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Calorimetry — JEE Main & Advanced Physics PYQs

26 previous year questions from Calorimetry with answers and solutions. Numbered list, year tags, and one-tap solutions — built for serious JEE / NEET practice.

Calorimetry — JEE Main & Advanced Physics PYQs

An iron cube (density = 8000 kg m ⁻³ , specific heat capacity = 470 J kg ⁻¹ K ⁻¹ ) is raised to a high temperature and placed upon a large block of ice at 0^ C . The cube melts the

A traditional method of cooling drinking water is to keep it in a pitcher having porous walls. Water reaches the outer surface very slowly and evaporates. Most of the energy requir

An iron piece of mass 100 g is placed inside a furnace for a long duration and subsequently dropped into a calorimeter of water equivalent 10 g that contains 240 g of water at 20^

Four 2 cm 2 cm 2 cm cubes of ice are removed from a refrigerator and placed in 200 ml of a drink at 10^ C . Determine the temperature of the drink once thermal equilibrium is reach

Four 2 cm 2 cm 2 cm cubes of ice are removed from a refrigerator and placed in 200 ml of a drink at 10^ C . Determine the amount of ice melted, given that the ice cubes do not melt

A mass of 1 kg of ice at 0^ C is mixed with 1 kg of steam at 100^ C . Determine the composition of the system once thermal equilibrium is established. The latent heat of fusion of

An aluminium vessel of mass 0.5 kg holds 0.2 kg of water at 20^ C . A block of iron of mass 0.2 kg at 100^ C is gently placed into the water. Determine the equilibrium temperature

Determine the time required to heat 20 kg of water from 10^ C to 35^ C using an immersion heater rated at 1000 W . Assume that 80 % of the power input is utilized to heat the water

On a winter day, the tap water temperature is 20^ C while the room temperature is 5^ C . Water is stored in a tank of capacity 0.5 m ^3 for household use. If it were possible to ut

A brick having a mass of 4.0 kg is dropped from a height of 2.0 m into a river that is 1.0 m deep. Assuming 80 % of the gravitational potential energy is ultimately transformed int

A bullet of mass 20 g enters a fixed wooden block with a speed of 40 m s ⁻¹ and comes to rest inside it. Determine the change in internal energy during the process.

A 50 kg man is running at a speed of 18 km h ⁻¹ . If the entirety of the man's kinetic energy is utilized to raise the temperature of water from 20^ C to 30^ C , what mass of water

Three different liquids A , B , and C have temperatures of 12^ C , 19^ C , and 28^ C respectively, for equal masses. The temperature when A and B are mixed is 16^ C , while mixing

Upon mixing a hot liquid with a cold liquid, the temperature of the mixture

The water equivalent of a body is expressed in

The specific heat capacity of a body is dependent upon

Identify the pair among the following that represents units of the same physical quantity.

Two bodies at unequal temperatures are mixed inside a calorimeter. Which of the following quantities remains conserved?

Identify which of the following pairs of physical quantities can be expressed using the same unit.

Which of the following is true for the mechanical equivalent of heat?

For a given body, the ratio of its specific heat capacity to its molar heat capacity:

When heat is provided to a solid, its temperature

The heat capacity of a body is dependent on

The temperature of an object is seen to increase over a certain period. During this period,

During a specific time interval, the temperature of a solid object is observed to remain constant. In this interval,

The statement that heat and work are equivalent implies that