GATE GG-1 2020 Paper 1 — page 10

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In a soil sample, specific gravity of soil particles is 2.5 and the void ratio is 0.5. The density of the soil sample when it is fully saturated with water is ______ kg/m³. (Assume density of water = 1000 kg/m³, and no volume change of the soil sample with saturation)

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Nuclide A decays to nuclide B exclusively through α and β decay, such that the mass number is reduced by 32 and the atomic number is reduced by 10. The number of β particles emitted during the decay of nuclide A to nuclide B is ______.

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A cylindrical specimen (diameter = 54.7 mm; length = 110 mm) of basalt shows linear elastic behavior under uniaxial compression. At an axial stress of 100 Mega-Pascal (MPa), the absolute value of the measured axial strain is 0.2%. The Young’s modulus is calculated to be ______ Giga-Pascal (GPa).

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