1. The drive wheel of a car is 38 inches in diameter. How many times it will turn a distance of 1km?

2. How many pounds will 1m2 of a substance weights if 1cm3 weighs 1g?

3. What is the weight in 10lbs of a 1ft3 of cork if 1c weighs 0.25?

RESULTANT

F2= 250N F1= 100N

30° 160°
45°
F1= 50N F1= 75N

1. Four forces act a point the first 500g acts due to south, the second 50g acts due west, the third 400g acts due north and the
fourth 100g due east. What is the magnitude and direction of the resultant?

2. Given the following concurrent forces; 150lbs at 30° above the OX axis, 100lbs at the 315° from O and 50lbs at 45° from OX. Find
the magnitude and direction of the resultant.

3. One end of transmission wire which exerts a horizontal tension of 850lbs is fastened to a pole where a guy wire is also fastened.
What is the angle which the guy wire can make with the pole if it exerts a tension of 1400lbs?

4. Find the tension on a rope that will keep a 3200lbs car on a 30° incline when the rope is parallel to the incline when the rope
makes 60° with horizontal neglected the friction.
5. A wire is stretched between two supports 20ft apart. A weight of 15lbs hung at the middle of the wire and the wire sages 6inches.
Assume no stretching, what is the tension of the wire?

6. A pendulum bod weighing 500g is suspended on a fine wire. What is the tension on the wire, when the bod swings at an angle of
60° from the vertical?

7. A uniform beam weighing 50lbs and 12ft long leans against a smooth wall with its lower end 6ft away from the wall. What are the
reactions of the ground and of the wall at the points of contact?

Compute moment at point A,B,C,D, E and F.

8. A 50lbs weight is suspended from two cords. One cord exerts a force of 30lbs and makes an angle of 75° to the right of the vertical.
The other exerts a force of Flbs is Ɵ° to the left of the vertical. Find F and Ɵ.

9. A garage door 10ft long and 5ft high weighs 80lbs. The hinges are 1ft apart from the upper and lower sides respectively and the
upper hinge carries the entire weight of the door. Find the reaction of the upper hinge.
10. A pendulum bob weighing 3kg and hanging on a cord 15m long is pulled horizontally until the cord makes 30° with the vertical.
Determine the horizontal force and the tension of the cord at this position.

11. Calculate the value of T and W required to produce equilibrium

60° 30°
60lbs

12. A beam BC and a cable AB supports a weight of 12,000lbs as shown in the figure. The beam weighs 300lbs. Calculate the ten-
sion in the cable and the reaction of the support C.

12, 000lbs
300lbs

45°
A C

13. Determine F to start the body down and the normal reaction on the plane. No friction

300lbs

200lbs
30°

14. A weight 30lbs rest on an inclined plane 3ft high and 5ft long. A force F making an angled of 30° with the plane pulls the body
upward. If the coefficient of friction is 0.2, how much force is necessary to maintain uniform upward momentum?

15. The coefficient of friction between the wall the weight shown in the figure is 0.25. What force P is necessary to keep the body
in place? What force P will keep the body moving?
5kg

60°
16. A ball has an initial velocity of 20ft/sec and gains a speed at rate of 6ft/sec 2. What is the velocity at the end of 5th sec? What is
the distance traveled during the ft/sec2

17. A car travelling at a speed of 45mi/hr is brought to rest by means of the breaks in a distance of 120ft. What is the average accel-
eration?

18. An automobile starts from rest and travels 300m in 20sec. Find the average acceleration and final speed.

19. A passenger train starts from a station just as a freight train on a parallel track passes in the same direction with a constant speed
of 45ft/sec. The passenger train has a acceleration of 1.5ft/sec2. What time will elapse after the passenger train has started until the
two trains are again side by side and how far from the station will they be?

20. A weight is dropped from a tower 640ft high. In how many seconds and with what velocity will it hit the ground?

21. If the ball in the problem above is thrown vertically downward with a velocity of 64ft/sec, in what time will it reach the ground?

22. A falling body has an initial velocity of 200cm/sec. How far it will drop before its velocity becomes 10,000cm/sec?

23. A ball is thrown vertically upward with a velocity of 64ft/sec/ How high will it rise and how soon will it reach the ground again?
What is it velocity halfway?

24. A ball was thrown with a speed of 150ft/sec at an angle of 45° above the horizontal. Find the range and the time of flight. What
was its maximum height from the ground?
25. A ball thrown into the air from the ground reaches a maximum height of 50ft and travel 200ft horizontally before it drops again
to the ground. Find the magnitude and direction of the velocity with which it was thrown.

26. A wheel is making 10rpm. After 20sec it is making 1900rpm. Find the angular acceleration in radian/sec 2 .

27. A body which has an angular acceleration of 2rps starts from rest. How many rev will it make in 4sec?

28. The armature of a motor revolving at the rate of 1800rpm come to rest in 20sec after the current is shut off. Calculate the aver-
age angular acceleration and the number of rotations it has made.

29. A man 5.5ft tall walk away from a lamp post 10ft high at the rate of 8ft/sec. a) How fast does his shadow lengthen? b) How fast
does the tip of the shadow move?

30. A balloon leaves the ground 80ft from the observer and rises vertically upward at 5ft/sec. a) How fast is the balloon receding
form the observer after 12sec? b) Find the corresponding acceleration.

31. Water escapes from bottom of an inverted conical funnel at the rate of 15in 3/min. The funnel is 20in deep and has a radius of 5ft
at the top. How fast is the water level sinking when the depth is 18in?

32. A water is flowing into a vertical cylinder tanks at the rate of 24ft 3/min. If the radius of the tank is 4ft. How fast is the surface ris-
ing?
33. A ladder 20ft long leans against a vertical wall, if the top slides downwards at the rate of 2ft/sec. Find how fast the lower end is
moving when it is 16ft from the wall. Find the rate of change of the slope of the ladder.

34. A body weighing 200lbs is pulled on a horizontal surface by a force of 50lbs parallel to the surface. If the coefficient of friction is
0.2. What velocity is acquires by the body in a distance of 100ft from rest?

35. A skater who weighs 150lbs glides to rest and travel 50 yards in 10sec. What is the force of friction?

36. Two masses if 30g and 35g respectively are hung at the end of a light string that passes over the pulley of the atwood machine,
starting from rest at the same level. How far will each travel after 2sec? Find the tension.

37. A two ton truck is travelling at the rate of 30mi/hr on a highway. What is its kinetic energy?

38. A steel wire 10m long and 0.5 cm in diameter supports a load of 30kg. How much is the wire elongated. If young's modulus is
19x1011dynes/cm2?

39. A suspended brass wire 30.5 inches long and 0.12 inches in diameter supports a 100lbs weight. How much wire elongated?
9x1011dynes/cm2
40. What load is necessary to elongate 8.5ft of steel wire 0.1inch in diameter by an amount of 0.11inch?

41. A copper wire 2mm in diameter and 1.5m long and a steel wire, 1mm in diameter and 2m long are joined end to end. The combi-
nation is suspended and carries a weight of 10kg. How much is each wire elongated? Neglect the weight of the wire.

42. What is the diameter of the steel wire that will carry a load of 3500lbs allowing a factor of safety of 5, if ultimate tensile strength
of steel is 165,000lbs/in2?

43. Steel tie rod is to be under a tension of 5600lbs. The factor of safety is 4.5 and the ultimate tensile strength of the steel id
165,000lbs. What is the diameter of the rod?

44. What is the weight in pounds of 1.2ft 3 of copper if specific gravity of 8.9?

45. A cylindrical glass vessel 18cm in diameter and 20cm high is 3/4 full of alcohol, specific gravity: 0.81. What is the average pres-
sure of the liquid on the side? What is the force of the liquid at the bottom?

46. Find the liquid pressure at the base of a cubical tank measuring 10ft on a side when filled with coconut oil: 0.1 density. What
force exerted on the base?