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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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Important Questions on Heat Transfer

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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 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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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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Newton's law of cooling is used in laboratory for the determination of the
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According to Newton's law of cooling, the rate of cooling of a body is proportional to: