Home
Current Affairs January 2024

What is the correct answer?

4

In a flat collar pivot bearing, the moment due to friction is proportional to

A. (r₁² - r₂²)/(r₁ - r₂)

B. (r₁² - r₂²)/(r₁ + r₂)

C. (r₁³ - r₂³)/(r₁² - r₂²)

D. (r₁³ - r₂³)/(r₁ - r₂)

Correct Answer :

C. (r₁³ - r₂³)/(r₁² - r₂²)


Related Questions

What is the correct answer?

4

Which of the following is an example of a higher pair?

A. Toothed gearing

B. Belt and rope drive

C. Ball and roller bearing

D. All of these

What is the correct answer?

4

A typewriter mechanism has 7 numbers of binary joints, six links and none of higher pairs. The mechanism is

A. Kinematically sound

B. Not sound

C. Soundness would depend upon which link is kept fixed

D. Data is not sufficient to determine same

What is the correct answer?

4

The type of gears used to connect two non parallel and non intersecting shafts is

A. Spur gear

B. Helical gear

C. Bevel gear

D. Spiral gear

What is the correct answer?

4

In higher pair, the relative motion is

A. Purely turning

B. Purely sliding

C. Purely rotary

D. Combination of sliding and turning

What is the correct answer?

4

Which is the false statement about the properties of instantaneous centre?

A. At the instantaneous center of rotation, one rigid link rotates instantaneously relative to another for the configuration of mechanism considered

B. The two rigid links have no linear velocities relative to each other at the instantaneous centre

C. The two rigid links which have no linear velocity relative to each other at this center have the same linear velocity to the third rigid link

D. The double centre can be denoted either by O2 or O12, but proper selection should be made

What is the correct answer?

4

The ratio of height of Porter governor (when length of arms and links are equal) to the height of Watt's governor is (where m = Mass of the ball, and M = Mass on the sleeve)

A. m/(m + M)

B. M/(m + M)

C. (m + M)/m

D. (m + M)/M

What is the correct answer?

4

A single degree of freedom system is given by, m × (d²x/dt²) + c × (dx/dt) + sx = F.cosω.t with usual notations. It represents

A. Free vibration with damping

B. Free vibration without damping

C. Forced vibration with damping

D. Forced vibration without damping

What is the correct answer?

4

The size of a gear is usually specified by

A. Pressure angle

B. Circular pitch

C. Diametral pitch

D. Pitch circle diameter

What is the correct answer?

4

The natural frequency of free transverse vibrations due to a point load acting over a simply supported shaft is equal to (where δ = Static deflection of a simply supported shaft due to the point load)

A. 0.4985/√δ

B. 0.5615/√δ

C. 0.571/√δ

D. 0.6253/√δ

What is the correct answer?

4

The height of a Watt's governor (in metres) is equal to (where N = Speed of the arm and ball about the spindle axis)

A. 8.95/N²

B. 89.5/N²

C. 895/N²

D. 8950/N²

What is the correct answer?

4

The centre of percussion is below the centre of gravity of the body and is at a distance equal to

A. h/kG

B. h²/kG

C. kG²/h

D. h × kG

What is the correct answer?

4

A shaft has two heavy rotors mounted on it. The transverse natural frequencies, considering each of the rotor separately, are 100 Hz and 200 Hz respectively. The lowest critical speed is

A. 5,367 r.p.m.

B. 6,000 r.p.m.

C. 9,360 r.p.m.

D. 12,000 r.p.m.

What is the correct answer?

4

A fixed gear having 200 teeth is in mesh with another gear having 50 teeth. The two gears are connected by an arm. The number of turns made by the smaller gear for one revolution of arm about the centre of bigger gear is

A. 2

B. 4

C. 3

D. None of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

An eccentric sheave pivoted at one point rotates and transmits oscillatory motion to a link whose one end is pivoted and other end is connected to it. This mechanism has

A. 2 links

B. 3 links

C. 4 links

D. 5 links

What is the correct answer?

4

The motion between a pair which takes place in __________ is known as incompletely constrained motion.

A. One direction only

B. Two directions only

C. More than one direction

D. None of these

What is the correct answer?

4

The radial distance from the top of a tooth to the bottom of a tooth in a meshing gear, is called

A. Dedendum

B. Addendum

C. Clearance

D. Working depth

What is the correct answer?

4

In gramophones for adjusting the speed of the turntable, the following type of governor is commonly employed

A. Hartung governor

B. Wilson Hartnell governor

C. Pickering governor

D. Inertia governor

What is the correct answer?

4

Instantaneous center of rotation of a link in a four bar mechanism lies on

A. Right side pivot of this link

B. Left side pivot of this link

C. A point obtained by intersection on extending adjoining links

D. Cant occur

What is the correct answer?

4

The factor which affects the critical speed of a shaft is

A. Diameter of disc

B. Span of shaft

C. Eccentricity

D. All of these

What is the correct answer?

4

The contact ratio for gears is

A. Zero

B. Less than one

C. Greater than one

D. Infinity

What is the correct answer?

4

The Whitworth quick return motion mechanism is formed in a slider crank chain when the

A. Coupler link is fixed

B. Longest link is a fixed link

C. Slider is a fixed link

D. Smallest link is a fixed link

What is the correct answer?

4

When the sleeve of a Porter governor moves upwards, the governor speed

A. Increases

B. Decreases

C. Remain unaffected

D. First increases and then decreases

What is the correct answer?

4

The moment on the pulley which produces rotation is called

A. Inertia

B. Momentum

C. Moment of momentum

D. Torque

What is the correct answer?

4

For an involute gear, the ratio of base circle radius and pitch circle radius is equal to

A. sinφ

B. cosφ

C. secφ

D. cosecφ

What is the correct answer?

4

At the nodal point in a shaft, the amplitude for torsional vibration will be

A. Minimum

B. Maximum

C. Zero

D. Infinity

What is the correct answer?

4

Which of the following is an inversion of a double slider crank chain?

A. Oldham's coupling

B. Elliptical trammel

C. Scotch yoke mechanism

D. All of these

What is the correct answer?

4

If some links are connected such that motion between them can take place in more than one direction, it is called

A. Incompletely constrained motion

B. Partially constrained motion

C. Completely constrained motion

D. Successfully constrained motion

What is the correct answer?

4

For dynamic balancing of a shaft

A. The net dynamic force acting on the shaft is equal to zero

B. The net couple due to the dynamic forces acting on the shaft is equal to zero

C. Both (A) and (B)

D. None of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

The acceleration of a particle at any instant has two components i.e. radial component and tangential component. These two components will be

A. Parallel to each other

B. Perpendicular to each other

C. Inclined at 45°

D. Opposite to each other

What is the correct answer?

4

Tangential acceleration direction is

A. Along the angular velocity

B. Opposite to angular velocity

C. May be any one of these

D. Perpendicular to angular velocity