Practice Test: Question Set - 02
1. What is the curve if the generating circle rolls outside the directing circle?
- (A) Circle
- (B) Epicycloid
- (C) Parabola
- (D) Hyperbola
2. Which conic section has one vertex?
- (A) Circle
- (B) Ellipse
- (C) Parabola
- (D) Hyperbola
3. What is the shape of surface if a right circular cone is cut by a plane making a smaller angle with the axis, (i.e. the plane is not parallel to the slant lined passes through the base)?
- (A) Circle
- (B) Ellipse
- (C) Parabola
- (D) Hyperbola
4. What is the eccentricity of hyperbola?
- (A) Less than
one
- (B) More than
one
- (C) Equal to one
- (D) Equal to
zero
5. Which is a practical application of cycloidal curve?
- (A) Gear tooth
profile
- (B) Water
channel design
- (C) Railway
bridge arches
- (D) Radar
antenna
6. What is the practical application of rectangular hyperbola?
- (A) Water
channels
- (B) Gear profile
- (C) Screw thread
- (D) Lathe chucks
7. What is the term for the curve traced by a point moves in a plane in such a way that the sum of its distance from two fixed points is constant?
- (A) Ellipse
- (B) Parabola
- (C) Hyperbola
- (D) Circle
8. What name the curve traced out by a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls outside another circle of larger diameter?
- (A) Cycloid
- (B) Hypocycloid
- (C) Epicycloid
- (D) Circle
9. What is the practical application of Archimedes spiral?
- (A) Helical gear
tooth profile
- (B) Spring of
clock
- (C) Screw thread
- (D) Radar
antenna
10. What is set of points on the major axis at equidistant from centre to create the curve of ellipse?
- (A) Focus
- (B) Foci
- (C) Minor axis
- (D) Tangent and
normal
11. Which data is required for constructing a spiral?
- (A) Larger
radius
- (B) Smallest
radius
- (C) Tangent
- (D) Number of
convolutions
12. Which is a practical application of parabolic curve?
- (A) Reflecting
of light
- (B) Spring of
clock
- (C) Screw thread
- (D) Gear profile
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