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In electric kettle takes 20 minutes to heat a certain quantity of water from 0°C to boiling point. It requires 90 minutes to turn all the water at 100°C into steam. Find the latent heat of vaporisation. (Specific heat of water=1 cal/g°C)

Important Questions on Thermal Properties of Matter

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Find the temperature difference between two sides of a steel plate 4 cm thick, when heat is transmitted through the plate at the rate of 400 kcal per minute per square metre at steady state. Thermal conductivity of steel is 0.026 kcal/msK.