Machine Dynamics MCQ

1. The equation of motion for a single degree of freedom system with viscous damping is given below in which, the damping ratio of the system is

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Correct Answer: 9/16

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2. When there is a reduction in amplitude over every cycle of vibration, then the body is said to have

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Correct Answer: Damped vibration

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3. At the nodal point in a shaft, the amplitude for torsional vibration will be

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Correct Answer: Zero

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4. A shaft carrying three rotors will have

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Correct Answer: Two nodes

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5. Frequency of vibrations is usually expressed in

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Correct Answer: Number of cycles per second

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6. A single degree of freedom system is given by the following equation with usual notations. It represents:

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Correct Answer: Forced vibration with damping

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7. Critical damping is a function of

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Correct Answer: Mass and stiffness

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8. If the damping factor for a vibrating system is unity, then the system will be

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Correct Answer: Critically damped

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9. Longitudinal vibrations are said to occur when the particles of a body moves

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Correct Answer: Parallel to its axis

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10. When a rigid body is suspended vertically and it oscillates with a small amplitude under the action of the force of gravity, the body is known as

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Correct Answer: Compound pendulum

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11. In order to double the period of a simple pendulum, the length of the string should be

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Correct Answer: Quadrupled

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12. In under damped vibrating system, the amplitude of vibration

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Correct Answer: Decreases exponentially with time

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13. The ratio of the actual damping coefficient to the critical damping coefficient is called.

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Correct Answer: Damping factor

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14. The amplitude of vibration is always the radius of the circle.

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Correct Answer: Equal to

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15. In vibration isolation system, if ω/ωn > 1, then the phase difference between the transmitted force and the disturbing force is

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Correct Answer: 180°

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16. The critical speed of a shaft in revolution per second is as that of natural frequency of transverse vibration.

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Correct Answer: Same

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17. The periodic time is given by (where ω = Angular velocity of the particle in rad/s)

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Correct Answer: 2π/ω

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18. The periodic time of a compound pendulum is _ when the distance between the point of suspension and the centre of gravity is equal to the radius of gyration of the body about its centre of gravity.

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Correct Answer: Minimum

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19. The equation of free vibrations of a system is given below, Its natural frequency is,

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Correct Answer: 3 Hz

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20. The velocity of a body moving with simple harmonic motion is at the mean position.

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Correct Answer: Maximum

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21. The equation of motion for a vibrating system with viscous damping is If the roots of this equation are real, then the system will be

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Correct Answer: Overdamped

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22. The ratio of the maximum displacement of the forced vibration to the deflection due to the static force, is known as

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Correct Answer: Magnification factor

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23. The critical speed of a shaft depends upon its

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Correct Answer: Mass and stiffness

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24. A shaft carrying two rotors at its ends will have

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Correct Answer: One node

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25. When a mass of a critically damped single degree of freedom system is deflected from its equilibrium position and released, then it will

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Correct Answer: Oscillate with increasing time period

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26. When the particles of a body moves perpendicular to its axis, then the body is said to be,

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Correct Answer: Transverse vibration

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27. The maximum velocity of a particle moving with simple harmonic motion is

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Correct Answer: ωr

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28. Torsional vibrations are said to occur when the particles of a body moves

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Correct Answer: In a circle about its axis

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29. The ratio of the maximum displacement of the forced vibration to the deflection due to the static force, is known as

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Correct Answer: Magnification factor

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30. The frequency of oscillation at compared to earth will be

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Correct Answer: 2.44 times less

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31. A reed type tachometer use the principle of

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Correct Answer: Transverse vibration

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32. The stress induced in a body will be shear stress, when it is subjected to

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Correct Answer: Torsional vibrations

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33. Which among the following is not considered when reference standards are used in the field of mechanical vibration and shock, monitoring and analysis of machines?

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Correct Answer: None of the above

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34. Which basic document describes general requirements for measurement and evaluation of machine vibrations using shaft measurements?

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Correct Answer: ISO – 7919-1

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35. Which of the following is a type of untuned vibration absorber?

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Correct Answer: Houdaille damper

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36. Which of the following methods can be used to reduce excitation level at the source?

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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37. Which of the following conditions is/are to be satisfied by the seismometer for it to be used as velometer?

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Correct Answer: It's natural frequency should be large

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38. Which of the following vibrometers have frequency ratio (ω/ωn) << 1?

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Correct Answer: Accelerometers

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39. Which type of monitoring system uses stroboscope to measure speed of the machine?

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Correct Answer: Basic condition monitoring system

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40. Seismometer can be used to measure acceleration of any instrument only if _____

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Correct Answer: both a. and b.

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41. Which of the following statements is/are true?

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Correct Answer: Torsional vibrations do not occur in a three rotor system, if rotors rotate in same direction

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42. Simulation is a process which _________

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Correct Answer: Explores behavior of a model by varying input variables

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43. What is meant by geometric modeling?

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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44. Magnification factor is the ratio of ______

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Correct Answer: Amplitude of steady state vibrations and zero frequency deflection

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45. Determine natural frequency of a system, which has equivalent spring stiffness of 30000 N/m and mass of 20 kg?

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Correct Answer: 6.16 Hz

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46. According to which method, maximum kinetic energy at mean position is equal to maximum potential energy at extreme position?

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Correct Answer: Rayleigh's method

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47. What are deterministic vibrations?

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Correct Answer: Vibrations caused due to unknown exciting force

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48. Which of the following vibrations are classified according to the magnitude of actuating force?

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Correct Answer: Deterministic vibrations

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49. In which type of vibrations, amplitude of vibration goes on decreasing every cycle?

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Correct Answer: Damped vibrations

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50. What are discrete parameter systems?

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Correct Answer: Systems which have finite number of degree of freedom

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51. The unbalanced force caused due to reciprocating mass is given by the equation

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Correct Answer: mrω2 cos θ + mrω2 (cos 2θ/n)

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52. Which of the following factors are not responsible for unbalancing in rotating systems?

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Correct Answer: None of the above

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53. What is the name of the gear's diameter in millimeters?

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Correct Answer: Pitch

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54. What is another name for gear ratio?

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Correct Answer: Module

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55. What type of Pitch is the ratio of the number of teeth on the gear?

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Correct Answer: Diametral

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56. What is the name of the number of teeth on the gear?

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Correct Answer: Diametral Pitch

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57. What is the name of the theoretical circle that all calculations are based on?

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Correct Answer: Pitch circle

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58. What is the name of a theoretical circle on which all calculations are based?

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Correct Answer: Pitch circles

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59. What are the smaller gears often called?

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Correct Answer: Pinion

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60. What other name is used to refer to the larger of the two mating gears?

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Correct Answer: Gear or the wheel

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61. In what type of gears are the teeth straight and parallel to the axes of rotation?

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Correct Answer: Spur gears

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62. How are the axes of the two shafts of spur gears?

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Correct Answer: Parallel

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63. What can we do to find the maximum and minimum values of the pressure angle?

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Correct Answer: Differentiate this equation

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64. What do gears usually do?

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Correct Answer: Transmit rotary motion between two shafts

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65. What are machine elements used to transmit rotary motion between two shafts?

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Correct Answer: Gears

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66. What does the third-order kinematic coefficient show the rate of change of?

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Correct Answer: Y with respect to the input position theta

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67. What is the second-order kinematic coefficient?

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Correct Answer: Curvature of the cam

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68. What is a second-order coefficient?

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Correct Answer: Kinematic

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69. What is the second order coefficient related to?

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Correct Answer: The curvature of the cam

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70. What is a measure of the "steepness" of the displacement diagram?

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Correct Answer: First-order kinematic coefficient

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71. What does the first-order kinematic coefficient represent?

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Correct Answer: The slope of the displacement diagram

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72. What are additional graphs that can be plotted representing the derivative of y with respect to the input position theta?

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Correct Answer: Kinematic coefficients

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73. What is plotted as the ordinate regardless of the type of cam or the type of follower?

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Correct Answer: The follower output motion y

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74. What is plotted with the input motion of a cam as the abscissa and the follower output motion as the ordinate?

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Correct Answer: Displacement diagram

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75. Which axis is the smallest circle centered on?

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Correct Answer: Cam rotation axis

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76. Where does the cam axis rotate?

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Correct Answer: At the cam rotation axis

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77. Where does the pitch curve Locus get it's name from?

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Correct Answer: The trace point

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78. What is the name of the curve that shows how a pitch moves across an octave?

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Correct Answer: Pitch Curve Locus

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79. What is the point of a Trace Point?

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Correct Answer: Theoretical point of the follower

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80. Where is the point of the follower?

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Correct Answer: Trace Point

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81. What is the surface developed by holding the cam stationary?

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Correct Answer: The cam surface

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82. What is the nomenclature for the follower that is being rotated?

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Correct Answer: The cam surface

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83. What is the unit of measurement for abscissa?

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Correct Answer: One cycle of the input motion theta

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84. To what scale is the abscissa of a displacement diagram drawn?

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Correct Answer: Any convenient

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85. What is the abscissa usually drawn to?

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Correct Answer: Any convenient scale

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86. What type of constraint do the two contact points provide?

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Correct Answer: Constant-breadth

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87. What provides the constraint in a constant-breadth cam?

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Correct Answer: Two contact points

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88. What is the most common type of follower?

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Correct Answer: Reciprocating

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89. What is a machine element used to drive another element called?

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Correct Answer: A follower

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90. In what medium is a machine element used to drive another element, called a follower?

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Correct Answer: Cam

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91. What does the term jerk stand for in physics?

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Correct Answer: Time derivative of acceleration

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92. What is the time derivative of acceleration?

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Correct Answer: Jerk

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93. What rate of change do angular acceleration and angular velocity have in relation to each other?

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Correct Answer: Time

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94. What is the time rate of change of an object's angular velocity?

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Correct Answer: Acceleration

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95. What is the time rate of change of the angular velocity called?

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Correct Answer: Angular acceleration

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96. What is the name of the rate of change of velocity?

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Correct Answer: Instantaneous acceleration

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97. What is the time rate of change of velocity of an object when it is traveling at the speed of light?

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Correct Answer: Instantaneous

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98. What does the Scotch yoke do to the rod?

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Correct Answer: Has the effect of a connecting rod of infinite length

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99. What has the effect of a connecting rod of infinite length?

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Correct Answer: Scotch yoke

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100. The second terms of the previous equations become what if the Scotch yoke is used?

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Correct Answer: Zero

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101. What is the definition of the magnitude of the angular velocity?

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Correct Answer: The time rate of change of the angular orientation of any line

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102. Magnitude of the angular velocity is defined as the time rate of change of the angular orientation of what?

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Correct Answer: Line

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103. The angular velocity of a rotating body is now defined as a what?

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Correct Answer: Vector quantity

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104. What type of quantity is omega?

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Correct Answer: Vector

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105. For what is the instantaneous velocity of a moving object defined?

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Correct Answer: The limit of this ratio for an infinitesimally small time interval

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106. What is the definition of instantaneous velocity?

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Correct Answer: Limit of this ratio

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