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There are three liquids A,B and C. The mass, heat capacity and temperature for liquid A is mA,CA, and TA, for liquid B is mB,CB, and TB and for liquid C is mC,CC, and TC respectively. If all the three liquids are mixed, then final temperature would be

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Important Questions on Thermal Properties of Matter

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The water equivalent of a calorimeter is 10 g and it contains 50 g of water at 15°C. Some amount of ice, initially at -10°C is dropped in it and half of the ice melts till equilibrium is reached. What was the initial amount of ice that was dropped (when specific heat of ice =0.5cal gm-1C-1, specific heat of water =1.0cal gm-1C-1 and latent heat of melting of ice =80 cal gm-1 )?
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Two taps supply water to a container, one at the temperature of 20°C at the rate of 2kg/minute and another at 80°C at the rate of 1kg/minute. If the container gets water from the two taps simultaneously for 10 minutes, then the temperature of water in the container is
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Two identical blocks of ice move in opposite directions with equal speed and collide with each other. What will be the minimum speed required to make both the blocks melt completely, if the initial temperatures of the blocks were -8°C each? (Specific heat of ice is 2100 J kg-1 K-1 and latent heat of fusion of ice is 3.36×105 J kg-1)

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An earthen pitcher used in summer cools water in it essentially by evaporation of water from its porous surface. If a pitcher carries 4 kg of water and the rate of evaporation is 20 g per hour, temperature of water in it decreases by Δ T in two hours. The value of Δ T is close to (ratio of latent heat of evaporation to specific heat of water is 540 °C )
 
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A copper ball of mass 100g is at a temperature T. It is dropped in a copper calorimeter of mass 100g, filled with 170g of water at room temperature. Subsequently, the temperature of the system is found to be 75°C. T is given by:
(Given: room temperature =30°C, specific heat of copper =0.1cal g-1 °C-1)
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When 100 g of boiling water at 100°C is added into a calorimeter containing 300 g of cold water at 10°C, temperature of the mixture becomes 20°C. Then, a metallic block of mass 1 kg at 10°C is dipped into the mixture in the calorimeter. After reaching thermal equilibrium, the final temperature becomes 19°C. What is the specific heat of the metal in CGS unit ?
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A 15 kW drilling machine is used to drill a bore in a small aluminium block of mass 10 kg. Assuming 50 % power is used up in heating the machine itself or lost to the surroundings, then the rise in temperature of the block in 2 minutes is (Specific heat capacity of aluminium =0.91 J g-1 °C-1)
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1 gm of ice at, 0°C is mixed with, 2 gm of water at 90°C. Find the final temperature (specific heat capacity of water,=1 cal gm°C-1 and latent heat of fusion of ice = 80 cal gm-1)
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An aluminium piece of mass 50 g initially at 300°C is dipped quickly and taken out of 1 kg of water, initially at 30°C. If the temperature of the aluminium piece immediately after being taken out of the water is found to be 160°C, what is the temperature of the water? Then, specific heat capacities of aluminium and water are 900 J kg-1 K-1 and 4200 J kg-1 K-1, respectively.
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A massless spring k=800N/m, attached with a mass 500g is completely immersed in 1 kg of water. The spring is stretched by 2 cm and released so that it starts vibrating. What would be the order of magnitude of the change in the temperature of water when the vibrations stop completely? (Assume that the water container and spring receive negligible heat and specific heat of mass =400 J/kg K, specific heat of water =4184J/kgK )
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A coffee maker makes coffee by passing steam through a mixture of coffee powder, milk and water. If the steam is mixed at the rate of 50 g per minute in a mug containing 500 g of mixture, then it takes about t0 seconds to make coffee at 70°C when the initial temperature of the mixture is 25°C. The value of t0 is close to (ratio of latent heat of evaporation to specific heat of water is 540°C and specific heat of the mixture can be taken to be the same as that of water)
 
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Two liquids A and B are at 32 oC and 24 oC. When mixed in equal masses, the temperature of mixture is found to be 28 oC. Their specific heats are in the ratio
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A heater supplying constant power P watts is switched ON at time t=0 min to raise the temperature of a liquid kept in a calorimeter of negligible heat capacity. A student records the temperature of the liquid Tt at equal time intervals. A graph is plotted with Tt on the Y-axis versus t on the X-axis. Assume that there is no heat loss to the surroundings during heating. Then,
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A metallic block of mass 20 kg is dragged with a uniform velocity of 0.5 ms-1 on a horizontal table for 2.1 s. The coefficient of static friction between the block and the table is 0.10. What will be the maximum possible rise in temperature of the metal block, if the specific heat of the block is 0.1 CGS unit? Assume g=10 ms-2 and uniform rise in temperature throughout the whole block. [Ignore absorption of heat by the table]
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The temperature of equal masses of three different liquids x, y and z are 10°C, 20°C and 30°C respectively. The temperature of mixture when x is mixed with y is 16°C and that when y is mixed with z is 26°C. The temperature of mixture when x and z are mixed will be :
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How much time will a heater take to increase the temperature of 100 g water by 50°C, if the resistance of heating coil is 484 Ω and the supply voltage is 220 V AC?
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When M1 gram of ice at -10oC (specific heat =0.5 cal g-1 -1 ) is added to M2 gram of water at 50 oC, finally no ice is left and the water is at 0 oC . The value of latent heat of ice, in cal g-1 is:
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Two identical bodies are made of a material for which the heat capacity increases with temperature. One of these is at 100 oC, while the other one is at 0 oC. If the two bodies are brought into contact, then assuming no heat loss, the final common temperature is
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An unknown metal of mass 192 g heated to a temperature of 100 °C was immersed into a brass calorimeter of mass 128 g containing 240 g of water at a temperature of 8.4 °C. Calculate the specific heat of the unknown metal if water temperature stabilizes at 21.5 °C. ( Specific heat of brass is 394 J kg-1K-1)