Questions

The largest desert in Asia is called the Gobi Desert. It covers an area of 500,000 square miles stretching from southern Mongolia to northern China.

The Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society's highest honor, recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers—brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines. The Von Hippel Award is named after Arthur von Hippel (1898-2003), who was a pioneer in the study of dielectrics, semiconductors, ferromagnetics and ferroelectrics.

Eminent Scientist and Bharat Ratna Prof C.N.R. Rao was awarded 2017 Von Hippel Award. He is first Indian and first Asian to win this honour. The award will be presented to Prof Rao for his interdisciplinary contributions to development of novel functional materials, including nanomaterials, graphene, superconductivity, 2D materials and colossal magnetoresistance at Boston in November 2017.

Yes, using the realloc() function as shown below:

main()

{

        int *p;

        p = ( int *) malloc (20) ;

        t = p;

        t = (int *) realloc ( p, 40);

        if ( t == NULL )

        Printf (" Cannot reallocate, leaves previous allocated region unchanged ");

       else

       {

              if ( p ==t )

              ;  / * the array expanded at the same region */

             else

            { 

                 free ( p ); / * deallocate the original array */

                 p = t;  /* set p to newly allocated region */

             }

      }

}  

India’s first indigenously designed and developed high thrust cryogenic rocket engine generating a nominal thrust of 19 tonnes was successfully endurance hot tested for a duration of 800 seconds on July 16, 2015 at ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri.

The engine will be used for powering the Cryogenic stage (C25), the upper stage of the next generation GSLV Mark-III launch vehicle of ISRO, capable of launching four tonne class satellites.

This cryogenic engine of C25 Stage operates on Gas Generator Cycle using extremely low temperature propellants – Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) at 20 Kelvin (-253 deg C) and Liquid Oxygen (LOX) at 80K (-193 deg C).