MECH223 - Semi-Final Exercise No. 2
MECH223 - Semi-Final Exercise No. 2
MECH223 - Semi-Final Exercise No. 2
College of Engineering
Civil Engineering Department
Topic:
Kinetics of Particles: Newton’s Second Law of Motion – Tangential and Normal Acceleration
Directions: Answer the following problems and show your solution. Write your solution in a clean sheet of
paper and arrange it according to order. Make sure to put your final answer in a box. Avoid having too many
erasures in your solution.
1. The 0.8-mg car travels over the hill having the shape of a parabola. If the driver maintains a
constant speed of 9 m/s, determine both the resultant normal force and the resultant
friction al force that all the wheels of the car exert on the road at the instant it reached
point A. Neglect the size of the car.