Thermal Expansion and Calorimetry

1. A steel ring 3.00 inches inside diameter at 200 C is to be heated and slipped over a brass shift
measuring 3.003 inches in diameter at 200 C . To what diameter should the ring be heated?
2. A copper and a tungsten plate having a thickness of 2 mm each are riveted together to form a
flat bimetallic plate. Find the average radius of curvature of this plate at 2000 C . The coefficient
of linear expansion for copper and tungsten are  Cu  1.7  10 5 / K and  w  0.4  10 5 / K
3. A glass flask whose volume is exactly 1000cm 3 at 00 C is filled full of mercury at that
temperature. When the flask and mercury are heated to, 1000 C , 15.2cm3 of mercury
overflows. The coefficient of cubical expansion of mercury is 1.82  10 2 / K . Find the
coefficient of linear expansion of glass.
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4. A U-tube contains mercury. The left limb of the tube is maintained at a temperature of T1 C and
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the right limb at a temperature of T2 C . The height of the mercury columns in the left and the
right limb are h1 and h2 respectively. Find the coefficient of volume expansion of mercury.
Neglect the expansion of the tube.
5. An ice cube of mass 0.1 kg at 0 0 C is placed in an isolated container which is at 227 0 C . The
cal
specific heat S of the container varies with the temperature T as S=A+BT where A  100
kg  K
2 cal
and B  2  10 2
If the final temperature of the container is 27 0 C , determine the
kg  K
mass of the container. Latent heat of fusion of water is 8  104 cal / kg and specific heat of water
is 1000cal / kg  K
6. The specific heat of a substance varies with temperature T as C  AT 2  BTcal / gm0C where
T is in Kelvin. Calculate the amount of heat required to increase the temperature of 50 gm of
substance from 27 to 57 0 C . Also find the time taken if heat is supplied by a heater of resistance
3 cal cal
200 ohms operating on 220 V. Given A  2.5  10 0 3
B  12  102
gm.( C ) gm.(0 C )2
7. A mixture of 250 gm of water and 200 gm of ice art 0 0 C is kept in a calorimeter which has
water equivalent of 50 gm. If 200 gm of steam at 100 0 C is passed through the mixture,
calculate the final temperature and weight of the content of calorimeter. Given specific heat of
ice and water are 0.5cal / gm 0C and 1cal / gm0 C while latent heats are 80 cal/gm and 540
cal/gm respectively.
8. 5 gm of water at 30 0 C and 5 gm of ice at -20 0 C are mixed together in a calorimeter. Find the
final temperature of the mixture. Assume water equivalent of calorimeter to be negligible,
specific heat of ice and water and latent heat of ice are given in the above problem.
9. A lump of 0.1 kg of ice at -10 0 C put in 0.15 kg of water at 20 0 C . How much water and ice will
be found in the mixture when it has reached thermal equilibrium? Take required values of
specific heat and latent heat from above problems.

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10. In a calorimeter of water equivalent 40 gm, 200 gm of water and 50 gm of ice all at 0 0 C are
taken. 30 gm of water at 90 0 C is poured into it. What will be the final condition of the system?
MCQ’s with single option correct:
1. Heat released by 1 kg steam at 1500 C converted into 1 kg water at 500 C is
a) 315 kcal b) 115 kcal c) 150 kcal d) 615 kcal
2. A block of mass 2.5 kg is heated to temperature of 5000 C and placed on a large block of ice.
What is the maximum amount of ice that can approximately melt if specific heat of the body is
cal
0.1
gm 0C
a) 1 kg b) 1.5 kg c) 2 kg d) 2.5 kg
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3. 10 gm of ice at 0 C is kept in a calorimeter of water equivalent 10 gm. How much heat should
be supplied to the apparatus to evaporate the water thus formed?
a) 6200 cal b) 7200 cal c) 13600 cal d) 8200 cal
4. Heat is supplied at a constant rate to a sphere of ice which is melting at the rate of 0.1 gm/sec. It
melts completely in 100 sec. The rate of rise of temperature thereafter will be ( in 0 C / s )
a) 0.8 b) 5.4 c) 3.6 d) none
5. 1 kg of ice at 100 C is mixed with 4.4 kg of water at 300 C . The final temperature of the
J
mixture in 0 C is? specific heat of ice is 2100
kg K
a) 2.3 b) 4.4 c) 5.3 d) 8.7
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6. Steam at 100 C is added slowly to 1400 gm mf water at 10 C until the temperature of water
becomes 800 C . Mass of the steam required to do this is ( Lv  540cal / gm )
a) 160 gm b) 125 mg c) 250 gm d) 320 gm
7. A 2100 W continuous flow geyser has inlet water temperature 100 C while the water flows out
at the rate of 20 gm/sec. The outlet temperature of water in 0 C is about
a) 20 b) 30 c) 35 d) 40
8. The temperature of equal masses of three different liquids A,B and C are 12, 19 and 28 0 C
respectively. The temperature when A and B are mixed is 16 where as when B and C are mixed is
23, both in 0 C . The temperature when A and C are mixed is ( in 0 C )
a) 16.5 b) 20.26 c) 10.36 d) none
9. The heat required to increase the temperature of 10 kg of water by 100 C is ( in kcal )
a) 20 b) 100 c) 10 d) 1
10. When 400 J of heat is added to 0.1 kg sample of metal, its temperature increases by 200 C .The
specific heat of the metal. (in J/kg)
a) 100 b) 200 c) 300 d) 50
11. 420 J of energy is supplied to 20 gm of water. The rise in temperature in 0 C is
a) 10 b) 7 c) 100 d) 5

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12. The specific heat of metal at low temperature varies as S  aT 3 where ‘a’ is the constant. The
heat energy needed to raise the temperature of unit mass of the metal from 1 to 2 K is
a) 3a b) 15a/4 c) 2a/3 d) 12a/5
13. The ratio of densities of two bodies is 3:4 and the ratio of their specific heat is 4:3. The ratio of
their thermal capacities for unit volume is
a) 3:4 b) 4:3 c) 1:1 d) 9:16
kg kg
14. The density of material A is 1500 3
and that of B is 2000 3 . It is found that the heat capacity
m m
of 8 volumes of A is equal to heat capacity of 12 volumes of B. The ratio of specific heats of A
and B is
a) 1:2 b) 3:1 c) 3:2 d) 2:1
15. 200 gm water is filled in a calorimeter of negligible heat capacity. It is heated till its temperature
increases by 20 0 C . The heat supplied to water in cal is
a) 1000 b) 4000 c) 2000 d) 3000
16. A steel scale is to be prepared such that the millimeter intervals are accurate within
6  105 mm The maximum permissible temperature variation in 0 C during the ruling of the
millimeter marks is take   12  106 / 0 C
a) 4 b) 4.5 c) 5 d) 5.5
17. A washer has a hole of diameter d1 and an external diameter d 2  3d1 . On heating d 2 increases
by 0.3 %. Then % increase /decrease in d1 is
a) 0.1 decrease b) 0.3 decrease c) 0.1 increase d) 0.3 increase
18. If I is the moment of inertia of a body, its change corresponding to a small change in
temperature T is
1
a)  I T b)  I T c) 2 I T d) 3 I T
2
19. 1 gm of ice at 0 0 C is added to 5 gm of water at 10 0 C . If the latent heat of ice is 80cal/gm the
final temperature of the mixture in 0 C is
a) 5 b) 0 c) -5 d) none
20. Heat capacity is equal to the product of
a) Mass and gas constant b) mass and specific heat

c) Latent heat and volume of water d) mass and Avogadro number

MCQ’s with more than one option correct:

1. Two rods of length L1 and L2 are made of materials of coefficient of linear expansion 1 and  2
respectively such that L11  L2 2 . The temperature of the rods is increased by T and the
corresponding increase in lengths of the two rods is L1 & L2

a) L1  L2 b) L1  L2

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c) The difference in length L2  L1 is a constant and is independent of rise in temperature

d) Data is insufficient to arrive at a conclusion

2. Equal masses of three substances A,B and C have temperatures 10, 25 and 40 0 C respectively. When
A and B are mixed, the temperature of the mixture is 15 0 C and when B and C are mixed, the
temperature of the mixture is 30 0 C . Then

a) S B  2 S A b) S A  4 SC c) S A  2 S B d) S B  3SC

3. When two samples at different temperatures are mixed, the temperature of the mixture can be

a) Lesser than lower or greater than higher temperature

b) Equal to lower or higher temperature

c) Greater than lower but lesser than higher temperature

d) Average of lower and higher temperatures

4. during the melting of a slab of ice at 273 K and atmospheric pressure

a) Positive work is done by ice-water system on the atmosphere

b) Positive work is done on the ice-water system by the atmosphere

c) The internal energy of the ice-water system increases

d) The internal energy of the ice-water system decreases

5. A substance of mass M kg requires a power input of P watts to remain in the molten state at its
melting point. When the power source is turned off, the sample completely solidifies in time‘t’ seconds.
The latent heat of fusion of the substance is…….

Write-up

When a substance is heated, the heat gained by the substance is given by Q  mst where m is the
mass of the substance; s is the specific heat of the substance and t is the rise in temperature. If the
phase f the substance changes, heat given is Q  mL , where L is the latent heat of the substance.

1. 1 gm of ice at 00 C is mixed with 1 gm of steam at 1000 C . After thermal equilibrium is attained, the
temperature of the mixture in 0 C is

a) 1 b) 50 c) 81 d) 100

2. The maximum mass of the ice that can be taken to get the equilibrium temperature calculated above
is

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a) 1 gm b) 2 gm c) 3 gm d) 4 gm

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