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The Sikhs lost the battle of Mudki because of the following reasons :

• Lai Singh escaped from the battle-field when the Sikh army was about to win.
• As compared to the English, the Sikhs had very small military resources.

Kharak Singh was the successor of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. He was not a worthy son of his father. He was a pleasure-loving ruler.

A) Warsaw pact

Displayed: display, play, plea, leap

Results of Renaissance: 

1. Renaissance brought about a transition from blind faith to reason and science. 

2. Renaissance created a new outlook on life. It stimulated the spirit of enquiry, criticism, and experimentation. 

3. Renaissance Scholars and Writers boldly and openly expressed their new ideas, which went against the teachings of the Church. The secular outlook and individualism began to spread. 

4. By the Renaissance influence, medieval superstitions were shattered and men became bold and adventurous, thus becoming interested in geographical explorations. 

5. The ideas of individualism gained due importance during Renaissance. New learning emphasis was laid upon the freedom and dignity of man as an individual, allowing him to develop his talents and faculties. 

6. Renaissance gave a marked stimulus to the growth of vernacular literature.

7. One other important feature of Renaissance was the growth of Humanism. 

8. The new spirit of Renaissance was responsible for the remarkable scientific progress. 

9. Renaissance brought about great changes in life of the people in different fields like political, intellectual, economic and religious fields. 

10. People also started questioning some of the doctrines of Christianity and the corrupt practices. This new outlook resulted in a religious revolution in the Catholic Church that is known as the Reformation. 

11. Monarchy was strengthened due to the dawn of Renaissance. It led to the rise of the Spirit of National Consciousness in several countries.

Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio were the trinity of Italian Literature.

The literary term ‘Renaissance’ means rebirth or revival. It means the revival of interest in the classical culture of ancient Greek and Rome. (Classical learning) It began in Italy.

Humanism is an approach to life which emphasizes the importance of human affairs in this world. Petrarch, Dante, Cicero, Boccaccio, and Cervantes were the humanists.

Dante and Petrarch.

Indulgences were certificates issued by Pope Leo X, for monetary consideration, exempting the people from receiving punishments, for the specific purpose of raising funds for rebuilding the great Basilica of St. Peters at Rome.

John Guttenberg invented the printing press.

Petrarch was known as the Father of renaissance.

Dante is the author of ‘Divine comedy’.

U – 235 and C – 14 are respectively the isotope of uranium used as a fuel in
nuclear reactors and carbon used in radiocarbon dating.

Hence, the correct option is D.

1. Victoria 

2. Santa Maria.

1. Water is absolutely necessary for life. 

2. It is a major constituent of protoplasm. 

3. If provides aqueous medium for various metabolic reactions that take place in plant. 

4. It is raw material for photosynthesis. 

5. It helps in maintaining the turgidity of cells. 

6. It is excellent solvent for various organic materials. 

7. It is transporting medium for dissolved minerals. 

8. It is thermal buffer

Correct answer is (b) Imbibition

1. Water is an important constituent of cell. About 90 – 95% of protoplasm is water. 

2. Water in liquid state is best solvent in which various minerals and food molecules are dissolved and transported. 

3. Water acts as the thermal buffer has high specific heat. 

4. Water molecules have high adhesive and cohesive forces of attraction. 

5. It can rise in capillaries due to high surface tension and adhesive forces, 

e.g. Ascent of sap in plants. 

6. Due to all these important factors it is a significant molecule connecting physical world with biological processes.

Roman Catholics and Protestants.

Machiavelli was an Italian politician, historian, and writer of the Renaissance period. ‘The Prince’ and ‘The History of Florence’ were his noteworthy writings.

1. Water is in liquid state at room temperature. 

2. It is best solvent for most of the solutes. Thus called universal solvent. 

3. It is inert inorganic compound with neutral pH i.e. pH 7 when in pure form. 

4. Hence it is best medium for dissolved minerals.

1. Water plays an important role in living organisms. 

2. About 90 – 95% water is present in cell which is functional and structural unit of living organisms. 

3. It helps in maintaining turgidity and shape of cells and cell organelles.

4. Due to its various properties, it is medium of biochemical reactions, transporting medium and thermal buffer also. 

5. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for life i.e. ‘elixir of life’.

(d) reducing the momentum of the flow of water.

Civilized forests would, directly and indirectly, prove a source of untold wealth to the country. They would check soil erosion and conserve the rainfall of the country from flowing away to waste.

The civilized forests would directly and indirectly prove a source of untold wealth to the country. They would check soil erosion and conserve the rainfall of the country from flowing away to waste and would provide the necessary supplies of cheap fuel, and thus render unnecessary the wasteful conversion of farmyard manure into a form of fuel.

On one side, was the visible sea of billowing sand without a speck of green or a single living thing anywhere on it. On the other side lay one of the greatest, most fertile and densely populated areas to be found anywhere on the earth, teeming with life and vegetation. This is the ‘wonderful difference’ that the writer talks about in the passage.

BRO which is under the Government of India constructs and maintains roads in the bordering area of the country. For the strategic development of roads, it was established in 1960. They had improved accessibility in difficult terrain and helped in the economic development of this area.

Health is therefore a state of being well enough to function well physically, mentally and socially.

Some diseases last for only very short periods of time and these are called acute diseases.

With the help of information from the Laboratory, doctors are diagnosing the diseases accurately.

The answer is (d) Blood cancer

The answer is (d) X – rays

(d) Central Public Works Department

(a) Transport and communication

CMC means Critical Micelle Concentration.

Critical Micelle Concentration.

Polar end – COO^- Na⁺ , Non-polar end – R

Option : (c) non-polar molecular solid

Here, B_H = B and δ = 60°

We know that

B_H = B_E cos δ

B = B_E cos 60° ⇒ B_E = 2B

At equator δ = 0°

B_H = 2B cos 0° = 2B

Here, BH = B and δ = 60° 

We know that 

B_H = B_E cos δ 

B = B_E cos 60° 

⇒ B_E = 2B

At equator δ = 0° 

∴ B_H = 2B cos 0° = 2B

Vertical component of earth’s magnetic field is zero at magnetic equator.

(i) 0° 

(ii) 90°

Vertical component of earth’s magnetic field is zero at magnetic equator.

On the equator S, the vertical component of earth's magnetic field is zero.

Correct answer is: (b) 1.5 cm² 

A₁ = 2.5 cm² , v₁ = 3 m/s, h = 0.8 m, g = 10 m/s²

v₂² = v₁² + 2gh = 25  or v₂ = 5 m/s.

A₁v₁ = A₂v₂  or A₂ = A₁v₁ / v₂ = 1.5 Cm².

Correct Answer is: (c) t₁ < t₂ < t₃

Velocity of efflux, v = √2gx, where x = height of liquid.

As the water drains out, x reduces, and hence v reduces. This reduces the rate of drainage. Hence, it requires a longer time to drain the same volume of water.

1. Real Image.

2. In the situation when the position of candle is in between F and mirror, you will not be able to get image.

1. No, we cannot get a bright sharp spot of light on the paper.

2. The parallel rays coming from sun are not converged at spot by the convex mirror but spread (diverged). That is why the convex mirror is called a Divergent mirror.

3. Incident rays from a convex mirror parallel to principal axis seem to come from a point on principal axis after reflection. This point is called Focus of convex mirror.

(a) at distance equal to distance between object and the plane mirror.