
A block of ice of mass slides on a horizontal surface. It starts with a speed of and finally stops after moving a distance of . What is the mass of ice (in grams) that has melted due to friction between the block and the surface? Latent heat of fusion of ice is


Important Questions on Thermometry, Thermal Expansion and Calorimetry

This question contains Statement 1 and Statement 2 Of the four choices given after the statements, choose the one that best describes the two statements.
Statement 1: The temperature dependence of resistance is usually given as . The resistance of a wire changes from to when its temperature is increased from to . This implies that .
Statement 2: is valid only when the change in the temperature is small and .


A wooden wheel of radius is made of two semicircular parts (see figure). The two parts are held together by a ring made of a metal strip of cross sectional area and length . is slightly less than . To fit the ring on the wheel, it is heated so that its temperature rises by and it just steps over the wheel. As it cools down to surrounding temperature, it presses the semicircular parts together. If the coefficient of linear expansion of the metal is , and its Young's modulus is , the force that one part of the wheel applies on the other part is



An external pressure is applied on a cube at so that it is equally compressed from all sides. K is the bulk modulus of the material of the cube and is its coefficient of linear expansion. Suppose we want to bring the cube to its original size by heating. The temperature should be raised by:

