Thermal Properties of Matter questions
823 published questions with worked solutions.
- A piece of ice (heat capacity = 2100 J kg^ -1 ^ C^ -1 and latent heat = 3.36 10^5 J kg^ -1 ) of mass m grams is at -5^ at...
- Steel wire of length 'L' at 40 °C is suspended from the ceiling and then a mass 'm' is hung from its free end. The wire is cooled...
- Three very large plates of same area are kept parallel and close to each other. They are considered as ideal black surfaces and...
- Parallel rays of light of intensity I = 912 W m⁻² are incident on a spherical black body kept in surroundings of temperature 300...
- Two spherical stars A and B emit blackbody radiation. The radius of A is 400 times that of B and A emits 10^4 times the power...
- A metal is heated in a furnace where a sensor is kept above the metal surface to read the power radiated (P) by the metal. The...
- The ends Q and R of two thin wires, PQ and RS, are soldered (joined) together. Initially each of the wires has a length of 1 m at...
- A human body has a surface area of approximately 1 m^2. The normal body temperature is 10 K above the surrounding room...
- 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...
- A liquid at 30°C is poured very slowly into a Calorimeter that is at temperature of 110°C. The boiling temperature of the liquid...
- The time period of a simple pendulum made using a thin copper wire of length L is T. Suppose the temperature of the room in which...
- A Kelvin thermometer and a Fahrenheit thermometer both give the same reading for a certain sample. What would be the...
- Why is it difficult to measure the coefficient of expansion of a liquid than solid ?
- Which of the following statements about latent heat for a given substance is/are correct ? 1. It is fixed at a given temperature....
- Which of the following statements about specific heat of a body is/are correct ? 1. It depends upon mass and shape of the body 2....
- Thermal capacity of a body depends on the
- The absolute zero temperature is 0 Kelvin. In °C unit, which one of the following is the absolute zero temperature?
- The coefficient of areal expansion of a material is 1 6 10^ -5 K ^ -1 . Which one of the following gives the value of coefficient...
- Which one of the following could be the melting point of iron ?
- In which of the following phenomena do heat waves travel along a straight line with the speed of light ?
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