MECHCANICAL ENGINEERING WRITTEN TEST QUESTIONS

* A cable with a uniformly distributed load per horizontal metre run will take the following shape

 (a) straight line

 (b) elliptical

 (c) Vertical

 (d) parabola

 (e) Circle.

Answer:  (d) parabola

* A device for determining die value or magnitude of a quantity or variable :

 (a) Value sensor

 (b) Quantity transducer

 (c) instrument

 (d) gauge

 (e) indicator.

Answer:  (c) Instrument

* In the lever of third order, load W, effort P and fulcrum F are oriented as follows

 (a) W, P and F in one side

 (b) F between A and B

 (c) P between W and F

 (d) W between P and F

 (e) none of the above.

Answer:  (d) W between P and F