ASVAB Practice Test 1 Mechanical Comprehension

A compound pulley is set up with a mechanical advantage of 3. A mover could use it to reduce the amount of effort needed to move a load of 120 newtons with a force of:

What is the power of an electronic that can perform 3,500 joules of work in 5 seconds?

The fulcrum of a lever is:

A man has difficulty carrying a box of his things to his car, so he slides it across the pavement. What force will be acting as a resistance?

Which of the following is not a simple machine?

A baseball player does 1234 Joules of work when hitting a baseball into left field. Assuming the baseball landed 100 meters away from home plate, how much force did the player use to hit the ball?

A fixed pulley system will take a load that takes 90 newtons of force to move and reduce it to:

A lever with an effort arm of 15 feet and a load arm of 5 feet would have a mechanical advantage of:

A bottle opener is an example of:

Two gears are connected as part of a series. If the first gear has 60 teeth and the second gear has 12 teeth, what is the rotation ratio of the first gear to the second gear?

A school wants to build a wheelchair ramp that would reduce the effort needed to travel up it by half. If the staircase is 3 feet high, how far will the ramp need to extend outwards?

Andrew kicked a soccer ball and exerted 200 newtons of force. If he did 1000 joules of work, how far did he kick the soccer ball?

It took 20 newtons to push a pile of bricks along the floor a distance of 5 meters. How much work was done?

A force acting on a stationary object is moving west, and another force acting on the stationary object is moving east. These forces are considered:

Julian did 80 joules of work when he threw a softball for 4 meters. How much force did he exert when he threw the baseball?

What is the power of a food processor that can perform 3,750 joules of work in 15 seconds?