UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Both gain the same kinetic energy, but the electron is far lighter, so it moves much faster. A charge q accelerated through a potential difference V gains kinetic energy qV.

A perfectly horizontal rope has no upward component of tension, so no finite tension can hold up the 200 N weight with the rope fully straight.

Article 15(2) says no citizen can be denied access to, or the use of, wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.

The best-known Chandimangala, Chandimangal or Abhayamangal, was composed in Bengali by Mukundarama Chakravarti, honoured as Kavikankan, in the late 16th century.

Formed in April 1918 by B. P. Wadia among the textile workers of Madras, it is regarded as India's first trade union in the modern, organised sense.

Momentum is mass times velocity, 10 × 10 = 100 N.s, and kinetic energy is half the mass times the square of the speed, ½ × 10 × 10 × 10 = 500 J. Linear momentum, p = mv, measures the quantity of motion and is a vector; its unit…

The Census defines a literate as a person aged seven or above who can both read and write with understanding in any language, so someone who can only read does not qualify.

A zeugen is a tabular ridge carved by wind abrasion in deserts, while a cirque is glacial and a stack is made by sea waves.

Free legal aid is a Directive Principle under Article 39A, and the Supreme Court has made it the duty of the police to inform the nearest Legal Aid Committee as soon as a person is arrested.

X-rays can pass through solid materials and their wavelength is close to the spacing of atoms, so they serve both purposes.

This is the statement that is not correct; the other three describe the benzene molecule correctly, and UPSC's official key also gives D. Benzene, C6H6, is a flat ring of six carbon atoms.

Statement 2 is the only incorrect one, because a compound always has a fixed composition, not a variable one. An element is the simplest form of matter and cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical reactions, so statement 1 is correct.

It is the Finance Ministry's nodal department for economic policy, at home and abroad, including the management of foreign exchange.

In Mughal times a mauza was a village, the basic unit of revenue records, not a rebellious territory. Mughal revenue records were kept village by village, and each village was called a mauza.

Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct; tropical cyclones form in tropical, not middle, latitudes. Tropical cyclones form over warm seas with surface temperatures above about 27°C, which supply heat and moisture through evaporation and condensation.

Phreatophytes are deep-rooted plants that survive in dry regions by drawing water from the water table. The name comes from the Greek for 'well plant'.

The Dharmashastras assigned the Vaishyas both the study of the Vedas and trade, along with agriculture and cattle-rearing. The Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras, such as the Manusmriti, laid down ideal occupations for the four varnas.

Brine is a concentrated solution of common salt, sodium chloride (NaCl), in water. Brine occurs naturally in seawater, salt lakes and underground deposits.

The penal indenture system in the Assam tea gardens ended in 1926, when the Workman's Breach of Contract Act was repealed.

The North Eastern Council was created under the North Eastern Council Act, 1971 and began work in 1972 at Shillong.