Practice Test: Question Set - 01
1. What is the term for the locus of a point lying on the circumference of the circle which rolls on a straight line?
- (A) Cycloid
- (B) Hypocycloid
- (C) Epicycloid
- (D) Circle
2. What is the eccentricity of ellipse?
- (A) Less than
one
- (B) More than
one
- (C) Equal to one
- (D) Equal to
zero
3. Which is a practical application of involutes curve?
- (A) Gear tooth
profile
- (B) Spring of
clock
- (C) Screw thread
- (D) Radar
antenna
4. What is the shape of surface if a right circular cone is cut by a plane perpendicular to the axis?
- (A) Circle
- (B) Ellipse
- (C) Parabola
- (D) Hyperbola
5. What is the chord perpendicular to the axis of hyperbola?
- (A) Abscissa
- (B) Lotus rectum
- (C) Double
ordinate
- (D) Ordinate
6. What is the circle that rolls on a straight line or on the arc of a circle to generate cycloidal curves on its circumference?
- (A) Base circle
- (B) Generating
circle
- (C) Concave
circle
- (D) Directing
circle
7. What is the shape of surface if a right circular cone is cut by a plane making greater angle with axis, more than half of the included angle of the cone?
- (A) Circle
- (B) Ellipse
- (C) Parabola
- (D) Hyperbola
8. What is the eccentricity of parabola?
- (A) Less than
one
- (B) More than
one
- (C) Equal to one
- (D) Equal to
zero
9. What is the curve if the generating circle rolls inside the directing circle?
- (A) Circle
- (B) Epicycloid
- (C) Parabola
- (D) Hypocycloid
10. Name the conic section which has a major axis and minor axis.
- (A) Hyperbola
- (B) Circle
- (C) Parabola
- (D) Ellipse
11. What is the shape of surface if a right circular cone is cut by a plane making the same angle with the axis is parallel to the slant line?
- (A) Circle
- (B) Ellipse
- (C) Parabola
- (D) Hyperbola
12. What is the term for double ordinate that passes through the focus?
- (A) Vertex
- (B) Abscissa
- (C) Tangent
- (D) Lotus rectum
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