Heat Capacity

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Heat Capacity: Overview

In this topic, we will learn about heat capacity and specific heat capacity and their units. It also describes some natural phenomena caused due to high specific heat capacity.

Important Questions on Heat Capacity

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A body of mass 10 kg falls from a height of 25 m and rebounds to a height of 0.50 m. If the loss in energy goes into heating the body, then the rise in temperature will be nearly: (specific heat of material is 25.2 J kg-1 K-1)

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Below is a graph between change in internal energy and temperature for a system placed in a constant volume.

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The slope of the graph is known as

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Which one of the following material will expand maximum if the same amount of heat energy is given to them?

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What is the difference between latent heat and latent heat of fusion?

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Why is it called latent heat of fusion?

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Is specific heat equal to heat capacity?

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Is specific heat capacity intensive or extensive?

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What is specific heat used for?

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What is specific heat vs heat capacity?

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Write a short note on Latent heat of fusion.

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What is meant by specific latent heat of vaporization of water is 2.26 mj kg?

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Unit for specific latent heat is watts per joule.

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The amount of heat required to change liquid to gas and vice versa without any change in temperature is termed as___

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The specific latent heat of vaporization of water is____

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What is meant by latent heat of vaporization?

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What does the latent heat of fusion measure?

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 Which are three types of latent heat?

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What is specific heat capacity of a substance?

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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 T vs time t plot for the two materials. We denote the specific heat in the liquid states to be CL1 and CL2 for materials 1 and 2 respectively, and latent heats of fusion U1 and U2 respectively.

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Choose the correct option.

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A current carrying wire heats a metal rod. The wire provides a constant power P to the rod. The metal rod is enclosed in an insulated container. It is observed that the temperature T in the metal rod changes with time t as:

Tt=T01+βt1/4

where β is a constant with appropriate dimension while T0 is a constant with dimension of temperature. The heat capacity of the metal is: