Advance Trim, Stability and Stress

What is the designation term for the sum of product of the ordinates and the multipliers?

• Product of areas

• Function of products

• Product of functions

• Function of areas.

Which shipbuilding nation devised and used Simpson's three rules in its shipbuilding calculations?

• United States

• United Arab Emirates

• United Kingdom

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republic

What is the term for the length of the distance between ordinates, equally measured at the base, used to multiply the Function of Areas to obtain the area?

• Common Intervals

• Common Space

• Common Multiplier

• Common length

What are the initial multipliers for Simpson's First Rule?

• 1 - 2 - 1

• 1 - 3 - 1

• 1 - 4 - 1

• 1 - 5 - 1

What are the initial multipliers for Simpson's Second Rule?

• 1 - 3 - 1

• 1 - 4 - 1

• 5 - 8 - (-1)

• 1 - 3 - 3 - 1

What is also known as Simpson's Third Rule?

• 1 - 3 - 1

• 1 - 4 - 1

• 5 - 8 - (-1)

• 1 - 3 - 3 - 1

What should a vessel do to maintain her draft when moving from salt water to fresh water?

• Do nothing

• Take in ballast

• Discharge ballast

• Shift ballast from fore to aft

It is the weight which must be loaded or discharged to change the ship's mean draught by one centimeter for any given draft?

• TPC

• LCF

• MCTC

• LCG

Mass of the volume of water that a ship displaces?

• Displacement

• Lightship

• Deadweight

• Gross Tonnage

What is free surface effect?

• The reduction of stability caused by the liquids in slack tanks

• The increase in buoyancy due to the presence of cargo on deck

• The effect of wind on the exposed surfaces of the ship's superstructure

• The additional drag experienced by a ship moving through shallow water