General Knowledge Questions

A Slip ring is a ring in a dynamo or electric motor which is attached to and rotates with the shaft, passing an electric current to a circuit via a fixed brush pressing against it.

Slip rings are usually made of Phosphor Bronze.

Slip ring motors usually have a 'phase-wound' rotor. This type of rotor has a 3-phase, double-layer, distributed winding consisting of coils used in alternators. The rotor core is made up of steel laminations which have slots to accommodate formed 3-single phase windings.

True, Air is a Mixture.

Air is considered as mixture for the following reasons ;

1. Air can be separated into its components like N2, O2 , Argon and CO2 by the process of fractional distillation of liquid air.

2. Air shows the properties of all the gases present in the atmosphere.
For example : Oxygen is good Supporter of combustion. Hence air also is good supporter of combustion.

3. Air does not have a fixed formula.

4. Air has a variable composition because air at different places contains different amount of gases.

5. Heat or Light energy is neither absorbed nor released when air is prepared physical by mixing required amount of gases .

6. Mixture does have fixed boiling Point. It holds good in case of liquid air.

• A 360-foot-high (110 metres) flag post, said to be the country's tallest, was inaugurated at the Indo-Pak Attari Border, just a stone's throw from Pakistan.
• Punjab Minister Anil Joshi inaugurated the country's largest tricolour on the tallest flag post - measuring 110 metres in length, 24 metres in width and 55 tons in weight. Built at an approximate cost of Rs 3.50 crore, the post was a project of the Amritsar Improvement Trust Authority of the Punjab Government.

The famous hill-station Kodaikanal lies in Palani hills.

Water containing caustic soda cannot be used for drinking