Rajasthan Previous Year GK Questions

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In a capillary tube the height of rise is directly proportional to the surface tension of the liquid and inversely proportional to its density and the radius of the tube.

Boyle s law applies to a fixed mass of gas at constant temperature and states that pressure is inversely proportional to volume, so the product of the two is a constant: P1 into V1 equals P2 into V2.

The Bishnoi community of western Rajasthan follows the twenty-nine tenets laid down by Guru Jambheshwar in the fifteenth century, several of which forbid the felling of green trees and the killing of animals, and it is for this reason that khejri groves and herds of blackbuck survive in the desert…

In Boolean algebra a literal is any single appearance of a variable in an expression, whether it appears plain or with a bar over it.

The Act of 1919 is known as the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms; the Morley-Minto Reforms were the Indian Councils Act of 1909, a decade earlier, remembered for separate electorates.

Work through the expression in two steps. Adding depreciation to a net aggregate turns it gross, so NNP at market prices plus depreciation gives GNP at market prices.

When the ray makes 90 degrees with the surface it is travelling along the normal, so the angle of incidence measured from the normal is zero and the ray goes straight on without bending.

A URL is the address of a web resource: it says where the resource sits on the network and, through the scheme written in front, how it is to be fetched.

In a web address the part before the colon and the two slashes names the protocol, so http, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the set of rules by which a browser asks a server for a page and the server answers.

Tarun Bharat Sangh works on water conservation, and its base is at Bhikampura in Alwar district of Rajasthan.

Newcastle disease is called Ranikhet disease in India because the first serious outbreak in the country was reported from Ranikhet in the Kumaon hills, while the name Newcastle comes from Newcastle upon Tyne in England, where it was identified in 1926.

Capra hircus is the scientific name of the domestic goat, in which Capra is the genus and hircus the species, written in the two-word form that Carl Linnaeus gave to biology.

Bakelite is a thermosetting polymer, made by condensing phenol with formaldehyde, and once it has set under heat its chains are cross-linked, so it cannot be melted and moulded again.

A catalytic poison is a substance that lowers or destroys the activity of a catalyst, usually because it sticks firmly to the active surface and leaves no room for the reactants.

A suspension is a heterogeneous mixture because the particles of the solute are large enough to be seen, they do not dissolve, they settle when the mixture is left standing and they can be separated by filtering.

Chemical equilibrium is a dynamic state: both reactions go on, but at the same speed, so no net change is seen.

The earthworm is called the farmer's friend because its work keeps soil fit for crops. As it burrows it loosens the soil and lets air and water reach the roots, and the castings it leaves behind are rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, so the topsoil is steadily renewed.

A price index measures how the price of a commodity or of a basket of goods has moved between a base period and the current period, so the price of wheat over the years is read from a price index.

Net investment is gross investment minus depreciation, that is, the addition to the stock of capital left after making good the wear and tear of existing machines, buildings and equipment.