General Knowledge Questions And Answers :: General Science: part24



General Knowledge : General Science QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part24 : 86 to 90

Following General Knowledge Multiple choice objective type questions and answers will help you in TRB, SSC and UPSC 2014 examinations :

86.As a man moves directly away from a steady source of sound at constant speed, the sounds he hears will :

remain constant in both pitch and loudness
stay constant in pitch but decreases in loudness
increases in frequency and intensity
decrease in frequency and intensity

87.If a body starts its motion from a point and comes back to its initial position after a certain time then since :

its displacement is zero, average velocity is zero
its displacement is zero average speed is zero
total distance travelled is not zero, average speed is zero
total distance travelled is zero, average velocity is not zero

88.It takes much longer to cook things in the hills than in the plains, because :

atmospheric pressure is high in the hills and water boils at a higher temperature
atmospheric pressure is lower and water boils at a lower temperature
due to low atomspheric pressure in the hills the boiling point of water is raised and therefore water takes longer to boil
the humid atmosphere in the hills absorbes a lot of heat, leaving very little for the cooking.

89.Usually light travels faster than sound. However, when we switch a television set on the picture comes later than the sound. The reason is that :

in TV transmission sound is transmitted first and picture is transmitted later
there is always a delay in the picture tube getting switched on
Emission of electrons from the picture tube takes time
The wiring for picture tube is much longer compared to that for the speaker

90.Air-pockets that cause aircrafts to lose altitude sudenly are caused by :

dense cloud cover
poor visibility
temperature inversions
intense low pressure in valley that suck in air

More General Science QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS available in next pages

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