GATE AE 2026 Paper 1 — page 14

Questions 40–42 of 65. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.

Consider a unit square body as shown in the figure below. The body is subjected to the deformation field

and

, where ‘a’ is a constant. Due to the application of this deformation field, the body undergoes ______ in the x-y plane.

Diagram for Aerospace Engineering question 40

Your answerChoose one option.

biaxial deformation

pure shear

pure bending

rigid body rotation

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Consider a launch vehicle of mass 10 tons being launched vertically. The vehicle has 8 tons of propellant, which burns completely at a constant rate over 50 s. If the engine specific impulse is 250 s, and the acceleration due to gravity at sea level is

, the acceleration experienced by the vehicle at lift-off is ______.

Your answerChoose one option.

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The figure below shows a compressor stage with station numbers 1, 2, and 3 as indicated. If

, and

refer to the average values of total pressure, total temperature, and absolute flow speed, respectively, at the

station, select the CORRECT option considering loss.

Diagram for Aerospace Engineering question 42

Your answerChoose one option.

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2026 · Paper 1

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