Specific Heat Capacity
Specific Heat Capacity: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Heat Capacity, Specific Heat Capacity, Molar Specific Heat Capacity, Specific Heat Capacity of Water, and Variation of Specific Heat Capacity of Water with Temperature.
Important Questions on Specific Heat Capacity
The molar heat capacity of water at constant pressure is . When 1kJ of heat is supplied to 100g of water, which is free to expand, the increase in temperature of water is

Two different liquids of same mass are kept in two identical vessel, which are placed in a freezer that extracts heat from them at the same rate causing each liquid to transform into a solid. The schematic figure below shows the temperaure vs time plot for the two materials. We denote the specific heat in the liquid states to be and for materials and respectively, and latent heats of fusion and respectively.
Choose the correct option.

200 g water is heated from to . Ignoring the slight expansion of water, the change in its internal energy is close to (Given specific heat of water J/kg/K):

Water is used as a coolant because

A current carrying wire heats a metal rod. The wire provides a constant power to the rod. The metal rod is enclosed in an insulated container. It is observed that the temperature in the metal rod changes with time as:
where is a constant with appropriate dimension while is a constant with dimension of temperature. The heat capacity of the metal is:

A person weighing takes in diet per day. If this energy were to be used in heating the body of person without any losses, then the rise in his temperature is (specific heat of human body )

Amongst object A and B, if the specific heat of object A is less than of object B, then

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of mass of water through is called its

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of mass of water through is called its

Specific heat of a substance is given by , find out amount of heat required to raise the temperature of substance from to

The number of degrees of freedom of a gas whose specific heat capacity at constant pressure is is
(universal gas constant )

ice at is mixed with steam at . The minimum value of so that finally all ice and steam converts into water is,
(Use, , (melting) and (vaporization).)

Which statement is false for specific heat of water?

During illness an man ran a fever of instead of normal body temperature of Assuming that the human body is mostly water, how much heat is required to raise his temperature by that amount?

A source of heat supplies heat at a constant rate to a solid cube. The slope of portion of the graphs gives :-

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Molar heat capacity of an ideal gas in the process constant is given by
An ideal diatomic gas with occupies a volume V1 at a pressure P1 . The gas undergoes a process in which the pressure is proportional to the volume. At the end of the process the rms speed of the gas molecules has doubled from its initial value.
The molar heat capacity of the gas in the given process is

When of brass at is dropped into of water at the resulting temperature is . What must have been the specific heat of brass ?

In a mixture of two gases, we have mole of a certain gas having and mole of another gas having . Calculate the value of for the given mixture of gases.

Water is used as a coolant because

An electric heater supplies of power in the form of heat to a tank of water. How long will it take to heat of water in the tank from to Assume heat loss to the surrounding to be negligible.
