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A train 552 m long is moving on a straight track with a speed of 88.5 km/h. The engineer applies the brakes at a crossing, and later the last car passes the crossing with a speed of 13.7 km/h.
The hypothetical velocity distribution in a horizontal, rectangular open channel is V=0.3y (m/s), where V is the velocity at a distance y (m) from the bottom of the channel.
The scale of a spring balance reading from 0 to 235 N has a length of 13.0 cm. A fish hanging from the bottom of the spring oscillates. A fish hanging from the bottom of the spring oscillates vertical
What length of contracted rectangular weir 1.0m high should be placed at the middle of the canal to make the depth of water upstream 1.50m?
Compute the maximum acceptable service load on an A36 steel plate tension member 1/4in.x12in. having a single line of holes parallel to the direction of loading.
Compute the maximum acceptable tensile load Pu, on an angle L6x4x3/4 when connected to both legs. The 4 in. leg contains a single gage line of 7/8in. diameter bolts, and the 6in. leg contains a double
A gate of 10 ft width and 5 ft long is hinged at point A and held in place by 12 ft long brace as shown in fig. As the bottom of the brace is moved to the right, the water level remains at the top of
A college student borrows $1500 during his senior year. The loan is to be repaid in 20 equal quarterly installments. The interest rate is 5% per year with the first payment to be made 3 years after th
Determine the collimation error, e, present in the instrument.Calculate the uniform slope of line AC in the form 1 in N.
The long-term average January precipitation in the Colorado River basin is 1.11 inches, with a standard deviation of 0.60 inches. Assuming a normal distribution, what is the probability that less than
Determine the maximum displacement of the plate A if the billet strikes the plate with a speed of 8 . Neglect the mass of the springs, rollers and the plates A and B. Take = 4000 , = 40000.
You are working as a project analyst for the local gas utility, and you have been placed on a project to install an 11,000 foot segment of gas transmission line.
A railroad car that weighs 20,000lb is traveling eastward with a velocity whose magnitude is 5 fps. A second car, on the same track, that weighs 40,000lb is also traveling in an easterly direction wit
The most famous geyser in the world, Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, has a mean time between eruptions of 85 minutes. If the interval of time between eruptions is normally distributed with
You are studying a 3-km stretch of stream that is about 35 m wide. A gaging station on the stream provides you with an estimate that the average flow rate during your srudy was 3 cubic meter
Somewhere in the Alps, a mountain lake discharges into a 8-m wide stream with boulders across the bottom and gravel along its sides, thus having a Manning coefficient n = 0.041.
The White River in Vermont (USA) has a rectangular channel cross-section with a Manning coefficient is n = 0.040 and the downstream bed slope is S = 5.0 × 10-5. In the summer, the width of the r
An aluminium wire and a steel wire, each of length 2.0m are hung from the ceiling. A 5.0kg mass is suspended from the lower end of each wire. The aluminium wire has a radius of 1.1mm.
A simple curve has a central angle of 42degreess. A point Y is located 24m from the vertex and has a perpendicular distance of 3.00m from the back tangent.
A timber beam 6 in. wide by 12 in. deep is loaded and supported as shown below. The modulus of elasticity of the timber is 1200 ksi. A pointer is attached to the right end of the beam.
The maximum eight-hour average concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) in an urban area is measured to be 15 ppm. The NAAQS is 9 ppmv (equivalent to 10.3 mg/m3 estimated at P = 1 atm and T = 298.25 °K).
The J-shaped member shown in the figure is supported by a cable DE and a single journal bearing with a square shaft at A. Determine the reaction forces and at support A required to keep the system in
Simply supported beam (L1+L2) m long carries a point load (Gk = A kN, Qk = B kN) at mid-span and its self-weight with fire protection casing gk = g kN/m, and variable action qk = q kN/m as shown.
Shown in the figure are a mast and a portion of the rigging of a schooner. Members CD and EF lie in the same plane. Member CD is of length 7.5 m and forms an angle of 45º with a vertic