Principle of Calorimetry

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Principle of Calorimetry: Overview

This topic consists of various concepts like Calorimetry,Units of Heat,Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, etc.

Important Questions on Principle of Calorimetry

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For shown situation, calculate the temperature of the common interface.

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There are three liquids A,B and C. The mass, heat capacity and temperature for liquid A is mA,CA, and TA, for liquid B is mB,CB, and TB and for liquid C is mC,CC, and TC respectively. If all the three liquids are mixed, then final temperature would be

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A continuous flow water heater (geyser) has an electrical power rating =2 kW and efficiency of conversion of electrical power into heat 80%. If water is flowing through the device at the rate of 100 cc/sec, and the inlet temperature is 10 °C, the outlet temperature will be

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What will be the final temperature if 50 g of water at 0° C is added to 250 g of water at 90° C

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If the Ropes of masses M & M' are Replaced by the Massless Strings of Similar Corresponding Lengths. The String attached to masses m1 & m2 is cut at the point Just above the mass m2  A Machine which converts Mechanical Energy into Heat Energy is placed 5 m below the (Rope of) Mass m2 before the Ropes are replaced. Efficiency η% of machine is 50%. The Heat is supplied to a Container which consists of 0.5 kg of Ice at -10 °C. Find the Final Temp. & composition Pn the container?

M=10 Kgmass of rope 1, L'=5 mlength of rope 1

A'=10-5 m2Area of rope 2, Y'=109 N m-2foug's modulues 2

m1=60 kg, m2=20 kg, g=10 m s-2, Specific HeatIce=2100 J kg-1 C-1

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Suppose the masses of the calorimeter, the water in it and the hot object made of copper which is put in the calorimeter are the same. The initial temperature of the calorimeter and water is 30 °C and that of the hot object is 60 °C. The specific heats of copper and water are 0.09 cal/(gm °C) and 1 cal/(gm °C) respectively. What will be the final temperature of water?

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You are provided some lead shots. How do you find the specific heat of lead?

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Initially, a beaker has 100 g of water at temperature 90 °C. Later another 600 g of water at temperature 20 °C was poured into the beaker. The temperature, Tin °C of the water after mixing is

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A thermally insulated vessel contains some water at 0°C. The vessel is connected to a vacuum pump to pump out water vapour. This results in some water getting frozen. It is given latent heat of vaporization of water at 0°C=21×105 J/kg and latent heat of freezing of water =3.36×105 J/kg. The maximum percentage amount of water that will be solidified in this manner will be:-

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Why the container of calorimeter is made up of copper?

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What is calorimeter?

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In a certain experiment, liquid helium at an initial temperature of 1 K is to be further cooled by bringing it into contact with a paramagnetic salt which is initially at temperature T0. The heat capacity of liquid helium is expressed as Ch=aT3a=128×10-4J·K-4  and that of salt is expressed as Cs=bT-2b=15×10-4 J.K. Assume that the mixture is thermally and mechanically isolated and no work is done during the process. If the final temperature of the system is 0.5 K, the initial temperature T0 of the salt is

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1 kg water of specific heat 1 cal g-1C-1 is kept in a container at 10°C. If 500 g of ice at 0°C is required to cool down the water from 10°C to 0°C, then what is the water equivalent of the container? (Latent heat of fusion for ice L=80 cal g-1)

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What will be the maximum percentage amount of water that solidifies, if a thermally insulated vessel contains some water at 0°C? The vessel is connected to a vacuum pump to pump out water vapour. This results in some water getting frozen. It is given Latent heat of vaporization of water at 0°C=21×105 J kg-1 and latent heat of freezing of water =3.36×105 J kg-1. Give answer in the nearest integer.

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Two blocks of ice when pressed together join to
form one block. It happens because

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When inflated tyre bursts, the air escaps out.

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When salt is properly mixed with ice, the melting point of ice?

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A circular disc of copper has a symmetrical hole at its centre. The disc is uniformly heated. The diameter of the hole will

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Ice in a freezer is at -7°C.100 g of this ice is mixed with 200 g of water at 15°C. Take the freezing temperature of water to be 0°C, the specific heat of ice equal to 2.2 J/g°C, specific heat of water equal to4.2 J/g°C and the latent heat of ice equal to 335 J/g.
Assuming no loss of heat to the environment, the mass of ice in the final mixture is closest to
 

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50 g of copper is heated to increase its temperature by 10°C. If the same quantity of heat is given to 10 g of water, the rise in temperature is ___ (specific heat of Cu=420 J·kg-1·C-1 and specific heat of water is 4200 J.kg-1·C-1