CHAPTER-9: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS

1. Poisson’s Ratio is applicable to-

  • Solid only
  • Gas only
  • Liquid only
  • All of these

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]Solid only[/su_spoiler]

2. The restoring force per unit area is known as-

  • strain
  • elasticity
  • stress
  • None of these

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]stress[/su_spoiler]

3. The ratio of stress to strain is called-

  • Frictional coefficient
  • Elastic constant
  • Coefficient of viscosity
  • Surface tension

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]Elastic constant[/su_spoiler]

4. Unit of Stress is

  • Nm⁻¹
  • Nm
  • Nm⁻²
  • Nm⁻³

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]Nm⁻²[/su_spoiler]

5. The dimensional formula of stress is-

  • [ML⁻¹T⁻²]
  • [M°L°T°]
  • [MLT⁻¹]
  • [MLT⁻²]

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”][ML⁻¹T⁻²][/su_spoiler]

6. According to Hooke’s Law of Elasticity, if stress is increased, the ratio of stress to strain-

  • decreases
  • becomes zero
  • increases
  • remains constant

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]remains constant[/su_spoiler]

7. Substances which can be stretched to cause large strain are called-

  • Isomers
  • Elastomers
  • Plastomers
  • Polymers

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]Elastomers[/su_spoiler]

8. The ratio of stress and strain is called-

  • surface tension
  • modulus of elasticity
  • coefficient of friction
  • coefficient of viscosity

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]modulus of elasticity[/su_spoiler]

9. The ratio of tensile and longitudinal strain is called–

  • young’s modulus
  • modulus of elasticity
  • bulk modulus
  • None of these

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]young’s modulus[/su_spoiler]

10. The ratio of shearing stress to the shearing strain is defined as-

  • Young’s Modulus
  • Bulk Modulus
  • Shear Modulus
  • Compressibility

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]Shear Modulus[/su_spoiler]

11. The Shear modulus is also known as-

  • Bulk Modulus
  • Young’s Modulus
  • Modulus of Rigidity
  • Poisson’s Ratio

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]Modulus of Rigidity[/su_spoiler]

12. Stress is a …. quantity.

  • vector
  • dimensionless
  • scalar
  • tensor

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]tensor[/su_spoiler]

13. The internal restoring force per unit area is called-

  • tensile stress
  • hydraulic stress
  • None of these
  • shearing stress

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]hydraulic stress[/su_spoiler]

14. The reciprocal of the bulk modulus is called-

  • compressibility
  • bulk modulus
  • young’s modulus
  • None of these

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]compressibility[/su_spoiler]

15. The unit of modulus of the coefficient is-

  • N/m
  • N/m²
  • Nm²
  • None of these

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]N/m²[/su_spoiler]

16. Which of the following is more elastic?

  • Glass
  • Sponge
  • Steel
  • Rubber

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]Steel[/su_spoiler]

17. Out of the following, which is the most plastic material?

  • Rubber
  • Iron
  • Wood
  • Plasticine

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]Plasticine[/su_spoiler]

18. Solids which break above the elastic limit are called

  • Ductile
  • Elastic
  • Brittle
  • Malleable

 

[su_spoiler title=”View Answer ” style=”fancy”]Brittle[/su_spoiler]