Newton’s Law of Cooling

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Newton’s Law of Cooling: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Newton's Law of Cooling, Newton's Law of Cooling by Average Method, Newton's Law of Cooling by Calculus Method, Curve of Cooling of Hot Water with Time & Verification of Newton's Law of Cooling etc.

Important Questions on Newton’s Law of Cooling

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An object cools from 100°C to 40°C in 10 minutes, when the surrounding temperature is 10°C. Then the time taken by the object to cool from 70°C to 20°C is
[Take ln2=0.7,ln3=1.1,ln6=1.8]

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A hot container takes 1 min to cool from 95 °C to 75 °C. The time it takes to cool from 74 °C to 54 °C is
[consider the room temperature as 30 °C]

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A brass boiler has a base area 0.15m2 and thickness 1.0cm. It boils water at the rate of 6.0kg/min when placed on a gas stove. Estimate the temperature of the part of the flame in contact with the boiler. Thermal conductivity of brass:

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A body cools down from 80 °C to 60 °C  in 10 minutes when the temperature of surrounding is 30 °C. The temperature of the body after next 10 minutes will be:

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A body cools from 67°C to 37°C. If this takes time t when the surrounding temperature is 27°C, what will be the time taken if the surrounding temperature is 7°C ?

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Two identical beakers A and B contain equal volumes of two different liquids at 60°C each and left to cool down. Liquid in A has density of 8×102 kg m-3 and specific heat of 2000 J kg-1K-1 while the liquid in B has density 103 kg m-3 and specific heat of 4000 J kg-1K-1. Which of the following best describes their temperature versus time graph schematically? (assume the emissivity of both the beakers to be the same)

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If a piece of metal is heated to temperature θ and then allowed to cool in a room which is at temperature θ0, the graph between the temperature T of the metal and time t will be closest to :

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Hot water in a vessel kept in a room, cools from 75°C to 70°C in t1 minutes, from   70°C to 65°C in t2 ​minutes and from 65°C to 60°C in t3 minutes. Then,

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The circuit below is used to heat water kept in a bucket. 

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Assuming heat loss only by Newton's law of cooling, the variation in the temperature of the water in the bucket as a function of time is depicted by

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A body cools down from 75 °C to 70 °C in time Δt1, from 70 °C to 65 °C in time Δt2 and 65 °C to 60 °C in time Δt3. The correct statement according to Newtons law of cooling is

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A cup of tea cools from 80°C to 60°C in one minute. The ambient temperature is 30°C. In cooling from 60°C to 50°C, it will take:

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A calorimeter of water equivalent 5×103kg, takes 3 min to cool from 28oC to 21oC having 25×103kg of water. It takes 2 min to cool from 28oC to 21oC, if it is filled with 30×103kg of turpentine oil. Find the specific heat of turpentine oil.

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The time required by two liquids to cool from 60 °C to 50 °C is 324 s and 810 s, respectively. What is the ratio of densities of these liquids if the ratio of specific heat of both are 3:4? (water equivalent of the calorimeter is negligible)

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It is known for a certain liquid that it takes 70 s to cool from 55oC to 50oC and 30 s to cool from  95oC to 90oC. Figure out the ambient temperature of the room.

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Calculate the net rate of radiation loss from a solid cube of side 1 m, which has a temperature of 127oC while the ambient temperature is 27oC. It is given that the cube has an emissivity of 15.67.

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"The rate of loss of heat -dQdt of the body is directly proportional to the temperature difference ΔT=(T2-T1) of the body and surroundings". Choose the correct option related to this statement.

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Steel is heated to temperature  θ and then allowed to cool in a room which is at temperature  θ 0 , the graph between the temperature T of steel and time t will be closest to

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A body cools in a surrounding of constant temperature 30 °C. Its heat capacity is 2 J °C-1. The initial temperature of the body is 40 °C. Assume Newton's law of cooling is valid. The body cools to 36 °C in 10 min. In further 10 min it will cool from 36 °C to 

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A body cools in 7 min from 60 oC to 40 oC. What time (in min) does it take to cool from 40 oC to 28 oC, if surrounding temperature is 10 oC? (Assume Newton's law of cooling)

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A cup of tea cools from 65.5 oC to 62.5 oC in 1min in a room at 22.5 oC. How long will it take to cool from 46.5 oC to 40.5 oC in the same room?