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What are Diathermanous and Athermanous substances?

Important Questions on Kinetic Theory of Gases and Radiation

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The circuit below is used to heat water kept in a bucket. 

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Assuming heat loss only by Newton's law of cooling, the variation in the temperature of the water in the bucket as a function of time is depicted by

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A body cools from 70 °C to 40 °C in 5 minutes. Calculate the time it takes to cool from 60 °C to 30 °C. The temperature of the surroundings is 20 °C.
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A liquid of mass 250 g is kept warm in a vessel using an electric heater. The liquid is maintained at 57 °C when the power supplied by the heater is 30 W and surrounding temperature is 27 °C. As the heater is switched off, it took 10 s time for the temperature of the liquid to fall from 47 °C to 46.9 °C. The specific heat capacity of the liquid is
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A body takes 4 min to cool from 61°C to 59°C. If the temperature of the surroundings is 30°C, the time taken by the body to cool from 51°C to 49°C is:
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If a piece of metal is heated to temperature θ and then allowed to cool in a room which is at temperature θ0, the graph between the temperature T of the metal and time t will be closest to :
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A pan filled with hot food cools from 94°C to 86°C in 2 min, when the room temperature is 20°C. The time taken for the food to cool from 86°C to 74°C will be
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A body cools from 80 °C to 50 °C after a time interval Δt. Assuming that the surrounding temperature is 20 °C. the temperature of the body after time interval of 2Δt is
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A body cools from 70°C to 40°C in 5 min. Calculate the time it takes to cool from 60°C to 40°C. The temperature of the surrounding is 20°C.
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Certain quantity of water cools from 70 oC to 60 oC in the first 5 minutes and to 54 oC in the next 5 minutes. The temperature of the surroundings is:
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A metallic sphere cools from 50 °C to 40 °C in 300 s. If atmospheric temperature around is 20 °C, then the sphere's temperature after the nest 5 minutes will be close to:
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In 5 minutes, a body cools from 75 °C to 65 °C at room temperature of 25 °C. The temperature of body at the end of next 5 minutes is           C.

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A body cools from a temperature 3T to 2T in 10 minutes. The room temperature is T. Assume that Newton's law of cooling is applicable. The temperature of the body at the end of next 10 minutes will be
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A liquid cools from 70°C to 50°C in 5 minutes. Find the time taken by the liquid to cool from 60°C to 50°C, if the temperature of the surrounding is constant at 30°C.
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A cup of tea cools from 65.5°C to 62.5°C in 1 minute in a room at 22.5°C. How long will it take to cool from 46.5°C to 40.5°C in the same room?
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A cup of coffee cools from 90°C to 80°C in t min, when the room temperature is 20°C. The time taken by a similar cup of coffee to cool from 80°C to 60°C at a room temperature same at 20°C is :
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A cube, a cylinder (of height equal to its diameter) and a sphere, all solid, are made of metal and are of identical mass. If all the three shapes having initial temperature 50°C are put in a large reservoir of water at 10°C. Which of the above three shapes cools the fastest?
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A body cools from 60 °C to 50 °C in 10 min. If room temperature is 25 °C, then the temperature of body at the end of next 10 min will be
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A container with 1 kg of water in it is kept in sunlight, which causes the water to get warmer than the surroundings. The average energy per unit time per unit area received due to the sunlight is 700 W m-2 and it is absorbed by the water over an effective area of 0.05 m2. Assuming that the heat loss from the water to the surroundings is governed by Newton's law of cooling, the difference (in C) in the temperature of water and the surroundings after a long time will be_________. (Ignore effect of the container, and take constant for Newton's law of cooling =0.001 s-1, Heat capacity of water =4200 J kg-1 K-1)

(Approximate the answer to two decimal place)

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Two identical beakers A and B contain equal volumes of two different liquids at 60°C each and left to cool down. Liquid in A has density of 8×102 kg m-3 and specific heat of 2000 J kg-1K-1 while the liquid in B has density 103 kg m-3 and specific heat of 4000 J kg-1K-1. Which of the following best describes their temperature versus time graph schematically? (assume the emissivity of both the beakers to be the same)
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Two bottles A and B have radii RA and RB and heights hA and hB respectively with RB=2RA and hB=2hA. These are filled with hot water at 60°C. Consider that heat loss for the bottles takes place only from side surfaces. If the time the water takes to cool down to 50°C is tA and tB for bottles A and B, respectively, then tA and tB are best related as,