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Heat Capacity and Latent Heat Questions

The document contains multiple physics problems involving heat transfer and phase changes of water. It asks the student to: 1) Calculate the heat energy required to raise the temperature of 700g of water from 28°C to its freezing point and the latent heat of fusion transferred during its phase change to ice. 2) Calculate the heat energy required to boil 2kg of water and distinguish between boiling and evaporation. 3) Explain how heat is transferred to water in a shiny kettle on a stove, why kettles are shiny, and how the kettle's cover prevents heat loss. 4) Calculate the heat required to change the phase of 25g of ice to steam through its intermediate phases

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Heat Capacity and Latent Heat Questions

The document contains multiple physics problems involving heat transfer and phase changes of water. It asks the student to: 1) Calculate the heat energy required to raise the temperature of 700g of water from 28°C to its freezing point and the latent heat of fusion transferred during its phase change to ice. 2) Calculate the heat energy required to boil 2kg of water and distinguish between boiling and evaporation. 3) Explain how heat is transferred to water in a shiny kettle on a stove, why kettles are shiny, and how the kettle's cover prevents heat loss. 4) Calculate the heat required to change the phase of 25g of ice to steam through its intermediate phases

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A student placed 700 g of water at 28°C in a freezer.

After 6 minutes and 15 seconds


the water was transformed to ice.

Calculate
(i) the heat energy transferred from the water during the temperature change
(4 marks)
(ii) the latent heat of solidification, given that 235200 J of heat energy was
transferred during the change of state
(3 marks)
(iii) the rate of heat energy transfer for the entire process .
(5 marks)
(Specific heat capacity of water= 4200 J kg -1K-1)

Water boils at 100°C.


a) Calculate the heat energy which must be supplied in order to completely
convert the 2 kg of water to steam.
(3 marks)
b) Distinguish between boiling and evaporation.

[Specific latent heat of vaporization of water 2.3 x 106 Jkg-1]


(4marks)

The figure below shows a shiny kettle which is placed on a gas stove to heat the
water inside it.

a) By what process is heat transferred to the water through the kettle?


(1 mark)
(ii) Explain why kettles are usually shiny on the outside.
(1 mark)
(iii) How does the cover prevent heat losses?
(2 marks)

b) Only about one-third of the thermal energy generated by burning the gas goes
into heating the water, whilst the remainder is wasted.
State where the wasted energy goes and give the process by which this
wasted heat is transferred.
(2 marks)
c) If the mass of water in the kettle is 1.5 kg, calculate the thermal energy
required to raise its temperature from 30 °C to 100 °C.

(3 marks)
d) How much more energy must the water absorb for 0.2 kg of it to boil off?
(3 marks)
e) Explain why it is better not to fill the kettle when making one or two cups of
tea.
(2 marks)
(Specific heat capacity of water = 4.2 x 103 J kg -1 K -1
Specific latent heat of vaporization of water = 2.3 x 10 6 J kg -1.)

A physics student was provided with 25 g of ice to convert to steam.


How much heat is needed to change this 25 g of ice at 0° C to s team at 100° C ?
(9 marks)
3 1 -1
(Specific heat capacity of ice = 2 x 10 J kg- K )
(Specific heat capacity of water= 4.2 x 103 J kg- 1K- 1)
(Specific latent heat of vaporisation of water = 2.3 x 10 6 Jkg-1)
(Specific latent heat of fusion of ice= 3 .4 x 10 5 J kg- 1)

A busy housewife left 25 g of ice in an open insulated container while she was
answering her cellphone. When she returned, the ice at 0 ºC was converted to water
at 3.0 ºC.
(i) Calculate the energy needed for the ice to totally melt and to reach its present
temperature. Assume no heat losses.
(6 marks)
–1 –1
[Specific Heat Capacity of water = 4 200 J Kg K
Specific Latent Heat of Fusion of Ice = 340 000 J Kg –1]

If this melting and heating activity took place over 300 s, calculate the rate at which
the ice / water was receiving heat.
( 3 marks)

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