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(Time for some heavy duty thinking…)

Satyajit Phanse (SE - Elecs - TSEC)
Milind Nemlekar (BE - Elecs - TSEC)
  1. Why do telephones (normal MTNL, not cordless or mobile!) work even when power is lost?
  2. Who is alleged to have said, "640kB [of memory] ought to be enough for anyone" in the 80's?
  3. What does the acronym FIRE on the FIAT UNO stand for?
  4. If you're driving in a car at the speed of light, (!!!!!!) and you turn on the headlights, what happens?
  5. If the number of my specs is 2.0, what is its focal length?
  6. What happens when you turn the knob to decrease the speed of the fan?
  7. Why are alphabet keys on the keyboard arranged in that weird pattern?
  8. Why are manhole covers round?
  9. When blowing air in a balloon, Pressure increases and Volume increases. According to Boyle's Law, PV=constant. Explain this contradiction.
  10. Will a mosquito in a moving train need to make any effort to remain stationary?

 

 

SOLUTIONS to the last times quiz!!

Vishal Gupta (Sr.) - IIT

 
What is the full form of IEEE?

You shouldn't be reading this newsletter if you don't know this one.
What kind of motors do local trains of Mumbai run on?

DC motors

What is a universal motor and why is it called so?

DC series motor, called a universal because it can run on any kind of power AC/DC.
What was Herman Hollerith's first computing machine used for?

Census calculations.
(5+5=13). This is true in which base?

7
Why are pulsars so called?

They are astronomical objects whose radiation pattern are very directed, i.e. beam like, and since they rotate at very high velocities their radiation are received in pulses (whenever the beam is directed towards the observer) so....
Name the different types of quarks.

Too easy, look it up yourself.
Usually if a full piece of chalk falls to the floor it breaks into 3 pieces. Why?

The chalk pieces undergoes multiple collisions with the ground in a very small amount of time so before the crack from the first collision has traveled to the other end the chalk strikes the ground again hence....
In A/D conversion, what is quantization error?

The error of representing continuous quantities with discrete ones by which you can only find out the range of the qty. and not it's exact value.
What is the first stage of an op-amp?

Differential amplifier.

 

"When all you have is a hammer, you tend to solve every problem as if it were a nail." -

Stephen Hawking

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