Thermal Equilibrium and Temperature

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Thermal Equilibrium and Temperature: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Thermometry, Linear Thermodynamic Properties of Matter, Callender's Compensated Gas Thermometer & Bending of Bimetallic Strip etc.

Important Questions on Thermal Equilibrium and Temperature

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A closed flask contains water in all its three states, solid, liquid and vapour at  0°C . In this situation, the average kinetic energy of water molecules will be

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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, Tin °C of the water after mixing is

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A wire is made by attaching two segments together end to end. One segment is made of aluminium and the other is steel. The effective coefficient of linear expansion of the two segment wire is 19×10-6 °C-1. The fraction length of aluminium is x11 then find x. (linear coefficients of thermal expansion of aluminium and steel are 23×10-6 °C-1 and 12×10-6 °C-1 respectively)

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A metal rod is fixed rigidly at two ends so as to prevent its thermal expansion. If L, α and Y respectively denote the length of the rod, coefficient of linear thermal expansion and Young’s modulus of its material, then for an increase in temperature of the rod by T, the longitudinal stress developed in the rod is

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In romer scale, the boiling point of water is defined at _____ degrees.

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 The _____ of the scale was originally set to the temperature of freezing brine.

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In this scale, the zero was initially set using freezing brine.

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In which of the following pairs of temperature scales, the size of the degree is identical?

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The temperature which has same numerical value on Celsius and Fahrenheit scale is:

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The temperature/s at which Centigrade thermometer and Kelvin thermometer gives the same reading is,

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If volume occupied by CO2​ molecules is negligible, then what will be the pressure P5.277 exerted by one mole of at 27°C is a=3.592 L2 mol-2.

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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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 The volume thermal expansion coefficient of an ideal gas at constant pressure is

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The most commonly used gas used in a constant pressure gas thermometer is:

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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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When a bimetallic strip is heated, it

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A compressive force, F is applied at the two ends of a long thin steel rod. It is heated, simultaneously, such that its temperature increases by ΔT. The net change in its length is zero. Let l be the length of the rod, A its area of cross-section, Y its Young's modulus, and α its coefficient of linear expansion. Then, F is equal to:

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The coefficient of linear expansion of crystal in one direction is α1 and that in every direction perpendicular to it is α2. The coefficient of cubical expansion is,

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What is the change in the temperature on Fahrenheit scale and on Kelvin scale, if an iron piece is heated from 30 °C to 90 oC.