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  • What is a Contact Force and explain with an example?


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  • A Contact force is a force applied to a body by another body that is in contact with it Contact force acts on a point of direct contact between the two objects This force can either be continuous as a continuous force or can be momentary in the form of an impulse Contact force is governed by Newton?s Laws Examples :: Contact force is responsible for most of the interactions we experience in the daily life 1 Writing your name with a pen, pushing a car up a hill, lifting an object, etc 2 Kicking a ball, hammering a nail, etc are some of the everyday examples where contact forces are at work In the first case, the force is continuously applied by the person on the car or pen or an object while in the second case the force is delivered in a short impulse Contact forces are often decomposed into orthogonal components one perpendicular to the surface in contact called the normal force, and one parallel to the surface in contact, called the friction force 

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    • 1. What invention was first installed at a Hartford, Connecticut bank in 1889?

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    • A. Automatic teller machine
    • B. Time-lock safe
    • C. Burglar alarm
    • D. Pay telephone
    • Discuss
    • 2. The number of electrons presents in H+ is

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    • A. zero
    • B. one
    • C. two
    • D. three
    • Discuss
    • 3. What now-ubiquitous device was invented by Zenith engineer Eugene Polley in 1955?

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    • A. Microwave oven
    • B. Remote control
    • C. VCR
    • D. Calculator
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    • 4. Which is a type of Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory?

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    • A. Flash
    • B. Flange
    • C. Fury
    • D. FRAM
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    • 5. 'Madhubani', a style of folk paintings, is popular in which of the following states in India?

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    • A. Uttar Pradesh
    • B. Rajasthan
    • C. Madhya Pradesh
    • D. Bihar
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    • 6. Nitrogen is fixed in ecosystems in ways stated below. Which one of the statements below is false?

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    • A. By cyanobacteria
    • B. By electrical discharges in the atmosphere
    • C. By industrially synthesised fertilizer
    • D. By denitrification
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    • 7. Planets do not twinkle because

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    • A. they emit light of a constant intensity
    • B. their distance from the earth does not change with time
    • C. they are very far away from the earth resulting in decrease in intensity of light
    • D. they are nearer to earth and hence we receive a greater amount of light and, therefore minor variations in the intensity are not noticeable
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    • 8. The Manhattan Project was started by President Roosevelt in 1942 to ensure that the U.S. beat the Germans in developing a nuclear bomb. Whom did Roosevelt appoint as scientific head the Manhattan Project?

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    • A. Robert Oppenheimer
    • B. James B. Conant
    • C. Leslie R. Groves
    • D. Vannevar Bush
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    • 9. In which decade was the ARRL founded?

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    • A. 1940s
    • B. 1930s
    • C. 1920s
    • D. 1910s
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    • 10. Out of 900 reported species of living gymnosperms, conifers are represented by about 500 species, About 2,50,000 species of angiosperms (flowering plants) have also been reported in the world. The vast and dominant woodlands in Europe, Asia, North America and mountains such as Himalayas are wooded with

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    • A. all gymnosperms, except conifers
    • B. only angiosperms
    • C. only conifers
    • D. angiosperms and all gymnosperms except conifers
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