Aerospace Engineering
2020 · Paper 1
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Question 27
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A wedge shaped airfoil is placed in a supersonic flow as shown in the figure (not to scale). The corners of the wedge are at
,
,
, respectively. Which one of the following represents the correct static pressure profiles along
and
? 
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The value of Poisson’s ratio at which the shear modulus of an isotropic material is equal to the bulk modulus is
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A load
is applied to the free end of a stepped cantilever beam as shown in the figure. The Young’s modulus of the material is
, and the moments of inertia of the two sections of length 2 m and 1 m are
and
, respectively. Ignoring transverse shear and stress concentration effects, the deflection at the point where the load is applied at the free end of the cantilever is 
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