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Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics) Assignment 1

This document contains 9 mechanics problems related to dynamics concepts like projectile motion, relative motion, and kinematics. It involves calculating quantities like initial velocities, distances, times, speeds, and accelerations for various objects in motion including rocks, airplanes, trucks, cars, spheres, and cylinders on inclined planes and moving in straight lines. The problems provide varying details about the motion scenarios and ask the reader to determine specific kinematic values using concepts of dynamics.

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Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics) Assignment 1

This document contains 9 mechanics problems related to dynamics concepts like projectile motion, relative motion, and kinematics. It involves calculating quantities like initial velocities, distances, times, speeds, and accelerations for various objects in motion including rocks, airplanes, trucks, cars, spheres, and cylinders on inclined planes and moving in straight lines. The problems provide varying details about the motion scenarios and ask the reader to determine specific kinematic values using concepts of dynamics.

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DEBRE MARKOS UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics) Assignment 1

1. A rock is thrown horizontally from a tower at A and hits the ground 3.5 s later at B. The
line of sight from A to B makes an angle of with the horizontal. Compute the magnitude
of the initial velocity u of the rock.

2. The pilot of an airplane pulls into a steep 45° climb at 300 km/h and releases a package at
position A. Calculate the horizontal distance s and the time t from the point of release to
the point at which the package strikes the ground.
3. The driver of the truck has an acceleration of 0.4g as the truck passes over the top A of the
hump in the road at constant speed. The radius of curvature of the road at the top of the
hump is 98 m, and the center of mass G of the driver (considered a particle) is 2 m above
the road. Calculate the speed v of the truck.

4. The speed of a car increases uniformly with time from 50 km/h at A to 100 km/h at B
during 10 seconds. The radius of curvature of the hump at A is 40 m. If the magnitude of
the total acceleration of the mass center of the car is the same at B as at A, compute the
radius of curvature of the dip in the road at B. The mass center of the car is 0.6 m from the
road.

5. The sphere P travels in a straight line with speed v 10 m/s. For the instant depicted,
determine the corresponding values of and as measured relative to the fixed Oxy coordinate
system.
6. The car A has a forward speed of 18 km/h and is accelerating at 3 m/s2. Determine the
velocity and acceleration of the car relative to observer B, who rides in a nonrotating chair
on the Ferris wheel. The angular rate Ω = 3 rev/min of the Ferris wheel is constant.

7. Airplane A is flying horizontally with a constant speed of 200 km/h and is towing the glider
B, which is gaining altitude. If the tow cable has a length r = 60 m and θ is increasing at
the constant rate of 5 degrees per second, determine the magnitudes of the velocity v and
acceleration a of the glider for the instant when θ = 15.
2 3
8. Cylinder B has a downward velocity in feet per second given by𝑣𝐵 = 𝑡 ⁄2 + 𝑡 ⁄6, where
t is in seconds. Calculate the acceleration of A when t = 2 sec.

9. Determine an expression for the velocity of the cart 𝑣𝐴 down the incline in terms of the
upward velocity 𝑣𝐵 of cylinder B.

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