Theory and Design for Mechanical Measurements
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Author: Richard S. Figliola, Donald E. Beasley
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Chapter 1, Problem 1.31P
You estimate your car’s fuel use by recording regularly the fuel volume used over a known distance. Your brother, who drives the same model car, disagrees with your claimed results based on his own experience. Suggest reasons to justify the differences? How might you test to provide justification for each of these reasons?
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A smooth uniform sphere of mass m and radius r is squeezed between two massless levers, each of
length 1, which are inclined at an angle with the vertical. A mechanism at pivot point O ensures
that the angles & remain the same at all times so that the sphere moves straight upward. This
problem is based on Problem 3-1 in the text.
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a) Draw appropriate freebody diagrams of the system assuming that there is no friction.
b) Draw appropriate freebody diagrams of the system assuming that there is a coefficient of
friction between the sphere and the right lever of μ.
c) If a force P is applied between the ends of the levers (shown in the diagram), and there is no
friction, what is the acceleration of the sphere when = 30°
If you had a matrix A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9] and a matrix B = [1 2 3], how would you cross multiply them i.e. what is the cross product of AxB. what would be the cross product of a dyadic with a vector?
Problem 3: The inertia matrix can be written in dyadic form which is particularly useful
when inertia information is required in various vector bases. On the next page is a right
rectangular pyramid of total mass m. Note the location of point Q.
(a) Determine the inertia dyadic for the pyramid P, relative to point Q, i.e., 7%, for unit
vectors ₁₁, 2, 3.
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