Critically explain state level community participation law and public disclosure law
See Answer →Explain key features of urban development policy of Brazil and South Africa.
See Answer →What is sustainable development? Explain various indicators of sustainable development
See Answer →What is the nexus between energy and development? What measures need to be taken for sustainable energy promotion?
See Answer →Distinguish between urban informal sector and informal settlements. What are the causes of formation of informal settlements in urban areas?
See Answer →What are the issues and challenges of urban law and order? What revitalization measures need to be taken to improve law and order?
See Answer →Discuss the role of urban industrialization on urban development. Explain role of FDI on urban industrialization.
See Answer →What do understand by “urban paradox”? Illustrate the concept from the perspective of urban crime and health problem?
See Answer →Explain the objectives and importance of public private partnership. What are its advantages and disadvantages?
See Answer →Explain the objectives and importance of public private partnership. What are its advantages and disadvantages?
See Answer →What is a city region? Briefly explain various types of city regions
See Answer →Explain the process of fiscal decentralization in India.
See Answer →Describe the concepts new urbanism and just city with suitable examples.
See Answer →Explain the trends of urbanization in developed and developing countries. Describe four major issues and challenges of urbanization.
See Answer →A system is subjected to 5 types of processes depicted in the table below. Using the first law of thermodynamics, fill up the blank spaces. All the entries are made in joules.
| Process | Heat added δQ | Work done δW | Internal Energy Initial (Ui) | Internal Energy Final (Uf) | Change in internal energy (dU) |
| I | 45 | 0 | - | 45 | - |
| II | - | 30 | 30 | - | 30 |
| III | 65 | - | 0 | - | 45 |
| IV | -20 | - | 15 | 40 | - |
| V | 85 | 50 | 40 | - | - |
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Explain with examples, what are reversible and irreversible processes? Why can a reversible process be attained only in a hypothetical situation?
See Answer →Consider a thermodynamic system consisting of 3 mol of an ideal gas occupying 0.03 m3 volume at 300 K temperature. Determine its initial pressure. For this gas, γ=1.4. It undergoes the following processes:
i) It is compressed to 0.01 m3 volume isothermally. Determine the pressure of the gas.
ii) then it is allowed to expand adiabatically, till it attains 1 atm pressure. Determine the final volume. (1 atm = 101325 Nm-2 )
Draw a labeled indicator diagram of these processes.
See Answer →What do you understand by intensive and extensive variables of a system? State with reasons, which of the following variables are intensive and which are extensive?
i) Number of gas molecules enclosed in a box;
ii) Density of gas in a box;
iii) Wavelength of radiation emitted by a black body at temperature T;
iv) Intensity of radiation emitted by a black body at temperature T.
See Answer →Define viscosity. Discuss the effect of temperature and pressure on viscosity.
See Answer →Define mean free path. Obtain its expression under zeroth order approximation.
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