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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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Heat required to melt 1 g of ice is 80 cal. A man melts 60 g of ice by chewing in one minute. His power is______

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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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A closed bottle containing water at 30oC is open on the surface of the moon. Then-
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The quantities of heat required to raise the temperature of two solid copper spheres of radii r1 and r2r1=1.5 r2 through 1 K are in the ratio:
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Two systems are in thermal equilibrium. The quantity which is common for them is
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A steam engine intakes 50 g of steam at 100°C per minute and cools it down to 20°C. If latent heat of vaporization of steam is 540 cal g-1, then the heat rejected by the steam engine per minute is _____ ×103 cal

(Given : specific heat capacity of water : 1 cal g-1C-1)

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An experiment takes 10 min to raise the temperature of water in a container from 0oC to 100oC and another 55 min to convert it totally into steam by a heater supplying heat at a uniform rate. Neglecting the specific heat of the container and taking specific heat of the water to be 1 cal gC-1 , the heat of vaporization according to this experiment will come out to be:
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Latent heat of vaporisation of water is 22.6×105 J kg-1. The amount of heat needed to convert 100 kg of water into vapour at 100 °C is
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A thermally insulated cubical box of side length 20 cm and wall thickness 2 cm containing 2 kg of ice is closed on all sides. The mass of ice melted in 10 hours is (Thermal conductivity of the material of the box =0.01 Wm-1 K-1, latent heat of ice =360×103 J kg-1 and ambient temperature =40 °C)

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If pressure increased on a piece of wax, the melting point of wax
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A thermally insulated vessel contains 150 g of water at 0°C . Then the air from the vessel is pumped out adiabatically. A fraction of water turns into ice and the rest evaporates at 0°C itself. The mass of evaporated water will be closest to: (Latent heat of vaporization of water =2.10×106 J kg-1 and Latent heat of Fusion of water =3.36×105 J kg-1 )
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The physical quantity that determines whether or not a given system A is in thermal equilibrium with another system B is called
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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 water cooler of storage capacity 120 litres can cool water at constant rate of P W. In a closed circulation system (as shown schematically in the figure), the water from the cooler is used to cool an external device that generates constantly 3 kW of heat (thermal load). The temperature of water fed into the device can not exceed 30oC and the entire stored 120 litres of water is initially cooled to 10oC . The entire system is thermally insulated. The minimum value of P (in W) for which the device can be operated for 3 hours is:
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(Specific heat of water is 4.2 kJ kg-1 K-1 and the density of water is 1000 kg m-3 )
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Water of volume 2 L in a closed container is heated with a coil of 1 kW. While water is heated, the container loses energy at a rate of 160 J/s. In how much time will the temperature of water rise from 27oC to 77oC ? (Specific heat of water is 4.2 kJ/kg and that of the container is negligible).
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Two moles of oxygen is mixed with eight moles of helium. The effective specific heat of the mixture at constant volume is
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A 10 H inductor carries a current of 20 A. If the energy stored in this inductor melts ice at 0 °C, then the mass of the ice melted is [Latent heat of ice =2.26×103 J kg-1
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1 kg of water, at 20 °C is heated in an electric kettle whose heating element has a mean (temperature averaged) resistance of 20Ω. The rms voltage in the mains is 200 V. Ignoring heat loss from the kettle, time taken for water to evaporate fully is close to
[ Specific heat of water =4200 J kg-1 °C-1 Latent heat of water =2260 kJ kg-1 ]
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A piece of ice falls from a height h so that it melts completely. Only one-quarter of the heat produced is absorbed by the ice and all energy of ice gets converted into heat during its fall. The value of h is:
(Latent heat of ice is 3.4×105J kg-1 and g=10N kg-1)