GATE AE · 2020 · AE
Question 50: Rockets
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Question 50
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A rocket engine has a sea level specific impulse of 210 s and a nozzle throat area of 0.005 m². While testing at sea level conditions, the characteristic velocity and pressure for the thrust chamber are 190 m/s and 50 bar, respectively. Assume the acceleration due to gravity to be 9.8 m/s². The thrust produced by the rocket engine is ______ kN (round off to one decimal place).
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GATE AE 2020 · Paper 1
Aerospace Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Aerospace Engineering
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 2 marks
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