GATE Questions

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The main group number for an element can be found from its column on the periodic table. For example, carbon is in group 4 and has 4 valence electrons. Oxygen is in group 6 and has 6 valence electrons.

A square and a rectangle each have 4 right (90 deg) angles. 

Both square and rctangle have 4 sides and 4 angles, but the only difference is square is a rectangle with all sides equal.

In rusting the Iron ore make a chemical reaction with the oxygen in the presence of water and environmental or atmospheric moisture to produce an Iron oxide. Iron oxide is otherwise called as rust.

The rusting of iron is a chemical change because it is two substances reacting together to make a new substance.

ROM stands for read-only-memory.

It's used to store the start-up instructions for a computer, also known as the firmware.

Most modern computers use flash-based ROM. It is part of the BIOS chip, which is located on the motherboard.

A transformer that increases voltage from primary to secondary (more secondary winding turns than primary winding turns) is called a Step-Up Transformer.

Conversely, a transformer designed to do just the opposite is called a Step-Down Transformer. 

Distance between two Consecutive Crests or two Consecutive Troughs is called Wavelength. But the distance between crest and adjacent trough is half the wavelength.

That is the distance between adjacent crest and trough is called Half the wavelength.

According to BODMAS rule,

After multiplication only, addition is done.

Hence,

5 + 2 x 10 = 5 + 20 = 25.