Specific Heat Capacity

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Specific Heat Capacity: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Heat Capacity of Solids, Definition of a Calorie, Specific Heat Capacity of Water, Variation of Specific Heat Capacity of Water with Temperature, Molar Specific Heat Capacities in Terms of Gas Constant, etc.

Important Questions on Specific Heat Capacity

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At a given temperature, the specific heat of a gas at constant pressure is always greater than its specific heat at constant volume.

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

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Calorie is defined as the amount of heat required to raise temperature of 1 g of water by 1°C and it is defined under which of the following conditions :-

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The quantities of heat required to raise the temperatures of two copper spheres of radii r1 and r2 (r1=1.5r2) through 1 K are in the ratio of

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At a given temperature, the specific heat of a gas at constant pressure is always greater than its specific heat at constant volume.

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For three gases (assume ideal); oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, (Cp - Cv) will be

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One mole of an ideal monoatomic gas at temperature T0 expands slowly according to the law P V = constant.  If the final temperature is 2T0, heat supplied to the gas is

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A copper block of mass 2.5 kg is heated in furnace to a temperature of 500° C and then placed on a large ice block. What is the maximum amount of ice that can melt ? (Specific heat of copper is 0.30 J (g-K)-1; heat of fusion of water is 335 J g-1)

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If one mole of a monoatomic gas γ = 5 / 3 is mixed with one mole of a diatomic gas γ = 7 / 5 , the value of γ for the mixture is

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70 cal of heat is required to raise the temperature of  2 moles of an ideal diatomic gas at constant pressure from 30°C to 35°C. The amount of heat required (in calorie) to raise the temperature of the same gas through the same range (30°C to 35°C) at constant volume is