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  • Question
  • Time required to stop a car moving with a velocity 20 m/sec within a distance of 40 m, is


  • Options
  • A. 2 sec
  • B. 3 sec
  • C. 4 sec
  • D. 5 sec
  • E. 6 sec.

  • Correct Answer
  • 4 sec 


  • Applied Mechanics problems


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    • 1. One end of a light string 4 m in length is fixed to a point on a smooth wall and the other end fastened to a point on the surface of a smooth sphere of diameter 2.25 m and of weight 100 kg. The reaction between the sphere and the wall of the arrangement made is

    • Options
    • A. 102.5 kg
    • B. 105.5 kg
    • C. 108.5 kg
    • D. 110 kg.
    • Discuss
    • 2. Pick up the cohesive soil from the following:

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    • A. Red earth
    • B. Clay
    • C. Black cotton soil
    • D. Compacted ground.
    • Discuss
    • 3. Sedimentation analysis is based on the assumption:

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    • A. soil particles are spherical
    • B. particles settle independent of other particles
    • C. walls of the jar do not affect the settlement .
    • D. all the above.
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    • 4. Failure of a slope occurs only when total shear force is

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    • A. equal to total shearing strength
    • B. greater than total shearing strength
    • C. less than total shearing strength
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 5. 'Loess' is silty clay formed by the action of

    • Options
    • A. water
    • B. glacier
    • C. wind
    • D. gravitational force.
    • Discuss
    • 6. Effect of a force on a body depends upon its

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    • A. direction
    • B. magnitude
    • C. position
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 7. If two forces P and Q (P > Q) act on the same straight line but in opposite direction, their resultant, is

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    • A. P + Q
    • B. P/Q
    • C. Q/P
    • D. P - Q
    • E. Q - P.
    • Discuss
    • 8. The distance of the c.g. of a semi-circular arc of radius r from its diameter along the radius of symmetry, is

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    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
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    • 9. The characteristic of a couple, is :

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    • A. algebraic sum of forces, constituting a couple is zero
    • B. algebraic sum of moments of forces, constituting a couple, about any poin, is same
    • C. a couple can be balanced only by a couple but of opposite sense
    • D. a couple can be never the balanced by a single force
    • E. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 10. A Second's pendulum gains 2 minutes a day. To make it to keep correct time its length

    • Options
    • A. must be decreased
    • B. must be increased
    • C. is not changed but weight of the bob is increased
    • D. is not changed but weight of the bob is decreased
    • E. none of these.
    • Discuss


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