Aerospace Engineering
GATE AE topic:flight-mechanics PYQs
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Question 16
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To simulate the aerodynamic forces on a cylinder of 1 m diameter due to a uniform air flow of 1 m/s at standard temperature and pressure (STP), low-speed wind tunnel experiments at STP are conducted on a 0.1 m diameter cylinder. The free stream air speed in the wind tunnel experiments should be ______ m/s (round off to the nearest integer).
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The power-off glide range for an airplane with a maximum Lift to Drag ratio of 18, when the glide starts at an altitude of 4 km, is ______ km (round off to the nearest integer).
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For an airplane flying in a vertical plane, the angle of attack is 3°, the horizontal and vertical components of velocity in wind axis are 300 km/h and 15.72 km/h, respectively. The pitch attitude of the airplane is ______ degrees (round off to 2 decimal places).
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An airplane is in steady level flight with a true air speed of 50 m/s. The ambient air density and ambient pressure at the flight altitude are 0.91 kg/m
and
N/m
, respectively. At sea level, air density is 1.225 kg/m
and ambient pressure is
N/m
. The equivalent or indicated air speed of the airplane is ______ m/s (round off to 2 decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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For the complete combustion of 1 mole of ethanol (C
H
OH), the required number of moles of oxygen is ______.Log in to check the answer
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One kg of diatomic gas is heated and its temperature increases from 100 K to 600 K. The energy added at constant pressure during this process is 500 kJ. The specific heat at constant volume for the gas is ______ kJ/kgK. (round off to 2 decimal places).
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The number of independent elastic constants for a homogeneous isotropic linear elastic material is ______.
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A thin plate with Young’s modulus 210 GPa and Poisson’s ratio 0.3 is loaded as shown in the figure. The change in length along the
-direction is ______ mm (round off to 1 decimal place). 
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For the state of stress shown in the figure, the normal stress,
, on a plane inclined at 45 degrees to the x-axis is ______ MPa (round off to the nearest integer). 
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In the spring-mass system, shown in the figure, mass
kg and the spring stiffness
kN/m. The natural frequency of the system is ______ Hz (round off to the nearest integer). 
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