問題一覧
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What is the force representing the combined effect of two or more forces acting at a point?
Resultant Force
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What is traditionally defined as any push or pull on a body?
Force
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What is an imaginary moment representing the combined effect of two or more force acting about a point?
Resultant Moment
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What is the term used to describe a ship that is inclined due to external forces i.e. by wind or sea?
Heel
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What is the force exerted on the body by the earth’s gravitational force and is measured in the terms of Newton (N) and kilo-Newton (kN)?
Weight
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What is the point at which all the vertically downward forces of weight are considered to act; or it as the center of the mass of the vessel?
Center of gravity
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What is the vertical distance from the center of gravity (G) to the transverse metacenter (M)?
Metacentric height
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What is the vertical height of G above the keel for transverse stability calculations where it is assumed that G will be on the centerline when used?
KG
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What is that point at which all the vertically upward forces of buoyancy can be considered to act; or it is the center of the volume of the immersed portion of the vessel?
Center of buoyancy
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What is the perpendicular distance from the center of gravity (G) to the line of force of the center of buoyancy?
Righting arm
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causing it to capsize?
Maximum righting moment
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What is the reason, the centroid of an object with translational symmetry is undefined?
Translation has no fixed point
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A vessel displacing 30,500 tons has a KG of 60 ft. A weight of 500 long tons is discharged from a VCG of 150 feet. What is the change of KG?
1.5 ft downward
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A plank weighs 62 kgs. What will be the shift of its center of gravity if a weight of 38 kg is placed on it at a distance of 400 cm from its original center of gravity
152 cm
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When mass is removed from a body, the center gravity of the body will move directly away from the center of gravity of the mass removed, and the distance it moves will be found by what formula.
GG1 = w x d / final mass
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What is defined as the ratio of the density of the substance to the density of fresh water.
Specific gravity
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What will happen to a substance with a relative density greater than 1?
Will sink
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What is the average specific gravity of water in all oceans?
1.025
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What instrument is used to determine the density of liquid?
Hydrometer
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What is the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a given difference material?
Relative density
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Who states that when a body is wholly or partially immersed in a fluid, it appears to suffer a loss in mass equal to the mass of the fluid it displaces?
Archimedes Principle
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It is the change in displacement tonnage required to change the mean draught of the shup by 1 cm.
Reserve Bouyancy
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What is a state of equilibrium of a body such that when the body is slightly displaced, it tends to return to its original position?
Stable
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What is a state of equilibrium of a body that remains in its new position and does not return to its previous position?
Neutral
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What is a state of equilibrium when ship is heeled, even very slightly would develop a lever which is acting to further heel the ship or we can say that the ship would have developed a Capsizing lever?
Negative
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It is the point where the lines intersect (at an angle 0) of the upward force of buoyancy.
Metacenter
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It is the mass which must be loaded or discharged to change a ship’s mean draft in salt water by one centimeter?
TPC
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What is refers to stability at small angles of inclination up to 15 degrees?
Initial Stability
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What is the point of intersection of the vertical through the center of buoyancy of a ship in the position of equilibrium with the vertical through the new center of buoyancy when the ship is slightly heeled?
Transverse Stability
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What consist of Displacement, Deadweight, Tonnes per Centimeter, Height of COB above keel, Distance of COB from after perpendicular Or from Midship, Height of Transverse Metacentre above Keel and etc used for ship stability calculation?
Hydrostatic table
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The maximum water line legally allowed for voyages in fresh water with in a tropical zone-during summer.
Fresh water load line
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The deepest water line to which a merchant ship is legally allowed too load for a voyage within a specified geographical zone in winter periods.
Winter load line
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What is the maximum water line legally allowed for voyage in fresh water within tropical zone during summer?
Tropical fresh water load line
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What does “f” denotes in the upper edge of the load line mark?
Fresh water load line
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What is the width of the deck line mark?
25mm
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What is the length of the summer load line mark?
230 mm
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What is the horizontal line 300mm by 25mm wide which is positioned amidship on port and starboard side?
Deck line
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The distance measured at the ships side amidships vertically downward, from the upper edge of the deck line to the water line?
Freeboard
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What is the line defining the maximum legal draft to which the vessel may be submerged?
Load line
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It is the number of millimeters by which the mean draft changes when a ship passes from salt water to fresh water, or vice versa, whilst floating at the loaded draft?
Fresh Water Allowance
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What is the weight of a ship with all its permanent equipment, excluding the weight of cargo persons, ballast, dunnage, and fuel, but usually including the weight of permanent ballast and water used to operate steam machinery?
Light displacement
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What displacement of the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water?
Load
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What is the maximum weight a vessel can carry up to her appropriate load marks?
Deadweight
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What is measured indirectly using Archimedes’ principle by first calculating the volume of water displaced by the ship then converting that value into weight displaced?
Displacement
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What method provides for estimating the additional draft or for determining the extra load that could be taken onboard when a vessel is being loaded in water of density less than that of salt water?
Deadweight scale
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What characteristics parameters calculated for a floating ship, which can either directly be used to comment on the nature of stability of the ship or be used to evaluate other stability parameters?
Ship hydrostatics
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What is the weight of the ship including cargo, passengers, fuel, water stores, dunnage and such other items necessary for use on a voyage?
Loaded displacement
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What is the weight (in tons) of all cargo, fuel, dry provision, supplies, etc. carried on board of the ship?
Deadweight tonnage
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What is the total cubic carrying capacity of the ship’s hull less certain deduction such as passenger spaces, machinery spaces and etc.?
Net tonnage
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What is the displacement of the vessel at any stage of loading , without having completely loaded its maximum cargo?
Displacement with cargo
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What is the moment required to change the total trim of the vessel by one centimeter?
MCT
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What is the vertical distance of the ship between its center of buoyancy and metacenter?
Metacentric radius
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What is the ability of a vessel to resist and recover from heeling over?
Transverse stability
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What is a series of graph drawn to a vertical scale of draught and a base of length, which gives values such as the center of buoyancy, displacement, moment causing unit trim, and center of flotation?
Hydrostatic curve
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What happens to the ship’s draft when she moves from a water of one density to water of another density, without a change in her mass?
Will change
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What is the lowermost point of the ship of any point of its length
Keel
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What is the maximum length from the forward most point of the ship’s hull to the aft-most point?
Length of overall
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What is the ratio of vessel’s underwater volume (Displacement) to the volume of a box that this could fit in?
Block coefficient
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What is the volume of the enclosed spaces above the waterline?
Reserve buoyancy
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What is the longitudinal position of the CG with resepct to any reference point on the ship?
Longitudinal centre of gravity