GATE Engineering Mechanics: Impulse and momentum, energy formulations – Previous Year Questions

3 GATE previous year questions on Impulse and momentum, energy formulations (Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

1. GATE 2022 ME (ME1) Q31 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – The plane of the figure represents a horizontal plane. A thin rigid rod at rest is pivoted without friction about a fixed vertical axis passing…
2. GATE 2023 ME Q37 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A spherical ball weighing 2 kg is dropped from a height of 4.9 m onto an immovable rigid block as shown in the figure. If the collision is perfectly…
3. GATE 2024 ME Q24 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A ram in the form of a rectangular body of size l = 9 m and b = 2 m is suspended by two parallel ropes of lengths 7 m. Assume the center-of-mass of…