Department of Mechanical Engineering

Clayton Campus
Major Class Work 2
MEC2401 Dynamics
Associate Professor Ralph Abrahams

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Instructions:
1. This work should be submitted by 5 pm Tuesday, Week 12.
2. It should be submitted in a box labelled MEC2401 in the Mechanical & Aerospace
department foyer in 17 College Walk (Engineering 31).
3. Your work should be written legibly and stapled with this coversheet.

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Question 1

The rack R of the rack-and pinion gear is moving upward with a constant velocity of 1200 mm/s. Using
vector analysis, find the angular velocity and angular acceleration of bar BC.

Figure 1
Question 2

The 30 g bullet shown in Figure 6 has a horizontal velocity of 500 m/s as it strikes the 10 kg slender
bar OA, which is suspended from point O and is initially at rest. Calculate the angular velocity which
the bar with its embedded bullet has acquired immediately after impact.

Figure 2
Question 3

The small car shown in Figure 8, which has a mass of 20 kg, rolls freely on the horizontal track and
carries the 5 kg sphere mounted on the light rotating rod with r = 0.4 m. A geared motor drive
maintains a constant angular speed = 4 rad/s of the rod. If the car has a velocity of v = 0.5 m/s when
= 0, calculate v when = 270 using linear momentum. Neglect the mass of the wheels and any
friction.

Figure 3
Question 4

The 30 Mg flatcar supports a 10 Mg vehicle on a 5 ramp built on the flatcar, as shown in Figure 7. If
the vehicle is released from rest with the flatcar also at rest, determine the velocity v of the flatcar
when the vehicle has rolled s = 15 m down the ramp just before hitting the stop at B. Neglect all friction
and treat the vehicle and the flatcar as particles.

Figure 4
Question 5

Each of the two drums and connected hubs of 250mm radius has a mass of 100kg and has a radius of
gyration about its centre of 375mm. Calculate the angular acceleration of each drum. Friction in each
bearing is negligible.

Figure 5
Question 6

The 25kg bar BD is attached to the two light links AB and CD and moves in the vertical plane. The lower
link is subjected to a clockwise torque of 200Nm applied through its shaft at A. If each link has an
angular velocity of 5rad/s as it passes the horizontal position, calculate the force which the upper link
exerts on the bar at D at this instant. Also find the angular acceleration of the links at this position.

Figure 6
Question 7

Four masses are attached to a shaft at planes A, B, C and D at equal radii. The distance of the planes
B, C and D from A are 40 cm, 50 cm and 120 cm respectively. The masses at A, B and C are 60kg, 45 kg
and 70 kg respectively. If the system is in complete balance, determine the mass at D and the position
of masses B, C and D with respect to A.