Home
Current Affairs January 2024

What is the correct answer?

4

In Meyer's expansion valve, the main valve is driven by an eccentric having an angle of advance from

A. 10°-15°

B. 15°-25°

C. 25°-30°

D. 30°-40°

Correct Answer :

C. 25°-30°


Related Questions

What is the correct answer?

4

In a turning moment diagram, the variations of energy above and below the mean resisting torque line is called

A. Fluctuation of energy

B. Maximum fluctuation of energy

C. Coefficient of fluctuation of energy

D. None of these

What is the correct answer?

4

The coriolis component of acceleration leads the sliding velocity by

A. 45°

B. 90°

C. 135°

D. 180°

What is the correct answer?

4

V-belts are usually used for

A. Long drives

B. Short drives

C. Long and short drives

D. None of these

What is the correct answer?

4

In a mechanism, usually one link is fixed. If the fixed link is changed in a kinematic chain, then relative motion of other links

A. Will remain same

B. Will change

C. Could change or remain unaltered depending on which link is fixed

D. Will not occur

What is the correct answer?

4

A circle passing through the pitch point with its center at the center of cam axis is known as

A. Pitch circle

B. Base circle

C. Prime circle

D. Outer circle

What is the correct answer?

4

In a hydrodynamic journal bearing, there is

A. A very thin film of lubricant between the journal and the bearing such that there is contact between the journal and the bearing

B. A thick film of lubricant between the journal and the bearing

C. No lubricant between the journal and the bearing

D. A forced lubricant between the journal and the bearing

What is the correct answer?

4

Which of the following statement is correct?

A. The power absorbed in operating the piston valve is less than D-slide valve

B. The wear of the piston valve is less than the wear of the D-slide valve

C. The D-slide valve is also called outside admission valve.

D. All of the above

What is the correct answer?

4

The balancing weights are introduced in planes parallel to the plane of rotation of the disturbing mass. To obtain complete dynamic balance, the minimum number of balancing weights to be introduced in different planes is

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

What is the correct answer?

4

Which of the following is a turning pair?

A. Piston and cylinder of a reciprocating steam engine

B. Shaft with collars at both ends fitted into a circular hole

C. Lead screw of a lathe with nut

D. Ball and a socket joint

What is the correct answer?

4

The sensitiveness of the governor __________ as the speed range decreases.

A. Remains unaffected

B. Decreases

C. Increases

D. None of these

What is the correct answer?

4

A rigid body possesses ________degrees of freedom

A. One

B. Two

C. Four

D. Six

What is the correct answer?

4

Whirling speed of the shaft is the speed at which

A. Shaft tends to vibrate in longitudinal direction

B. Torsional vibrations occur

C. Shaft tends to vibrate vigorously in transverse direction

D. Combination of transverse and longitudinal vibration occurs

What is the correct answer?

4

The lead screw of a lathe with nut forms a

A. Rolling pair

B. Sliding pair

C. Screw pair

D. Turning pair

What is the correct answer?

4

In a cam drive with uniform velocity follower, the sharp corners of the displacement diagram are rounded off at the beginning and at the end of each stroke. This is done

A. Because of difficulty in manufacturing cam profile

B. Because of loose contact of follower with cam surface

C. In order to have acceleration in beginning and retardation at the end of stroke within the finite limits

D. Because the uniform velocity motion is a partial parabolic motion

What is the correct answer?

4

Module of a gear is

A. D/T

B. T/D

C. 2D/T

D. 2T/D

What is the correct answer?

4

Which of the following disciplines provides study of relative motion between the parts of a machine?

A. Theory of machines

B. Applied mechanics

C. Mechanisms

D. Kinematics

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

If D₁ and D₂ be the diameters of driver and driven pulleys, then belt speed is proportional to

A. D₁/D₂

B. D₂/D₁

C. D₁.D₂

D. D₁

What is the correct answer?

4

A shaft carrying two rotors at its ends will have

A. No node

B. One node

C. Two nodes

D. Three nodes

What is the correct answer?

4

The motion of a shaft in a circular hole is an example of

A. Completely constrained motion

B. Incompletely constrained motion

C. Successfully constrained motion

D. None of these

What is the correct answer?

4

A slider moves at a velocity v on a link revolving at ω rad/s. The coriolis component of acceleration is

A. ωv

B. 2ωv

C. ω²v

D. 2ωv²

What is the correct answer?

4

The stress induced in a body will be shear stress, when it is subjected to

A. Longitudinal vibrations

B. Transverse vibrations

C. Torsional vibrations

D. None of these

What is the correct answer?

4

The tractive force is maximum or minimum when the angle of inclination of crank with the line of stroke (θ) is equal to

A. 0° and 90°

B. 90° and 180°

C. 135° and 315°

D. 270° and 360°

What is the correct answer?

4

The velocity of sliding of meshing gear teeth is (Where ω₁ and ω₂ are angular velocities of meshing gears and y is distance between point of contact and the pitch point)

A. (ω₁ + ω₂)y

B. (ω₁/ω₂)y

C. (ω₁ × ω₂)y

D. (ω₁ + ω₂)/y

What is the correct answer?

4

The Grubler's criterion for determining the degrees of freedom (n) of a mechanism having plane motion is (where l = Number of links, and j = Number of binary joints)

A. n = (l -1) - j

B. n = 2(l - 1) - 2j

C. n = 3(l - 1) - 2j

D. n = 4(l - 1) - 3j

What is the correct answer?

4

If the opposite links of a four bar linkage are equal, the links will always form a

A. Triangle

B. Rectangle

C. Parallelogram

D. Pentagon

What is the correct answer?

4

What is the number of instantaneous centres for an eight link mechanism?

A. 15

B. 28

C. 30

D. 8

What is the correct answer?

4

The equation of motion for a vibrating system with viscous damping is (d²x/dt²) + (c/m).(dx/dt) + (s/m).x = 0, if the roots of the equation are __________ then the system will be under damped.

A. Equal

B. Real

C. Complex conjugate

D. None of these

What is the correct answer?

4

The sense of coriolis component 2 ωv is same as that of the relative velocity vector v rotated at

A. 45° in the direction of rotation of the link containing the path

B. 45° in the direction opposite to the rotation of the link containing the path

C. 90° in the direction of rotation of the link containing the path

D. 180° in the direction opposite to the rotation of the link containing the path

What is the correct answer?

4

For the same lift and same angle of ascent, a smaller base circle will give

A. A small value of pressure angle

B. A large value of pressure angle

C. There is no such relation with pressure angle

D. Something else