only on the finish condition of the
surfaces
c. Does not depend on the materials
d. Depends on the composition of the
materials only
4. Relative to the force needed to keep a box
moving at constant velocity across a floor, to
start the box moving usually needs
a. Less force
b. The same force
c. More force
d. Any of the above, depending on the natures
of the surface in contact
5. When two surfaces are in contact, the frictional
force between them depends on which one or
more of the following?
a. The normal force pressing one surface
against the other
b. All of these
c. Whether the surface are stationary or in
relative motion
d. Whether a lubricant is used or not
6. Compared with her mass and weight on Earth,
an astronaut on Venus, where the acceleration
of gravity is 8.8 m/s2, has

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a. Less mass and less weight

b. Less mass and the same weight
c. The same mass and less weight
A car towing a trailer is accelerating on a level
road. The car exerts a force on the trailer whose
magnitude is
a. The same as that of the force the trailer
exerts on the car
b. The same as that of the force the trailer
exerts on the road
c. The same as that of the force the road
exerts on the road
d. Greater than that of the force the trailer
exerts on the car
In Newtons third law of motion, the action and
reaction forces
a. Act on the same object
b. Act on different objects
c. Do not necessarily have the same
magnitude and do not necessarily have the
same line of action.
d. Have the same magnitude but do not have
necessarily the same line of action.
A jumper of weight w presses down on the floor
with a force of magnitude F, and the jumper
leaves the floor as a result. The force the floor
exerted on the jumper must have had a
magnitude
a. Equal to w and less than F
b. Equal to w and equal to F
c. More than w and equal to F
d. More than w and more than F
Kinematics is the study of _____ without
reference to the forces that causes the body to
move.
a. Motion
b. Force
c. Forces and motion
d. Matter
What are the three fundamental quantities?

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a. Volume, weight, time

b. Density, mass, volume
c. Length, mass, time
d. Speed, distance, time
Which of the following is a measure of the
inertia of a body?
a. Weight
b. Volume
c. Density
d. Mass
What is the speed of a projectile if it is at the
top of its path?
a. Unchanged
b. Minimum
c. Doubled
d. Maximum
What happens to the mechanical advantage of
a lever if its effort distance increases?
a. Increases
b. Remains the same
c. Decreases
d. Becomes zero
An objects acceleration as-it starts to fall is:
a. Equal to g
b. Less than g
c. Greater than g
d. Zero
Which of the following is a scalar quantity?

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a. Acceleration
b. Distance
c. Displacement
d. Velocity
Which of the following is not a vector quantity?
a. Velocity
b. Acceleration
c. Speed
d. Displacement
The ability of moving body to perform work is
called:
a. Internal energy
b. Kinetic energy
c. Potential energy
d. Flow work
The direction of the _____ is toward the center
of the circle in which the body moves
a. Centripetal acceleration
b. Radial acceleration
c. Centrifugal acceleration
d. Tangential acceleration
The process of obtaining the resultant of any
number of vectors/
a. Scalar quantity
b. Vector quantity
c. Vector composition
d. Vector resolution
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