Specific Heat

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Specific Heat: Overview

In this topic, we will learn about specific heat with its units. It describes some natural phenomena caused due to high specific heat. A table is also given here to show the specific heat of some substances.

Important Questions on Specific Heat

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What are the factors affecting on specific heat capacity?

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Water is used as a coolant because, it has high specific heat capacity.

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The SI unit of specific heat is Jkg K.

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

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The specific heat capacity of any substance is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one unit substance by hundred degree.

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A cube of lead of 500 g at 25 °C is supplied with a 3225 J heat. Find the final temperature (in degree Celsius) of the lead cube. (Take, specific heat of lead is 0.129 Jg °C

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Calculate the heat energy (in joules) to raise the temperature of 5 kg of water from 20 °C to 100 °C. (Take specific heat of water, sw=4.2×103 J kg-1 K-1)

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Heat transferred to the surrounding will increase the internal energy of a system.

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Specific heat capacity of a substance depends on the mass of the substance. 

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Which is contained in a body in a greater amount: heat or internal energy?

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The internal energy of a system in any spontaneous process always tends to decrease.

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Heat transferred to the surrounding will increase the internal energy of a system.

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Study the table given below and answer the following questions

Substances Specific heat capacity (J kg-1 °C-1)
Water  4200
Oil 2100
Iron 490
Lead 130

78000 J of energy was used to heat up iron by 20°C. How much mass of iron was heated?

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Study the table given below and answer the following questions

Substances Specific heat capacity (J kg-1 °C-1)
Water  4200
Oil 2100
Iron 490
Lead 130

How much energy is needed to heat up 1 kg of oil from 30°C to 80°C?

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An insulated container containing ideal monoatomic gas of molar mass m is moving with a velocity v0. If the container is suddenly stopped. The change in temperature is

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In a process, temperature and volume of one mole of an ideal monoatomic gas are varied according to the relation VT=K, where K is a constant. In this process the temperature of the gas is increased by T. The amount of heat absorbed by gas is ( R is gas constant):