COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

MECH 320: DYNAMICS OF RIGID BODIES

PRELIM EXAMINATION

PRAYER BEFORE EXAMS

O Lord, before You lie my strength and my weakness; Preserve the one, heal the other.
Before You lie my knowledge and my ignorance. Come to my assistance as I prepare for this test.
Help me to remember all that is important. Let me remember You, let me understand You, let
me love You. Increase these things in me until You refashion me to Your will. Amen.
(Inspired by: St. Augustine, The Trinity XV,51.)

PRAYER AFTER EXAMS

"O Lord, to You, most excellent and most good, You Architect and Governor of the
universe, thanks had been due unto You, our God. I rejoice exceedingly for every good gift which,
I have. Thanks be to You, my joy, my pride, my confidence, my God — thanks be to You for Your
gifts; but preserve them to me. For thus will You preserve me; and those things which You have
given me shall be developed and perfected, and I myself shall be with You, for from You is my
being."
(Inspired by St. Augustine, The Confessions 1, 18, 31)

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Write your name in the upper right corner of the questionnaire.
2. Indicate your section directly below your name.
3. All solutions must be written on the questionnaire only; no additional sheets are permitted.
4. Encircle your final answer clearly on the questionnaire.
5. No erasures, alterations, or changes to any answer are allowed.
6. Failure to comply with these instructions will result in a score of zero.

GOOD LUCK!

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1. Initially, the car travels along a straight road with a C. 119.765 ft

speed of 35 m/s. If the brakes are applied and the D. 127.582 ft
speed of the car is reduced to 10 m/s in 15 seconds, 7. Two cars start from rest side by side and travel
determine the constant deceleration of the car. along a straight road. Car A accelerates at 4 m/s2 for
A. -1.0 m/s2 10 s and then maintains a constant speed. Car B
B. -1.5 m/s2 accelerates at 5 m/s2 until reaching a constant
C. -2.0 m/s2 speed of 25 m/s and then maintains this speed.
D. -2.5 m/s2 What is the distance between the two cars when t =
2. A ball is thrown vertically upward with a speed of 15 15 s?
m/s. Determine the time of flight when it returns to A. 50 m
its original position. B. 75 m
A. 1.952 s C. 78.5 m
B. 1.529 s D. 87.5 m
C. 3.058 s
8. An uncontrolled automobile traveling at 45 mph
D. 3.850 s
strikes a highway crash barrier square on. After
3. A particle travels along a straight line with a speed v
initially hitting the barrier, the automobile
= (0.5t3 - 8t) m/s, where t is in seconds. Determine
decelerates at a rate proportional to the distance x
the acceleration of the particle when t = 2 s.
the automobile has moved into the barrier;
A. -1
specifically, a = -60√x , where a and x are
B. -1/2 expressed in ft/s2 and ft, respectively. Determine
C. -2
the distance the automobile will move into the
D. -5/2 barrier before it comes to rest.
4. The position of the particle is given by s = (2t 2 — 8t
A. 12.595 ft
+ 6), m, where t is in seconds. Determine the time B. 13.828 ft
when the velocity of the particle is zero.
C. 14.366 ft
A. 1 s
D. 15.634 ft
B. 2 s
9. The velocity of a particle is defined by the equation
C. 3 s
v = 8t2 +4t + 1, where v is in m/min and t is in
D. 4 s minutes. Find the distance after 2 minutes.
5. The position of the particle is given by s = (2t 2 - 8t
A. 25.7 m
+ 6), m, where t is in seconds. Determine the total B. 36.7 m
distance traveled by the particle when t = 3 s.
C. 31.33 m
A. 0 D. 28.3 m
B. 2
10. A ball is thrown vertically upward with an initial
C. 4
velocity of 3 m/sec, from the window of a tall
D. 8
building. The ball strikes the sidewalk at the ground
6. A man riding upward in a freight elevator
level 4 seconds later. Find the height of the window
accidentally drops a package off the elevator when it
above the ground level.
is 100 ft from the ground. If the elevator maintains
A. 68.46 m
a constant upward speed of 4 ft/s. determine how B. 46.68 m
high the elevator is from the ground the instant the
C. 66.48 m
package hits the ground. D. 48.66 m
A. 109.968 ft
B. 116.924 ft

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