Practice Test: Question Set - 26
1. Which of the following statement is correct?
- (A) The power
absorbed in operating the piston valve is less than D-slide valve.
- (B) The wear of
the piston valve is less than the wear of the D-slide valve.
- (C) The D-slide
valve is also called outside admission valve.
- (D) All
of the above
2. The essential condition of placing the two masses, so that the system becomes dynamically equivalent, is (where l₁ and l₂ = Distance of two masses from the centre of gravity of the body, and kG = Radius of gyration of the body)
- (A) l₁ = kG
- (B) l₂ = kG
- (C) l₁l₂
= kG
- (D) l₁l₂
= kG²
3. The tendency of a body to resist change from rest or motion is known as
- (A) Mass
- (B) Friction
- (C) Inertia
- (D) Resisting force
4. The example of rolling pair is
- (A) Bolt and nut
- (B) Lead screw of a lathe
- (C) Ball and socket joint
- (D) Ball
bearing and roller bearing
5. For low and moderate speed engines, the cam follower should move with
- (A) Uniform velocity
- (B) Simple
harmonic motion
- (C) Uniform
acceleration and retardation
- (D) Cycloidal
motion
6. The driving and driven shafts connected by a Hooke's joint will have equal speeds, if
- (A) cosθ = sinα
- (B) sinθ = ± tanα
- (C) tanθ = ± cosα
- (D) cotθ = cosα
7. In a locomotive, the resultant unbalanced force due to the two cylinders along the line of stroke, is known as
- (A) Tractive
force
- (B) Swaying
couple
- (C) Hammer blow
- (D) None of
these
8. The power transmitted by a belt is maximum when the maximum tension in the belt is _________ of centrifugal tension.
- (A) One-third
- (B) Two-third
- (C) Double
- (D) Three
times
9. In order to give a complete secondary balance of a multi-cylinder inline engine,
- (A) The algebraic sum of the secondary forces
must be equal to zero
- (B) The algebraic sum of the couples about any
point in the plane of the secondary forces must be equal to zero
- (C) Both (A) and (B)
- (D) None of these
10. A body will begin to move down an inclined plane, if the angle of inclination of the plane is ________ the angle of friction.
- (A) Equal to
- (B) Less than
- (C) Greater than
- (D) None of
these
11. A shaft carrying three rotors will have
- (A) No node
- (B) One node
- (C) Two nodes
- (D) Three nodes
12. When a ship travels in a sea, which of the effect is more dangerous
- (A) Steering
- (B) Pitching
- (C) Rolling
- (D) All of the above
13. Peaucellier’s mechanism has
- (A) Eight links
- (B) Six
links
- (C) Four links
- (D) Twelve
links
14. The magnitude of linear velocity of a point B on a link AB relative to point A is, (Where ω = Angular velocity of the link AB)
- (A) ω ×
AB
- (B) ω ×
(AB)²
- (C) ω² ×
AB
- (D) (ω ×
AB)²
15. The periodic time is given by (where ω = Angular velocity of the particle in rad/s)
- (A) ω/2π
- (B) 2π/ω
- (C) ω ×
2π
- (D) π/ω
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