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3 Hours / 100 Marks Seat No.

Instructions – (1) All Questions are Compulsory.

(2) Answer each next main Question on a new page.
(3) Illustrate your answers with neat sketches wherever
necessary.
(4) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
(5) Assume suitable data, if necessary.
(6) Use of Non-programmable Electronic Pocket
Calculator is permissible.
(7) Mobile Phone, Pager and any other Electronic
Communication devices are not permissible in
Examination Hall.

Marks

1. Attempt any TEN of the following: 20

a) Differentiate ideal effort and ideal load.
b) What is a reversible machine. State the condition of reversibility?
c) Define mechanical advantage and velocity ratio.
d) State the effects of a force on a rigid body.
e) State the use of Varignon’s theorem of moment.
f) Define free body and free body diagram.
g) Differentiate equillibrant from resultant.
h) State condition of equilibrium.
i) State the lamis theorem.

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j) State the graphical condition of equilibrium for non-concurrent
force system.
k) State the analytical condition of equilibrium for coplaner
non-concurrent forces.
l) Define limiting force of friction.
m) State the position of centroid for a semi-circle lamina in the
sketch.
n) Define centre of gravity. How it is different from centroid.

2. Attempt any FOUR of the following: 16

a) Resolve a force of 500 N into two directions at 30° and 45°
on either side of it.
b) A certain machine has an efficiency of 49%. The velocity ratio
of the machine is 200. Find the effort required to lift a load
of 2 kN using the machine.
c) In a Weston’s differential pulley block, number of cogs on
bigger pulley is 16 and that of an smaller pulley is 15. An
effort of 600 N just lifts a load of 15 kN. Find the efficiency
of the machine.
d) In a single threaded worm and worm-wheel the number of
teeth on worm wheel are 50. The diameter of effort wheel
is 20 cm and that of load drum is 10 cm. Find the effort
required to lift a load of 300 N at an efficiency of 20%.
e) A machine lifts a load of 400 N and 600 N by efforts of
60 N and 80 N respectively, Find the law of machine and
efficiency at a load of 800 N if V.R. is 22.
f) Explain the following term:
(i) Space diagram
(ii) Vector diagram
(iii) Polar diagram
(iv) Polygon law of forces
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3. Attempt any FOUR of the following: 16
a) Four forces of 30 N, 70 N acting upwards are balanced by forces
of 60 N and 40 N acting downwards. Forces are acting in a series
of 30↑, 40↓ , 70↑ and 60↓. Distance between the forces are
400 mm, 600 mm and 800 mm. Find the moment of a couple.
b) Find the angle between two equal forces P, if their resultant is
equal to P/2.
c Determine the resultant of the three forces acting on a hook in
Figure No. 1.

Fig. No. 1

d) Three forces equal to 20 N, 40 N, and 60 N act along AB, BC

and CA sides respectively of an equilateral triangle of side
50 mm, Determine the resultant moment about A.
e) Calculate the total moment about point ‘A’ for the force system
shown in Figure No. 2.

Fig. No. 2
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f) State law of parallelogram of forces and derive its equation for
magnitude and direction of the resultant force.

4. Attempt any FOUR of the following: 16

a) Forces of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 N respectively act at one of the
angular points of a regular hexagon towards the other five
angular points taken in order. Find the resultant of the system.
b) Solve Question No. 3 (a) graphically.
c) A square ABCD of 1 m sides is acted by forces 1 kN, 2 kN,
and 4 kN along sides taken in order. Calculate magnitude and
direction of the resultant by using analytical method.
d) A pendulum weighs 5 N, It is pulled aside by a horizontal
pull of 2 N. Calculate the angle the string makes with the
horizontal. Also find tension in the string.
e) A simply supported beam of weight 40 kN is supported at A
and B, AB = 5 m, two point loads of 30 kN, and 50 kN, are
acting at a distances of 2 m and 3 m from left end. Find the
support reactions.
f) In a machine an effort of 2 N lift a load of 30 N. If the
effort lost due to friction is 0.5 N. Find V.R. and efficiency of
machine.

5. Attempt any FOUR of the following: 16

a) Find and locate the equilibrant of fire concurrent forces of
100 N, 200 N, 300 N, 500 N and 600 N acting towards origin
at angles of 20°, 80°, 150°, 230° and 300° respectively from
positive X-axis.
b) Solve Question No. 4 (a) graphically.
c) A pull of 30 N applied at 30° to horizontal just moves the
block of weight ‘W’ N. If angle of friction f = 16°, Find the
coefficient of friction, total reaction and weight of the block?
d) A block weighing 500 N is resting on a plane inclined at 30°
to the horizontal. Find the force that can be applied on the
block parallel to the place so that the block is just on the
point of motion up the plane. The coefficient of friction is 0.2.
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e) State four laws of static friction.
f) A simply supported beam AB of span 7 m carries three point
loads of 2 kN, 6 kN, 4 kN at 2 m, 4 m, 6 m from left support
‘A’. If self weight of the beam is 1 kN/m. Find the reactions
at the two supports.

6. Attempt any FOUR of the following: 16

a) A body of weight 600 N is resting on a rough inclined plane,
inclined at an angle of 40°. If coefficient of friction is 0.58,
What force is required to prevent the body from falling down
the plane?
b) Find centroid of ISA 90 × 60 × 8 (L - section)
c) Find the centre of gravity of an inverted T - section with
flange 60 mm × 10 mm and web 50 mm × 10 mm.
d) The frustum of a cone has top diameter 40 cm and bottom
diameter 60 cm with height 18 cm. Calculate C.G.
e) A hemisphere of radius 80 mm is removed from a cube of
200 mm side from the top face of the cube. Remainder remains
symmetrical about yy – axis. Find the c.g. of the remainder
from bottom.
f) Find the centroid of the area as shown in Figure No. 3.

Fig. No. 3