QUESTIONS

COMPOUND PENDULUM
1. What is the difference between a simple and a compound pendulum?
2. What is center of percussion?
3. How the center of gravity of an object is found using knife edge and 2 weighing scales?
4. What is the measure of inertia when an object is undergoing translation and when it is
undergoing rotation?
5. Why the angular displacement of a pendulum should be small to have simple harmonic
motion?
6. What are dynamically equivalent systems?
7. Find the dynamically equivalent systems of a connecting rod you have used?
8. Why the standard deviation is divided by root of n?
9. Model the inertia of the connecting rod with a single mass at a distance from rotational
center?

FREE VIBRATION WITH AND WITHOUT DAMPING

1. Draw the lumped parameter model of the free vibration apparatus.
2. Describe mechanical Vibration from energy point of view
3. What is damping? What are the sources of damping in free and forced vibration
apparatus?
4. How the mass is supported in free and forced vibration apparatus?
5. How the oscillation of mass is measured?
6. What is eddy current damping?
7. How the natural frequency of a spring and mass system can be increased?
8. What is the principle of operation of laser displacement sensor?
9. Why air bearing is used in free vibration apparatus instead of conventional bearings?
10. How the switchable magnet works?

ROTARY BALANCING
1. What is static unbalance?
2. What is dynamic unbalance?
3. Show the reactions on the bearings that support a rotor that has (a) static unbalance (b)
dynamic balance
4. What is residual unbalance?
5. What is the difference between reciprocating and rotating unbalance?
6. What is the unit of unbalance?
7. How static unbalance of rotating system is measured?
8. Why unbalancing of rotors operating at high speed is critical than those operating in low
speeds?
9. Is it possible to find out the location of the mass and its value separately by experiment ?
10. Show couple is a free vector using dynamic balancing experiment
11. What is the industrial standard of Balancing?
12. What is flexible rotor and rigid rotor balancing?
GYROSCOPE
1. What is Gyroscopic Effect?
2. How to find out direction of gyroscopic couple?
3. How to represent angular velocity as vector?
4. Is angular displacement a vector? Explain
5. How moment of inertia at rotor is measured? Derive the equation.
6. What is the type of motor used in gyroscope?
7. What are the safety interlocks provided in gyroscopic couple?
8. What is the principle of stroboscope?
9. Explain the three industrial uses of Gyroscopes?
10. What is the resolution of Gyroscopes used in Apollo mission?
11. What type of gyroscopes are used in smartphones?
12. How GPS systems can be used as gyroscopes?

TORSIONAL VIBRATION
1. How the natural frequency of torsional vibration system can be calculated?
2. How the rotation and oscillation of rotor is sensed?
3. Why do we get saw tooth wave form when the rotor is rotating?
4. Explain the principle of measuring the stiffness of a shaft
5. How the angular acceleration is measured?
6. How torsional oscillations affect generators and turbines?
7. Explain the working of potentiometer circuit.

ACCELERATION OF A GEARED SYSTEM

1. What is the reflected / equivalent inertia of a geared system?
2. Write the equation for calculating reflected / equivalent inertia of geared system?
3. When the first gear reduction of 1:40 is engaged in automobile
a) What is the magnitude of reflected inertia of vehicle on engine crank shaft?
b) What is inertia of engine on drive axle of vehicle?
4. How moment of inertia of a flywheel fitted with a bearing is measured?
5. Derive the equivalent inertia of geared systems using energy approach.
6. Why is it difficult to push the vehicle when gear is engaged?