PANGASINAN STATE UNIVERSITY
URDANETA CITY CAMPUS
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025, FIRST SEMESTER
Submitted by: Submitted to:
Your Complete Name Engr. Miguel Albert D. Calizar
2 PROBLEM SETS BS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERS
PLANE GEOMETRY
EXERCISES:
1. Given a circle whose diameter AB equals 2m. If two points C and D lie on the circle
and angles ABC and BAD are 18 degrees and 36 degrees, respectively, find the
length of the major arc CD.
2. Find the sum of the interior angles of the vertices of a five-pointed star inscribed
in a circle.
3. In triangle ABC, angle A = 45 degrees and C = 70 degrees. The side opposite angle
C is 40m long. What is the length of the side opposite angle A?
4. From a point outside of an equilateral triangle, the distances to the vertices are
10m, 18m, and 10m, respectively. What is the length of one side of a triangle?
5. A square section ABCD has one of its sides equal to x. Point E is inside the square
forming an equilateral triangle BEC having one side equal in length to the side of
the square. Find the angle AED.
6. What is the area in sq. cm. of the circle circumscribed about an equilateral triangle
with a side 10 cm. long?
7. A rectangle ABCD which measures 18cm. by 24cm. is folded once, perpendicular
to diagonal AC, so that the opposite vertices A and C coincide. Find the length of
the field.
8. Find the area of a quadrilateral having sides AB = 10cm, BC = 5cm, and CD =
14.14cm, and DA = 15cm, if the sum of the opposite angles is equal to 225 degrees.
9. A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle whose diameter is 20m. Find the area of
the segments of the circle formed by the sides of the hexagon.
10. In a circle od diameter of 10m, a regular five-pointed star touching its
circumference is inscribed. What is the area of that part not covered by the star?
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3 PROBLEM SETS BS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERS
SOLID GEOMETRY
EXERCISES:
1. A circular piece of cardboard with a diameter of 1 m will be made into a conical
hat 40 cm high by cutting a sector off and joining the edges to form a cone.
Determine the angle subtended by the sector removed.
2. What is the area in sq. m of the zone of a spherical segment having a volume of
1470.265 cu. m if the diameter of the sphere is 30 m?
3. Each side of a cube is increased by 1%. By what percent is the volume of the cube
increased?
4. Find the volume of a cone to be constructed from a sector having a diameter of 72
cm and a central angle of 210°.
5. A conical vessel has a height of 24 cm and a base diameter of 12 cm. It holds water
to a depth of 18 cm above its vertex. Find the volume (in cm 3) of its content.
6. What is the height of a right circular cone having a slant height of √10𝑥 and a base
diameter of 2x?
7. The volume of the frustum of a regular triangular pyramid is 135 cu. m. The lower
base is an equilateral triangle with an edge of 9 m. The upper base is 8 m above
the lower base. What is the upper base edge in meters?
8. What is the volume of a frustum of a cone whose upper base is 15 cm in diameter
and lower base 10 cm. in diameter with an altitude of 25 cm?
9. The bases of a right prism is a hexagon with one of each side equal to 6 cm. The
bases are 12 cm apart. What is the volume of the right prism?
10. A cubical container that measures 2 inches on a side is tightly packed with 8
marbles and is filled with water. All 8 marbles are in contact with the walls of the
container and the adjacent marbles. All of the marbles are of the same size. What
is the volume of water in the container?
PANGASINAN STATE UNIVERSITY REGION’S PREMIER UNIVERSITY OF CHOICE
4 PROBLEM SETS BS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERS
ANALYTIC GEOMETRY
EXERCISES:
1. The linear distance between -4 and 17 on the number line is?
2. If the distance between (3, y) and (8, 7) is 13, then y is equal to?
3. Find the coordinates of a point equidistant from (1, -6), (5, -6), and (6, -1).
4. If (-2, -4) is the midpoint of (6, -7) and (x, y), then the values of x and y are:
5. Determine the coordinates of the point which is three-fifths of the way from the
point (2, -5) to the point (-3, 5).
6. Find the angle formed by the lines 2x + y -8 = 0 and x + 3y + 4 = 0.
7. The two points on the lines 2x + 3y + 4 = 0 which are at a distance 2 from the line
3x + 4y -6 = 0 are:
8. Find the distance between the lines, 3x + y – 12 = 0 and 3x + y - 4 = 0.
9. What is the slope of the line 3x + 2y + 1 =0?
10. A line passes through (1, -3) and (-4, 2). Write the equation of the line in slope-
intercept form.
11. Find the equation of a straight line with a slope of 3 and a y-intercept of 1.
12. The equation of a line that intercepts the x-axis at x = 4 and the y – axis at y = -6 is:
13. The line 2x – 3y + 2 = 0 is perpendicular to another line L1 of unknown equation.
Find the slope of L1.
14. A line through (-5, 2) and (1, -4) is perpendicular to the line through (x, -7) and (8,
7). Find x.
15. Find the equation of the line through point (3, 1) and is perpendicular to the line x
+5y +5 = 0.
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