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Engineering Mechanics

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REE – Apr. 2005
1. Two boys B1 and B2 act at a point. The magnitude of B1 is 8 lbs and its direction is 60
degrees above the horizontal axis in the first quadrant. The magnitude of B2 is 5 lbs and
its direction is 53 degrees below the horizontal axis in the fourth quadrant. What is the
magnitude of the resultant force?
A. 7.0 lbs B. 6.9 lbs C. 7.6 lbs D. 8.6 lbs

REE – Sept. 2012


2. Find the magnitude of the resultant of two 10-lb forces applied at the same point when
the angle between them is 130 degrees.
A. 7.8 lbs B. 18.1 lbs C. 19.8 lbs D. 8.5 lbs

REE – Sept. 2005


3. Two 10-lb weights are suspended at opposite ends of a rope which passes over a light
frictionless pulley. The pulley is attached to a chain which goes to the ceiling. What is the
tension in the rope?
A. 8 lbs B. 10 lbs C. 12 lbs D. 20 lbs

REE – Sept. 2014


4. The branch of mechanics that deals with bodies in motion is known as .
A. statics B. dynamics C. kinetics D. kinematics

REE – Feb. 2014


5. Determine the force necessary to accelerate a mass of 20 lbm, at a rate of 60 ft/sec 2
vertically upward.
A. 37.3 lbf B. 57.3 lbf C. 73.3 lbf D. 75.3 lbf

REE – Sept. 2011


6. A plane propeller exerts 2,500 N of force due east on a 40,000 N plane. If air resistance
exerts 500 N west on the plane, what is its acceleration?
A. 0.05 due west B. 0.05 due east C. 0.5 due west D. 0.5 due east

REE – Sept. 2015 / Apr. 2017


7. When an object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts on the first a
force of the same magnitude but in the opposite direction. This law is known as:
A. Newton’s First Law of Motion C. Newton’s Third Law of Motion
B. Newton’s Second Law of Motion D. None of these

REE – Sept. 2012


8. Two blocks, of masses m 1 = 2 kg and m2 = 4 kg on a frictionless horizontal surface are in
contact with each other. A force F = 6 N is applied to block (mass m 1). How large a force
does m1 exert on m2?
A. 2 N B. 3 N C. 4 N D. 6 N

REE – Sept. 2017 / Apr. 2018


9. Mr. Juan Dela Cruz drives at 120 km at 100 km/h and 120 km at 90 km/h. What is the
average speed of Mr. Dela Druz on this trip in km/h?
A. 93.5 B. 94.7 C. 85.8 D. 82.3

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REE – Sept. 2017
10. An airplane accelerates down a runway at 3.20 m/s square for 32.8 s until it finally lifts
off the ground. Calculate the distance in meters travelled before takeoff.
A. 152.48 B. 1,721.34 C. 1,679.36 D. 1,524.80

REE – Apr. 2004


11. Two piers A and B are located on a river, one mile apart. Two men must make round
trips from pier A to pier B and return. One man is to row a boat at a velocity of 4 mi/hr
relative to the water, and the other man is to walk on the shore at a velocity of 4 mi/hr.
the velocity of the river is 2 mi/hr in the direction from A to B. How long does it take each
man to make the roundtrip?
A. 0.67 hr, 0.6 hr B. 0.5 hr, 0.46 hr C. 0.5 hr, 0.3 hr D. 0.67 hr, 0.5 hr

REE – Aug. 2019


12. The leaning tower of Pisa is 54.5 m tall. Supposedly Galileo investigated the behaviour
of falling objects by dropping them from the top of this tower and timing their descent.
How long in seconds would it take an object to fall 54.5 m if air effects are negligible?
A. 3.48 B. 33.3 C. 34.8 D. 3.33

REE – Sept. 2017


13. As a projectile is thrown upward moves in its parabolic path, at what point along its path
are the velocity and acceleration vectors for the projectile perpendicular to each other?
A. the launch point B. the lowest point C. nowhere D. the highest point

REE – Apr. 2012


14. A soccer player kicks a rock horizontally off a 40.0-m high cliff into a pool of water. If the
player hears the sound of the splash 3.00 s later, what was the initial speed given to the
rock? Assume the speed of sound in air to be 343 m/s.
A. 17.89 m/s B. 9.91 m/s C. 9.30 m/s D. 10.56 m/s

REE – Oct. 2000 / Apr. 2004


15. A balloon rising vertically with a velocity of 16 ft/sec, releases a sandbag at an instant
when the balloon is 64 ft. above the ground. Compute the position of the sandbag
1/4 sec. after its release.
A. 5 ft B. 3 ft C. 1 ft D. 2 ft

REE – Apr. 2011


16. A ball was thrown outside of a window at an angle of 20 degrees below the horizontal
with an initial velocity of 8 m/s. if it lands 3 seconds later, how far from the base of the
building did it land?
A. 20.42 m B. 4.16 m C. 22.6 m D. 8.6 m

REE – Apr. 2017


17. A ball is thrown with initial velocity of 30 m/s at an angle of 60 degrees with respect to
the horizontal. Find the maximum height will the ball attained?
A. 43.3 m B. 34.4 m C. 15.1 m D. 11.5 m

18. A man who can throw a stone with a velocity of 25 m/sec wishes to hit a target T placed
on his own level at a distance of 30 m. Neglecting the effects of air resistance, at what
angle α to the horizontal should he throw the stone?
A. 25 deg B. 50 deg C. 76 deg D. 87 deg

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19. A plane is flying horizontally 350 km per hour at an altitude of 420 m. At this instant, a
bomb is released. How far horizontally from this point will the bomb hits the ground?
A. 785 m B. 900 m C. 625 m D. 577 m

REE – Sept. 2014


20. If an automobile wheel 32 in. in diameter rotates at 800 r/min, what is the speed of the
car in mph?
A. 12.1 B. 24.2 C. 76.2 D. 152.4

REE – Sept. 2008


21. A wheel 0.6 m in diameter starts from rest and accelerates uniformly to an angular
velocity of 100 rad/sec in 20 sec. Find the angular acceleration.
A. 9 rad/sec. sq. B. 8 rad/sec. sq. C. 10 rad/sec. sq. D. 5 rad/sec. sq.

REE – Apr. 2001 / Sept. 2001


22. A body of mass 50 grams is at rest at the origin, x = 0, on a horizontal frictionless
surface. At time t = 0 a force of 10 dynes is applied to the body parallel to the x-axis, and
5 sec. later the force is removed. What is the velocity of the body at t = 5 sec?
A. 1.9 cm/sec B. 1.5 cm/sec C. 1.0 cm/sec D. 2.0 cm/sec

REE – Sept. 2002 / Apr. 2003 / Sept. 2007


23. A body of mass 50 grams is at rest at the origin, x = 0, on a horizontal frictionless
surface. At time t = 0 a force of 10 dynes is applied to the body parallel to the x-axis, and
5 sec. later the force is removed. What is the position of the body at t = 5 sec?
A. 5.8 cm B. 2.5 cm C. 3.0 cm D. 5.2 cm

REE – May 2010


24. A 1,100 kg car travels with 30 m/s. the driver see’s red light and apply constant braking
force of 4 kN. In how many seconds will the car stops?
A. 9.05 B. 8.25 C. 6.36 D. 10.10

REE – Apr. 2002


25. A car traveling with a rated speed of 60 kph around a curve whose radius is 100 m.
What is the maximum speed? Coefficient of friction is 0.4.
A. 95 kph B. 99 kph C. 90 kph D. 86 kph

REE – Apr. 2011


26. A car traveling in a curve of radius of 200 m. An engineer noted that the pendulum
attached in a car incline 15 degrees with respect to vertical. Find the speedometer rating
of a car in kph.
A. 22.91 B. 45.82 C. 82.54 D. 165.08

REE – Apr. 2016


27. A man pushes a 50-kg refrigerator at a distance of 15 m. If the coefficient of friction is
0.4, what is the work done by the man?
A. 2490 J B. 7530 J C. 2940 J D. 7350 J

REE – Sept. 2010


28. A huge pendulum consists of a 200-kg ball at the end of a cable 15 m long, if the
pendulum is drawn back to an angle of 37 degrees and released, what maximum force,
in N, must the cable withstand as the pendulum swings back and forth?
A. 2477 B. 2747 C. 2876 D. 2345

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REE – Apr. 1997
29. A steel ball weighing 200 lbs slides on a flat, horizontal floor surface and strikes a
stationary wooden ball weighing 200 lbs. If the steel ball has a velocity of 16.7 ft/sec at
impact, what is its velocity immediately after impact? Assume a frictionless floor and the
collision is perfectly elastic.
A. 8.35 ft/sec B. –16.7 ft/sec C. zero D. –8.35 ft/sec

REE – Sept. 2014


30. A rocket with an ejection velocity of 2200 m/s is ejecting 1 percent of its mass per
second. What is the initial acceleration?
A. 24 m/s2 B. 22 m/s2 C. 20 m/s2 D. 12 m/s2

REE – Aug. 2019


31. A 3-kg rifle fires a 10-g bullet at a muzzle velocity 500 m/s. What is the recoil velocity of
the rifle in meter per second?
A. 1.25 B. 1.11 C. 1.43 D. 1.67

REE – Apr. 1997


32. A ball is dropped onto a solid floor from an initial height, h0. If the coefficient of
restitution, e is 0.9, how high will the ball rebound?
A. 0.81 h0 B. 0.85 h0 C. 0.45 h0 D. 0.90 h0

REE – Sept. 2004


33. A 0.25 N bullet traveling at 500 m/s hits a 44.75 N block suspended vertically by a 3 m
long string. Find the maximum angle in which the string makes with the vertical if the
bullet imbeds itself in the block.
A. 33 deg B. 40 deg C. 28.9 deg D. 30 deg

REE – May 2010


34. A 100-kg man jumps into a swimming pool from a height of 5 m. it takes 0.4 sec for the
water to reduce his velocity to zero. What average force in newton did the water exert on
the man?
A. –2,500 B. –3,250 C. –4,000 D. –3,840

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