Specific Heat Capacity

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Specific Heat Capacity: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Specific Heat Capacity, Heat Capacity, Specific Heat Capacity of Water, Principle of Calorimetry, Heat Capacity of Solids, Molar Specific Heat Capacity and, Molar Specific Heat Capacity at Constant Pressure

Important Questions on Specific Heat Capacity

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The molar heat capacity of water at constant pressure is  75J K1 mol1. When 1kJ of heat is supplied to 100g of water, which is free to expand, the increase in temperature of water is

                               

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Which one of the following material will expand maximum if the same amount of heat energy is given to them?

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How much heat energy is necessary to raise the temperature of 2 kg of ice from -20°C to steam at 120°C?

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The volume of n moles of an ideal gas with degree of freedom f is varied according to the law V=aT where a is a constant. The molar specific heat of the gas at constant pressure is

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Two identical systems, with heat capacity at constant volume that varies as Cv=bT3 (where b is a constant) are thermally isolated. Initially, one system is at a temperature 100 K and the other is at 200 K . The systems are then brought to thermal contact and the combined system is allowed to reach thermal equilibrium. The final temperature (in K ) of the combined system is α. Write the value of α, where α is the greatest integer function.

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During an adiabatic process, the pressure of a gas is found to be proportional to the cube of its absolute temperature. The ratio CPCV  for the gas is x2. Find x.

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The piston is massless and the spring is ideal and initially streched the piston cylinder arrangement encloses an ideal gas. If the gas is heated quasistatically the PV graph.

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Figure shows a long fixed container which has two freely movable (without friction) pistons. The container and pistons are made of a thermally conducting material that allows very slow transfer of heat. First compartment of container is filled with 2 moles of an ideal monoatomic gas at 200 K and the 2nd compartment is filled with 1 mole of ideal diatomic gas at 500 K. Initially pressure of gases in both the compartment is same and equal to atmospheric pressure. Temperature of atmosphere is 300 K. Finally gases achieve equilibrium. 'R' is the gas constant

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An ideal gas which undergoes through a process V=aT2; starting at T0 and ends at 2T0. a is a constant. The molar heat capacity of the gas if it is monoatomic is n2R; What is n ?

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The SI unit for heat capacity is joule per kelvin.

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Define heat capacity with unit.

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For a gas of molecular weight M specific heat capacity at constant pressure is r=cpcv

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Two litres of water at initial temperature of 27°C is heated by a heater of power 1 kW in a kettle. If the lid of the kettle is open, then heat energy is lost at a constant rate of 160 J s-1. The time in which the temperature will rise from 27°C to 77°C is,

(Specific heat of water =4.2 kJ kg-1 °C-1)

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Why the specific heat at a constant pressure is more than that at constant volume.

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What are the two principal specific heats of a gas.

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It is the specific heat of a gas at constant pressure, Cp is 52RThe atomicity of the gas would be

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What is specific heat of gas at constant pressure

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What is Principal Specific Heat of Gas at Constant Volume:

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200 g water is heated from 40 oC to 60 oC . Ignoring the slight expansion of water, the change in its internal energy is close to (Given specific heat of water =4184 J/kg/K):

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A copper ball of mass 100 g is at a temperature T. It is dropped in a copper calorimeter of mass 100 g, filled with 170 g of water at room temperature. Subsequently, the temperature of the system is found to be 75o C. T is given by:
(Given: room temperature = 30oC, the specific heat of copper =0.1cal g-1oC-1)