PHYSICS TUTORIAL

MACHINE
EXPENSIVE PROPHET GURU (08056974422)
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1. A plane at an angle 30 to the horizontal has an efficiency of
50%. The force parallel to the plane required to push a load of 9. The velocity ratio of an inclined plane, inclined at an angle 
120 N uniformly up the plane is to the horizontal can be expressed as
A. (sin )
1
A. 40 3 N
B. 60 N B. sin 
C. 120 N C. (cos ) 1
D. 200N
D. s cos 
2. Which of the simple machines is the effort applied between
10. A block and tackle system has six pulleys. A force of 50 N is
the load and the fulcrum?
applied to it to lift a load of weight W. If the efficiency of the
A. Scissors
system is 40%, calculate W.
B. Pliers
A. 300 N
C. Wheel barrow
B. 200 N
D. Sugar tong
C. 140 N
D. 120 N
3. A body of mass 7.5 kg is to be pulled up along a plane which
is inclined at 300 to the horizontal. If the efficiency of the
11. Which of the following equations for the efficiency of a
plane is 74%, what is the minimum force required to pull the
machine is correct?
body up the plane? Velocity Ratio
A. 5.0 N A. Efficiency   100 %
Mechanical Advantage
B. 20.0 N
C. 50.0 N B. Input
Efficiency   100 %
D. 75.0 N Output
Load distance
4. A machine has an efficiency of 60%. If the machine is C. Efficiency   100 %
Effort distance
required to overcome a load of 30 N with a force of 20 N, Mechanical Advantage
calculate its mechanical advantage. D. Efficiency   100 %
Velocity Ratio
A. 0.7
B. 0.9 12. A machine of efficiency 80% is used to lift a box. If the effort
C. 1.5 applied by the machine is twice the weight of the box,
D. 2.5 calculate the velocity ratio of the machine.
A. 0.50
5. The velocity ratio and efficiency of a system of pulleys are 6 B. 0.63
and 80% respectively. How much effort is required to lift a C. 0.80
load of mass 120 kg with this system? D. 1.60
A. 25 N
B. 90 N 13. The velocity of an inclined plane
C. 96 N A. increases with increase in the angle of inclination
D. 250 N B. increases with decrease in the angle of inclination
C. decreases with decrease in the angle of inclination
6. Two spanners X and Y of lengths 15cm and 20 cm D. is independent of the angle of inclination
respectively are used in turn to give a screw of pitch 2mm one
complete rotation. If Rx and Ry are the respective velocity 14. A machine is said to be a third class lever when the
ratios of the spanners then the ratio Rx : Ry is A. load is between the fulcrum and effort
A. 1 : 50 B. fulcrum is between the effort and load
B. 3 : 20 C. effort is between the fulcrum and load
C. 4: 3 D. fulcrum is directly below the load
D. 3 : 4
15. Which of the following statements correctly defines a simple
7. Which of the simple machine is a second class lever? machine? A device
A. Wheel barrow A. that can produce electric current
B. Crowbar B. which can only carry people from one place to another
C. Claw hammer C. with which work can be done easily
D. Seesaw D. which changes the state of rest or of uniform motion of
8. A wheel and axle of radii 800 mm and 200 mm respectively is an object
used to raise a body of weight 800 N by application of 250 N .
Calculate the efficiency of the machine. 16. The radius of a wheel is 30.0 cm and that of its axle is 6.0 cm.
A. 85% Calculate the effort required to lift a load of 120.0 N using this
B. 80% machine, assuming 100% efficiency.
C. 60% A. 600.0 N
D. 20% B. 40.0 N
 C. 24.0 N A. sin 
D. 20.0 N
1
B.
17. A machine of efficiency 80% is used to raise a body of mass sin 
75 kg through a vertical height of 3m in 30s. Calculate the C. cos 
2
power input. ( Take g  10ms ) 1
A. 9.4 W D.
cos
B. 60.0 W
C. 75.0 W 25. Which of the following does not apply to lever principles?
D. 93.8 W A. Claw hammer
B. Wheel barrow
18. A simple machine with an efficiency of 75% lifts a load of C. Single moving pulley
5000 N when a force of 500 N is applied to it. Calculate the D. Sugar tong
velocity ratio of the machine. E. Nutcracker
A. 10.0
B. 13.3 26. A machine needs 1500J of work to raise a load of 900N
C. 17.5 through a vertical height of 1.5m. Calculate its efficiency.
D. 25.0 A. 50%
B. 60%
19. A screw jack with a tommy bar of length 12 cm is used to C. 90%
raise a car through a vertical height of 25 cm by turning the D. 30%
tommy bar through 50 revolutions. Calculate the approximate
velocity ratio of the jack? (   3.14 ) 27. The pitch of a screw jack 0.45 cm and the arm is 60 cm long.
A. 21 75
B. 38 If the efficiency of the jack is % , calculate the mechanical
C. 48 
D. 151 advantage.
A. 400
20. A machine of velocity ratio 5 is used in lifting a load with an B. 300
effort of 500 N . If the machine is 80% efficient, determine the C. 200
magnitude of the load. D. 150
A. 2500 N
B. 2000 N 28. A 90kg box is raised up a perfect plane inclined at angle 30 0
C. 900 N with the horizontal. If the vertical height of the plane is 5m,
D. 625 N the mechanical advantage of the machine is
A. 60.0
21. When a bicycle is being ridden uphill, its mechanical advantage B. 45.0
is C. 5.0
A. greater than 1 D. 0.5
B. less than 1
C. equal to 1 29. A screw jack has five threads per cm. if its handle is 20 cm
D. equal to its V.R long, what is the velocity ratio of the jack?
A. 1000
22. Lubricant used in machines to reduce friction B. 200
A. decreases mechanical advantage C. 40
B. increases mechanical advantage D. 8
C. increases velocity ratio
D. decreases velocity ratio

30. If a machine needs 1500J of work to raise a load of 900N

through a vertical height of 1.2m, calculate its efficiency.
A. 90%
23. Which of the following statements defines correctly the B. 72%
efficiency of a machine? C. 60%
A. The load carried by the machine divided by the effort D. 36%
required in carrying the load
B. The distance moved by the load divided by the distance
moved by the effort
C. The useful work done by the machine divided by the 31. A plank inclined at 300 to the horizontal is used to load a
total work put into it truck. What is the velocity ratio of the system?
D. The movement of the load divided by the movement of A. 1.73
the effort about the point B. 0.50
E. The temperature at the end of the application of the C. 2.00
machine divided by the initial temperature D. 0.87

24. An inclined plane of angle  , acting as a simple machine, 32. Example of a second order lever are
has a velocity ratio A. crowbar and wheelbarrow
 B. a pair of forceps and crowbar 41. An inclined plane makes angle 300 with the horizontal. What
C. common tin cutter and a pair of forceps is its velocity ratio?
D. wheelbarrow and bottle opener A. 2
B. 1
33. A machine that is 80% efficient requires a work input of 1.2kJ C. 0.866
to raise a 64kg block through a vertical distance Y. Determine D. 0.5
the value of Y.
A. 0.015 42. A block and tackle system of 4 pulleys is used to raise a load
B. 0.150 of 600N through a height of 12 m. What is the velocity ratio
C. 1.500 of the machine?
D. 15.000 A. 4
[g = 10 ms-2] B. 3
C. 5
34. It is more convenient to use a lever when the D. 2
A. effort is closer to the fulcrum than the load
B. load and the effort are at the same distance from the 43. A machine whose velocity ratio is 5 and efficiency 60% is
fulcrum used to raise a load of 120N through a vertical height of 2
C. effort is almost at the fulcrum metres. Calculate the work supplied to the machine.
D. load is closer to the fulcrum than the effort A. 400 J
B. 240 J
35. A machine is 75% efficient and velocity ratio is 4. If an effort C. 200 J
of 10N is applied to the machine, calculate the heaviest load it D. 144 J
can lift.
44. A wheel and axle is used to raise a bucket full of water. If the
A. 30 N diameter of the wheel is 0.30 m and the diameter of the axle is
B. 40 N 0.03 m. Calculate the velocity ratio of the machine.
C. 75 N A. 0.1
D. 750 N B. 1.0
C. 5.0
36. A machine of efficiency 80% is used to lift a load of 150N D. 10.0
through a vertical height of 4m. Calculate the work supplied
to the machine. 45. A block and tackle of 5 pulleys which is used to raise a load
A. 300 J of 800N has an efficiency 80%. Calculate the effort applied to
B. 480 J raise the load.
C. 600 J A. 160 N
D. 750 J B. 200 N
C. 400 N
37. A screw jack has a pitch of 0.5 cm and an arm of length 28 D. 640 N
cm. What is the velocity ratio of the machine?
A. 2.84 × 10-3 46. The minimum number of pulleys required to obtain a
B. 5.68 × 10-3 theoretical mechanical advantage of 6 for maximum
C. 2.64 × 102 efficiency is
D. 3.52 × 102 A. 3
22 B. 4
[  ] C. 5
7
D. 6
38. A machine which has a velocity ratio of 25 raises a load of
825N when a force of 66N is applied. Calculate its efficiency.
47. A machine has a velocity ratio of 5. It requires a 50 kg weight
A. 40%
to overcome a 200 kg weight. What is the efficiency of the
B. 50%
machine?
C. 60%
A. 4%
D. 70%
B. 5%
C. 40%
39. What effort should be exerted to lift a load 450N with a
D. 50%
machine having a velocity ratio of 3 and efficiency of 20%.
E. 80%
A. 750N
48. A plane inclined at an angle of 300 to the horizontal has an
B. 500 N
efficiency of 60%.What parallel force is required to push a
C. 450 N
load of 120N uniformly up the plane?
D. 250 N
A. 60 N
B. 100 N
40. Which of the following is an example of a second class lever?
C. 120 N
A. A bell
D. 200 N
B. A crowbar
E. 240 N
C. A pair of scissors
D. A nut cracker
49. The mechanical advantage (MA) of an inclined plane depends 57. In a wheel and axle mechanism, the diameters of the wheel
on and axle are 40 cm and 8 cm respectively. Given that the
A. its length machine is 80% efficient, what effort is required to lift a load
B. its height of 100N?
C. product of its length and height A. 20 N
D. the ratio of its length to its height B. 25 N
C. 50 N
50. A 20 – toothed gear wheel drives a 60 – toothed one. If the D. 80 N
angular speed of the smaller wheel is 120 revs-1, what is the
angular speed of the larger wheel? 58. The velocity ratio is 5 and its efficiency is 75%. What effort
A. 3 revs-1 would be needed to lift a load of 150N with the machine?
B. 40 revs-1 A. 50 N
C. 360 revs-1 B. 40N
D. 2400 revs-1 C. 30N
D. 20N
51. A block and a tackle system is used to lift a load of 20N
through a vertical height of 10 m. If the efficiency of the 59. The efficiency of a machine is always less than 100% because
system is 40%, how much work is done against friction? the
A. 80 J A. load lifted is always greater than the effort applied
B. 120 J B. effort applied is always greater than the load lifted
C. 300 J C. velocity ratio is always greater than the mechanical
D. 500 J advantage
D. work output is always greater than the work input
52. A wheel and axle has radii 80 cm and 10 cm respectively. If
the efficiency of the machine is 0,85, what load will be raised 60. A wheel and axle is used to raise a load of 500N by the
by an applied force of 1200N? application of an effort of 250N. If the radii of the wheel and
A. 8.0 N the axle are 0.4 cm and 0.1 cm respectively, what is the
B. 6.8 N efficiency of the machine?
C. 8160 N A. 60 %
D. 9600.0 N B. 50%
C. 40%
53. A 20 kg mass is to be pulled up a slope inclined at 300 to the D. 20%
horizontal. If the efficiency of the plane is 75%, what force is
required to pull the load up the plane? 61. A machine whose efficiency is 60% has a velocity ratio of 5.
A. 13.3N If a force of 500N is applied to lift a load P, what is the
B. 73.5N magnitude of P?
C. 133.3N A. 1500J
D. 533.2N B. 162J
C. 81J
54. A machine requires 1000J of work to raise a load of 500N D. 72J
through a vertical distance of 1.5 m. Calculate the efficiency
of the machine.
A. 80%
B. 75% 62. In an ideal wheel and axle system, R stands for the radius of
C. 50% the wheel and r is the radius of the axle. The mechanical
D. 33% advantage is
R
55. A plane inclined at an angle θ has a velocity ratio 10:1. The A.
r
inclination of the plane to the horizontal is given by 2
1 r
A. tan   B.  
10  R
1 R
B. cot   C.
10 r
1 2
C. cos   R
10 D.  
r
1
D. sin   63.
10 I. Work done on load is always less than the work done by
effort
56. Calculate the velocity ratio of a screw jack of pitch 0.3 cm, if II. All machine are made of levers, pulleys, screws and gear
the length of the tommy bar is 21 cm. wheels
1 III. A fishing rod is a machine
A.
140 IV. Effort is always larger than load
B. 14 Which of the statements above about machines are true?
C. 70 A. II and III
D. 140 B. I and II
C. III and IV
 D. I and III

64. A machine has a velocity ratio of 4. If it requires 800N to

overcome a load of 1600N, what is the efficiency of the
machine?
A. 2%
B. 40%
C. 60%
D. 50%

65. A particle of weight 120N is placed on a plane inclined at an

angle 300 to the horizontal. If the plane has an efficiency of
60%, what is the force required to push the weight uniformly
up the plane?
A. 175 N
B. 50 N
C. 210 N
D. 100 N

66. If a heavy barrel is rolled up a plane inclined at 300 to the

vertical, what is its velocity ratio?
A. 3.0
B. 3.1
C. 3.2
D. 2.0

67. A machine is used to lift a load of 20N through a height of 10

m. If the efficiency of the machine is 40%, how much work is
done by effort?
A. 300 J
B. 120 J
C. 80 J
D. 500 J

68. A block and tackle is used to raise a load of 250N through a

vertical distance of 30m. What is the efficiency of the system,
if the work done against friction is 1500 J?
A. 62.5%
B. 73.3%
C. 83.3%
D. 94.3%

ANSWER
1.D 2. D 3. C 4. C 5. D 6. D 7. A 8. B 9. A 10. D 11. D 12.
B 13. B 14. C 15. C 16. C 17. A 18. A 19. D 20. B
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. B 25. C 26. C 27. C 28. D 29. B 30. B
31. C 32. D 33. C 34. D 35. A 36. D 37. C 38. B 39. A 40. D
41. A 42. A 43. A 44. D 45. B 46. D 47. E 48. B 49. D 50. B
51. C 52. C 53. C 54. B 55. D 56. D 57. B 58. B 59. C 60. B
61. A 62. A 63. D 64. D 65. D 66. D 67. D 68. C