Engineering Sciences
GATE XE year:2018 PYQs
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Question 20
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The skin friction coefficient for a turbulent pipe flow is defined as,
, where τ_w is the wall shear stress and V is the average flow velocity. The value of C_f is empirically given by the relation:
, where Re is the Reynolds number. If the average flow velocity is 10 m/s, diameter of the pipe is 250 mm, kinematic viscosity of the fluid is 0.25×10⁻⁶ m²/s, and density of the fluid is 700 kg/m³, the skin friction drag induced by the flow over 1 m length of the pipe, in N, is __________.Log in to check the answer
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A (150 mm × 150 mm) square pillar is located in a river with water flowing at a velocity of 2 m/s, as shown in figure. The height of the pillar in water is 8 m. Take density of water as 1000 kg/m³ and kinematic viscosity as 1×10⁻⁶ m²/s. The coefficient of drag of the pillar is 2.0. The drag force exerted by water on the pillar in N is ________.

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An orifice plate is used to measure flow rate of air (density = 1.23 kg/m³) in a duct of 250 mm diameter as shown in figure. The volume flow rate is 1 m³/s. Flow at sections 1 and 3 are uniform and section 2 is located at vena contracta. The diameter ratio, D_t/D_1, is 0.66. The flow area at vena contracta, A_2 = 0.65A_t, where A_t is area of the orifice. The pressure difference between locations 2 and 3 in N/m² is __________.

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The stress ratio for a completely reversed cyclic loading during a fatigue test is
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Minimum symmetry that a cubic crystal must possess is
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If a material is repelled in an external magnetic field then it is
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An electron makes a transition from the valence band to the conduction band in an indirect band gap semiconductor. Which one of the following is true?
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Which one of the following is the characteristic of a screw dislocation?
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The number of vibrational degrees of freedom for a non-linear triatomic molecule are
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An atom is restricted to move in one dimension by making unit jumps either to the left or right, as shown in the figure. Assuming that a jump to the left or right is equally probable, the probability of the atom returning back to the start point after four jumps is

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