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Q. Which of the following substances is NOT a conductor?
A) Aluminum
B) Silicon
C) Graphite
D) All are conductors
Conductor is an object through which electricity can pass in one or more direction. Aluminium, Silicon, Graphite, Copper, Gold etc are the widely used examples of conductors.
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Q. What is the unit of electric charge?
A) Coulomb
The SI unit of electric charge is known as Columb, which is named after Charles Augustin de Columb-a renowned French physicist.
B) Joule
C) Watt
D) Newton
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Q. What is the unit of magnetic field?
A) Tesla
According to International System of Units (SI), Tesla (T) is the unit of magnetic flux density (also called magnetic strength) where one tesla is equal to one weber per square meter.
B) Joule
C) Watt
D) Newton
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Q. Which of the following is not an example of a simple machine?
A) Lever
B) Screw
C) Wedge
D) Wheel
A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the state of condition or force with least external (human) effort. So only Wheel among the above options can hardly propel itself without axle.
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Q. What is the process by which heat is transferred through a fluid in motion called?
A) Conduction
B) Radiation
C) Convection
Convection results in the tendency to expand when heated-Water, Air etc.
D) Transmission
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Q. If an aired balloon is escaped, it goes opposite to its air emission. Which of the following engine has the similarity to this theory?
A) Steam Engine
B) Rocket Engine
Rocket Engine works based on third rule of Sir Isaac Newton-"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
C) Starling Engine
D) Turbo Engine
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Q. At the time of rowing boat, a boatman applies which rule?
A) Third Rule of Newton
First rule-An object will not change its motion unless any external force acts on it. Second rule-Heavier objects need a larger force to move them. third rule-For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
B) Second Rule of Newton
C) First Rule of Newton
D) Gravity Rule of Newton
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Q. A boy sitting into a train running at constant speed threw a ball towards the ceiling, the ball will fall on____________ .
A) behind the boy
B) the hand of the boy
As the train is running, the ball with the boy is also running in a same horizontal velocity. Hence the ball come back to the hand of the boy.
C) the front of the boy
D) the roof of the train
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Q. Why does a car overturn very quickly on a curved road?
A) Lack of centrifugal force
B) More than centrifugal force
C) Lack of centripetal force
Due to higher center of gravity and limited suspension a car overturn quickly on a curved road. In other way, when a car overturn quickly on a curved road, its lower part moves towards the center very quickly, but its upper part doesn't follow accordingly.
D) More than centripetal force
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Q. A light object and a heavy object have the same momentum. Which of these has more kinetic energy?
A) Heavy object
B) Heavier object will get twice kinetic energy
C) Both of the objects
D) Light object
Since momenta of heavy body and light body are same, the velocity of lighter object is greater than that of heavier. Kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity. Hence lighter object has greater Kinetic energy.
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Q. What is the reason for swing of a ball in the Table tennis?
A) Air friction resistance
B) Pressure created above and below the ball
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C) Rotational speed of the ball
D) The player’s wrist action
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Q. What type of engine is a Jet Engine?
A) Re-action
A Jet Engine is a re-action engine -an engine which provides propulsion or thrust by expelling a reaction mass - and works according to Newton's third rule of motion: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction".
B) Rotary
C) Turbine
D) Motor
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Q. As a result of rotation of the earth, why don’t we fall?
A) For the force of gravity
We don't fall because of the force of gravity that pulls us towards the middle of the earth, rotating at a constant rate, and keep our feet firmly on the surface of the earth.
B) We remain still
C) For rotation of the earth
D) For the gravitational power of sun
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Q. The weight of objects on the moon is the same as weight of the earth __________?
A) one-tenth
B) One sixth
Due to force of gravity, the value of acceleration on the moon is one-sixth of its value on the earth. Because of this rule the weight of an object on the moon will be the one-sixth than on the earth.
C) One third
D) One fourth
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Q. What is the weight of three liters of water?
A) 3 Gram
B) 3 Kilogram
In standard temperature and pressure, 1 liter of water is equal to 1 kilogram. Similarly, 3 liter of water is equal to 3 kilogram standard weight.
C) 2.75 Kilogram
D) 3.25 Kilogram
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Q. What is the device for measuring the purity of milk?
A) Lactometer
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B) Altimeter
C) Galvanometer
D) Hydrometer
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Q. What is the name of the device for measuring humidity in the air?
A) Voltameter
B) Avometer
C) Barometer
D) Hygrometer
Description not available.
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Q. What is the name of the instrument for measuring the depth of the sea?
A) Barometer
B) Fathometer
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C) Tachometer
D) Victometer
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Q. Rockets are built based on which principle to launch spaceships?
A) Third law of motion
Rockets are built to launch spaceship based on third law of motion of Sir Isaac Newton-To every action there is equal and opposite reaction.
B) First law of motion
C) Second law of motion
D) Law of constant momentum
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Q. What is the tension between the earth and its nearest objects?
A) Speed
B) Momentu
C) Velocity
D) Gravity
Literally tension is the force that is transmitted through any object when it is pulled on both sides. In this perspective momentu is the tension between earth and its nearest objects.
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Q. Where is the gravitational acceleration is maximum?
A) Inside sea basin
B) At the surface of the earth
C) In the air
D) At the center of gravity
At the center of the earth the acceleration due to gravity is zero. Consequently, gravitational acceleration is greatest at earth's surface. Practically the maximum point of acceleration is in the Arctic Ocean, nearer to the coast of Greenland.
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Q. How is the atmosphere is rotating with the earth?
A) Instantaneous speed
B) Being attracted by the earth's centripetal attraction
Bound to the earth by gravity and due to friction with the earth surface and viscosity of multiple layers of air, atmosphere rotates with the earth constantly..
C) For the predominance of oxygen
D) For annual speed
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Q. If one of the two objects is the earth, then what is the attraction between them called?
A) Resilience
B) Gravitation
C) Gravity
The attraction or fundamental interaction between the earth and an object or any two objects in the earth is known as Gravity..
D) Attraction
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Q. What is the attraction between the Sun and the Moon called?
A) Resilience
B) Gravity
C) Gravitation
Attraction between the sun and moon is called Gravitational force.
D) Attraction
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Q. Where is the weight of an object zero?
A) Inside sea basin
B) At the surface of the earth
C) Can’t be zero
D) At the center of gravity
The weight of an object is zero when it is kept at the center of the earth where g=o. g is maximum at the surface of the earth.
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Q. What is the main task of lubrication system?
A) Reduce temperature caused by friction between sliding or rolling parts.
Lubrication system first used by Wright Brothers. This system is considered to reduce temperature caused by friction between sliding or rolling parts, give a flow to the clean oil at the accurate temperature, with appropriate pressure to each part of the engine.
B) Keep the piston clean when rolling.
C) Create a layer between piston and cylinder and protect from firing.
D) To reduce dirt that stacks the parts of a machine.
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Q. Why do we lean forward while climbing the mountain up?
A) To accelerate the speed.
B) To maintain equilibrium position of our body.
As the mountain slope is inclined at an angle from the normal ground, our body leans forward so that center of gravity becomes low in order to maintain the equilibrium position, provided that we don’t fall on our back.
C) To avoid toil.
D) To prevent to lean back.
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Q. Why do astronauts feel weightless while orbiting the earth?
A) Due to absence of gravitational force.
B) Astronauts move slower than the spaceship.
C) The astronauts have a mean acceleration equal to “g”.
Astronauts, orbiting the earth, do feel weightless as there is no ground or any other force to counteract the force of gravity; i.e. the astronauts orbiting the earth have acceleration equal to gravity.
D) The velocity of the spaceship remains same.
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Q. Where is the weight of an object is the most?
A) In the polar region
The weight of an object is the most in the polar region as the acceleration due to gravity is greatest at poles.
B) In the equatorial region
C) On the top of the hill
D) In the basin of the ocean
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Q. If an object is taken to the moon, its weight _____________.
A) will be equal
B) will decrease
The weight of an object on the earth is equal to multiplication of its mass and gravitational acceleration of the earth. The moon has one-sixth the acceleration than the earth. Hence, if an object is taken to moon, its weight will be reduced to one-sixth of the earth.
C) will increase
D) will be weightless
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Q. The weight of a person standing in a descending lift _________________ .
A) Increases
B) remains unchanged
C) becomes zero
D) decreases
When a lift descends the apparent weight of a standing person inside it decreases as weight R=mg-ma=m(g-a).
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Q. For which condition of an elevator does a person feel weightless?
A) When the elevator rises upward with momentum
B) When the elevator descends below the acceleration “g”
If the elevator descends freely, the cord of the elevator is torn, below the acceleration “g”, a person within the elevator feels weightless.
If the elevator descends the acceleration “g”, a person within the elevator feels less than the original weight.
If the elevator descends the acceleration “g”, a person within the elevator feels less than the original weight.
C) When the elevator descends with momentum
D) When the elevator rises up the acceleration “g”
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Q. What would be the weight of an object when it is raised from the surface?
A) Increase
B) Remains same
C) Decrease
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D) Becomes zero
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