MESL ELEMENTS 4 A.

Envelope
1. What is the value of the work done for a closed B. Epicycloid
reversible, isometric system? C. Cycloid
D. Hypocycloid
A. Zero
B. Negative 9. For pipe flow in laminar flow region, how is the
C. Positive or negative friction factor related to the Reynolds number?
D. Positive A. f = 64/Re
2. If the series has an Infinite number of terms, B. f = Re2
then it is C. f = 1/Re
D. f = Re
A. a function
B. an Infinite series 10. The tangents to the parabola at the end
C. a series points of its Iatus rectum intersect.
D. a finite series, A. at the vertex
3. Kinematic viscosity may be expressed as: B. at the directrtx
C. at a distance equal to the length of the
A. ft2/sec lotus rectum from the focus
B. sec2/ft D. none of the above
C. slug-sec2/ft
D. slug/sec 11. A polygon having 5 sides;

4. What conic section is described by the A. pentagon

following equation? 4x2-y2 + 8x + 4y = 15 B. hexagon
C. triangle
A. hyperbola D. square
B. circle
C. ellipse 12. Centrifugal force is directly proportional to
D. parabola A. the tangential velocity
5. Which of the following statements is not true B. the square of the tangential velocity
regarding X-ray diffraction? C. radius of curvature
D. the weight of object
A. X-ray diffraction can be used to detect
micro-stresses in a crystal. 13. The equation r a 4cosΘ is a/an
B. The geometrical structure factor F(hkl) is A. hyperbola
the ratio of the amplitude of the X-ray B. Ellipse
reflected from a plane in a crystal to the C. circle
amplitude of the X-ray scattered from a D. parabola
single electron. 14. A one-candle power light source radiates
C. X-ray diffraction can be used to determine luminous flux at the rate of
the grain size of a specimen.
D. X-ray diffraction is only useful, for A. it lumens
studying simpler crystal such as' the body- B. 4π lumens
centered cubic structure, rather than more C. 2 lumens
complex crystals like the hexagonal close- D. 1 lumen
packed structure. 15. In any non quasistatic thermodynamics
6. Given the equations 3x +2x - 5y +7 = 0
2 process, the overall entropy of an isolated system
Determine the curve. will:
A. Circle A. Increase only
B. Parabola B. Stay the same
C. Hyperbola C. Decrease and then increase
D. Ellipse D. Increase and then decrease
7. What is another term for Centroid? 16. Absolute zero temperature is
A. Center of mass A. 0K
B. Barycenter B. 32°F
C. Center of gravity C. 4 °C
D. All of the above D. 0°C
8. A plane curved traced by a fixed point on a 17. The work done by the external force on
circle as it rolls along the inside of a fixed circle. particles is equal to the ___ of the particle.
A. change in momentum C. Firm A has a higher cost of goods sold,
B. change in potential energy higher inventory value, and higher
C. impulse retained earnings.
D. change in kinetic energy D. Firm A has a higher cost of goods sold
18. The point through which the resultant of the and therefore, a smaller profit.
distributed gravity force passes regardless of the 25. The speed of 10 exponent google is called
orientation of the body is space. A. myriad
A. Center of gravity B. miligoogle
B. Center point C. googleplex
C. Center of inertia D. centigoogle
D. Center of mass 26. Which of the following may be the Poisson
19. What is the formula of a straight-line ratio of a material?
depreciation rate? A. 0.55
A. average net service value / estimated B. 0.45
service life C. 0.5
B. 100% - %net salvage value / estimated D. 0.6
service life 27. If an object exerts a normal force on a surface,
C. % net salvage value / estimated service then its normal force is
life
D. 100% net salvage value / estimated A. parallel to the surface
service life B. less than the frictional force
C. equal to the weight of the object
20. Which of the following relations defines D. perpendicular to the surface
enthalpy?
28. The number of board feet in a plank 3 inches
A. h = u + P/V thick, 1 foot wide and 20 foot length is
B. h = u + P/T
C. h = u + pV A. 360
D. h = pV + T B. 120
C. 720
21. If an external pressure is applied in a confined D. 60
fluid, the pressure will, be increased at every point
in the fluid by the amount of external pressure. 29. The side opposite the right angle of a right
This is known as triangle
A. Bernoulli’s theorem A. median
B. Boyle's law B. apothem
C. Pascal's law C. hypotenuse
D. Archimedes principle D. quadrilateral
22. Hydrogen is common to all 30. The stress beyond which the material will not
return to its original shape when unloaded but
A. oxides will retain a permanent deformation.
B. salts
C. acids A. elastic limit
D. metals B. yield strength.
C. yield limit
23. One horsepower is equivalent to D. proportional limit
A. 746 watts 31. If the shear stress in a fluid varies linearly with
B. 74.6 watts the velocity gradient, which of the following
C. 7.46 watts describes the fluid?
D. 7460 watts
A. It is inviscous
24. Firm A uses full absorption costing while firm B. It is a Newtonian gas.
B uses variable product costing. How will the C. It is a constant temperature.
financial statements of these companies differ? D. It is perfect gas
A. Firm A has a smaller cost of goods sold, 32. A branch of mechanics which deals with
no change in inventory value, and no bodies at rest.
change in retained earnings.
B. Firm A has a smaller cost of goods sold A. Kinetics
and larger profit. B. Dynamics
C. Kinematics C. kg m2/s2
D. Statics D. dyne
33. What type of curve is generated by a point 41. When using net present worth calculations to
which moves in uniform circular motion about an compare two projects, which of the following
axis, while traveling with a constant speed parallel could invalidate the calculation?
to the axis? A. evaluation over different time periods
A. Epicycloid B. nonconventional cash flows
B. Helix C. difference in the magnitude of the
C. Spiral of Archimedes projects
D. Cycloid D. mutually exclusive projects
34. The fluid pressure is the same in all directions. 42. The difference between the book value and
This is known as the actual lower resale value is
A. Archimedes Principle A. fixed cost
B. Pascal's Principle B. sunk cost
C. Bernoulli's Theorem C. salvage value
D. Ideal Fluid Principle D. resale value
35. Angles area measured from the positive 43. Modes of extinguishing obligations when
horizontal axis, and the positive direction is auditor abandons his right to coiled:
counterclockwise. What are the values of sin b A. liquidated damages
and cos b in the fourth quadrant? B. condonation
A. sin b > 0 and cos b > 0 C. debt cancellation
B. sin b > 0 and cos b < 0 D. forfeiture
C. sin b < 0 and cos b < 0 44. A line parallel to the y-axis at a directed
D. sin b < 0 and cos b > 0 distance x1 has the equation
36. Which of the following is NOT a central conic? y = y1,
A. ellipse x = x1
B. circle
C. hyperbola x = y1
D. parabola y = x1
37. If the product of the slopes of any two straight 45. In an atom such as sodium, there is one
lines is negative 1, one of these is said to be ____ electron in the outermost sell (in this case n t. 3 )
to the other. which of the following statements is true
A. parallel regarding the energy required to excite an
B. skew electron in the n a 1 shell compared to that
C. non-intersecting required to excite an electron in the n a 2 shell?
D. perpendicular A. It is greater because the shell next to it IS
38. Newton's second law of motion states that the full. Thus, by the Pauli Exclusion Principle,
rate of change of momentum with respect to time it must jump to the first shell which is not
is full, in this case, the n = 3 shell.
B. It is greater because the electron is closer
A. energy than the proton, and thus the Coulomb
B. force attractive force is much stronger.
C. power C. It is greater because an electron must first
D. work jump to the n = 3 shell form the n= 2
39. The rectangular coordinates system used to shell. Then the electron form the n = 1
represent a complex number. shell can Jumps to the n = 2 shell.
A. Maxwell's diagram D. It is equal to the energy required to excite
B. Argand diagram an electron in the n = 2 shell because in
C. Venn diagram both cases the electron makes a Jump to
D. Complex diagram the next shell.

40. Which Of the following is not a unit of work? 46. The expression 6!/3!0! is equal to

A. erg A. 2!
B. N.m B. infinity
C. 120
D. 0 B. The flower pot and the glass hits the
47. The diagram of an isolated body with the ground at the same time
representation of all external forces acting on it is C. The flower pot hits the ground at the
called same time as the glass.
D. The flower pot hits the ground first and
A. Maxwell diagram with a higher speed that the glass.
B. stress-strain diagram
C. shear and moment diagram 54. A thin homogeneous metallic plate containing
D. free body diagram a hole is heated sufficiently to cause expansion. If
the coefficient of surface expansion is linear, the
48. A simple beam carrying a uniform load of w area of the hole will:
throughout its entire length L, has maximum
moment of A. decrease at the same rate as the area of
the metal increases.
A. wL2/8 B. increase at the same rate as the area of
B. wL/2 the metal increases
C. wL2/4 C. decrease at twice the rate as the area of
D. wL2/2 the metal increase
49. Entrance losses between tank and pipe, or D. increase at twice the rate the area of the
losses through elbows, fittings and valves are metal increases
generally expressed as functions of 55. The curve traced by a point moving in a plane
A. friction factor is shown as the ___ of the point.
B. kinetic energy A. formula
C. volume flow rate B. locus
D. pipe diameter C. parameter
50. At constant pressure P all of the following D. pattern
statements about low rate, q in turbulent flow in a 56. Which of the following does cold-working
pipe are true, EXCEPT: cause?
A. q decreases inversely as (fluid density, A. elongation of grains in the flow direction,
m1/2 an increase in dislocation density, and
B. varies as (velocity, V)2 overall increase in energy of the metal
C. q varies approximately as (diameter, B. elongation of grains in the flow direction,
D. 2 a decrease in dislocation density, and an
51. The moment of inertia of a. rectangle with overall decrease in energy of the metal
respect to the base is ____ times its moment of C. elongation of grains in the flow direction,
inertia with respect to the centroid. a decrease in dislocation density, and an
overall increase in energy of the metal
A. 3
D. Shortening of grains in the flow direction,
B. 5
a decrease in dislocation density, and an
C. 2
overall decrease in the energy of the
D. 4
metal.
52. All of the following groups of plastics are
57. What is the length of the latus rectum of the
thermoplastic, EXCEPT:
curve x2 = 20y?
A. Tetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) and other
A. sqrt(20)
fluorocarbons
B. sqrt(5)
B. Polyvinylchloride (PVC) and polyvinyl
C. 20
acetate
D. 5
C. Polyethylene, polypropylene, and
polysterene 58. How many degrees of freedom does a coin
D. Phenolics, melamine and epoxy rolling on the ground have?
53. A flower pot falls of a ledge of a 5th floor A. three
window, just as it passes the third floor window, B. four
someone 'accidentally drops a glass of water from C. one
the window. Which of the following is true? D. two
A. The glass hits the ground before the 59. The Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) is defined
flower pot as the order quantity which minimizes the
inventory cost per unit- time. Which of the
following is not an assumption of the basic (EOQ) B. A liquid becomes a solid at the solidus.
with no shortages? temperature
A. The entire reorder quantity is delivered C. A solid becomes a liquid at the eutectic
instantaneously. NOTE: There is no upper temperature
bound on the quantity ordered. D. One solid is transformed into two solids of
B. The demand rate is uniform and constant. different composition
C. There is a positive cost on each unit 66. Which Of the following statements is false?
inventoried A. Hot-working can be regarded as the
D. There is an upper bound in the quantity simultaneous combination of cold-
ordered. working and annealing.
60. The condition exist i structures where the B. Hot-working Increases the density of the
reactive forces exceed the number of metal.
.independent equations for equilibrium. Such case C. Hot-working causes much strain
is called hardening of the metal.
A. statically indeterminate D. One of the primary goals of hot-working is
B. static equilibrium to produce a fine-grained product.
C. statically determine 67. How can the differential equation a d 2x/dt2 +
D. none of the above B(t)dx/dt + C = D(t) best described?
61. Which of the following are true regarding A. linear, second order, and
creep? nonhomogeneous
I. It is caused by the diffusion of vacancies to B. linear, homogeneous, and first order
edge dissociations, permitting dislocation climb. C. homogeneous and first order
D. linear, homogeneous and second order
II. It involves the plastic deformation of materials
at loads below the yield stress. 68. Given the polar equation r =3 /(1 + 3 cos
(theta)) . This is a graph of a/an
III. It may involve whole grain sliding.
A. circle
A. I only B. ellipse
B. II only C. hyperbola
C. L and III D. parabola
D. I, II, and
69. Which of the following would most likely
62. What work-in-process classified as? require a steel containing 6% carbon that has
A. an expense been spheroidized, scold-drawn, and slightly
B. a liability tempered?
C. a revenue A. a cutting tool
D. an asset B. a ball bearing
63. A situation whereby payment is made for C. a bridge beam
work not done, the term also applies to the case D. a water pipe
where more workers are used than are a 70. _____ is formed by intersection of rays from
reasonable requirement for efficient operation. the points reflected or refracted from a curve
A. Check-ins pay surface.
B. Feather bedding A. parabola
C. downtime pay B. evolute
D. moon lightning C. envelope
64. Of the following inorganic glasses, which have D. caustic
tetrahedral lattice structures? Si02 B2 03 BeF2, Ge02 71. Continuous curve traced by a point moving
A. S102, BeF2, and Ge02 around fixed point in same plane are steadily
B. Si02 and BeF2 increasing or decreasing distance.
C. 3102 and B2O3 A. Lemniscate
D. S102, B203, and BeF2 B. Spiral
65. What is transformed in a eutectoid reaction? C. Helix
D. Limacon
A. A solid becomes a liquid at the liquidus
temperature 72. Ivory soap floats in water because
A. the specific gravity of ivory soap is less C. -326
than that of water D. -132
B. the specific gravity of ivory soap is less 80. The amount of heat must be supplied to
than of water change 1 kg of the substance at its boiling point
C. the density of ivory soap is unity from the liquid state to the gaseous state.
D. all matter has mass
A. Heat of evaporation
73. The chemical process which occurs when B. Specific heat
water is added to cement is? C. BTU
A. hydration D. Heat of fusion
B. oxidation 81. In Roman numerals, the bar written above the
C. Brownian movement letter indicates that number equivalent to the
D. plastic flow letter to be multiplied by
74. An angle between 90° and 180° has: A. 100
A. A negative secant and tangent B. 1000
B. A negative cotangent and cosecant C. 100000
C. A positive sine and cosine D. 10000
D. All its trigonometric functions negative. 82. In the preceding question, the time of flight is
75. Which of the following is true about collision? t = (V2 sin2 Θ)/g
A. kinetic energy is not conserved in an t = (2Vsin2 Θ)/g
elastic collision
B. in compositely inelastic collision, o kinetic t = (V2 /g)sin2Θ
energy is lost t = (2Vsin Θ)/g
C. in elastic collision, no kinetic energy is
83. Frequency f of monochromatic yellow light
lost.
which as a wavelength of 589 nm (nanometers) in
D. in elastic collision, the two colliding
vacuum is nearest to:
bodies stick together after impact.
A. 295, 000 Ghz
76. The first law of thermodynamics states that:
B. 589, 000 Ghz
A. heat can only be transferred from a body C. 510, 000 Ghz
of higher temperature to one of lower D. 1 020, 000 Ghz
temperature.
84. Indicate the FALSE statement
B. heat energy cannot be completely
transformed into work. A. Weight of the body varies with its location
C. internal energy is due to molecular B. Weight of body is a gravitational force,
motion. C. Mass is the measure of the response of the
D. energy can be neither created nor body to an applied force.
destroyed. D. Weight of the body is always equal to its
mass
77. Which of the following describes shear Stress
in a moving fluid? 85. 100 kilograms is equivalent to 1
A. It is proportional to the velocity A. section
B. both B. stere
C. it is proportional to the absolute viscosity C. ton
D. it is non-existent D. quintal
78. What will happen to the kinetic energy of the 86. According to this law, "The force between two
body if its velocity doubled? charges varies directly as the magnitude of each
charge and inversely as the square of the distance
A. remains the same
between them"
B. doubled
C. tripled A. Newton's Law
D. quadrupled B. Inverse square law
C. Coulomb's Law
79. A plane intercepts the coordinate axis at x = 1,
D. Law of universal gravitation
y = 1, and z = 2. What are the Miller indices of the
plane? 87. Which of the following is not an important
criterion, for formatting a complete binary solid
A. -123
solution?
B. -623
A. The difference in atomic numbers should 94. The axis of the parabola that passes through
be small. the foci, vertices and center is called
B. The atoms should be close to core and A. conjugate axis
there in the periodic table B. transverse axis
C. The constituent elements must have the C. major axis
same crystal structure. D. minor axis
D. The difference is radii should be less than
15°A. 95. The mass to which a force of one pound will
give one foot per second per second an
88. In preparing a metallographic iron specimen, acceleration of
the grain boundaries are made most visible by
which of the following steps? A. Joule
B. Erg
A. polishing the sample with Al203 C. Slug
B. mounting the sample in an epoxy resin D. Dyne
mold
C. etching the sample in a 2% solution of 96. The amount of heat needed to change solid to
nitric acid in alcohol liquid is
D. grinding the sample with silicon carbide A. solid fusion
abrasive B. latent heat of fusion
89. The ideal reversible Carnot cycles involves C. cold fusion
four basic processes. What type of processes are D. condensation
they? 97. The geometric mean of two numbers is equal
A. two isothermal and two isentropic to
B. all isothermal A. the quotient of the two numbers
C. all isentropic B. the product of the two numbers
D. two adiabatic and two isentropic C. square root of the product of the two
90. The moment of inertia of any plane figure can numbers
be expressed in units of length to the: D. the difference of the two numbers
A. Fourth power 98. The sum of the terms of an arithmetic
B. First power sequence is called:
C. Third power A. the common difference
D. Second power B. arithmetic series
91. If G is the shear modulus, B is the Burgers C. the last term of the sequence
vectors, and r is half the distance between D. geometric series
particles, what is the local stress, ri required to 99. The series expansion for cos x contains which
bend dislocations around a particle? powers of x?
A. r = Gbr A. 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 …
B. r = Gr/b B. ½, 3/2, 5/2, 7/2, …
C. r = bt/G C. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 …
D. r = Gb/r D. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…
92. A structure is called ____ at least one of its 100. A line segment joining two of its points and
individual members is a multiforce member. passing through a focus of a conic.
A. frame A. Latus rectum
B. three hinged arch B. Focal radius
C. bridge C. Chord contrast
D. Truss D. Focal chord
93. What is specific heat?
A. A temperature of 1 kg sample reported in
°C.
B. The heat needed to raise the temperature
of 1 pound of water 1°F
C. The energy needed to raise the
temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C
D. any of the above