QUIZ 1 – EE REV03

Underline the letter of the correct answer. Provide complete solution to all problems.

1. A cable weighing 60 N/m is suspended between two supports on the same level at 300 m apart. If the sag is
60 m, solve the distance of the lowest point of the cable from the ground level.
a. 198.5 m
b. 194.7 m
c. 196.8 m
d. 192.6 m
2. The equilibrant of the forces 10 N at 10o and 15 N at 100o is ___.
a. 18 N at 246o
b. 25 N at -114o
c. 18 N at 66o
d. 25 N at 66o
3. A heavy ladder resting on the floor and against a vertical wall may not be in equilibrium, if ___.
a. The floor is smooth, the wall is rough
b. The floor is rough, the wall is smooth
c. The floor and wall both are smooth surfaces
d. The floor and wall both are rough surfaces
4. A cable 800 m long, weighing 1.5 N/m has a tension of 750 N at each end. Find the distance between the
supporting towers.
a. 660 m
b. 590 m
c. 560 m
d. 610 m
5. Resultant of all forces acting on a body is called ____.
a. Net force
b. Normal force
c. Perpendicular force
d. Equilibrium
6. In shooting an arrow from a bow, an archer holds the bow vertical and pulls back on the arrow with a force of
80 N. The two halves of the string make 25o angles with the vertical. What is the tension in the string?
a. 172 N
b. 44 N
c. 95 N
d. 85 N
7. Which one is a vector quantity?
a. Time
b. Distance
c. Work
d. Displacement
8. A cable 100 ft long is loaded by its own weight. The sag is 25 ft and the supports are on the same level. What
is the distance between supports?
a. 80.6 ft
b. 69.3 ft
c. 77.8 ft
d. 82.4 ft
9. Which of the following quantities is not a vector?
a. Momentum
b. Acceleration
c. Impulse
d. Work
10. The following forces act on an object 10 N to the north, 20 N to the southeast and 5 N to the west. The
magnitude of the resultant is ____.
a. 5 N
b. 13 N
c. 10 N
d. 23 N
11. Calculate the reaction force R1 from the system as shown.
a. 400 N
b. 350 N
c. 450 N
d. 500 N
12. All of the following are sources of external forces on rigid bodies except ___.
a. Physical contact (pushing)
b. Gravity
c. Magnetism
d. Compressive and tensile forces holding the body together
13. Find the tension at the lowest point on a cable weighing 1.5 N/m distributed horizontally. The cable is
stretched between supports 30 m apart with sag of 0.6 m.
a. 281 N
b. 295 N
c. 268 N
d. 273 N
14. A block weighing 60 N is hung from a ceiling using a small rope. Determine the horizontal force needed to
push it until the rope makes an angle of 35o with the vertical.
a. 60 N
b. 39 N
c. 73 N
d. 42 N
15. A truss consisting of coplanar members is called ___.
a. Plane truss
b. Ideal truss
c. Space truss
d. Rigid truss
16. In going from one city to another, a car whose driver tends to get lost goes 30 km north, then 50 km west, and
finally 20 km southeast. Approximately how far apart are the two cities?
a. 39 km
b. 48 km
c. 62 km
d. 45 km
17. A 5 – N force directed north and a 5 N force directed west act on the same point. The resultant of these two
forces is approximately ____.
a. 5 N, northwest
b. 5 N, southwest
c. 7 N, northwest
d. 7 N, southwest
18. A number of forces acting at a point will be in equilibrium if ___.
a. Their total sum is zero
b. Two resolved parts in two directions at right angles are equal
c. Sum of resolved parts in any two perpendicular directions are both zero
d. All of them are inclined equally
19. Find the tension T in the chord with a weight W of 200 lbs suspended through a chord C which is divided by
a chord A on the left hanging 30 deg and chord B hanging 45 deg from the ceiling on the right.
a. 300 lbs
b. 260 lbs
c. 240 lbs
d. 200 lbs
20. A couple is composed of two forces that are ___.
a. Equal
b. Equal and opposite
c. Equal and different lines of action
d. Equal, opposite and different lines of action
21. An object weighing 24 N is placed on a 30o slope. The component of the weight acting parallel to the slope is
closest to ____.
a. 12 N
b. 17 N
c. 22 N
 d. 24 N
22. The cable of a transmission line is supported between towers 150 m apart. The cable weighs 30 N/m and the
sag is 18 m. Estimate the distance of the lowest of the cable from the ground.
a. 159 m
b. 145 m
c. 135 m
d. 127 m
23. Coplanar concurrent forces are those forces which ___.
a. Meet at one point, but their lines of action do not lie on the same plane
b. Do not meet at one point and their lines of action do not lie on the same plane
c. Meet at one point and their lines of action also lie on the same plane
d. Do not meet at one point, but their lines of action lie on the same plane
24. The resultant of the four forces is 1000 lbs in the direction 30 o west of north. Three of the four forces are 500
lobs, 60o north of east; 300 lbs south and 400 lb, 53o west of south. Find the horizontal component of the
fourth force.
a. 430 lbs
b. 410 lbs
c. 450 lbs
d. 460 lbs
25. A force of 40 N applied horizontally is required to push a 20 kg box at constant velocity across the floor. The
coefficient of friction between the box and the floor is ___.
a. 0.2
b. 0.5
c. 0.4
d. 0.3
26. A cable which has a mass of 0.6 kg/m and is 240 m long is to be suspended with a sag of 24 m. Determine the
maximum tension.
a. 1385 N
b. 1548 N
c. 1836 N
d. 1458 N
27. It is the resistance that occurs when a round object such as a ball or a tire rolls on a flat surface.
a. Rolling resistance
b. Rolling drag
c. Rolling friction
d. Either of the above
28. The condition of equilibrium or motion of a rigid body remains unchanged if a force acting at a given point of
the rigid body is replaced by a force of same magnitude and direction, but acting at a different point provided
that the two forces have the same line of action. This statement is known as ___.
a. Pappus propositions
b. Parallelogram law
c. Principle of transmissibility
d. Varignon’s theorem
29. A block is dragged up an inclined plane of slope angle 20o by a force F making an angle of 30o with the plane.
How large a force F necessary in order that the component parallel to the plane shall be 16 lbs?
a. 18.5 N
b. 24.9 N
c. 32 N
d. 20.9 N
30. The ratio of static friction to dynamic friction is always ____.
a. Equal to one
b. Greater than one
c. Less than one
d. Any of these
31. Three non – parallel, non – zero forces act on a rigid body. What must be true of all of these forces for the
body to be in equilibrium?
a. The forces must be concurrent
b. The forces must be equal in magnitude but opposite in direction
c. The forces must have the same line of action
d. The forces must be at complementary angles to one another
32. A boy and his dad put a rope around a tree and stand side by side. What force by the boy can resist a force of
800 N by his dad?
Assume µ = 0.5
a. 166 N
b. 192 N
c. 231 N
d. 246 N
33. Is a sketch of body completely isolated or free from all other bodies.
a. Free body diagram
b. Coplanar
c. Equilibrium
d. Force
34. Find the angle between two forces of equal magnitude, such that the resultant is one – third as much as either
of the original forces.
a. 150.4o
b. 145.5o
c. 160.8o
d. 168.3o
35. Which of the following is not a unit of distance?
a. Angstrom
b. Light year
c. Micron
d. Milestone
36. The center of gravity of a log 10 ft long and weighing 100 lbs is 4 ft from one end of the log. It is to be carried
by two men, one at the heavy end. At what distance from the other end must the other man holds the log if
each has to carry half the load?
a. 4 ft
b. 2 ft
c. 1 ft
d. 3 ft
37. The moment due to an applied force on a body is zero only when
a. The force is negative
b. The force is through the origin
c. The line of action passes through the center of rotation
d. The force is a function of time
38. What refers to a pair of equal, opposite and parallel forces?
a. Couple
b. Momentum
c. Moment
d. Torque
39. A picture hangs from two wires that go from its upper corners to a nail in the wall. If the picture weighs 8 N
and each wire makes a 30o angle with the vertical, the tension in each wire is ___.
a. 4 N
b. 4.6 N
c. 16 N
d. 9.2 N
40. The friction experienced by a body, when at rest, is known as
a. static friction
b. Limiting friction
c. Coulomb friction
d. Coefficient of friction
41. One end of a rope 50 ft long is attached to an automobile. The other end is fastened to a tree. A man exerts a
force of 100 lbs at the midpoint of the rope, pulling 2 ft to the side. What is the force exerted on the
automobile?
a. 610 lbs
b. 660 lbs
c. 670 lbs
d. 625 lbs
42. The vector which represents the sum of a group of force vectors is called ____.
a. Resultant
 b. Equilibrium
c. Sum
d. Force polygon
43. A rope is stretched between two rigid walls 40 ft apart. A the midpoint, a load of 100 lbs was placed that
caused it to sag 5 ft. compute the approximate tension in the rope.
a. 240 lbs
b. 150 lbs
c. 280 lbs
d. 206 lbs
44. A cable carrying a constant uniform load per unit length with respect to the horizontal axis will have the shape
of a
a. Straight line
b. Parabola
c. Catenary
d. Hyperbola
45. Two turns of rope wrapped around a horizontal cylindrical bar. A pull of 10 lb on one end of the rope just
prevents a 150 – lb weight attached to the other end from slipping downward. Determine the coefficient of
friction between the rope and the bar.
a. 0.118
b. 0.131
c. 0.215
d. 0.209
46. If a person walks 1 km north, 5 km west, 3 km south and 7 km east, find the resultant displacement vector.
a. 2.8 km
b. 6.8 km
c. 4.2 km
d. 9.4 km
47. It is the intensity of the force.
a. Magnitude
b. Mass
c. Direction
d. Force
48. Two men pull horizontally on ropes attached to a post, the angle between the ropes being 45 o. if a man exerts
a force of 150 lbs and a man B a force of 100 lb. find the magnitude of the resultant force.
a. 232 lbs
b. 236 lbs
c. 232 lbs
d. 236 lbs
49. What is the science that describes and predicts the effect on bodies at rest or in motion by forces acting on it?
a. Engineering mechanics
b. Mechanics of materials
c. Theory of structures
d. Strength of materials
50. A central horizontal force of 1.4 N is necessary to move a drum 900 mm in diameter on a level surface.
Assuming that the coefficient of rolling resistance is 0.635 mm, what is the mass of the drum?
a. 101 kg
b. 108 kg
c. 120 kg
d. 112 kg