Mining Engineering
2020 · Paper 1
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Question 51
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A steel cube of side 50 mm is subjected to a uniform pressure of 200 MPa acting on each face. The Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio of the material are 200 GPa and 0.25, respectively. The decrease in the side of the cube in mm is ________ (round off to 3 decimal places).
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In the figure shown below, the friction coefficient between the block and the inclined plane is 0.2, and all the pulleys are weightless. The weight of the block is 10 N. The minimum force P in Newtons that is needed to slide the block up the inclined plane is ________ (round off to 2 decimal places).

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An assignment problem is given below with the cost of assignment as shown.
Group | T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
G1 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 4 |
G2 | 4 | 100 | 6 | 4 |
G3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 |
G4 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
If only one task can be assigned to one group, the minimum cost of assignment is ________.
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