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1 kg water of specific heat 1 cal g-1C-1 is kept in a container at 10°C. If 500 g of ice at 0°C is required to cool down the water from 10°C to 0°C, then what is the water equivalent of the container? (Latent heat of fusion for ice L=80 cal g-1)

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Important Questions on Thermal Properties of Matter

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Steam at 100 oC is passed into 20 g of water at 10 oC. When water acquires a temperature of 80oC, the mass of water present will be:
[Take specific heat of water =1 cal g-1 oC-1 and latent heat of steam =540 cal g-1]
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M grams of steam at 100oC is mixed with 200g of ice at its melting point in a thermally insulated container. If it produces liquid water at 40oC [heat of vaporization of water is 540cal/g and heat of fusion of ice is 80cal/g ], the value of M is ________
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When M1 gram of ice at -10oC (specific heat =0.5 cal g-1 -1 ) is added to M2 gram of water at 50 oC, finally no ice is left and the water is at 0 oC . The value of latent heat of ice, in cal g-1 is:
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A 15 kW drilling machine is used to drill a bore in a small aluminium block of mass 10 kg. Assuming 50 % power is used up in heating the machine itself or lost to the surroundings, then the rise in temperature of the block in 2 minutes is (Specific heat capacity of aluminium =0.91 J g-1 °C-1)
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An aluminium piece of mass 50 g initially at 300°C is dipped quickly and taken out of 1 kg of water, initially at 30°C. If the temperature of the aluminium piece immediately after being taken out of the water is found to be 160°C, what is the temperature of the water? Then, specific heat capacities of aluminium and water are 900 J kg-1 K-1 and 4200 J kg-1 K-1, respectively.
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50 g of ice at 0 °C is mixed with 50 g of water at 80 °C. If the latent heat of ice is 80 cal g-1 and specific heat of water is 1 cal g-1 °C-1, then the final temperature of mixture is
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A massless spring k=800N/m, attached with a mass 500g is completely immersed in 1 kg of water. The spring is stretched by 2 cm and released so that it starts vibrating. What would be the order of magnitude of the change in the temperature of water when the vibrations stop completely? (Assume that the water container and spring receive negligible heat and specific heat of mass =400 J/kg K, specific heat of water =4184J/kgK )
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A metallic block of mass 20 kg is dragged with a uniform velocity of 0.5 ms-1 on a horizontal table for 2.1 s. The coefficient of static friction between the block and the table is 0.10. What will be the maximum possible rise in temperature of the metal block, if the specific heat of the block is 0.1 CGS unit? Assume g=10 ms-2 and uniform rise in temperature throughout the whole block. [Ignore absorption of heat by the table]
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In an experiment, a sphere of aluminium of mass 0.20 kg is heated up to 150°C . Immediately, it is put into water of volume 150 cc at 27oC kept in a calorimeter of water equivalent to 0.025 kg . The final temperature of the system is 40oC . The specific heat of the aluminium is(take 4.2 Joule=1 calorie )
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Three containers C1,C2 and C3 have water at different temperatures. The table below shows the final temperature T when different amounts of water (given in liters) are taken from each container and mixed (assume no loss of heat during the process)
C1 C2 C3 T
1l 2l -- 60oC
-- 1l 2l 30oC
2l -- 1l 60oC
1l 1l 1l θ

The value of θ (in oC to the nearest integer) is___________
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The time taken for a calorimeter containing 75 g of water at 62°C to cool to 58°C is 9 minutes. When the calorimeter contains 105 g of water, it takes 12 minutes to cool from 62°C to 58°C. The water equivalent of the calorimeter is______
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Two identical bodies are made of a material for which the heat capacity increases with temperature. One of these is at 100 oC, while the other one is at 0 oC. If the two bodies are brought into contact, then assuming no heat loss, the final common temperature is
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Two identical blocks of ice move in opposite directions with equal speed and collide with each other. What will be the minimum speed required to make both the blocks melt completely, if the initial temperatures of the blocks were -8°C each? (Specific heat of ice is 2100 J kg-1 K-1 and latent heat of fusion of ice is 3.36×105 J kg-1)

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Two taps supply water to a container, one at the temperature of 20°C at the rate of 2kg/minute and another at 80°C at the rate of 1kg/minute. If the container gets water from the two taps simultaneously for 10 minutes, then the temperature of water in the container is
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The water equivalent of a calorimeter is 10 g and it contains 50 g of water at 15°C. Some amount of ice, initially at -10°C is dropped in it and half of the ice melts till equilibrium is reached. What was the initial amount of ice that was dropped (when specific heat of ice =0.5cal gm-1C-1, specific heat of water =1.0cal gm-1C-1 and latent heat of melting of ice =80 cal gm-1 )?
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An earthen pitcher used in summer cools water in it essentially by evaporation of water from its porous surface. If a pitcher carries 4 kg of water and the rate of evaporation is 20 g per hour, temperature of water in it decreases by Δ T in two hours. The value of Δ T is close to (ratio of latent heat of evaporation to specific heat of water is 540 °C )
 
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When 100 g of boiling water at 100°C is added into a calorimeter containing 300 g of cold water at 10°C, temperature of the mixture becomes 20°C. Then, a metallic block of mass 1 kg at 10°C is dipped into the mixture in the calorimeter. After reaching thermal equilibrium, the final temperature becomes 19°C. What is the specific heat of the metal in CGS unit ?
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A liquid at 30 oC is poured very slowly into a Calorimeter that is at temperature of 110 oC. The boiling temperature of the liquid is 80 oC. It is found that the first 5 gm of the liquid completely evaporates. After pouring another 80 gm of the liquid the equilibrium temperature is found to be 50 oC. The ratio of the Latent heat of the liquid to its specific heat will be ______  oC.

[Neglect the heat exchange with surrounding]
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A copper ball of mass 100g is at a temperature T. It is dropped in a copper calorimeter of mass 100g, filled with 170g of water at room temperature. Subsequently, the temperature of the system is found to be 75°C. T is given by:
(Given: room temperature =30°C, specific heat of copper =0.1cal g-1 °C-1)
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An unknown metal of mass 192 g heated to a temperature of 100 °C was immersed into a brass calorimeter of mass 128 g containing 240 g of water at a temperature of 8.4 °C. Calculate the specific heat of the unknown metal if water temperature stabilizes at 21.5 °C. ( Specific heat of brass is 394 J kg-1K-1)