GATE Questions

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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.

1 Gallon = 3.785 kgs

Gallon is a unit of measurement of liquid.

We know that 1 gallon = 3.785 liters

But we know that,

1 cubic meter = 1000 lit or 1000 kgs

=> 1 lit = 1 kg

Hence,  1 gallon = 3.785 lit = 3.785 kgs.

Rust forms when oxygen reacts with chemicals in rocks, and that is often the case with many other elements in general. Like a copper nail being exposed to the air will rust.

Deleted files are not permanently removed from the hard drive or the computers memory. Before they are permanently removed from the system they are stored in Recycle Bin. Recycle Bin is a folder or directory where deleted items are temporarily stored. It is also called as trash.

All the carbon atoms in glucose ultimately incorporated during cellular respiration into carbon dioxide molecules.

Any integer 'i' can be written as i = i/1, which is a rational number. Clearly, 7/2,-5/4, etc... are rational numbers but they are not integers.

Hence, from the above analysis, every integer is a rational number but a rational number need not be an integer.

Therefore the given statement that 'Every rational number is an integer' is FALSE.

Million Instructions Per Second is a method of measuring the raw speed of a computer's processor. MIPS measures roughly the number of machine instructions that a computer can execute in one second.

The simplest organic compounds contain only the elements carbon and hydrogen, and are called hydrocarbons.

Here all the given options are hydrocarbons.