Calorimetry

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Calorimetry: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Units of Heat, Calorimetry, Calorimeter, Principle of Calorimetry, Mechanical Equivalent of Heat & Mixing of Liquids at Different Temperatures etc.

Important Questions on Calorimetry

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1 kg water of specific heat 1 cal g-1C-1 is kept in a container at 10°C. If 500 g of ice at 0°C is required to cool down the water from 10°C to 0°C, then what is the water equivalent of the container? (Latent heat of fusion for ice L=80 cal g-1)

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Two blocks of ice when pressed together join to
form one block. It happens because

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When inflated tyre bursts, the air escaps out.

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When salt is properly mixed with ice, the melting point of ice?

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A circular disc of copper has a symmetrical hole at its centre. The disc is uniformly heated. The diameter of the hole will

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Ice in a freezer is at -7°C.100 g of this ice is mixed with 200 g of water at 15°C. Take the freezing temperature of water to be 0°C, the specific heat of ice equal to 2.2 J/g°C, specific heat of water equal to4.2 J/g°C and the latent heat of ice equal to 335 J/g.
Assuming no loss of heat to the environment, the mass of ice in the final mixture is closest to
 

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Initially, a beaker has 100 g of water at temperature 90 °C. Later another 600 g of water at temperature 20 °C was poured into the beaker. The temperature, T of the water after mixing is

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If x gm of steam at 100°C becomes water at 100°C which converts y gm of ice at 0°C into water at 100°C, then the ratio xy will be,

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What is the thermal capacity of a copper calorimeter of mass 40 g and with specific heat 4.2 x 102 J kg-1 °C-1?

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Find the temperature of the mixture of 1 kg of ice at 0oC and 1 kg of water at 10oC.

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What is the final temperature of the mixture of 540 g of ice at 0oC and 540 g of water at 80oC.

 

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Under which of the following condition is the following statement defined?

"Calorie is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of  1 gm of water by 1oC

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The whole mixture in the calorimeter become ice if:

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Water of volume 2 L in a container is heated with a coil of power 1 kW at 27 0C. The lid of the container is open and energy dissipates at rate of 160 J/s. In how much time temperature will rise from 27 0C to 77 0C ? [Given specific heat of water is 4.2  kJ/kg]

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80 gm of water at 30oC is poured on a large block of ice at 0oC. The mass of ice that melts is:

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A calorimeter contains 70.2 g of water at 15.3 °C. If 143.7 g of water at 36.5 °C is mixed with it, the common temperature becomes 28.7 °C. The water equivalent of the calorimeter is

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80 g of water at 30 °C is poured on a large block of ice at 0 °C. The mass of ice that melts is

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300 g of water at 25 °C is added to 100 g of ice at 0 °C. The final temperature of mixture is

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A lead ball at 30oC is dropped from a height of 6.2 km. The ball is heated due to the air resistance and it completely melts just before reaching the ground. The molten substance falls slowly on the ground. If the specific heat of lead =126 kjg-1 oC-1 and melting point of lead =330o C and suppose that any mechanical energy lost is used to heat the ball, then the latent heat of fusion of lead is

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A thermos flask contains 250 g of coffee at 90°C. To this 20 g of milk at 5°C is added. After equilibrium is established, the temperature of the liquid is (Assume no heat loss to the thermos bottle. Take specific heat of coffee and milk as 1.00cal/g°C