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272 previous year questions from Thermal Properties of Matter with answers and solutions. Numbered list, year tags, and one-tap solutions — built for serious JEE / NEET practice.

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A cylindrical rod with one end in a steam chamber and the other end in ice results in melting of 0.1 gram of ice per second. If the rod is replaced by another with half the length

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A spherical blackbody of radius 10 m is maintained at a temperature T , radiating power P with a peak emission wavelength 5000 Å . If the body is compressed uniformly such that its

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The rectangular surface area (12 cm 6 cm ) of the black body, at a temperature 127^ C , emits heat energy at the rate of Q units per second. If the length and breadth of the surfac

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A metal sphere cools at a rate of 2^ C/min when the temperature is 80^ C . If the temperature of the surroundings is 30^ C , then the rate of cooling when its temperature is 50^ C

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A resistance thermometer has resistance 95 at the ice point and 140 at the steam point. The resistance obtained if the actual temperature is 30^ C is

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A metal sphere cools from 80^ C to 60^ C in 10 minute. The time taken (in minute) by it to cool from 60^ C to 40^ C if the room temperature is 30^ C , is

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If the temperature of 5 kg mass of a material of a specific heat capacity 200 J/kg ^ C rises from the 30^ C to 40^ C. The heat received is

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The initial temperature of a body is 80^ C . If its temperature falls to 64^ C in 5 minutes and in the next 10 minutes to 52^ C , then the temperature of the surroundings is

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Three very large plates of same area are kept parallel (in vertical plane) and close to each other. They are considered as ideal black surfaces and have very high thermal conductiv

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Assume that the temperature of the surface of the sun is 5000 K and the surface temperature of another virtual star is 2500 K. The power radiated by a virtual star is 30 times the

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If the radiant heat absorbed by the body is 75 % of the incident heat and if the coefficient of the reflection is 0.15 , then the coefficient of transmission is

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Two spherical stars, A and B emit black body radiation. The radius of star A is 400 times that of star B and star A emits power 10^4 times emitted from star B. _A and _B are the wa

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Coefficient of linear expansion of brass and steel rods are ₁ and ₂ . Lengths of brass and steel rod are l₁ and l₂ respectively. Though the temperature of brass and steel is increa

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A clock with an iron pendulum keeps the correct time at 14^ C . If the room temperature is 20^ C , the error in a second per day will be nearly (coefficient of linear expansion of

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Two spherical black bodies have radii R₁ and R₂ . Their surface temperatures are T₁ K and T₂ K respectively. If they radiate the same power, the ratio R₁ R₂ is

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The rate of dissipation of the heat by a black body at temperature T is Q . The rate of dissipation of heat by ordinary body of the same area at temperature 3T and having emissivit

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On a new linear scale of temperature (called W scale) the freezing and boiling points of water are 35°W and 235°W respectively. The temperature on the new scale, corresponding to 7

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The plots of intensity against wavelength for three black bodies at temperatures T₁ , T₂ and T₃ are as shown. The wavelengths are such that

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The thermal conduction rate ' P_ cond ' of a slab is given by P_ cond = kA(T₁ - T₂) x , where ' x ' is the thickness of the slab and 'A' is the area . The term that represents ther

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If two temperatures differ by 25 ^ C on Celsius scale, the difference in temperature on Fahrenheit scale is

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The ratio of emissive power of perfectly black body at 1327 ^ C to that at 527 ^ C is

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Three spheres P, Q and R, having radii of 2 m, 3 m and 4 m respectively, are coated with lamp-black on their outer surfaces. The wavelengths corresponding to maximum intensity are

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Assuming the Sun to be a perfectly spherical black body of radius R and is at a temperature T K , then the total radiant power incident on the Earth at a distance r from the sun is

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The temperature of a metallic sphere of radius R is increased by a small amount T . If the linear coefficient of thermal expansion of the metal is , the approximate increase in the

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Three identical heat conducting rods are connected in series as shown in the figure. The rods on the sides have thermal conductivity 2 K while that in the middle has thermal conduc

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Two rods one made of copper and other made of steel of the same length and same cross sectional area are joined together. The thermal conductivity of copper and steel are 385 ~J ~s

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A cup of coffee cools from 90 ° C to 80 ° C in t   min , when the room temperature is 20 ° C . The time taken by a similar cup of coffee to cool from 80 °

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The quantities of heat required to raise the temperature of two solid copper spheres of radii r 1 and r 2 r 1 = 1.5   r 2 through 1   K are in the ratio:

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Three stars A ,   B ,   C have surface temperatures T A ,   T B , T C   respectively. Star A appears bluish, star B appears reddish and star C yellowish. Hence,

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Psychrometer is used to measure

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One rod of length 2 m and thermal conductivity 50 unit is attached to another rod of length 1 m and thermal conductivity 100 unit. Temperature of free ends are 70^ C and 50^ C resp

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A copper rod of 88   c m and an aluminum rod of unknown length have their increase in length independent of increase in temperature. The length of aluminum rod is α C u =

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A deep rectangular pond of surface area A , containing water (density = , specific heat capacity =s ), is located in a region where the outside air temperature is a steady value at

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An object kept in a large room having air temperature of 25^ C takes 12 minutes to cool from 80^ C to 70^ C . The time taken to cool for the same object from 70^ C to 60^ C would b

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1 g of water, of volume 1 ~cm ^3 at 100^ C is converted into steam at same temperature under normal atmospheric pressure = ( 1 10^5 ~Pa ) . The volume of steam formed equals 1671 ~

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Calculate radiation power for sphere whose temperature is 227^ C , radius 2 ~m and emissivity 0.8 .

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Assertion : Coefficient of thermal conductivity of a metal rod is a function of length of the rod. Reason : Longer the rod, larger is the amount of heat conducted.

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How much should the temperature of a brass rod be increased so as to increase its length by 1 % ? (Given, for brass is 0.00002^ C ⁻¹ ).

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The coefficient of volume expansion of glycerine is 49 10⁻⁵⁰ C ⁻¹ . What is the fractional change in density for a 30^ C rise in temperature?

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The power radiated by a black body is P and it radiates maximum energy at wavelength, λ 0 . If the temperature of the black body is now changed so that it radiates maximum ene

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A sample of 0.1     g of water at 100  o C and normal pressure 1.013 × 10 5  N  m - 2 requires 54     cal of heat energy to convert to s

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Two rods A and B of different materials are welded together as shown in figure. Their thermal conductivities are K 1 and K 2 . The thermal conductivity of the composite rod will be

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A spherical black body with a radius of 12   cm radiates 450   W power at 500   K . If the radius were halved and the temperature doubled, the power radiated in watt

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A body initially at 80^ C cools to 64^ C in 5 ~min and to 52^ C in 10 ~min . The temperature of the surrounding is

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A system consist of a cylinder surrounded by a cylindrical shell. A cylinder is a radius R and is made of material of thermal conductivity K , whereas a cylindrical shell has inner

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A metal rod at a temperature of 145^ C , radiates energy at a rate of 17 W . If its temperature is increased to 273^ C , then it will radiate at the rate of

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A lead bullet penetrates into a solid object and melts. Assuming that 50 % of its kinetic energy was used to heat it, the initial speed of the bullet is (the initial temperature of

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Two identical bodies are made of a material for which the heat capacity increases with temperature. One of these is at 100  o C , while the other one is at 0  o C . If th

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A body cools from a temperature 3 T to 2 T in 10 minutes. The room temperature is T . Assume that Newton's law of cooling is applicable. The temperature of the body at the end of n

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A black body is at a temperature of 5760  K. The energy of radiation emitted by the body at wavelength 250  nm is U 1 , at wavelength 500  nm is U 2 and that at 1000

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A piece of ice falls from a height h so that it melts completely. Only one-quarter of the heat produced is absorbed by the ice and all energy of ice gets converted into heat during

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Coefficient of linear expansion of brass and steel rods are α 1 and α 2 . Lengths of brass and steel rods are l 1 and l 2 , respectively. If l 2 - l 1 is maintained the s

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The temperature of a body is increased from -73^ C to 327^ C . Then the ratio of emissive power is

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Assertion : The specific heat of a gas in an adiabatic process is zero and in an isothermal process is infinite. Reason : Specific heat of gas is directly proportional to change of

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A slab consists of portions of different materials of same thickness and having the conductivities K₁ and K₂ . The equivalent thermal conductivity of the slab is

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A lead ball at 30^ C is dropped from a height of 6.2 km . The ball is heated due to the air resistance and it completely melts just before reaching the ground. The molten substance

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The earth receives solar radiation at a rate of 8.2 ~J ~cm ⁻² ~min ⁻¹ . If the sun radiates as the black bodies, the temperature at the surface of the sun will be (the angle subten

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Two rigid boxes containing different ideal gases are placed on table. Box A contains one mole of nitrogen at temperature T₀ , while box B contains 1 mole of helium at temperature 7

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The temperature of the cold junction of thermocouple is 0^ C and the temperature of hot junction is T^ C . The emf is E=16 T-0.04 T^2 V . The inversion temperature T_i is

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On observing light from three different stars P , Q and R , it was found that intensity of violet colour is maximum in the spectrum of P , the intensity of green colour is maximum

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The two ends of a metal rod are maintained at temperatures 100 ° C and 110 ° C . The rate of heat flow in the rod is found to be 4.0 J s - 1 . If the ends are maintained at tempera

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If 10 ~g oficeis added to 40 ~g of water at 15^ C , then the temperature ofthemixture is (specificheat of water =4.2 10^3 ~J ~kg ⁻¹ ~K ⁻¹ , Latentheatoffusion of ice =3.36 10^5 ~J

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A copper ball 2 ~cm in radius is heated in a furnace to 327^ C . If its emissivity is 0.3 , at what rate does it radiate energy?

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Assertion: UV radiation causes photo dissociation of ozone into O ₂ and O , thus causing damage to the stratospheric ozone layer. Reason : Ozone hole is resulting in global warming

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Assertion : A hollow metallic closed container with small opening maintained at a high temperature can act as a source of black body radiation. Reason : All metals act as black bod

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Assertion : The conductivity of an electrolyte is very low as compared to a metal at room temperature. Reason : The number density of free ions in electrolyte is much smaller as co

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50 g ice at 0^ C in insulator vessel, 50 g water of 100^ C is mixed in it, then final temperature of the mixture is (neglect the heat loss)

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Steam at 100   o C is passed into 20   g of water at 10   o C . When water acquires a temperature of 80 o C , the mass of water present will be: [Take specific heat

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Certain quantity of water cools from 70   o C to 60   o C in the first 5 minutes and to 54   o C in the next 5 minutes. The temperature of the surroundings is:

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A black body has a wavelength of at temperature 2000 K . Its corresponding wavelength at temperature 3000 K will be

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An ice-cube of density 900 ~kg / m ^3 is floating in water of density 1000 ~kg / m ^3 . The percentage of volume of ice-cube outside the water is

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Two metal rods 1 and 2 of same lengths have same temperature difference between their ends. Their thermal conductivities are K₁ and K₂ and crosssectional areas A₁ and A₂ respective

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The density of water at 20^ C in 998 ~kg / m ^3 and at a 40^ C 992 ~kg / m ^3 . The cocfficient of volume expansion of water is:

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A piece of iron is heated in a flame. If first becomes dull red then becomes reddish yellow and finally turns to white hot. The correct explanation for the above observation is pos

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1 ~g of steam is sent into 1 ~g of ice. At thermal equilibrium, the resultant temperature of mixture is

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0.1 ~m ^3 of water at 80^ C is mixed with 0.3 ~m ^3 of water at 60^ C . The final temperature of the mixture is

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The surface temperature of the sun which has maximum energy emission at 500 nm is 6000 K . The temperature of a star which has maximum energy emission at 400 nm will be

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If the radius of a star is R and it acts as a black body, what would be the temperature of the star, in which the rate of energy production is Q ? ( stands for Stefan's constant.)

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Liquid oxygen at 50 ~K is heated to 300 ~K at constant pressure of 1 atm. The rate of heating is constant. Which one of the following graphs represents the variation of temperature

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A slab of stone of area of 0.36 ~m ^2 and thickness 0.1 ~m is exposed on the lower surface to steam at 100^ C . A block of ice at 0^ C rests on the upper surface of the slab. In on

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Two conductors having same width and length, thickness d₁ and d₂ , thermal conductivity K₁ and k₂ are placed one above the another. Find the equivalent thermal conductivity.

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Assertion : Maximum air flow due to convection does not occur at the north pole but it occurs at 30^ N Reason : There is maximum temperature difference between equator and 30^ N

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The temperature of the sun can be found out by using

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Emissive and absorptive power of a material at 2000 ~K is 8 and 10 respectively, calculate the emissivity of IBB (Ideal black body)

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A black body has a wavelength of at temperature 2000 K . Its corresponding wavelength at temperature 3000 K will be

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Consider a compound slab consisting of two different materials having equal lengths, thicknesses and thermal conductivities K and 2 K respectively. The equivalent thermal conductiv

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A cylindrical metallic rod in thermal contact with two reservoirs of heat at its two ends conducts an amount of heat Q in time t. The metallic rod is melted and the material is for

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The thermo emf E in volt of a certain thermo-couple is found to vary with temperature difference in ^ C between the two junctions according to the relation E=30 - ^2 15 The neutral

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The total radiant energy per unit area, normal to the direction of incidence, received at a distance R from the centre of a star of radius r , whose outer surface radiates as a bla

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The latent heat of vaporisation of a substance is always

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Assertion : Water kept in an open vessel will quickly evaporate on the surface of the moon. Reason : The temperature at the surface of the moon is much higher than boiling point of

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A black body at 227^ C radiates heat at the rate of 7 cal cm ⁻² ~s ⁻¹ . At a temperature of 727^ C , the rate of heat radiated in the same units will be

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The two ends of a rod of length L and a uniform cross-sectional area A are kept at two temperatures T₁ and T₂ (T₁>T₂ ) . The rate of heat transfer, dQ dt , through the rod in a ste

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A black body at 227^ C radiates heat at the rate of 7 cals / cm ^2 ~s . At a temperature of 727^ C , the rate of heat radiated in the same units will be :

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The two ends of a rod of length L and a uniform cross-sectional area A are kept at two temperatures T ₁ and T ₂ ( ~T ₁> T ₂ ) . The rate of heat transfer, dQ dt , through the rod i

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Light with an energy flux of 18 ~W / cm ^2 falls on a non-reflecting surface at normal incidence. The pressure exerted on the surface is

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Assertion : Liquid molecules have greater potential energy at the melting point. Reason: Intermolecular spacing between molecules increases at melting point.

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Assertion : When hot water is poured in a beaker of thick glass, the beaker cracks. Reason : Outer surface of the beaker expands suddenly.

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Which of the following circular rods, (given radius r and length l ) each made of the same material and whose ends are maintained at the same temperature will conduct most heat?

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Оп a new scale of temperature (which is linear) and called the W scale, the freezing and boiling points of water are 39^ W and 239^ W respectively. What will be the temperature on

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An electric kettle takes 4 ~A current at 220 ~V . How much time will it take to boil 1 ~kg of water from temperature 20^ C ? The temperature of boiling water is 100^ C

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On a new scale of temperature (which is linear) and called the W scale, the freezing and boiling points of water are 39^ W and 239^ W respectively. What will be the temperature on

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An electric kettle takes 4 ~A current at 220 ~V . How much time will it take to boil 1 ~kg of water from temperature 20^ C ? The temperature of boiling water is 100^ C .

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A slab consists of two layers of different materials of the same thickness and having thermal conductivities (K₁ ) and (K₂ ) are connected in series. The equivalent thermal conduct

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Which of the following circular rods, (given radius r and length l ) each made of the same material and whose ends are maintained at the same temperature will conduct most heat?

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The temperature of inversion of a thermocouple is 620^ C and the neutral temperature is 300^ C , what is the temperature of cold junction?

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107

A black body is at 727^ C . It emits energy at a rate which is proportional to:

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108

Assuming the sun to have a spherical outer surface of radius r , radiating like a black body at temperature t^ C , the power received by a unit surface, (normal to the incident ray

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If the cold junction of thermocouple is kept at 0^ C and the hot junction is kept at T^ C , then the relation between neutral temperature (T_n ) and temperature of inversion (T) .

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If the temperature of a black body increases from (7^ C ) to (287^ C ) then the rate of energy radiation increases by

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Assertion : A hollow metallic closed container maintained at a uniform temperature can act as a source of black body radiation. Reason : All metals act as black bodies.

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Assertion : A brass tumbler feels much colder than a wooden tray on a chilly day. Reason : The thermal conductivity of brass is more than the thermal conductivity of wood.

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Two rods of same material have same length and area. The heat Q flows through them for 12 minutes when they are joint side by side. If now both the rods are joined in parallel, the

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A black body at 1227^ C emits radiations with maximum intensity at a wavelength of 5000 Å . If the temperature of the body is increased by 1000^ C , the maximum intensity will be o

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Three objects coloured black, gray and white can withstand hostile conditions upto 2800^ C . These objects are thrown into a furnace where each of them attains a temperature of 200

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When you make ice cubes, the entropy of water

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A body of specific heat 0.2 kcal / kg ^ C is heated through 100^ C . The percentage increase in its mass is

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118

The temperature of the black body increases from T to 2 T . The factor by which the rate of emission will increase, is?

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119

A steel scale measures the length of a copper wire as 80.0 cm, when both are at 20^ C , the calibration temperature for the scale. What would the scale read for the length of the r

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Which of the following rods, (given radius r and length l ) each made of the same material and whose ends are maintained at the same temperature will conduct most heat?

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