Leaving Certificate Examination 1953 Honours Applied Mathematics
Question 1
The ends of a light inextensible string feet long are attached to two pegs which are
feet apart and in the same horizontal line. A mass of
lb. is suspended from the string at a point which is
feet from one peg and
feet from the other. Find the tension in each part of the string.
Question 2
A block weighing lb. can just rest without slipping on a rough plane when the plane is inclined at an angle of
to the horizontal. Find
(a) the magnitude of the least force in the horizontal direction,
(b) the magnitude and direction of the least force, that will keep the block from slipping when the plane is inclined at an angle of to the horizontal.
Question 3
An engine weighing tons is pulling a train of weight
tons down an incline of
in
. The speed of the train is
m.p.h. and it is accelerating at the rate of
ft. per sec
. If the frictional resistances to motion are equivalent to
lb. wt. per ton, find the horse-power at which the engine is working.
Question 4
A pile driver of mass cwt. falls freely from rest through a distance of
feet and strikes a pile of mass
cwt. The pile driver and the pile move together as a single body after the impact and the pile is driven
inches into the ground. Find the average resistance of the ground, in tons weight.
Question 5
What is meant by the velocity of one body relative to another? Explain with the aid of a diagram how the velocity of relative to
may be found if the velocities of
and
are known.
To a person on a ship travelling due East at m.p.h., another ship two miles due South appears to be travelling at
m.p.h. in a direction
West of North. Find the velocity of the second ship in magnitude and direction.
What is the distance between the ships when they are nearest to each other?
Question 6
If if the greatest height reached by a projectile, prove that
where is the initial velocity,
the angle of projection, and
the total time of flight.
Two vertical posts, each of height feet, stand
feet apart on a horizontal plane. A particle is projected from a point on the plane at an angle of
with the horizontal, and just clears the top of each post. If
is the greatest height reached by the particle, and v
v^2=\frac{5}{2}gl
x=a \sin \omega t – b \cos \omega t.
Show that the motion is Simple Harmonic, and find an expression for (i) the amplitude, (ii) the maximum velocity.
Find also an expression for the least time taken by the particle to travel a distance from its mean position.
Question 9
A triangular lamina is immersed in a vertical position in water with its vertex
at the surface and its base
parallel to the surface. The base is
inches in length, and the height of the triangle is
inches. Find the total thrust of the water on
.
,
are two points on
,
respectively such that the straight line
is horizontal. If the thrust on
is one-eight of the thrust on
, find the depth of
below the surface.
[One cubic foot of water weight lb.]
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State Examinations Commission (2018). State Examination Commission. Accessed at: https://www.examinations.ie/?l=en&mc=au&sc=ru
Malone, D and Murray, H. (2016). Archive of Maths State Exams Papers. Accessed at: http://archive.maths.nuim.ie/staff/dmalone/StateExamPapers/
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