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OSSSC JE 24 August 2021, 2nd Shift Response Key
Q2722816 A rack is used to convert the rotary motion of a pinion to linear translation of the rack, or vice versa. A rack is a gear of infinite
A) tooth thickness
B) module
C) diameter
D) face width
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Q2722807 If a mechanism forms a statically indeterminate structure, then the degree of freedom (n) of the mechanism is
A) ≥ 2
B) 0
C) 1
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Q2722942 Which of the following valves protects pressure vessels from pressures exceeding their design limits?
Q2721543 According to which of the following laws of thermodynamics, the heat and work are mutually convertible?
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Q2721550 According to Stefan Boltzmann law, the flux of heat energy emitted by radiation from a black body is proportional to
Q2721511 Which of the following is suitable for making bearings that are subjected to heavy load?
A) Silicon bronze
B) Monel metal
C) Phosphor bronze
D) White metal
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Q2722812 What is the name of component of acceleration of a particle at any instant moving along a circular path which is parallel to the velocity of the particle at
that instant?
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A) Coriolis component
B) Tangential component
C) Radial component
D) Parallel component
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A) pendulum type
B) dead weight type
C) inertia type
D) spring-loaded type
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A) 5° to 15°
B) 30° to 45°
C) 20° to 30°
D) 45° to 50°
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Q2723117 Which of the following is the weakest area of the weld in a fillet welded joint?
A) Root
B) Throat
C) Face
D) Toe
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Q2723138 What is the type of screw which has the coefficient of friction equal to or greater than the tangent of the lead angle?
A) Machine screw
B) Ball bearing type screw
C) Set-screw
D) Self-locking screw
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Q2723220 Thermal Efficiency of any heat engine is the ratio of
Q2721547 Which of the following involves the equilibrium of solid, liquid and vapour phases of a pure substance?
A) Triple point
B) Double point
C) Single point
D) Critical point
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A) Entropy change is directly proportional to the heat added and also to the temperature at which it is added
B) Entropy change is inversely proportional to the heat added and also to the temperature at which it is added
C) Entropy change is inversely proportional to the heat added but directly proportional to the temperature at which it is added
D) Entropy change is directly proportional to the heat added but inversely proportional to the temperature at which it is added
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Q2721507 What is the effective number of lattice points in the unit cell of simple cubic, body centered cubic and face centered cubic space lattices respectively?
A) 2, 3, 4
B) 2, 4, 4
C) 1, 2, 3
D) 1, 2, 4
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Q2721504 As per Gibb's phase rule, if the number of components is equal to 2, then the number of phases will be
A) ≤ 2
B) ≤ 5
C) ≤ 1
D) ≤4
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Q2722900 The phenomenon by which a liquid (depending upon its specific gravity) rises into a thin glass tube above or below its general level is known as
A) cohesion
B) capillarity
C) adhesion
D) surface tension
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Q2722896 For a floating body, if the position of metacentre “M” remains lower than the centre of gravity of the body “G”, then the body will remain in a state of
A) unstable equilibrium
B) neutral equilibrium
C) zero equilibrium
D) stable equilibrium
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Q2722906 The device with which small quantities of water can be pumped to higher levels from the available large quantity of water of low head and which works
on the principle of water hammer is called as
Score Obtained : 1.0
A) hydraulic press
B) hydraulic ram
C) hydraulic intensifier
D) hydraulic accumulator
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Q2723190 Which of the following helps in reducing the knocking tendency in a SI engine?
Q2723215 Which of the following characteristics makes a diesel engine more efficient than a spark ignition engine?
Q2723216 What are the processes involved in an air standard diesel cycle?
A) Endurance limit
B) Rigidity modulus
C) Ultimate tensile strength
D) Young’s modulus
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Q2721536 What is the equivalent thermal conductivity of a composite slab made up of two layers of different materials having same thickness but different thermal
conductivities?
(where, thermal conductivities of two layers are k and 2k)
Score Obtained : 1.0
A) 2k / 3
B) 4k / 3
C) 3k
D) 3k / 2
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Q2721502 What is the measure of the resistance to localized plastic deformation induced by either mechanical indentation or abrasion?
A) Strength
B) Toughness
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D) Hardness
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Q2722854 The most common shielding gas used for GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) of Carbon steel is
A) Oxygen
B) Argon
C) Hydrogen
D) Nitrogen
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Q2722842 In a horizontal milling machine, the cutting tool is mounted on
A) knee
B) arbor
C) overarm
D) column
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Q2723165 Which of the following characteristics is possessed by critical activity in PERT analysis?
A) Minimum cost
B) Maximum cost
C) Zero float
D) Maximum float
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Q2723179 Which of the following has most important consideration in value engineering?
Q2723196 The torque available at the wheels from the engine produces a driving force parallel to the road. What is the name of this force?
A) Rolling effort
B) Air effort
C) Grade effort
D) Tractive effort
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Q2722856 If a grinding wheel is marked as 49 A 46 K 7 V 24, then the number 46 stands for
A) grain size
B) structure
C) grade
D) bond type
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A) Production schedule
B) Proper utilisation of manpower
C) Material handling
D) Efficient working of machine
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Q2721466 If the load at the free end of a cantilever beam is increased, then the failure will occur
Q2721492 The impurity in cast iron that makes it hard and brittle is
A) Magnesium
B) Phosphorous
C) Silicon
D) Sulphur
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Q2722852 What is the CORRECT composition of cutting tool material 18-4-1 HSS ?
A) 18% W, 4% Ni, 1% V
B) 18% W, 4% Cr, 1% V
C) 18% Cr, 4% W, 1% V
D) 18% Cr, 4% Ni, 1% V
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A) centrifugal pump
B) vane pump
C) jet pump
D) gear pump
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Q2723141 The life of a ball bearing at a load of 10 kN is 8000 hours. What will be the life of the bearing (in hours) if the load is increased to 20 kN, keeping all
other conditions the same?
Score Obtained : 0.0
A) 1000
B) 2000
C) 3000
D) 500
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Q2723203 Which of the following is CORRECT statement for mean effective pressure of otto cycle?
Score Obtained : 1.0
Q2721549 In a counter flow heat exchanger, the product of specific heat and mass flow rate is same for the hot and cold fluids. What is the effectiveness of the
heat exchanger if NTU is equal to 0.5 ?
Score Obtained : 1.0
A) 0.5
B) 0.33
C) 1
D) 0.25
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Q2721464 A steel wire is stretched by a load. If the radius of the wire is doubled, then the modulus of elasticity will
A) become halved
B) become doubled
C) remain unaffected
D) become one-fourth
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Q2721503 Which of the following mediums is used to achieve the fastest cooling rate during quenching of steel?
A) Water
B) Brine
C) Oil
D) Air
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Q2722870 Consider the following hole and shaft sizes of mating parts according to hole basis system.
Hole: Shaft:
A) 0.07 mm
B) 0.03 mm
C) 0.02 mm
D) 0.05 mm
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Q2722855 Two 1 mm thick steel sheets are to be spot welded at a current of 5000 A. Assuming effective resistance to be 200 μΩ and current flow time of 0.2
second, heat generated during the process will be
Score Obtained : 1.0
A) 10 joule
B) 1000 joule
C) 0.2 joule
D) 500 joule
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Q2723183 If inventory holding cost per unit per period of time, ordering cost and demand get doubled, then the ratio of modified economic order quantity (EOQ) to
the present EOQ is proportional to
Score Obtained : 1.0
A) 4
B) 2
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D) √3
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Q2723222 The thermal efficiency of diesel cycle when compared to an Otto cycle, with the same compression ratio and same heat addition, is
A) same
B) lower
C) unpredictable
D) higher
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Q2722830 What deals with relative motion of various parts of a machine without considering the forces causing it?
A) Statics
B) Dynamics
C) Kinetics
D) Kinematics
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Q2722809 The equivalent stiffness of the spring for the system shown below is
Score Obtained : 1.0
A) k
B) 5k / 2
C) 2k / 5
D) 4k
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Q2722811 Where will the instantaneous centre lie when a link having sliding block moves on a fixed link having curved surface?
Q2722897 The velocity potential is defined as a scalar function of space and time such that its negative derivative with respect to any direction gives the fluid
velocity in that direction. The line of along which the velocity potential (φ) is constant is called as a/an
Score Obtained : -0.25
A) equipotential line
B) streak line
C) streamline
D) path line
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Q2723145 When a key connects a flange coupling to a shaft to transmit the power, then the key is designed to fail by
A) bending
B) torsion
C) shear
D) tension
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Q2723162 Therbligs are 18 kinds of elemental motions that make up a set of fundamental motions required for a worker to perform a manual operation or task. In
micromotion study, therblig is described by which one of the following?
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A) Event
B) Symbol
C) Standard symbol and color
D) Activity
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Q2723228 Consider a rope-brake dynamometer, which is attached to the crank shaft of an IC engine, measures a brake power of 20 kW when the speed of
rotation of the shaft is 400 rad/s. What is the value of the shaft torque sensed by the dynamometer?
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A) 50 Nm
B) 20 Nm
C) 80 Nm
D) 25 Nm
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Q2721548 Match List-I (Cycle operating between fixed temperature limits) with List-II (Characteristic) and select the CORRECT answer.
List-I List-II
A. Carnot cycle 1. Efficiency depends upon cut-off ratio and compression ratio
B. Brayton Cycle 2. Efficiency depends upon volume compression ratio
C. Otto cycle 3. Efficiency depends upon pressure ratio
D. Diesel cycle 4. Efficiency depends upon temperature limits
A) Isobaric
B) Adiabatic
C) Isochoric
D) Isothermal
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Q2721508 One of the properties of cast iron, which makes it unique in its application, is its high
A) surface finish
B) malleability
C) ductility
D) damping characteristics
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Q2722817 What is the number of possible inversion of a mechanism having “N” number of links?
A) 300 – 1000
B) 1000 – 1200
C) 12 - 70
D) 80 – 400
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Q2722903 The ratio of power available at the turbine shaft to the power supplied by the water jet is
A) mechanical efficiency
B) overall efficiency
C) volumetric efficiency
D) hydraulic efficiency
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Q2723227 What is the clearance volume of each cylinder of a four stroke four cylinder SI engine having swept volume as 450 cm3 and compression ratio as 8 ?
A) 55 cm3
B) 72 cm3
C) 65 cm3
D) 48 cm3
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Q2721468 Which of the following is the exact relation between modulus of elasticity (E) & modulus of rigidity (G)?
A) E = 2G (2 + Poisson’s ratio)
B) E = 2G (1 - Poisson’s ratio)
C) E = 2G (1 + Poisson’s ratio)
D) E = 2G [1 + (2 x Poisson's ratio)]
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D) Countersinking
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Q2722844 Which type of drilling machine is used when several holes of same diameter or different diameters are to be drilled simultaneously and accurately?
Q2723146 Which of the following is equal to the ratio of tension on the tight side to that on the slack side in a flat belt drive?
Score Obtained : 1.0
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Q2723139 Two plates of 9 mm thickness each are to be joined by means of a single riveted double strap butt joint. What will be the diameter of rivet hole?
A) 18 mm
B) 22 mm
C) 16 mm
D) 9 mm
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Q2721544 Which of the following represents the critical thickness of insulation for sphere?
(where, K = Thermal conductivity of insulating material and h = Heat transfer coefficient)
Score Obtained : 1.0
A) 2K / h
B) h / K
C) K / h
D) 2h / K
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Q2721551 What is the COP of a Carnot heat pump that operates between -3°C and 27°C ?
A) 0.10
B) 10
C) 0.11
D) 9
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Q2721501 The temperature at which eutectoid reaction occurs in Fe-C equilibrium diagram is
A) 1539 °C
B) 910 °C
C) 723 °C
D) 1394 °C
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Q2722868 What will be the percentage reduction in the cross-sectional area of the billet after the extrusion considering extrusion ratio as 20 ?
A) 90%
B) 95%
C) 99%
D) 98%
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A) Ball bearing
B) Thrust bearing
C) Collar
D) Plummer block
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Q2723180 AOQ is the expected average quality level of an outgoing product for a given value of incoming product quality. If the probability of an acceptance of a
3% defective lot is 0.97, then AOQ is
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A) 0.03
B) 0.0291
C) 0.291
D) 0.3
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Q2721506 Which of the following indicates the range of percentage of carbon in grey cast iron?
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Q2722810 As per Kennedy’s theorem, if three bodies move relatively to each other, then they have three instantaneous centres which lie on a/an
A) elliptical path
B) point
C) straight line
D) curved path
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Q2722869 In plane milling, if ‘D’ is diameter of the cutter and ‘d’ is total depth of cut, then the approach is equal to
A)
B)
C)
D)
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Q2722888 A fluid’s resistance to flow is viscosity. If there is a rise in temperature, the viscosity of the liquid
A) increases
B) first decreases and then increases
C) decreases
D) first increases and then decreases
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Q2723128 For an effective length of a column (Le) and the least radius of gyration (r) of the cross-section of the column, slenderness ratio is given as
A) (1+r) / Le
B) r / Le
C) Le / r
D) (1+Le) / r
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A) Fuel only
B) Air only
C) Mixture of fuel and lubricant
D) Mixture of air and fuel
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Q2721545 An extensive property of a system depends on the mass of the system. Which of the following is an example of extensive property?
A) Pressure
B) Density
C) Internal energy
D) Temperature
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A) toughness
B) tensile strength
C) hardness
D) fatigue strength
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Q2722851 Under which of the following conditions, the tools made of cemented carbide wear out faster?
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Q2723164 Which of the following techniques refers to CPM (Critical path method)?
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