$$A$$ is a $$3 \times 4$$ matrix and $$AX=B$$ is an inconsistent system of equations. The highest possible rank of $$A$$ is

If $${x^2}\left( {{{d\,y} \over {d\,x}}} \right) + 2xy = {{2\ln x} \over x}$$ and $$y(1)=0$$ then what is $$y(e)$$?

Starting from $$\,{x_0} = 1,\,\,$$ one step of Newton - Raphson method in solving the equation $${x^3} + 3x - 7 = 0$$ gives the next value $${x_1}$$ as

Which of the following is a solution of the differential equation $$\,{{{d^2}y} \over {d{x^2}}} + p{{dy} \over {dx}} + \left( {q + 1} \right)y = 0?$$ Where $$p=4, q=3$$

The complete solution of the ordinary differential equation $${{{d^2}y} \over {d\,{x^2}}} + p{{dy} \over {dx}} + qy = 0$$ is $$\,y = {c_1}\,{e^{ - x}} + {C_2}\,{e^{ - 3x}}\,\,$$ then $$p$$ and $$q$$ are

Using given data points tabulated below, a straight line passing through the origin is fitted using least squares method. The slope of the line is

A single die is thrown two times. What is the probability that the sum is neither $$8$$ nor $$9?$$

A lot had $$10$$% defective items. Ten items are chosen randomly from this lot. The probability that exactly $$2$$ of the chosen items are defective is

Stokes theorem connects

By a change of variables $$x(u, v) = uv,$$ $$\,\,y\left( {u,v} \right) = {v \over u}$$ in a double integral, the integral $$f(x, y)$$ changes to $$\,\,\,f\left( {uv,{\raise0.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle v$} \kern-0.1em/\kern-0.15em \lower0.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle u$}}} \right).\,\,\,$$ Then $$\,\,\phi \left( {u,v} \right)\,\,\,$$ is ________.

Changing the order of integration in the double integral
$${\rm I} = \int\limits_0^8 {\int\limits_{{\raise0.5ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle x$} \kern-0.1em/\kern-0.15em \lower0.25ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle 4$}}}^2 {f\left( {x,\,y} \right)dy\,dx} } $$ leads to $$\,{\rm I} = \int\limits_r^s {\int\limits_p^q {f\left( {x,\,y} \right)dy\,dx} } .$$ What is $$q$$?

$$\int\limits_{ - a}^a {\left[ {{{\sin }^6}\,x + {{\sin }^7}\,x} \right]dx} $$ is equal to

Which one of the following is an eigen vector of the matrix $$\left[ {\matrix{ 5 & 0 & 0 & 0 \cr 0 & 5 & 0 & 0 \cr 0 & 0 & 2 & 1 \cr 0 & 0 & 3 & 1 \cr } } \right]$$ is

A 1 kg mass of clay, moving with a velocity of 10 m/s, strikes a stationary wheel and sticks to it. The solid wheel has a mass of 20 kg and a radius of 1 m. assuming that the wheel and the ground are both rigid and that the wheel is set into pure rolling motion, the angular velocity of the wheel immediately after the impact is approximately

Two books of mass 1 kg each are kept on a table, one over the other. The coefficient of friction on every pair of contacting surfaces is 0.3. the lower book is pulled with a horizontal force F. the minimum value of F for which slip occurs nbetween the two books is

An elevator (lift) consists of the elevator cage and a counter weight, of mass m each. The cage and the counterweight are connected by a chain that passes over a pulley. The pulley is coupled to a motor. It is desired that the elevator should have a maximum stopping time of t seconds from a peak speed $$V.$$ If the inertias of the pulley and the chain are neglected, the minimum power that the motor must have is

A shell is fired from a cannon. At the instant the shell is just about to leave the barrel, its velocity relative to the barrel is 3m/s, while the barrel is swinging upwards with a constant angular velocity of 2 rad/sec. The magnitude of the absolute velocity of the shell is

The time variation of the position of a particle in rectilinear motion is given by $$x = 2{t^3} + {t^2} + 2t$$. If 'V' is the velocity and 'a' acceleration of the particle in consistent units, the motion started with

A simple pendulum of length 5m, with a bob of mass 1 kg, is in simple harmonic motion. As it passes through its mean position, the bob has a speed of 5m/s. the net force on the bob at the mean position is

A $$U$$-tube manometer with a small quantity of mercury is used to measure the static pressure difference between two locations $$A$$ and $$B$$ in a conical section through which an incompressible fluid flows. At a particular flow rate, the mercury column appears as shown in the figure. The density of mercury is $$13600$$ $$kg/{m^3}$$ and $$g = 9.81$$ $$m/{s^2}.$$ Which of the following is correct?

A venturimeter of $$20$$ $$mm$$ throat diameter is used to measure the velocity of water in a horizontal pipe of $$40$$ $$mm$$ diameter. If the pressure difference between the pipe and throat sections is found to be $$30$$ $$kPa$$ then, neglecting frictional losses, the flow velocity is

A leaf is caught in a whirlpool. At a given instant, the leaf is at a distance of $$120$$ $$m$$ from the centre of the whirlpool. The whirlpool can be described by the following velocitry distribution ;
$${V_r} = - \left( {{{60 \times {{10}^3}} \over {2\pi r}}} \right)m/s$$
and $${V_\theta } = - \left( {{{300 \times {{10}^3}} \over {2\pi r}}} \right)m/s.$$

Where $$r$$ (in meters) is the distance from the centre of the whirlpool . What will be the distance of the leaf from the centre when it has moved through half a revolution?

The velocity components in the $$x$$ and $$y$$ directions of a two dimensional potential flow are $$u$$ and $$v$$, respectively. Then $${{\partial u} \over {\partial y}}$$ is equal to

The following figure was generated from experimental data relating spectral black body emissive power to wave length at three temperatures $${T_1},{T_2}$$ and $${T_3}\left( {{T_1} > {T_2} > {T_3}} \right).$$

The conclusion is that the measurements are

Hot oil is cooled from $${80^ \circ }C$$ to $${50^ \circ }C$$ in an oil cooler which uses air as the coolant. The air temperature rises from $${30^ \circ }C$$ to $${40^ \circ }C$$. the designer uses a $$LMTD$$ value of $${26^ \circ }C$$. the type of heat exchanger is

A solid cylinder (surface $$2$$) is located at the center of a hollow sphere (surface $$1$$). The diameter of the sphere is $$1m,$$ while the cylinder has a diameter and length of $$0.5m$$ each. The radiation configuration factor $${F_{11}}$$ is.

An un-insulated air conditioning duct of rectangular cross section $$1\,\,m \times 0.5\,m,$$ carrying air at $${20^ \circ }C$$ with a velocity of $$10 m/s,$$ is exposed to an ambient of $${30^ \circ }C$$. Neglect the effect of duct construction material. For air in the range of $${20-30^ \circ }C,$$ data are as follows: thermal conductivity $$=0.025 W/m.K;$$ viscosity $$ = 18\mu Pa.s;$$ Prandtl number $$=0.73;$$ density $$= 1.2$$ $$kg/{m^3}.$$. The laminar flow Nusselt number is $$3.4$$ for constant wall temperature conditions and, for turbulent flow, $$Nu = 0.023\,\,R{e^{0.8}}\,{\Pr ^{0.33}}.$$

The heat transfer per meter length of the duct, in watts, is

An un-insulated air conditioning duct of rectangular cross section $$1\,\,m \times 0.5\,m,$$ carrying air at $${20^ \circ }C$$ with a velocity of $$10 m/s,$$ is exposed to an ambient of $${30^ \circ }C$$. Neglect the effect of duct construction material. For air in the range of $${20-30^ \circ }C,$$ data are as follows: thermal conductivity $$=0.025 W/m.K;$$ viscosity $$ = 18\mu Pa.s;$$ Prandtl number $$=0.73;$$ density $$= 1.2$$ $$kg/{m^3}.$$. The laminar flow Nusselt number is $$3.4$$ for constant wall temperature conditions and, for turbulent flow, $$Nu = 0.023\,\,R{e^{0.8}}\,{\Pr ^{0.33}}.$$

The Reynolds number for the flow is

A small copper ball of $$5$$ $$mm$$ diameter at $$500$$ $$K$$ is dropped into an oil bath whose temperature is $$300$$ $$K.$$ the thermal conductivity of copper is $$400$$ $$W/m.$$ $$K,$$ its density $$9000\,\,kg/{m^3}$$ and its specific heat $$385\,J/kg.\,\,K.$$ if the heat transfer coefficient is $$250\,\,W/{m^2}K$$ and lumped analysis is assumed to be valid, the rate of fall of the temperature of the ball at the beginning of cooling will be, in $$K/s.$$

Heat flows through a composite slab, as shown below. The depth of the slab is $$1$$ $$m.$$ the $$k$$ values are in $$W/m. K.$$ The overall thermal resistance in $$K/W$$ is

In case of one dimensional heat conduction in a medium with constant properties, $$T$$ is the temperature at position $$x,$$ at time $$t.$$ Then $${{\partial T} \over {\partial t}}$$ is proportional to

A company has two factories $${S_1},$$ $${S_2}$$ and two warehouses $${D_1},$$ $${D_2}$$ . the supplies from $${S_1}$$ and $${S_2}$$ are $$50$$ and $$40$$ units respectively. Warehouse $${D_1},$$ requires a minimum of $$20$$ units and a maximum of $$40$$ units. Warehouse $${D_2},$$ requires a minimum of $$20$$ units and, over and above, it can take as much as can be supplied. A balanced transport-ation problem is to be formulated for the above situation. The number of supply points, the number of demand points, and the total supply (or total demand) in the balanced transportation problem respectively are

Consider a linear programming problem with two variables and two constraints. The objective function is: Maximize $${x_1} + {x_2}.$$ The corner points of the feasible region are $$(0,0), (0,2), (2,0)$$ and $$(4/3, 4/3).$$

Let $${y_1}$$ and $${y_2}$$ be the decision variables of the dual and $${v_1}$$ and $${v_2}$$ be the slack variables of the dual of the given linear programming problem. The optimum dual variables are

Consider a linear programming problem with two variables and two constraints. The objective function is: Maximize $${x_1} + {x_2}.$$ The corner points of the feasible region are $$(0,0), (0,2), (2,0)$$ and $$(4/3, 4/3).$$

If an additional constraint $${x_1} + {x_2} \le 5$$ is added, the optimal solution is

Consider a single server queuing model with Poisson arrivals $$\left( {\lambda = 4/hour} \right)$$ and exponential service $$\left( {\mu = 4/hour} \right)$$. The number in the system is restricted to a maximum of $$10.$$ The probability that a person who comes in leaves without joining the queue is

The sales of a product during the last four years were $$860, 880, 870$$ and $$890$$ units. The forecast for the fourth year was $$876$$ units. If the forecast for the fifth year, using simple exponential smoothing, is equal to the forecast using a three period moving average, the value of the exponential smoothing constant $$\alpha $$ is

A project has six activities $$(A$$ to $$F)$$ with respective activity durations $$7,5,6,6,8,4$$ days. The network has three paths $$A-B,C-D$$ and $$E-F.$$ All the activities can be crashed with the same crash cost per day. The number of activities that need to be crashed to reduce the project duration by $$1$$ day is

The distribution of lead-time demand fro an item is as follows:

The reorder level is $$1.25$$ times the expected value of the lead-time demand. The service level is

A band brake consists of a lever attached to one end of the band. The other end of the band is fixed to the ground. The wheel has a radius of $$200$$ $$mm$$ and the wrap angle of the band is $${270^ \circ }$$. The braking force applied to the lever is limited to $$100N,$$ and the coefficient of friction between the band and the wheel is $$0.5.$$ No other information is given.

The maximum wheel torque that can be completely braked is

A band brake consists of a lever attached to one end of the band. The other end of the band is fixed to the ground. The wheel has a radius of $$200$$ $$mm$$ and the wrap angle of the band is $${270^ \circ }$$. The braking force applied to the lever is limited to $$100N,$$ and the coefficient of friction between the band and the wheel is $$0.5.$$ No other information is given.

The maximum tension that can be generated in the band during braking is

Which one of the following is criterion in the design of hydrodynamic journal bearings?

A mould has a downsprue whose length is $$20$$ $$cm$$ and the cross sectional area at the base of the down sprue is $$1\,\,c{m^2}.$$ The down sprue feeds a horizontal runner leading into the mould cavity of volume $$1000\,\,c{m^3}.$$ The time required to fill the mould cavity will be

The tool of an $$NC$$ machine has to move along a circular arc from $$(5,5)$$ to $$(10,10)$$ while performing an operation. The center of the arc is at $$(10,5).$$ Which one of the following $$NC$$ tool path commands performs the above mentioned operation?

Which among the $$NC$$ operations given below are continuous path operations? Arc Welding $$(A$$ $$W)$$, Milling $$(M),$$ Drilling $$(D),$$ Punching in Sheet Metal $$(P)$$ Laser Cutting of Sheet Metal $$(LC),$$ Spot Welding $$(SW).$$

In order to have interference fit, it is essential that the lower limit of the shaft should be

A $$2$$ $$mm$$ thick metal sheet is to be bent at an angle of one radian with a bend radius of $$100$$ $$mm.$$ If the stretch factor is $$0.5,$$ the bend allowance is

A $$600$$ $$mm$$ $$ \times \,\,30\,\,mm$$ flat surface of a plate is to be finish machined on a shaper. The plate has been fixed with the $$600$$ $$mm$$ side along the tool travel direction. If the tool over-travel at each end of the plate is $$20$$ $$mm,$$ average cutting speed is $$8$$ $$m/min,$$ feed rate is $$0.3$$ $$mm/stroke$$ and the ratio of return time to cutting time of the tool is $$1:2,$$ the time required for machining will be

Two tools $$P$$ and $$Q$$ have signature $${5^ \circ } - {5^ \circ } - {6^ \circ } - {6^ \circ } - {8^ \circ } - {30^ \circ } - 0$$ and $${5^ \circ } - {5^ \circ } - {7^ \circ } - {7^ \circ } - {8^ \circ } - {15^ \circ } - 0$$ (both $$ASA$$) respectively. They are used to turn components under the same machining conditions. If $${h_p}$$ and $${h_Q}$$ denote the peak-to-valley height of surfaces produced by the tools $$P$$ and $$Q$$, the ratio $${h_P}/{h_Q}$$ will be

The figure below shows a graph, which qualitatively relates cutting speed and cost per piece produced.

The three curves $$1,2$$ and $$3$$ respectively represent

Spot welding of two $$1$$ $$mm$$ thick sheets of steel (density $$ = 8000kg/{m^3}$$ ) is carried out successfully by passing a certain amount of current for $$0.1$$ second through the electrodes. The resultant weld nugget formed is $$5$$ $$mm$$ in diameter and $$1.5$$ $$mm$$ thick. If the latent heat of fusion of steel is $$1400$$ $$kJ/kg$$ and the effective resistance in the welding operation is $$200\mu \Omega ,$$ the current passing through the electrodes is approximately

The strength of a brazed joint

Match List - $${\rm I}$$ (products) with List - $${\rm II}$$ (casting process) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists

A weighing machine consists of a 2 kg pan resting on a spring in this condition, with the pan resting on the spring, the length of the spring is 200 mm. When a mass of 20 kg is placed on the pan, the length of the spring becomes 100 mm. For the spring, the un-deformed length L and the spring constant K (stiffness) are

Two identical cantilever beams are supported as shown, with their free ends in contact through a rigid roller. After the load P is applied, the free ends will have

The two shafts $$AB$$ and $$BC$$, of equal length and diameters $$d$$ and $$2d$$, are made of the same material. They are joined at $$B$$ through a shaft coupling, while the ends $$A$$ and $$C$$ are built-in (cantilevered). A twisting moment $$T$$ is applied to the coupling. If $${T_A}$$ and $${T_C}$$ represent the twisting moments at the ends $$A$$ and $$C,$$ respectively, then

A mass less beam has a loading pattern as shown in figure. The beam is rectangular cross-section with a width of 30 mm and height of 100 mm.

The maximum bending moment occurs at

A mass less beam has a loading pattern as shown in figure. The beam is rectangular cross-section with a width of 30 mm and height of 100 mm.

The maximum magnitude of bending stress (in MPa) is given by

A cantilever beam has the square cross section of 10 mm $$ \times $$ 10 mm. It carries a transverse load of 10 N. Considering only the bottom fibres of the beam, the correct representation of the longitudinal variation of the bending stress is

A beam is made up of two identical bars AB and BC, by hinging them together at B. The end A is built-in (cantilevered) and the end C is simply supported. With the load P acting as shown, the bending moment at A is

A cantilever beam carries the anti-symmetric load shown, where w_o is the peak intensity of the distributed load. Qualitatively, the correct bending moment diagram for this beam is

An instantaneous configuration of a four-bar mechanism, whose plane is horizontal, is shown in the figure below. At this instant, the angular velocity and angular acceleration of link $${Q_2}\,\,A$$ are $$\omega = 8\,\,rad/s$$ and $$\alpha = 0$$, respectively, and the driving torque $$(T)$$ is zero. The link $${Q_2}\,\,A$$ is balanced so that its center of mass falls at $${Q_2}.$$

At the instant considered, what is the magnitude of the angular velocity of $${O_4}B?$$

An instantaneous configuration of a four-bar mechanism, whose plane is horizontal, is shown in the figure below. At this instant, the angular velocity and angular acceleration of link $${Q_2}\,\,A$$ are $$\omega = 8\,\,rad/s$$ and $$\alpha = 0$$, respectively, and the driving torque $$(T)$$ is zero. The link $${Q_2}\,\,A$$ is balanced so that its center of mass falls at $${Q_2}.$$

At the same instant, if the component of the force at joint $$A$$ along $$AB$$ is $$30 N,$$ then the magnitude of the joint reaction at $${Q_2}$$.

An instantaneous configuration of a four-bar mechanism, whose plane is horizontal, is shown in the figure below. At this instant, the angular velocity and angular acceleration of link $${Q_2}\,\,A$$ are $$\omega = 8\,\,rad/s$$ and $$\alpha = 0$$, respectively, and the driving torque $$(T)$$ is zero. The link $${Q_2}\,\,A$$ is balanced so that its center of mass falls at $${Q_2}.$$

Which kind of $$4$$-bar mechanism is $${Q_2}AB{O_4}?$$

The number of degrees of freedom of a planar linkage with 8 links and 9 simple revolute joints is

In a spring-mass system, the mass is 0.1 kg and the stiffness of the spring is 1 kN/m. By introducing a damper, the frequency of oscillation is found to be 90% of the original value. What is the damping coefficient of the damper?

There are four samples P, Q, R and S, with natural frequencies 64, 96, 128 and 256 Hz, respectively. There are mounted on test setups for conducting vibration experiments. If a loud pure not of frequency 144Hz is produced by some instrument, which of the samples will show the most perceptible induced vibration?

In the velocity diagram shown below, $$u=$$ blade velocity, $$C=$$ absolute fluid velocity and $$W = $$ relative velocity of fluid and the subscripts $$1$$ and $$2$$ refer to inlet and outlet.

A vapor absorption refrigeration system is a heat pump with three thermal reservoirs as shown in the figure. A refrigeration effect of $$100$$ $$W$$ is required at $$250$$ $$K$$ when the heat source available is at $$400$$ $$K.$$ Heat rejection occurs at $$300$$ $$K.$$ The minimum value of heat required (in $$W$$) is

The following four figures have been drawn to represent a fictitious thermodynamic cycle, on the $$P$$-$$v$$ and $$T$$-$$S$$ plates

According to the first law of thermodynamics, equal areas are enclosed by

Nitrogen at an initial state of $$10$$ bar, $$1{m^3}$$ and $$300$$ $$K$$ is expanded isothermally to a final volume of $$2{m^3}$$. The $$p$$-$$v$$-$$T$$ relation is $$\left( {p + {a \over {{v^2}}}} \right)v = RT,$$ where $$a>0.$$ The final pressure

The following table of properties was printed out for saturated liquid and saturated vapour of ammonia. The titles for only the first two columns are available. All that we know is that the other columns (columns $$3$$ to $$8$$) contain data on specific properties, namely, internal energy $$(kJ/kg),$$ enthalpy $$(kJ/kg)$$ and entropy $$(kJ/kg.K).$$

When saturated liquid at $${40^ \circ }C$$ is throttled to $$ - {20^ \circ }C,$$ the quality at exit will be

The following table of properties was printed out for saturated liquid and saturated vapour of ammonia. The titles for only the first two columns are available. All that we know is that the other columns (columns $$3$$ to $$8$$) contain data on specific properties, namely, internal energy $$(kJ/kg),$$ enthalpy $$(kJ/kg)$$ and entropy $$(kJ/kg.K).$$

The specific enthalpy data are in columns