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What is the minimum velocity required for a rocket to overcome earth's gravity and travel into space?

A) 18 km/sec B) 11.2 km/sec
C) 21 km/sec D) 35 km/sec
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 11.2 km/sec

Explanation:

This 11.2 km/s is also known as the escape velocity. It works out to roughly 25000miles per hour 

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The Hydraulic Break works on the principle of _____ ?

A) Pascal's Law B) Boyle's law
C) Coulomb's law D) Bernouli's law
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Pascal's Law

Explanation:
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The Hooke's law is valid for

A) only proportional region of the stress strain curve B) entire stress strain curve
C) entire elastic region of the stress strain curve D) elastic as well as plastic region of the stress strain curve
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) only proportional region of the stress strain curve

Explanation:

Hooke's law states that within the elastic limit, stress developed is directly proportional to the strain produced in a body.Hooke’s law is valid only in the linear part of stress-strain curve. Hence, statement 1 is correct.

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Lightning is produced when 

A) Similar charges of electricity rush towards each other and then get repelled B) clouds strike against impurities in air and the friction burns up these impurities
C) strong opposite charges in different clouds break down the resistance offered by the intervening air D) water vapour produces electricity in the clouds
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) strong opposite charges in different clouds break down the resistance offered by the intervening air

Explanation:

When the resistance of the air between breaks down the current flows from the positive cloud to the negative cloud in a flash which we call lightning . The difference of potential involves is very high.

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When one enters a dark room after being in bright light one is not able to see anything clearly for a while because 

A) the retina of the eye moves forward B) the retina of the eye moves backward
C) the iris is unable to dilate the pupil immediately to be able to see things D) the eye has no power of accommodation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) the iris is unable to dilate the pupil immediately to be able to see things

Explanation:

The size of the pupil of the automatically adjusts itself according to the intensity of light passing through it; if the intensity is more, the size is less, if less, it is more. So in our case the pupil should dilate i.e , increase in size to be able to see in the dark. This switchover takes some time. But here the entry into the dark room is immediate. So the eye has no time to adjust itself and hence is not able to see at all for a while. 

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What is a Contact Force and explain with an example?

Answer

A Contact force is a force applied to a body by another body that is in contact with it. Contact force acts on a point of direct contact between the two objects. This force can either be continuous as a continuous force or can be momentary in the form of an impulse. Contact force is governed by Newton’s Laws.


Examples :: Contact force is responsible for most of the interactions we experience in the daily life.


1. Writing your name with a pen, pushing a car up a hill, lifting an object, etc...


2. Kicking a ball, hammering a nail, etc...


are some of the everyday examples where contact forces are at work.


In the first case, the force is continuously applied by the person on the car or pen or an object while in the second case the force is delivered in a short impulse.


 


Contact forces are often decomposed into orthogonal components


one perpendicular to the surface in contact called the normal force, and


one parallel to the surface in contact, called the friction force.

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What will happen if an object is dropped from a height and there is no air resistance?

A) It will fall with a constant speed and acceleration B) Its acceleration will increase
C) Both speed and acceleration will increase D) Its speed will increase
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Its speed will increase

Explanation:
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How long would it take to travel 4 light years?

Answer

There are approximately 6 trillion miles in a light-year, so the distance we need to go is 6 trillion miles / light-year times. 4 light-years is equal to 24 trillion miles. So, this whole would take 1.2 billion hours. There are 24 hours a day and 365.25 days per year, so this time in years is 137 thousand years.

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