
A black body emits radiation at the rate when its temperature is . At this temperature the wavelength at which the radiation has a maximum intensity is . If at another temperature the power radiated is and wavelength at maximum intensity is then


Important Questions on Heat Transfer

A metallic sphere having radius and mass is heated to a temperature of and suspended inside a box whose walls are at a temperature of The maximum rate at which its temperature will fall is:-
(Take Stefan's constant and specific heat of the metal Joules/Calorie)



A body cools in a surrounding which is at a constant temperature of . Assume that it obeys Newton's law of cooling. Its temperature is plotted against time . Tangents are drawn to the curve at the points and . These tangents meet the time axis at angles of and , as shown.

A spherical body with an initial temperature is allowed to cool in surroundings at temperature . The mass of the body is , its gram specific heat is , density , area . If be the Stefan's constant then the temperature of the body at time can be best represented by:-


A ring consisting of two parts and of same conductivity carries an amount of heat . The part is now replaced with another metal keeping the temperatures and constant. The heat carried increases to . What should be the conductivity of the new part? Given
