1. Consider an airplane wing with a fuel pod mounted at its tip as illustrated in the following figure.

The pod has a mass of 10 kg when it is empty and 1000 kg when it is full. Calculate the change in
the natural frequency of vibration of the wing as the airplane uses up the fuel in the wing pod.
The estimated physical parameters of the beam are I = 5.2*10-5 m4, E = 6.9*109 N/m2, and l = 2
m

104.40 rad/s

2. Consider the spring–mass arrangement of the following figure and calculate the equivalent spring
stiffness.

k = k1 + k2 + k5 + (1/(1/k3+1/k4))

3. The free response of the damped single-degree-of-freedom system with a mass of 2 kg is

recorded. A static deflection test is performed and the stiffness is determined to be 1.5*103 N/m.
The displacements at t1 and t2 are measured to be 9 and 1 mm, respectively. Calculate the damping
coefficient.

36.15 kg/s

4. Consider designing a helical spring such that when attached to a 10 kg mass, the resulting
spring–mass system has a natural frequency of 10 rad/s (about 1.6 Hz). It is assumed that steel of
1-cm diameter is available. The shear modulus of steel is about 8.0*1010 N/m2. If the coil radius is
chosen to be 10 cm, how many turns are needed?

Approximately 13 turns