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1. Which of the following is the least
efficient?
a. Gasoline engine
b. Gas engine
c. Carnot Engine
d. Diesel Engine

2. What refers to the product of the selling
price per unit and the number of units
sold?
a. Overall sales
b. Total revenue
c. Product-sales performance
d. Total profit

3. What type of point defect when there is
a vacant lattice site with the missing
atom relocated to an interstitial point
where no atom should be?
a. Schottky defect
b. Frenkel defect
c. Vacancy defect
d. Interstitial impurity defect

4. A sample of gas occupies a volume of
50.0 ml at 25C at 1 atm pressure. If the
pressure remains unchanged, what will
be the new volume at 0C?
a. 44.3 mL
b. 45.8 mL
c. 46.7 mL
d. 54.7 mL

5. A man has a concave shaving mirror
whose focal length is 20 in. How far
should the mirror be held from his face
in order to give an image of twofold
magnification?
a. 12 in
b. 10 in
c. 8 in
d. 14 in

6. What refers to the quantity of visible
radiation passing per unit time?
a. Lumen
b. Foot-candle
c. Luminous Flux
d. Luminance

7. The willingness of an atom to receive
electrons is measured by its ____.
a. electronegativity
b. electropositivity
c. transmutation
d. electron affinity

8. Which thermodynamic property best
describes the molecular activity of a
substance?
a. External energy
b. Internal energy
c. Enthalpy
d. Entropy

9. What is the length of a parabolic cable
which has a span of 100 m and a sag of
2 m?
a. 100.28 m
b. 100.08 m
c. 100.21 m
d. 100.16 m

10. How much distilled water must be added
to a 200 mL flask to obtain a 200 mL of
0.200 M KCl from 0.800 M KCl?
a. 130 mL
b. 120 mL
c. 150 mL
d. 140 mL

11. Determine the exact simple interest on
P 5,000 invested for the period from
J anuary 15, 1990 to October 12, 1990, if
the rate of interest is 18%.
a. P 664.21
b. P 666.21
c. P 663.75
d. P 665.75

12. How much heat is needed to melt 5 kg
of ice at 0C?
a. 1,656 KJ
b. 1,722 KJ
c. 1,566 KJ
d. 1,823 KJ

13. Light passes at an angle of incidence of
30 from glass into the air. What is the
angle of refraction if the index of
refraction of glass is 1.50?
a. 49
b. 47
c. 51
d. 53
14. Which of the following is NOT true about
non-metals?
a. Non-metals form positive ions
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b. Non-metals have high electron
affinities
c. Non-metals have negative oxidation
number
d. Non-metals are oxidizing agents

15. What style of leadership is used when
the leader observes the group and
allows them to get on with the job as
they see fit, bus acts as an adviser and
is available when help is needed?
a. Consultative leadership
b. Democratic leadership
c. Abdictatorial leadership
d. Laissez-faire leadership

16. Light from a sodium lamp when passed
through 6000 prism has a minimum
angle of deviation of 5120. What is the
index of refraction of the glass?
a. 1.677
b. 1.652
c. 1.666
d. 1.649

17. What refers to the elastic energy stored
up in a cubic inch of material at the
elastic limit?
a. Modulus of resilience
b. Ultimate resilience
c. Unit volumetric strain
d. Unit rupture work

18. Silicon is the most commonly used
semiconductor material. What is the
electron affinity of silicon?
a. 4.03
b. 4.00
c. 4.05
d. 4.07

19. The wall thickness of a 3-ft diameter
spherical tank is 4/17 inches. Calculate
the allowable internal pressure if the
stress is limited to 9000 psi.
a. 178.44 psi
b. 180.92 psi
c. 176.47 psi
d. 182.66 psi

20. A standard 48-canlde lamp placed 36 in
from the screen of a photometer
produces the same illumination as a
lamp of unknown intensity located 45 in
away. What is the luminous intensity of
the water lamp?
a. 70 candles
b. 75 candles
c. 65 candles
d. 80 candles

21. When is the effectivity of RA No. 9292?
a. May 24, 2004
b. May 25, 2004
c. May 26, 2004
d. May 27, 2004

22. What type of contract does not need a
consideration?
a. Specialty contract
b. Simple contract
c. Obligation contract
d. Verbal contract

23. What material is used for
electroluminescent diodes which can
emit either green or red light?
a. Gallium arsenide
b. Silicon carbide
c. Gallium-phosphide
d. Selenium

24. A container holds three gases; oxygen,
carbon dioxide and helium. The partial
pressures of the three gases are 2.00
atm, 3.00 atm, and 4.00 atm,
respectively. Using the equation of
Daltons law of partial pressures, what is
the total pressure inside the container?
a. 4.5 atm
b. 9 atm
c. 24 atm
d. 4 atm

25. A ball is projected at such an angle that
the horizontal range is three times the
maximum height. Find the angle of
projection.
a. 53.13
b. 54.67
c. 52.90
d. 55.21

26. Elements at the center of the periodic
table are known as ____ metals.
a. earth
b. transition
c. alkali
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d. heavy

27. The rate of change of stress with
respect to strain is known as the ____ of
the material.
a. specific modulus
b. tangent modulus
c. modulus of toughness
d. modulus of resilience

28. What is the reason why a given orbital
can hold only 2 electrons?
a. Pauli exclusion principle
b. Hunds rule
c. Aufbau principle
d. deBroglies principle

29. The second law of thermodynamics
statement which states that No device
can transfer heat from a cooler body to
a warmer one without leaving an effect
on the surroundings. is a _____
statement.
a. Kelvin
b. Claussius
c. Kelvin-Planck
d. Planck

30. What is the range of Poissons ratio of
most metals?
a. 0.25 to 0.35
b. 0.35 to 0.45
c. 0.15 to 0.25
d. 0.45 to 0.55

31. At what height above the surface of the
earth will your weight be half your
weight on the suface of the earth?
a. 5,400 miles
b. 5,500 miles
c. 5,600 miles
d. 5,700 miles

32. A basketball is dropped from a height of
10 m on a horizontal ground. If it
rebounds to a height of 7 m, find the
coefficient of restitution.
a. 0.821
b. 0.836
c. 0.815
d. 0.842

33. A common bar suspended from a
certain support has an axial load of 10
kN. If the bar has a cross-section of 20
mm
2
, find the stress experienced by the
bar in MPa.
a. 5
b. 50
c. 5000
d. 500

34. Factor of safety is the ratio of ____.
a. yield stress to working stress
b. ultimate stress to yield stress
c. working stress to yield stress
d. yield stress to ultimate stress

35. What is the power of a diverging lens
whose focal length is -20 cm?
a. -10 diopters
b. 10 diopters
c. 5 diopters
d. -5 diopters

36. If the oscillatory motion of a body about
an equilibrium point is reduced by
friction, the motion is known as ____.
a. natural or free vibration
b. undamped vibration
c. forced vibration
d. damped vibration

37. At what rate must an elevator accelerate
upward to cause a man weighing 80 kg
to exert a pressure of 1200 N on the
floor?
a. 6.62 m/s
2

b. 5.76 m/s
2

c. 5.19 m/s
2

d. 6.12 m/s
2


38. An opportunity cost is a/an ____.
a. equivalent annual cost for charity
contribution
b. train-in allowance
c. salvage value
d. imaginary cost representing what
will not be received if a particular
strategy is refected

39. When a solid melts,
a. heat leaves the substance
b. heat enters the substance
c. the temperature of the substance
decreases
d. the temperature of the substance
increases
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40. An engineer borrowed P 300,000 from a
lending firm which will be paid after 10
years at an interest rate of 12%
compounded annually. If money is worth
8% per annum, how much should be
deposited to a bank monthly in order to
discharge his debt 10 years hence?
a. P 5,185.33
b. P 5,177.32
c. P 5,163.44
d. P 5,174.23

41. A local firm is establishing a sinking fund
for the purpose of accumulating a
sufficient capital to retire its outstanding
bonds at maturity. The bonds are
redeemable in 10 years and their
maturity value is P 150,000.00. How
much should be deposited each year if
the fund pays interest at the rate of 3%?
a. P 13,084.58
b. P 13,092.33
c. P 13,067.90
d. P 13,073.22

42. Engineering ceramics refers to
a. non-crystalline materials
b. material with plastic properties
c. oxides, nitrides and carbides
d. material with good thermal
conductivities

43. What interest rate compounded daily is
equivalent to 10% effective?
a. 0.0312%
b. 0.0377%
c. 0.0261%
d. 0.0211%

44. Determine the elongation in a spherical
in a helical spring composed of 20 turns
of 20 mm diameter wire on a mean
radius of 90 mm when the spring is
supporting a load of 2.5 kN. Use G =83
GPa.
a. 175 mm
b. 170 mm
c. 160 mm
d. 165 mm

45. In nuclear physics, the unit of absorbed
dose is the ____ which defined as one
joule per kilogram.
a. Curie
b. Bohr
c. Bequerel
d. Gray

46. What is the unit charge of an alpha
particle?
a. +2
b. +1
c. -2
d. -1

47. What type of magnetic behavior has a
large magnetic susceptibility?
a. Antiferromagnetism
b. Diamagnetism
c. Paramagnetism
d. Ferromagnetism

48. Sometimes metals are classified as
refractory. The term refractory means
____.
a. resistant to heat
b. resistant to corrosion
c. can be die-cast
d. easy to machine

49. What is the most important mechanical
property of ceramics which is the
measure of its resistance to crack
propagation?
a. Toughness
b. Creep
c. Plasticity
d. Ductility

50. What is the pressure due to seawater at
a depth of 500 m below the surface of
the ocean? Specific gravity of seawater
=1.025. Density of water =9810 N/m
3
.
a. 4.65 MPa
b. 4.77 MPa
c. 4.89 MPa
d. 5.02 MPa

51. What is another term for modulus of
elasticity in shear?
a. Bulk modulus
b. Coefficient of rigidity
c. Resilience
d. Youngs modulus

52. What refers to the rate of which the
temperature disturbance of one part of a
body is traveled to another part?
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a. Thermal fatigue
b. Thermal shock
c. Thermal spelling
d. Thermal diffusibility

53. An ideal gas performs 550 J of work
while losing 150 calories of heat energy.
What is the change in internal energy of
the system?
a. -1150 J
b. -1160 J
c. -1170 J
d. -1180 J

54. Group VIA in the periodic table are the
____.
a. Carbon family
b. Oxygen family
c. Nitrogen family
d. Halogen family

55. Which of the following is true about the
periodic table?
a. The atomic radii of elements
increase from left to right across a
period
b. Acid-forming properties increase
moving to the right side of the table
c. Nonmetallic properties are greatest
on the right side of the table and
decrease to the left
d. First ionization energies increase
from left to right across a period

56. How much heat is required to change
the temperature of 3.0 moles of
monoatomic ideal gas by 55 K if the
pressure is held constant?
a. 3300 J
b. 3400 J
c. 3500 J
d. 3600 J

57. An artificial expense that spreads the
cost of an asset over some base is
called ____.
a. life-cyle costing
b. depletion
c. amortization
d. book value

58. A pendulum of length 4.0 m is pulled
aside and released. Find the period of
the pendulum on the moon. (g =1.57
m/s
2
)
a. 10 s
b. 8 s
c. 6 s
d. 12 s

59. If a contractor walks off a construction
job, this breach of contract is considered
as ____ breach.
a. willful
b. punitive
c. negligence
d. obligation

60. A lead block of length 0.5 m, width 3.0
m and height of 0.08 m is subjected to a
shearing force of 2.0 x 10
6
N directed
perpendicular to its height. The shear
modulus of lead is S =5.4 x 10
0
N/m
2

a. 3.0 x 10
-4
m
b. 2.0 x 10
-4
m
c. 4.0 x 10
-4
m
d. 5.0 x 10
-4
m

61. A homogeneous ball weighing 80 kg has
a diameter of 120 cm. What is its mass
moment of inertia?
a. 4.910
b. 4.487
c. 4.697
d. 4.228

62. What is the keystone of professional
conduct?
a. Courtesy
b. J ustice
c. Integrity
d. Honesty

63. What mechanical property of a material
refers to the nominal stress at fracture in
a tension test at constant load and
constant temperature?
a. Working stress
b. Ultimate stress
c. Yield stress
d. Stress rapture strength

64. A candle is held 3.0 inch from a concave
mirror whose radius is 24 inches. Where
is the image of the candle located?
a. -6 inches
b. -4 inches
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c. -2 inches
d. -8 inches

65. Two points in an electric field have a
potential difference of 3.0 volts. What
work is required to move a charge of 5.0
coulombs between these points?
a. 15 J
b. 30 J
c. 7.5 J
d. 5/3 J

66. A simple steam engine receives steam
from the boiler at 180C and exhausts
directly into the air at 100C. What is the
upper limit of its efficiency?
a. 17.6 %
b. 16.8 %
c. 18.2 %
d. 19.3 %

67. In project management, what refers to
the time that an activity can be delayed
without delaying both the start of any
succeeding activity and the end of the
project?
a. Free slack
b. Float slack
c. Gap slack
d. Inactive slack

68. What type of load is not resisted by a
pinned joint?
a. Compression
b. Moment
c. Axial
d. Shear

69. A 22.5 mL sample of 5.20 M solution of
nitric acid is diluted to 40.5 mL.
Calculate the molarity of the dilute
solution.
a. 2.66 M
b. 2.51 M
c. 2.78 M
d. 2.89 M

70. In engineering materials, some alloys
are called pH alloys. The term pH
stands for ____.
a. power of hydrogen
b. precipitation hardening
c. physical hardness
d. proprietary hardness
71. Every point on a wave front may be
considered as a new source of
disturbance, sending wavelets in
forward directions. This is known as
____.
a. Huygens principle
b. deBrogiles principle
c. Daltons principle
d. Aufbau principle

72. What is the coefficient of restitution of a
perfectly inelastic collision?
a. 0
b. 1
c. Infinity
d. -1

73. What quantum number defines the
magnitude of the electrons angular
momentum vector?
a. Azimuthal
b. Magnetic
c. Principal
d. Orbital

74. A machine costing P 45,000 is
estimated to have a book value of P
4,350 when retired at the end of 6 years.
Depreciation cost is computed using
constant percentage of the declining
book value. What is the annual rate of
depreciation?
a. 32.25 %
b. 33.12 %
c. 31.25 %
d. 34.32 %

75. Find the work done in overcoming
friction between an object the table, if
the object weighs 200 g and slides 80
cm along a horizontal tabletop. The
coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.30.
a. -0.23 N
b. -0.55 N
c. -0.42 N
d. -0.31 N

76. What is the common type of crystal
defect?
a. Point defect
b. Line defect
c. Surface defect
d. Grain boundary effect

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77. A method of telling when the economic
value of one alternative becomes equal
to the economic value of another
alternative is called ____.
a. Break-even analysis
b. Cost-benefit analysis
c. Accelerated depreciation
d. Cost accounting

78. An office equipment costs P 20,000. It
has an estimated life of 5 years. Find its
depreciation rate using the straight line
method if its scrap value is P 2,000.
a. 18 %
b. 20 %
c. 22 %
d. 16 %

79. Calculate the ordinary simple interest on
a P 20,000 loan payable for 9 months
and 5 days if the rate of interest is 10%.
a. P 1,527.78
b. P 1,533.12
c. P 1,525.55
d. P 1,535.55

80. How many moles of gas are contained
in a 50L cylinder at a pressure of 100
atm and a temperature of 35C? Gas
constant =0.0821 L-atm/mol-K.
a. 155 mol
b. 166 mol
c. 198 mol
d. 187 mol

81. How many lb-in/s in 1 horsepower?
a. 6700
b. 6400
c. 6500
d. 6600

82. What is the molality (in mol/kg) of a
solution containing 75.6 g of sucrose
(molar mass =342 g/mol) in 400 g of
water?
a. 0.577
b. 0.533
c. 0.621
d. 0.510

83. The kinetic energy of a certain moving
body is quadrupled; its momentum is
____ the original momentum.
a. the same
b. half
c. twice
d. quadrupled

84. A planoconvex lens of focal length 5 cm
is used in a reading lamp to focus light
from a light bulb to a book. If the lens is
60 cm from the book, how far should it
be from the bulbs filament?
a. 4.5 cm
b. 5.5 cm
c. 3.5 cm
d. 6.5 cm

85. A point source unshaded electric lamp
of luminous intensity 100 candles is 4
feet above the top of the table. Find the
illuminance of the table.
a. 5.50 foot candle
b. 6.25 foot candle
c. 6.50 foot candle
d. 5.25 foot candle

86. A large disk is rotating with an angular
speed of 225 rad/s. If the disk uniformly
speeds up to 450 rad/s in 25 s, what is
the tangential acceleration of the point
2.0 m from the center of the disk?
a. 15 m/s
b. 20 m/s
c. 18 m/s
d. 22 m/s

87. An equipment costs P 10,000 with a
salvage value of P 500 at the end of 10
years. Calculate the annual depreciation
cost by sinking fund method at 4%
interest.
a. P 789.22
b. P 791.26
c. P 777.21
d. P 793.44

88. The motor vehicles in Metro manila
produced a total of 1.5 x 10
6
kg of
carbon monoxide each year. This is
equivalent to how many moles of carbon
dioxide each year? Atomic weight of
carbon =12. Atomic weight of oxygen =
16.
a. 5.4 x 10
5

b. 5.4 x 10
8

c. 5.4 x 10
7

d. 5.4 x 10
6

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89. What law regulates the operation of the
CATV systems in the Philippines?
a. E.O. 566
b. E.O. 205
c. E.O. 3846
d. E.O. 59

90. According to R.A. 9292, one of the
qualifications of a member of the Board
is being a citizen and residence of the
Philippines for at least how many years?
a. 3 years
b. 1 year
c. 5 years
d. 2 years

91. What elements by losing one electron?
a. Halogens
b. Oxides
c. Earth metals
d. Alkali metals

92. Which of the following is equicalent of
the unit dyne?
a. gram-cm/sec
2

b. joules/sec
c. kilogram-m/sec
2

d. poise/sec

93. In Economics, what is sometimes known
as yield?
a. Nominal rate of interest
b. Rate of return
c. Effective rate of interest
d. Rate of investment

94. The modulus of elasticity is the ratio of
____.
a. change in volume to original volume
b. volumetric strain to uniform stress
intensity
c. volumetric strain to Youngs
modulus
d. uniform stress intensity to volumetric
strain

95. Most materials failures are due to
fatigue failure. The fatigue can occur
well ____ of the material.
a. above the yield stress
b. below the yield stress
c. above the ultimate stress
d. below the ultimate stress

96. Munts metal is a metal that is wear
resistant and less ductile than brass. It
is an alloy of ____.
a. copper and nickel
b. copper and zinc
c. copper and tin
d. copper and lead

97. What is the unit of entropy?
a. kN-m/K
b. kg-m/K
c. J /kg-K
d. kJ /kg-K

98. When an object is placed 20 inches
from a certain lens, its virtual image is
formed 10 inches from the lens.
Determine the focal length.
a. -10 in
b. -20 in
c. -5 in
d. -15 in

99. What refers to the number of molecular
weight in grams per liter of solution?
a. Molarity
b. Molality
c. PPM
d. Formality

100. In which type of organization is the
project manager responsible for
completion of the project and is often
assigned a budget?
a. Matrix organization
b. Functional organization
c. Market organization
d. Projectized organization

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