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100351. The energy possessed by a body because of its velocity is?

Answer: Kinetic energy

100352. Kinetic energy is proportional to?

Answer: mass of the body & square of its velocity

100353. The energy possessed by a body because of its position or change in shape is called?

Answer: Potential energy

100354. What happens to the potential energy when the height of a body from the ground is doubled?

Answer: Potential energy is also doubled

100355. The energy possessed by the water collected in the reservoir of a dam?

Answer: potential energy

100356. If the velocity of a body is increased, its kinetic energy?

Answer: increases

100357. The SI Unit of?

Answer: Work - joule power - watt energy - joule

100358. Energy of one form can be changed to another form. The process is called?

Answer: Energy Transformation

100359. What is the potential energy of a body on the ground?

Answer: Zero

100360. Which is the main source of energy to earth?

Answer: Sun

100361. In the sun, which is converted into energy?

Answer: Matter

100362. What is called a device which reduces human effort?

Answer: Machine

100363. What is called the ratio of the resistance to the effort when they balance each other?

Answer: Mechanical advantage of a simple machine

100364. What is called ‘lever’?

Answer: A rigid rod which can rotate about a point fulcrum is called a lever.

100365. What is first order lever?

Answer: In first order lever Fulcrum is between the resistance and effort.

100366. Write some examples of the first order levers:?

Answer: Balance; scissors; spanner

100367. What is second order lever?

Answer: In second order lever resistance lies between the Fulcrum and effort

100368. Write examples of second order lever?

Answer: Nut cracker; Wheel barrow; Bottle opener Who proved the existence of seven colours in sunlight?

100369. What do you mean by the third order lever?

Answer: The effort is in between the resistance and the fulcrum

100370. Write examples of third order lever?

Answer: Fire tongs; forceps; ice tongs

100371. What changes is done in a dynamo?

Answer: Mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy.

100372. What is the unit of work in the C.G.S. system?

Answer: Erg

100373. When a body falls freely work is done by?

Answer: Gravitational force

100374. One watt is equal to?

Answer: One Joule / second

100375. “State the law of conservation of energy”:?

Answer: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed although it can be transformed from one form to another

100376. When is work always done on a body?

Answer: When it experience an increase in energy through a mechanical influence

100377. The unit of Speed and Velocity is?

Answer: m/sec

100378. The unit of acceleration?

Answer: metre/sec²

100379. A quantity which possess only magnitude is called a?

Answer: scalar quantity

100380. Distance, Mass, Temperature, Time etc. are examples of which quantity?

Answer: Scalar quantity

100381. A quantity which possess both magnitude and direction is known as?

Answer: Vector quantity

100382. Examples of vector quanties are?

Answer: (1) velocity (2) acceleration (3) force (4) displacement

100383. “If there is no external force, a body at rest continues to be at rest and a body in motion continues to move with uniform velocity”. This law is known as?

Answer: The Law of Inertia

100384. Who proposed the Law of Inertia?

Answer: Galileo

100385. Who proposed the Laws of Motion?

Answer: Isaac Newton

100386. The distance travelled in unit time is called?

Answer: speed

100387. The distance travelled in unit time in a specific direction is called?

Answer: velocity

100388. Impulse of force?

Answer: is the product of the force and the time during which the force acts on the body.

100389. The force acting for a very short time?

Answer: impulsive force

100390. The rate of change of velocity is called?

Answer: acceleration

100391. The kind of force that opposes relative motion is known as?

Answer: Friction

100392. The rocket lift - off is based on which law?

Answer: Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion

100393. The minimum speed which a space craft needs to escape earths gravitational force is known as?

Answer: escape speed (escape velocity is wrong because speed is a scalar quantity)

100394. The escape speed is?

Answer: 11.2 km/s or 7 miles /sec.

100395. The SI unit of force is?

Answer: Newton

100396. Which force is needed to change the direction of a moving body?

Answer: External unbalanced

100397. The momentum of a body depends on what?

Answer: Its mass and velocity

100398. Why does the cotton wick in an oil-filled lamp keep on burning?

Answer: In the cotton wick there are innumerable capillaries in which oil continues to rise.

100399. The upward force which liquid act on bodies immersed in it is called?

Answer: buoyant force

100400. How does the rise of temperature affect surface tension?

Answer: The surface tension decreases with rise of temperature.
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