Mechanical Engineering
2025 · Paper 1
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Questions 34–36 of 65. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.
Question 34
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A liquid metal is poured in a mold cavity of size 200 mm × 200 mm × 200 mm. The cooling is uniform in all directions with NO additional compensation for shrinkage. Considering the volumetric shrinkage during solidification and solid contraction as 7% and 8%, respectively, the length of the cube edge after cooling down to the room temperature is ______ mm (rounded off to 1 decimal place).
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A block of mass 1 kg connected to a spring of stiffness 10 N m
is operating in a viscous medium such that the damping ratio (or damping factor) is equal to the ratio of the damped frequency to the natural frequency. The magnitude of the damping ratio for this system is ________ (rounded off to 2 decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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In the closed interval [0, 3], the minimum value of the function
given below is
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