In pressure compounding of an impulse turbine, the total pressure drop of the steam does not take place in the first nozzle ring, but is divided equally among all the nozzle rings.
2. If a number of coplaner forces acting at a point be in equilibrium, the sum of clockwise moments must be __________ the sum of anticlockwise moments, about any point.
3. A body is subjected to a direct tensile stress (?) in one plane. The shear stress is maximum at a section inclined at __________ to the normal of the section.
4. When a body is subjected to direct tensile stresses (?x and ?y ) in two mutually perpendicular directions, accompanied by a simple shear stress ?xy , then in Mohr's circle method, the circle radius is taken as