What comes up in the exam
Every past paper for ENGR5004 and the module it replaced, broken down by topic. "Typical marks" is the share of a paper each topic has carried on average, scaled to a 100-mark paper. Use it to spend your time where the marks are.
Topics by typical marks
| Topic | Typical marks | Came up | Questions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planar rigid-body kinematics (rotation, relative velocity, IC, relative acceleration) | 18 | 8/9 | 19 |
| Beam deflection, elastic curve and statically indeterminate beams | 16 | 8/9 | 18 |
| Mass moment of inertia and planar rigid-body kinetics | 15 | 7/9 | 16 |
| Reactions, axial/shear/bending distributions in beams and frames | 14 | 9/9 | 21 |
| Particle equations of motion (rectangular, n-t, polar) | 8 | 5/9 | 14 |
| Buckling of columns (Euler load, end conditions, design) | 7 | 5/9 | 11 |
| Particle kinematics (rectilinear, Cartesian, n-t, polar, relative motion) | 6 | 4/9 | 14 |
| Pure bending stress and eccentric axial loading | 5 | 7/9 | 14 |
| Plane stress transformation, principal stresses, Mohr's circle, combined loading | 3 | 3/9 | 10 |
| Axial loading, deformation and statically indeterminate rods | 2 | 1/9 | 10 |
| Shear stress in beams under transverse load (VQ/It) | 2 | 3/9 | 9 |
| Poisson's ratio, generalised Hooke's law, dilatation and shear strain | 1 | 1/9 | 5 |
| Kinetic energy, work and the principle of work and energy | 1 | 1/9 | 3 |
About 2 marks per paper in the old papers were on topics no longer taught. They are left out above.
Marks by paper
| Topic | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planar rigid-body kinematics (rotation, relative velocity, IC, relative acceleration) | 20 | 25 | 25 | 28 | 14 | 19 | 25 | 31 | |
| Beam deflection, elastic curve and statically indeterminate beams | 13 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 35 | 23 | 35 | 18 | |
| Mass moment of inertia and planar rigid-body kinetics | 55 | 25 | 25 | 19 | 6 | 25 | 20 | ||
| Reactions, axial/shear/bending distributions in beams and frames | 13 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 23 | 10 | 18 | 20 |
| Particle equations of motion (rectangular, n-t, polar) | 25 | 8 | 16 | 25 | 13 | ||||
| Buckling of columns (Euler load, end conditions, design) | 18 | 8 | 25 | 7 | 25 | ||||
| Particle kinematics (rectilinear, Cartesian, n-t, polar, relative motion) | 17 | 11 | 15 | 13 | |||||
| Pure bending stress and eccentric axial loading | 5 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | ||
| Plane stress transformation, principal stresses, Mohr's circle, combined loading | 30 | 10 | 4 | ||||||
| Axial loading, deformation and statically indeterminate rods | 32 | ||||||||
| Shear stress in beams under transverse load (VQ/It) | 7 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Poisson's ratio, generalised Hooke's law, dilatation and shear strain | 15 | ||||||||
| Kinetic energy, work and the principle of work and energy | 7 |
Cells show marks out of each paper's total. Columns in bold are current-spec papers. Click a year to open the paper.
ENGR5004 is a rebadged ENGR216 (Statics = Campobasso mechanics of materials, Dynamics = Wang); the 2026-27 slides and tutorial sheets match the old-spec sessions almost one to one, so nearly every old question is still VALID. ENGR273 (2026) is the direct predecessor paper: 2 statics + 2 dynamics questions of 25 marks. 2021-2024 were separate 90-minute online Statics and Dynamics papers (sitting = statics/dynamics, both numbered A1/A2 or B1/B2). 2017-2019 papers were "answer two of three per section", so totalMarks is the sum of printed question marks (150), not the 100 a candidate sat. The 2018 PDF contains Section A only; its Section B entries are inferred from the 2018 numerical answers (CHECK, marks estimated). Files named "answers" for 2025 and 2026 are unofficial worked answers, not official solutions.