Solutions to FE Exam “Dynamics” Review Problems;

Problems are Online at McGraw-Hill Website

Prepared by
Stephen F. Felszeghy
CSULA Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Start the web page for the book: Beer and Johnston, Vector Mechanics for Engineers, Statics and Dynamics,
Ninth Edition, 2010, at: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073529400/information_center_view0/ .

Look for the “Online Learning Center” box on the left. Click on the “Student Edition” link. Select a chapter from
the pull-down menu. My solutions, which you will find below, are for the online problems that are associated with
the following chapters and topics:

Chpt. 11: Kinematics of Particles

Chpt. 12: Kinetics of Particles: Newton's Second Law
Chpt. 13: Kinetics of Particles: Energy and Momentum Methods
Chpt. 14: Systems of Particles
Chpt. 15: Kinematics of Rigid Bodies

Chpt. 16: Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Forces and Accelerations

Chpt. 17: Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Energy and Momentum Methods
Chpt. 19: Mechanical Vibrations

Click on “FE Exam Review.”

Solve the problem, and select the answer from the multiple choices at the bottom. Click on the right-arrow to
continue to the next problem. This process ends when you click on the right-arrow for the third time. To try to
solve other problems from the same chapter, you will need to exit by clicking on, say, >Chapter XX> at the top,
and restart “FE Exam Review.” Now you will be presented with all new, or a mixture of old and new, problems.
After repeated trials, no new problems will appear.

As I mentioned in class, some of the online problem statements have errors in them, and some solutions and
answers are wrong. For this reason, I have prepared a separate document that lists the errors and corrections.
You can access this document at:
http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/default/files/users/u28426/felszeghy/fe_exam_review_rev3.pdf .
Although I shared the errors and corrections with McGraw-Hill, the company has not made any corrections on its
Website.

The online problems are not numbered, except for being associated with chapter numbers. For this reason, I
downloaded the online problems in no particular order, and numbered them consecutively in a decimal format,
XX.X, where XX refers to the chapter number, and X stands for the sequence number. All the online problems
numbered this way are included in the above “FE_Exam_Review_rev3.pdf” document under the heading: “Part 1,
FE Exam Review, Online Problems and Solutions.”

My own solutions, which you will find below, follow the problem numbering scheme I established above. I include
sketches in my solutions to allow you to identify the problems to which my solutions apply without necessarily
having to refer to Part 1 of the above “FE_Exam_Review_rev3.pdf” document.

I wish you all the best on your computer-based FE exam!

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iln= - 7'f3 rc'L
-r

q= O.OZ Co (atn!)
* = o,oz cun C sin (a4 4)
Ant.
lrl^* = o.cL dn -- C. )s t ? +
19.4
hbo,r. f,'g
^re
dn= Z- t = O.9?5s
Anr ,

Y -7
19.5
Fgaru oh *of of Feg" @
f = 0.O3o ce? (u, t)
i = - O.O3 6<)2 si'm C^n t)
An s-
l*l^^* = Qp3 uh = /.316 4s #
19.6 A = - o,o3 u; caz (atrt)
Ant
l*l^*: O-oTarno = 4 n/s- <_