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Hammer blow is along the line of stroke of the unbalanced force.

(a) True

(b) False

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This interesting question is from Effect of Partial Balancing of Reciprocating Parts of Two Cylinder Locomotives in chapter Balancing of Reciprocating Masses of Machine Dynamics

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Right answer is (b) False

For explanation: Hammer blow is defined as the maximum magnitude of the unbalanced force along the perpendicular to the line of action of the stroke, it’s effect can be seen as the hammering effect on the rails.

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