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Class - X
Worksheet – Heat
Physics

Q. 1. A hot solid of mass 60 g at 100∘ C is placed in 100 g of water at 18∘ C. The final steady
temperature recorded is 20∘ C. Find the specific heat capacity of the solid.

Q. 2. Calculate the total amount of heat required to convert 100 g ice at 0∘ C to water at
100∘ C. (Specific latent heat of fusion of ice = 333 J g −1 , specific heat capacity of water =
4.2 J g −1∘ C −1 ).

Q. 3. Calculate the amount of heat energy required to convert 0.025 kg of ice at 0∘ C to water
at 100∘ C.
Take Lice = 3.36 × 105 J kg −1 , cw = 4186 J kg −1 ∘ C −1 .

Q. 4. Water at 15∘ C is falling from a height of 50 m from a waterfall. If all the energy of
falling water is absorbed by it on striking the base of waterfall, calculate the change in
temperature of water. [Take g = 10 ms −2 ]

Q. 5. 500 g of boiling hot water is poured into a mug of mass 0.15 kg and specific heat
capacity 800 J kg −1 °C −1 . If the temperature of water drops to 70∘ C, calculate the amount of
heat energy lost by water.

Q. 6. What mass of a liquid A of specific heat capacity 0.84 J −1∘ C −1 and at a temperature
40∘ C must be mixed with 100 g of a liquid B of specific heat capacity 2.1 J g −1 ∘ C −1 and at
20∘ C, so that the final temperature of the mixture becomes 32∘ C ?

Q. 7. A bucket contains 8 kg of water at 25∘ C. 2 kg of water at 80∘ C is poured into it.

Neglecting the heat absorbed by the bucket, calculate the final temperature of the water.

Q. 8. How much heat energy is required to heat 1 kg of water at 20∘ C to 100∘ C ?

Q. 9. Silver and copper pieces ( sp. heat 0.056 and 0.093 k cal kg −1 ∘ C −1 respectively) with
equal mass and at the same temperature are supplied the same amount of heat. Which one
will attain a higher temperature?

Q. 10. How much heat is required to raise the temperature of 150 g of iron from 20∘ C to
25∘ C ? Take specific heat of iron 452 J kg −1 ∘ CC −1 .

Q. 11. How does the heat required to raise the temperature of water by a certain amount
compare with the heat required to raise the same mass of iron by the same amount? Take
specific heat of water 4186 J kg −1 ∘ C −1 and specific heat of iron 452 J kg −1 ∘ C −1 .

Q. 12. 2000 cal of heat is supplied to 200 g of water. Find the rise in temperature. Take
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specific heat of water = 1 cal g −1 ℃−1

Q. 13. A 1.0 kg hammer, moving with a velocity of 50 ms −1 strikes a 200 g iron nail and
drives it into a block of wood. If half of the energy of the hammer goes into heating the nail,
what will be the rise in temperature of nail?
(Take specific heat capacity of iron nail as 452 J kg −1 ∘ C −1 )

Q. 14. 15 g of ice at 0∘ C is added to 60 g of water at 40∘ C. Calculate the final temperature of

the mixture. Given specific latent heat of ice = 336 Jg −1 , specific heat capacity of water =
4.2 Jg −1 ∘ C −1 .

Q. 15. 8000 J of heat is given to 200 g of copper at 20∘ C. What is the final temperature, if the
specific heat capacity of copper is 0.4 J g −1 ∘ C −1 ?

Q. 16. 200 g of a solid at 100∘ C is dropped into copper calorimeter of mass 100 g containing
water weighing 150 g at 40∘ C. The final temperature reached is 50∘ C. Calculate the specific
heat capacity of solid. Specific heat capacity of copper is 0.4Jg −10 C−1 and that of water is
4.2Jg −10 C−1 .

Q.17. How much heat is required to change 2 g of ice at 0∘ C into water at 100∘ C ? (Specific
heat capacity of water 4.2 J g −1 ∘ C −1 ; specific latent heat of ice 336 J g −1 ).

Q. 18. A block of lead mass 250 g at 27∘ C was heated in a furnace till it completely melts.
Find the quantity of heat required (i) to bring the block to its melting point (ii) to total heat
energy required melt the block to its melting point (iii) total heat energy required (melting
point of lead = 327∘ C, specific heat capacity = 0.13 J g −1 C−1 ; specific latent heat of fusion =
26 J g −1 )

Q.19. The temperature of 600 g of cold water rises by 15∘ C when 300 g of hot water at 50∘ C
was added to it. What was the initial temperature of cold water ?
[Given: Sp. heat capacity of water is 4.2 J kg −1 ∘ C −1 ]

Q. 20. A molten metal weighing 150 g is kept at its melting point, 800∘ C. When it is allowed
to solidify at the same temperature, it gives out 75000 J of heat. What is the specific latent
heat of the metal?
If its specific heat capacity is 200 J kg −1 K −1 , how much additional heat will it give out in
cooling to −50∘ C ?

Q.21. Calculate the current flowing in a nichrome wire immersed in 500 g of turpentine oil
at 20∘ C. Such that the temperature of the oil rises to 70∘ C in 5 minutes when the wire is
connected to a battery of emf 24 V . The specific heat capacity of the oil is 750 J kg −1 ∘ C −1 .

Q. 22. 500 g of molten lead is at melting point is just kept in molten state by a heater of 40
W. If the heater is switched off the temperature of lead starts falling after 7 minutes,
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Calculate the specific latent heat of fusion of lead.

Q. 23. A metal of mass 250 g is heated to a temperature of 65∘ C. It is then placed in 50 g of

water at 20∘ C. The final steady temperature of water becomes 25∘ C. Neglecting the heat
taken by the container, calculate the specific heat capacity of the metal.

Q. 24. 1 kg of ice at 0∘ C is being continuously heated through an electric heater of 1 kW .

Assuming that all the heat is transmitted to ice, calculate the time intervals in seconds for:
(i) ice to completely melt towater at 0∘ C, (ii) water to get heated from 0∘ C to 100∘ C. [Given:
Specific latent heat of ice = 336000 J kg −1 , specific heat capacity of water = 4200 J kg −1 K −1 .

Q. 25. A 30 g ice cube at 0∘ C is dropped into 200 g of water at 30∘ C. Calculate the final
temperature of water when the entire ice cube has melted.
Given: Latent heat of ice = 80 cal g −1 ; Specific heat capacity of water = 1 cal g −1 ∘ C −1 .

Q. 26. An electric heater raises the temperature of 5000 g of a given liquid from 25∘ C to 31∘ C
in 120 s . If the power of the heater is 1 KW , calculate:
(a) the heat capacity of the liquid.
(b) the specific heat capacity of the liquid.

Q. 27. 10 g of ice at 0∘ C absorbed 5460 J of heat to melt and change into water at 50∘ C.
Calculate the specific latent heat of fusion of ice. Given specific heat capacity of water is
4200 J kg −1 ∘ C −1 .

Q. 28. A hot solid of mass 60 g at 100∘ C is placed in 100 g of water at 18∘ C. The final steady
temperature recorded is 20∘ C. Find the specific heat capacity of the solid.

Q. 29. In a laboratory experiment to measure specific heat capacity of copper, 0.02 kg of

water at 70∘ C was poured into a copper calorimeter with a stirrer of mass 0.16 kg initially at
15∘ C. After stirring, the final temperature reached to 45∘ C. Specific heat of water is taken as
42007 kg −10 C −1 .
(i) What is the quantity of heat released per kg of water per 1∘ C fall in temperature?
(ii) Calculate the heat energy released by water in the experiment in cooling from 70∘ C to
45∘ C.
(iii) Assuming that the heat released by water is entirely used to raise the temperature of
calorimeter from 15∘ C to 45∘ C, calculate the specific heat capacity of copper.

Q. 30. In a laboratory experiment for finding the specific latent heat of ice, 100 g of water at
30∘ C was taken in a calorimeter made of copper and mass 10 g , when 10 g of ice at 0∘ C was
added to the mixture and kept within the liquid till the ice melted completely, the final
temperature of the mixture was found to be 20∘ C :
(i) What is the total quantity of water in the calorimeter at 20∘ C ?
(ii) Specific heat capacities of water and copper being 4.2 J g ∘ C−1 and 0.4 J g ∘ C −1
respectively, what quantity of heat would each release in cooling down to 20∘ C from the
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initial stage?
(iii) Write an expression for the heat gained by ice on melting.
(iv) Calculate the value of the specific latent heat of fusion of ice from the data discussed
above.

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