A wooden wheel of radius $$R$$ is made of two semicircular part (see figure). The two parts are held together by a ring made of a metal strip of cross sectional area $$S$$ and length $$L.$$ $$L$$ is slightly less than $$2\pi R.$$ To fit the ring on the wheel, it is heated so that its temperature rises by $$\Delta T$$ and it just steps over the wheel. As it cools down to surrounding temperature, it process the semicircular parts together. If the coefficient of linear expansion of the metal is $$\alpha $$, and its Young's modulus is $$Y,$$ the force that one part of the wheel applies on the other part is :

If a simple pendulum has significant amplitude (up to a factor of $$1/e$$ of original ) only in the period between $$t = 0s\,\,to\,\,t = \tau \,s,$$ then $$\tau \,$$ may be called the average life of the pendulum When the spherical bob of the pendulum suffers a retardation (due to viscous drag) proportional to its velocity with $$b$$ as the constant of proportionality, the average life time of the pendulum is (assuming damping is small) in seconds :

A cylindrical tube, open at both ends, has a fundamental frequency, $$f,$$ in air. The tube is dipped vertically in water so that half of it is in water. The fundamental frequency of the air-column is now :

In a uniformly charged sphere of total charge $$Q$$ and radius $$R,$$ the electric field $$E$$ is plotted as function of distance from the center. The graph which would correspond to the above will be: