Calorimetry

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Calorimetry: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Calorimetry, Joule's Experiment, Principle of Calorimetry, Water Equivalent of Calorimeter, Mixing of Liquids at Different Temperatures, Mixing of Liquid and Solid at Different Temperatures, etc.

Important Questions on Calorimetry

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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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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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In an experiment, a sphere of aluminium of mass 0.20 kg is heated up to 150°C . Immediately, it is put into water of volume 150 cc at 27oC kept in a calorimeter of water equivalent to 0.025 kg . The final temperature of the system is 40oC . The specific heat of the aluminium is(take 4.2 Joule=1 calorie )

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A copper ball of mass 100 g is at a temperature T. It is dropped in a copper calorimeter of mass 100 g, filled with 170 g of water at room temperature. Subsequently, the temperature of the system is found to be 75o C. T is given by:
(Given: room temperature = 30oC, the specific heat of copper =0.1cal g-1oC-1)

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Liquids A and B are at 30 °C and 20 °C, respectively. When mixed in equal masses, the temperature of the mixture is found to be 26 °C, The specific heats of A and B are in the ratio of m:n , then minimum value of m+n= ?

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The time taken for a calorimeter containing 75 g of water at 62°C to cool to 58°C is 9 minutes. When the calorimeter contains 105 g of water, it takes 12 minutes to cool from 62°C to 58°C. The water equivalent of the calorimeter is

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Three containers C1, C2 and C3 have water at different temperatures. The table below shows the final temperature T when different amounts of water (given in liters) are taken from each container and mixed (assume no loss of heat during the process)

C1 C2 C3 C4
1 l 2 l --- 60°C
--- 1 l 2 l 30°C
2 l --- 1 l 60°C
1 l 1 l 1 l θ

The value of θ (in C to the nearest integer) is .....................

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Find the final temperature in the form 2x°C of the system when 5 gm steam at 100°C is mixed with 31.50 gm ice at -20°C. Take Sice=Ssteam =0.5 cal gm-1 °C-1, Swater =1 cal gm-1 °C-1 and the latent heat of fusion and vaporization as 80 cal gm-1 and 540 cal gm-1 respectively. Find the value of x.

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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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Steam at 100 °C is passed into 1 kg of water contained in a calorimeter at 9 °C till the temperature of water and calorimeter is increased to 90 °C. The mass of the stean condensed is nearly
(Water equivalent of calorimeter =0.1 kg Specific heat of water =1 cal g-1 °C-1 Latent heat of vapourisation =540 cal g-1)

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An electrically heated coil is immersed in a Q calorimeter containing 360 gm of water at 10°C. The coil consumes energy at the rate of 90 W. The water equivalent of calorimeter & coil is 40 gm. The temperature of water after 10 min 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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Two tank A and B contain water at 20°C and 80°C respectively. The amount of water that must be taken from A and B to prepare 40 kg of water at 50°C:

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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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Consider mixing 1.5 kg of ice at 0 °C with 2 kg of water at 70 °C in a container. The resulting temperature of the mixture is found to be 5 °C. Calculate the heat of fusion of ice.(swater=4186 J kg-1 K-1   )

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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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One gram of ice at 0 oC and one gram of steam at 100 oC  is mixed in a container. Then the amount of uncondensed steam left out is 

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Water equivalent of a calorimeter is:

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The whole mixture in the calorimeter become ice if: