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Question : 21
Which of the following statements are correct?
- GSLV Mark III will be about 50 percent heavier than the GSLV
- GSLV Mark III will operate in three-stages
- GSLV Mark III will be less sensitive than the GSLV to disturbances that might occur as it accelerates through the dense atmosphere.
a) 1 and 3 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 2 only
d) None of these
Answer »Answer: (c)
GSLV Mark III will be more sensitive than the PSLV and the GSLV to disturbances that might occur as it accelerates through the dense atmosphere.
Question : 22 [SSC CPO 2004]
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics is situated at
a) Kolkata
b) New Delhi
c) Chennai
d) Mumbai
Answer »Answer: (a)
The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) is an institution of basic research and training in physical and biophysical sciences located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India. The institute is named after the famous Indian physicist Meghnad Saha. This institute is well known to have many amazing types of equipment related to physics including a Van De Graff’s generator.
The Institute grew out of the Palit Research Laboratory in Physics of the University of Calcutta. After Professor Meghnad Saha returned from Allahabad in 1938 to succeed Sir C. V. Raman in the Palit Chair of Physics, he reorganized the post-graduate physics curriculum of the University of Calcutta to include nuclear physics by 1940 after realising the immense potential of the subject for the betterment of the country.
Soon the necessity of a small-scale cyclotron was felt for gaining first-hand knowledge in this virgin field which was procured from the fund raised by the help of Jawaharlal Nehru and the patronage of J. R. D. Tata.
Question : 23 [SSC CPO 2010]
Where is the satellite launching centre of India located ?
a) Hassan
b) Thumba
c) Sriharikota
d) Ahmedabad
Answer »Answer: (c)
Sriharikota is a barrier island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It houses India’s only satellite launch centre in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (also known as SHAR) and is used by the Indian Space Research Organisation to launch satellites using multi-stage rockets such as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Originally called Sriharikota High Altitude Range (SHAR, an acronym ISRO have retained to the present day) and then Sriharikota Launching Range, the centre was renamed in 2002 after the death of ISRO’s former chairman Satish Dhawan.
Question : 25
Consider the following statements:
- India has 10 Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs)
- The spent fuel from the PHWRs is reprocessed into plutonium.
- All imported reactors are under the safeguards of the international Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
a) 1 only
b) 2 and 3
c) 2 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer »Answer: (c)
India has 19 Pressurized Heavy water Reactors. It is a nuclear power reactor commonly using unenriched natural uranium as its fuel, that uses heavy water (D2 O) as its coolant and moderator.
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