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With increase in friction, coefficient of insensitiveness increases.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

The above asked question is from Coefficient of Insensitiveness in chapter Governors of Machine Dynamics

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Right choice is (a) True

Easiest explanation: Coefficient of insensitiveness is directly proportional to the friction at the sleeve and inversely proportional to the sum of masses of ball and the weight at sleeve, hence increase in friction results in increase in coefficient of insensitiveness.

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