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What are the fixed points of a thermometer? What is fundamental interval?

Important Questions on Heat and Temperature

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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 15 - Heat and Temperature>EXERCISE>Q 2
How many thermometric scales are in use generally? What is the relation between them?
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 15 - Heat and Temperature>EXERCISE>Q 3
Show that the relation between the temperature readings in Celsius and Fahrenheit scales is C+40=59F+40.
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 15 - Heat and Temperature>EXERCISE>Q 4
What is the principle of thermometry? Which property should one choose as the thermometric property? Why temperatures recorded by different thermometers do not agree with each other?
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 15 - Heat and Temperature>EXERCISE>Q 1
On a certain winter day in Darjeeling the minimum temperature was found to be 30° Fahrenheit. What was it in Celsius scale?
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 15 - Heat and Temperature>EXERCISE>Q 2
Find the temperature which will be expressed by the same number both on the Fahrenheit and the Celsius scales.
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 15 - Heat and Temperature>EXERCISE>Q 3
The boiling point and the freezing point of a thermometer are 150° and 15° respectively. What would be the temperature on the Celsius and the Fahrenheit scales, when it shows a temperature of 73°?
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 15 - Heat and Temperature>EXERCISE>Q 4
The lower and the upper fixed points of a thermometer are 0.2° and 101.7° respectively. What reading this thermometer will show at a temperature of 60°C?
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A Text Book of PHYSICS PART I : CLASS 11>Chapter 15 - Heat and Temperature>EXERCISE>Q 5
When a Celsius thermometer is dipped in hot milk, mercury column is found to advance 718part of the distance between the two fixed points. What is the temperature of the milk?