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A solid copper sphere (density ρ and specific heat c) of radius r at an initial temperature 200 K is suspended inside a chamber whose walls are at almost 0 K. Calculate the time required for the temperature of the sphere to drop to 100 K. (Assume sphere as a black body)

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A liquid cools from 70 ºC to 60 ºC in 5 minutes. Find the time in which it will further cool down to 50 ºC, if its surrounding is held at a constant temperature of 30 ºC.
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A wall has two layers A and B, each made of a different material. Both the layers have the same thickness. The thermal conductivity for A is twice that of B. Under steady state, the temperature difference across the whole wall is 36°C. Then the temperature difference across the layer A is
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A wall consists of alternating blocks with length d and coefficient of thermal conductivity K1 and K2. The cross-sectional area of the blocks is the same. The equivalent coefficient of thermal conductivity of the wall between left and right is: 

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A boiler is made of a copper plate 2.4 mm thick with an inside coating of a 0.2 mm thick layer of tin. The surface area exposed to gases at 700°C is 400 cm2. The maximum amount of steam that could be generated per hour at atmospheric pressure is (KCu=0.9 cal/cm/s/C and Ktin =0.15cal/cm/s/C   and Lsteam =540 cal g-1):
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A lake surface is exposed to an atmosphere where the temperature is < 0°C. If the thickness of the ice layer formed on the surface grows from 2 cm to 4 cm in 1 hour, The atmospheric temperature, Ta will be (Thermal conductivity of ice K=4 x 10-3 cal cm-1s-1°C-1; density of ice = 0.9 gm cc-1. Latent heat of fusion of ice=80 cal gm-1. Neglect the change of density during the state change. Assume that the water below the ice has 0º temperature everywhere)
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Heat flows radially outward through a spherical shell of outside radius R2 and inner radius R1. The temperature of the inner surface of the shell is θ1 and that of outer is θ2. The radial distance from the centre of the shell where the temperature is just halfway between θ1 and θ2 is :
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A metallic sphere having radius 0.08 m and mass m=10 kg is heated to a temperature of 227°C and suspended inside a box whose walls are at a temperature of 27°C. The maximum rate at which its temperature will fall is :

(Take e= 1, Stefan’s constant σ= 5.8 x 10-8 W m-2 K-4 and specific heat of the metal s= 90 cal kg-1deg-1, J = 4.2 Joules Calorie-1)

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A solid spherical black body of radius r and uniform mass distribution is in free space. It emits power P and its rate of cooling is R then