XI (GROWTH BATCH)

Class Assignment
PHYSICS
Topic : Thermal Properties of Matter

1. A faulty thermometer has its fixed points marked as 9. If the volume of a block of metal changes by 0.12%,
50 and 950. Temperature of a body as measured by the when it is heated through 200C, what is the coefficient
faulty thermometer is 590. Find the correct of linear expansion of metal?
temperature of the body on Celsius scale. 10. The coefficient of volume expansion of glycerine is
2. A thermometer has wrong calibration. It reads the 49 x 10–5 0C–1. What is the fractional change in its
melting point of ice –100C. It reads 600C in plane of density for a 300C rise in temperature?
500. Calculate the temperature of boiling point of 11. A clock with an iron pendulum keeps correct time at
water on this scale. 200C. How much will it lose or gain in a day if
3. A platinum wire has resistance of 10Ω at 00C and 20Ω temperature changes to 400C. Coefficient of cubical
at 2730C. Find the value of coefficient of resistance. expansion of iron = 36 x 10–6 0C–1.
4. The resistance of a resistance thermometer at 190C is 12. A steel tape 1m long is correctly calibrated for a
3.50 Ω and at 990C is 3.66 Ω. At what temperature temperature at 27.00C. The length of a steel rod
will its resistance be 4.30 Ω? measured by this tape is found to be 63.0 cm on a hot
5. A large steel wheel is to be fitted on to a shaft of the day when the temperature is 45.00C. What is the
same material. At 270C, the outer diameter of the shaft actual length of the steel rod on that day? What is the
is 8.70 cm and the diameter of central hole in the length of the same steel rod on a day when
wheel is 8.69 cm. The shaft is cooled using 'dry ice' temperature is 27.00C? Coefficient of linear -
(solid carbon dioxide). At what temperature of the expansion of steel = 1.20 x 10–5 0C–1?
shaft does the wheel slip on the shaft? Assume 13. A lead bullet weighing 20g and moving with a
coefficient of linear expansion of the steel to be velocity of 100 m/s comes to rest in a fixed block of
constant over the required temperature range. wood. Calculate the heat developed and the rise in
6. A brass wire 1.8 m long at 270C is held taut with little temperature of the bullet assuming that the half of the
tension between two rigid supports. If the wire is heat is absorbed by the bullet. The specific heat of
cooled to a temperature of –390C, what is the tension lead is 0.03 cal g–1 0C–1.
developed in the wire, if its diameter is 2.0mm? 14. During the Indo - Pakistan war, a soldier observed that
Coefficient of linear expansion of brass = 2.0 x 10–5 the lead bulled fired by him just melted, when stopped
0 –1
C , Young's modulus of brass = 0.91 x 1011 Pa. by an obstacle. Assuming that whole of the kinetic of
bullet got converted into heat energy, calculate the
velocity of the bullet. Given that initial temperature of
7. A brass rod of length 50cm and diameter 3.0 mm is the bullet = 47.6 0C. Melting point of lead 3210C,
jointed to a steel rod of the same length and diameter. specific heat of lead = 0.03 cal g–1 0C–1, latent heat of
What is the change in length of the combined rod at lead = 6 cal g–1 and J = 4.2 x 107 erg cal–1.
2500C, if the original lengths are at 40.00C? Is there a 15. How much work in joule is done in producing heat
'thermal stress' developed at the junction? The ends of necessary to convert 10 g of ice at –50C into steam at
the rod are free to expand. Coefficient of linear 1000C? Given specific heat of ice = 0.5 cal g–1 0C–1,
expansion of brass = 2.0 x 10–5 0C–1 and that of steel latent heat of steam = 540 cal g–1.
= 1.2 x 10–5 0C–1. 16. In an experiment on the specific heat of a metal, a 0.20
8. A metal ball 0.1 m in radius is heated from 273 to 348 kg block of the metal at 1500C is dropped in a copper
K. Calculate the increase in surface area of the ball. calorimeter (of water equivalent = 0.025 kg)
Given coefficient of superficial expansion = 0.000034 containing 150 cm3 of water at 270C. The final
K–1. temperature is 400C. Compute the specific heat of the
metal.

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17. A child running a temperature of 1010F is given an 21. What is the temperature of the steel - copper junction
antipyrin a (medicine that lowers fever) which causes in the steady state of the system shown in figure.
an increase in the rate of evaporation of sweat from Length of the steel rod = 15.0 cm, length of the copper
his body. If the fever is brought down to 980F in 20 rod = 10.0 cm, temperature of the furnace = 3000C,
min, what is the average rate of extra evaporation temperature of the other end = 00C. The area of cross
caused by the drug. Assume the evaporation -section of the steel rod is twice that of the copper rod.
mechanism to be the only way by which heat is lost. Thermal conductivity of steel = 50.2 Js–1m–1 0C–1 and
The mass of the child is 30kg. The specific heat of of copper = 385 Js–1 m–1 0C–1.
human body is approximately the same as that of
water, and latent heat of evaporation of water at that
temperature is about 580 cal g–1.
18. A 'thermocole' cubical icebox of side 30 cm has a
thickness of 5.0cm. If 4.0 kg of ice are put in the box,
22. The spectral energy distribution of the sun has a
estimate the amount of ice remaining after 6h. The
maximum at 4753 Å. If the temperature of the sun is
outside temperature is 450C and coefficient of thermal
6050 K, what is the temperature of a star for which
conductivity of thermocole = 0.01 Js–1 m–1 0C–1. Given
this maximum is at 9506 Å.
heat of fusion of water = 335 x 103 J kg–1.
23. Luminosity of Rigel star in Orion constellation is
19. Steam at 1000C is passed into a copper cylinder 10 mm
17,000 times that of our sun. If the surface
thick and of 200cm2 area. Water at 1000C collects at
temperature of the sun is 6000 K, calculate the
the rate of 150 g min–1. Find the temperature of the
temperature of the star.
outer surface, if the conductivity of copper is 0.8 cal s–
24. At what temperature will the filament of 100W lamp
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cm–1 0C–1 and the latent heat of steam is 540 cal g–1.
operate if it is supposed to be perfectly black body of
20. A brass boiler has a base area of 0.15 m2 and thickness
area 1cm2. Given `σ = 5.67 x 10–5 erg cm–2 s–1 K–4.
1cm. It boils water at the rate of 6 kg min–1 when
25. Calculate the maximum amount of heat which may be
placed on a gas stove. Estimate the temperature of part
lost per second by radiation by a sphere 14cm in
of the flame incontact with the boiler. Thermal
diameter at a temperature of 2270C, when placed in an
conductivity of brass = 109 Js–1m–1 0C–1 ( L = 2256
enclosure at 270C. Given Stefan's constant = 5.7 x 10–
x103 J kg–1) 8
Wm–2K–4.

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