Newton's Law of Cooling

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Newton's Law of Cooling: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Newton's law of cooling, Newton's law of cooling by calculus method, etc.

Important Questions on Newton's Law of Cooling

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A body cools from 80 oC to 60 oC in 5 minutes. The temperature of the surroundings is 20 oC. The time it takes to cool from 60 oC to 40 oC is

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A body cools in 7 minutes from 60oC to 40oC. The temperature of the surrounding is 10oC. The temperature of the body after the next 7 minutes will be

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An object cools from 100°C to 40°C in 10 minutes, when the surrounding temperature is 10°C. Then the time taken by the object to cool from 70°C to 20°C is
[Take ln2=0.7,ln3=1.1,ln6=1.8]

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The temperature of a cylindrical conductor starts rising when connected across a battery. The conductor radiates to the surrounding from it's curved surface following Newton's law of cooling and finally it attains a steady state temperature, its temperature exceeding the ambient temperature by Δθ=9°C. If the length of the conductor is reduced to 34 times of the original length, keeping other conditions unchanged, the steady state temperature C of the conductor exceeds the ambient temperature by

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A metal cylinder of mass 0.5kg is heated electrically by a 12W heater in a room at 15°C. The cylinder temperature rises uniformly to 25°C in 5min and finally becomes constant at 45°C. Assuming Newton's Law of cooling is valid.

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What does a cooling curve show?

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What does rate of cooling depend on?

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How do you calculate cooling curve?

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Initially, the rate of coaling is higher and decreases as the temperature falls.

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Newton's law of cooling holds good provided the temperature difference between body and surrounding is

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The quantity of heat required to heat 1 mole of a mono atomic gas through one degree K at constant pressure is:

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A brass boiler has a base area 0.15m2 and thickness 1.0cm. It boils water at the rate of 6.0kg/min when placed on a gas stove. Estimate the temperature of the part of the flame in contact with the boiler. Thermal conductivity of brass:

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A body cools from 80°C to 50°C In 5 minutes. Calculate the time it takes to cool from 60°C to 30°C. The temperature of the surroundings is 20°C.

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It is a valid _____ in the transfer of heat from a radiator to a room, the loss of heat through the wall of a room.

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Where k is a positive constant depending upon the area and nature of the surface of the body . 

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Two identical beakers A and B contain equal volumes of two different liquids at 60°C each and left to cool down. Liquid in A has density of 8×102 kg m-3 and specific heat of 2000 J kg-1K-1 while the liquid in B has density 103 kg m-3 and specific heat of 4000 J kg-1K-1. Which of the following best describes their temperature versus time graph schematically? (assume the emissivity of both the beakers to be the same)

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If a piece of metal is heated to temperature θ and then allowed to cool in a room which is at temperature θ0, the graph between the temperature T of the metal and time t will be closest to :

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Hot water in a vessel kept in a room, cools from 75°C to 70°C in t1 minutes, from   70°C to 65°C in t2 ​minutes and from 65°C to 60°C in t3 minutes. Then,

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The circuit below is used to heat water kept in a bucket. 

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Assuming heat loss only by Newton's law of cooling, the variation in the temperature of the water in the bucket as a function of time is depicted by

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A body cools down from 75 °C to 70 °C in time Δt1, from 70 °C to 65 °C in time Δt2 and 65 °C to 60 °C in time Δt3. The correct statement according to Newtons law of cooling is