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Conceptual Assessment
1. Consider a spinning motor with a mass attached to the rotor. You got the motor to spin up
to a constant speed using a power supply, then you removed the power. If the quantity of
interest is ω, the motor speed in rad/s, what is the order of this system?
A. First order
B. Second order
C. Third order
D. Fourth order
2. Which of the followig graphs best represents the time response of the motor, ω(t) versus t
from the instant you cut the power to the motor?
A.
10
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B.
10
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
C.
10
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
D.
10
−2
−4
−6
−8
−10
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
3. Which of the following elements would be present in the dynamic equation for ω? (Choose
all that apply)
A. Stiffness
B. Inertia
C. Damping
D. Heat
4. Which of the following is the most important factor which causes ω to decrease following the
cutoff ?
A. Motor inertia
B. Back EMF
C. Bearing friction
D. Air resistance
5. The Back EMF (electromotive force) has
A. a linear
B. an inverse
C. an exponential
D. no
relationship to ω.
6. You make measurements a, b, and c with some amount of uncertainty in each measurement.
If you use these measurements to calculate x = a + b + c and y = abc your percentage error
in x will be,
7. Consider the following. You are powering a spinning motor, and slowly turn down the applied
current until the motor just stops. After the motor stops, you notice that there is still a non-
zero current applied. Which of the following phenomena is this due to?
A. Motor inertia
B. Static Bearing Friction
C. Back EMF
D. Air Resistance
9. Which of the following is the primary reason for the fact that a bifilar pendulum (torsional
pendulum held by two strings) oscillates (i.e. which of the following provides the restorative
force)
A. The output approaches the same fixed value under any initial condition
B. The output oscillates randomly
C. The output increases without bound
D. The output approaches the same fixed value under certain specific initial conditions
13. Which of the following characteristics necessarily implies that a system is inherently unstable?
The following four plots are the choices for the next three questions:
A.
10
−2
−4
−6
−8
−10
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B.
10
−2
−4
−6
−8
−10
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
C.
10
−2
−4
−6
−8
−10
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
D.
10
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
17. What would be the system response to an initial condition x = x0 , f (t) = 0 if the dynamic
system model is mẍ + kx = f (t)?
A.
B.
C.
D.
18. What would the physical effect of the feedback f (t) = −c1 ẋ if the dynamic system model is
mẍ + kx = f (t) and c1 > 0?
A.
B.
C.
D.
A.
B.
C.
D.
20. What type of feedback can potentially stabilize an inverted pendulum with a motor providing
a torque τ at the base?
A. τ = −kθ
B. τ = −k θ̇
C. τ = −k θ̈
R
D. τ = −k θdt
Consider the following system:
21. What is the appropriate Free Body Diagram for the two masses shown above?
A.
B.
C.
D.
22. Consider a harmonic driving force f (t) applied to m1 . In order to excite mode 2, the frequency
of f (t) must be
23. In order to excite mode 2 at some amplitude, the magnitude of the driving force should be:
A. Higher than the magnitude needed to excite mode 1 at the same amplitude.
B. Lower than the magnitude needed to excite mode 1 at the same amplitude.
C. Equal to the magnitude needed to excite mode 1 at the same amplitude.
D. Any magnitude will excite mode 2 at the same amplitude as mode 1
24. How many modes of vibration are possible for the above system?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
25. What will be the effect on the observed modal frequencies if damping is introduced?
A. Increased
B. Decreased
C. No change
D. One will increase and the other will decrease