Sri Balaji Technical Campus, Jaipur

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Session (2013-14)
B. Tech. I Year/II Semester

Subject: - Engineering Mechanics

Branch: - All Branches

Date of assignment: - 13/02/2014

Prepared by: - Mr. Deepak Agrawal

Date of submission: - 17/02/2014

Assignment No. 01 (Unit-I)

Subjective Type Questions
1. A system of four forces acting on a body is as shown in Fig. Determine the resultant.

2. Determine the resultant of system of parallel forces acting on a beam as shown in

Fig.

3. A wire rope is fixed at two points A and D as shown in Fig. 2.41(a). Two weights 20 kN
and 30 kN are attached to it at B and C, respectively. The weights rest with portions AB
and BC inclined at angles 30 and 50 respectively, to the vertical as shown in figure.
Find the tension in the wire in segments AB, BC and CD and also the inclination of the
segments CD to vertical.

4. Two smooth spheres each of radius 100 mm and weight 100 N, rest in a horizontal
channel having vertical walls, the distance between which is 360 mm. Find the reactions
at the points of contacts A, B, C and D shown in Fig.

5. The screw eye in Fig. is subjected to two forces, F 1 and F2. Determine the magnitude and
direction of the resultant force.

6. (a) Explain system of forces.

(b) State and prove Lamis theorem and Varignons theorem.
7. Two forces act at an angle of 1100. The bigger force is of 75N and the resultant is
perpendicular to the smaller one. Find the smaller force.
Objective Type Questions

1. Forces are called concurrent when their

lines of action meet in

a) One plane, b) One point, c) Different

planes , d) Two points
2. Forces are called coplanar when all the
forces acting on a body
a) One plane, b) One point, c) Different
planes, d) Different points
3. A force is completely defined when we
specify
a) Its magnitude, b) Its direction, c) Its point
of application, d) All of the above
4. The amount of matter contained in a body
is called its
a) Mass, b) Volume, c) Weight, d) None of
the above
5. Two non collinear parallel equal forces
acting in opposite direction
a) Balances each other, b) Constitute a
couple, c) Constitute a moment
d) Constitute a moment of couple
6. Moment of a force is a
a) Scalar quantity, b) Vector quantity, c)
Either a or b, d) None of the above
7. A vector having a unit magnitude is
known as
a) Null vector, b)Free vector, c)Unit vector,
d)None of the above
8. The dot product of two orthogonal vectors
is
a) 1, b) o, c) No definite value, c) None of
the above
9. Two vectors are said to be equivalent if
they produces
a) Same magnitudes, b) Same directions, c)
Same effect in a certain respect
d) None of these
10. A force can be replaced by
a) A force of same magnitude and couple

b) A force-couple combination so that

equilibrium is maintained
c) A force of different magnitude and couple
d) None of the above
11. Two non-collinear parallel equal forces
acting in opposite direction
a) Balance each other
b) Constitute a couple
c) Constitute a moment
d) None of the above
12. The force polygon
concurrent forces
a) Must Close
b) Must not close
c) Anyone of the above
d) None of the above

for

coplanar

13. Moment of a force

a) Varies directly with its distance from the
pivot
b) Varies inversely with its distance from the
pivot
c) Is independent of its distance from the
pivot
d) None of the above
14. A couple consists of
a) Two like parallel forces of same
magnitude
b) Two like parallel forces of different
magnitude
c) Two unlike parallel forces of same
magnitude
d) Two unlike parallel forces of different
magnitude
15. Free body diagram can be applied only
in
a) Dynamic equilibrium problem
b) Static equilibrium problem
c) Both static & dynamic equilibrium
problems
d) None of these

16. If the body is in equilibrium, we may

conclude that
a) No force acting in it
b) Moment of all forces about any point is
zero
c) The resultant of all forces acting on it is
zero
d) Both b & c
17. The algebraic sum of the moments of
two forces about any point in their plane is
equal to the moment of their resultant about
that point is known as
a) Principle of moments
b) Varignons theorem
c) Lamis theorem
d) None of these
18. Two coplanar couples having equal and
opposite moments
a) Produce a couple and an unbalanced force

b) Are equivalent
c) Balance each other
d) None of these
19. A free body diagram of a body
represents
a) With its surroundings and external forces
acting on it
b) Isolated from its surroundings and all
external forces acting on it
c) Isolated from all external actions
d) None of these
20. The force which meet at one point and
their lines of action also lie on the same
plane are known asforces.
a) Coplanar concurrent
b) Coplanar non-concurrent
c) Non-coplanar non-concurrent
d) None of these