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1. A 7 kg mass is suspended in a rope. What is the tension in the rope in SI?

a. 68.67 N
b. 70 N
c. 71 N
d. 72 N
2. A body weighing 100 kg is hanging at the end of a rope 5 m long. What horizontal force is needed to
move the body a horizontal distance of 1 m.
a. 30.4 kg
b. 20.4 kg
c. 100 kg
d. 50.7 kg
3. Determine the resultant of the following forces: A = 600 N at 40 deg; B = 800 N at 160 deg and C =
200 N at 300 deg.
a. 532.78 N, 55.32 deg
b. 435.94 N, 235.12 deg
c. 522.68 N, 111.57 deg
d. 627.89 N, 225.81 deg
4. A certain cable is suspended between two supports at the same elevation and 500 ft apart. The load
is 500 lbs per horizontal foot including the weight of the cable. The sag of the cable is 30 ft. Calculate
the total length of the cable.
a. 503.21 ft
b. 504.76 ft
c. 505.12 ft
d. 506.03 ft
5. A pipe crossing a river is suspended from a steel cable stretched between two posts 100 m apart.
The weight of the pipe is 14 kg/m while the cable weighs 1 kg/m assumed to be uniformly
distributed horizontally. If the allowed sag is 2 m, determine the tension of the cable at the post.
a. 9047.28 kg
b. 9404.95 kg
c. 9545.88 kg
d. 9245.37 kg
6. A ball is thrown upward with an initial velocity of 50 ft/s. How high does it go? (ECE Board November
2001).
a. 39 ft
b. 30 ft
c. 20 ft
d. 45 ft
7. An airplane travels from points A to B with a distance of 1500 km and a wind along its flight. If it
takes the airplane 2 hours from A to B with the tailwind and 2.5 hours B to A with the headwind,
what is the velocity? (ECE Board November 2001).
a. 700 kph
b. 675 kph
c. 450 kph
d. 750 kph
8. A missile is fired with a speed of 100 fps in a direction 30 degrees above the horizontal. Determine
the maximum height to which it rises? (ECE Board April 2000).
a. 60 ft
b. 52 ft
c. 45 ft
d. 39 ft
9. A stone is thrown vertically upward at the rate of 20 m/s. It will return to the ground after how
many seconds? (ECE Board November 2000).
a. 3.67 sec
b. 5.02 sec
c. 4.08 sec
d. 2.04 sec
10. A plane dropped a bomb at an elevation 1000 meters from the ground intended to hit a target
which is 200 m from the ground. If the plane was flying at a velocity of 300 kph, at what distance
from the target must the bomb be dropped to hit the target? Wind velocity and atmospheric
pressure to be disregarded. (ECE Board April 1991).
a. 1864.71 m
b. 2053.20 m
c. 1574.37 m
d. 1064.20 m
11. A flywheel of a puncher is to be brought to a complete stop in 8 seconds from a speed of 60 rpm.
Compute for the number of turns the flywheels makes if its deceleration is uniform.
a. 1
b. 3
c. 4
d. 2
12. What is the acceleration of a point on a rim of a flywheel 0.8 m in diameter turning at the rate of
1400 rad/min? (ECE Board November 2000).
a. 214.77 m/s2
b. 217.77 m/s2
c. 220.77 m/s2
d. 227.77 m/s2
13. What retarding force is required to stop a 0.45 caliber bullet of mass 20 grams and speed of 300 m/s
as it penetrates a wooden block to a depth of 2 inches? (ECE Board November 2001).
a. 17,716 N
b. 19,645 N
c. 15,500 N
d. 12,500 N
14. A 350 lbf acts on a block at an angle of 15 o with the horizontal. What is the work done by this force if
it is pushed 5 feet horizontally? (EE Board Problem).
a. 1350.3 ft-lb
b. 1690.4 ft-lb
c. 1980 ft-lb
d. 2002 ft-lb
15. What is the minimum distance can a truck slide on a horizontal asphalt road if it is traveling at 25
m/s? The coefficient of sliding friction between the asphalt and rubber tire is at 0.60. The weight of
the truck is 8500 kg. (ME Board April 1998).
a. 44.9
b. 58.5
c. 53.2
d. 63.8
16. A body weighing 40 lbs starts from rest and slides down a plane at an angle of 30 o with the
horizontal for which the coefficient of friction f = 0.3. How far will it move during the third second?
a. 19.63 ft
b. 19.33 ft
c. 18.33 ft
d. 19.99 ft
17. A golf weighs 1.6 ounce. If its velocity immediately after being driven is 225 fps, what is the impulse
of the blow in slug-feet/sec? (ECE Board April 2000).
a. 0.855
b. 0.812
c. 0.758
d. 0.699
18. Two masses collide on a frictionless horizontal floor and in perfectly inelastic collision. Mass 1 is 4
times that of mass 2. Velocity of mass 1 = 10 m/s to the right while the velocity of mass 2 = 20 m/s
to the left. What is the velocity and direction of the resulting combined mass?
a. 10 m/s to the right
b. 4 m/s to the right
c. 10 m/s to the left
d. 15 m/s to the left
19. A 3500 lbf car is towing a 500 lbf trailer. The coefficient of friction between all tires and the road is
0.80. How fast can the car and trailer travel around an unbanked curve of radius 0.12 mile without
either the car or trailer skidding?
a. 87 mph
b. 26 mph
c. 72 mph
d. 55 mph
20. A highway curve with radius 800 ft is to be banked so that a car traveling 55 mph will not skid
sideways even in the absence of friction. At what angle should the curve be banked
a. 0.159 deg
b. 75 deg
c. 6.41 deg
d. 14.2 deg
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