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One end of a metal rod is kept in a boiling water and the other end in melting ice

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Important Questions on Heat Transfer

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Why metals are good conductors of heat ?
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Why Cork is a good insulator.
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Three rods made of same material and having same cross-section have been joined as shown in figure. Each rod has same length. The left and right ends are kept at 0°C and 90°C respectively. What is the temperature of the junction of the three rods will be?

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1.56×105 J of heat is conducted through a 2 m2 wall of 12 cm thickness in one hour. Temperature difference between the two sides of the wall is 20°C. The thermal conductivity of the material of the wall is (in Wm-1k-1).
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Three identical rods A, B and C are placed end to end. A temperature difference is maintained between the free ends of A and C. The thermal conductivity of B is thrice that of C and half of that of A. The effective thermal conductivity of the system will be (KAis the thermal conductivityof rod A).
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Two rods of equal lengths and areas of cross-section are kept parallel and hanged between temperatures 20°C and 80°C. The ratio of their effective thermal conductivity to that of the first rod is ( the ratio =K1K2=34)
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A long metallic bar is carrying heat from one of its ends to the other end under steady state. The variation of temperature θ along the length x of the bar from its hot end is best described by which of the following figures?
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One end of a thermally insulated rod is kept at a temperature T1 and the other at T2, Fig. The rod is composed of two sections of length l1 and l2 and thermal conductivities K1 and K2 respectively. The temperature at the interface of the two sections is