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Temperature and Heat

The document contains 10 questions about temperature, heat, thermal conductivity, specific heat, and coefficients of linear expansion. It provides the questions, statements of given information, and blank solution spaces. The questions involve calculating initial temperatures, final temperatures, temperature differences between materials, amounts of heat absorbed, and physical properties based on thermal interactions between substances.

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Temperature and Heat

The document contains 10 questions about temperature, heat, thermal conductivity, specific heat, and coefficients of linear expansion. It provides the questions, statements of given information, and blank solution spaces. The questions involve calculating initial temperatures, final temperatures, temperature differences between materials, amounts of heat absorbed, and physical properties based on thermal interactions between substances.

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TEMPERATURE AND HEAT

Question 1.
The initial length of a brass rod is 40 cm. After heated, the final length of the brass is 40.04
cm and the final temperature is 80 ° C. If the coefficient of linear expansion of the brass is
2.0 ×10−5 ° C – 1, what is the initial temperature of the brass rod.
Solution:

Question 2.
Two metal rods with the same size but different type, as shown in figure below. The
thermal conductivity of metal I = 4 times the thermal conductivity of metal II. What is the
temperature between both metals?

Solution:
Question 3.
100-gram oil at 20 ° C and 50-gram iron at 75 ° C are placed in 200-gram iron container.
The increase in temperature of the container is 5 ° C and the specific heat of oil is
cal
0.43 ° C . What is the specific heat of the iron?
g
Solution:
Question 4.
A 200-gram water at 20°C placed in 50-gram ice at -2°C. If the change of heat just between
water and ice, what is the final temperature of the mixture? The specific heat of water is 1
cal/gr°C, the specific heat of ice is 0.5 cal/gr°C, the heat of fusion for ice is 80 cal/gr.
Solution:
Question 5.
A 50-gram metal at 85 °C placed in 50-gram water at 29.8 °C. The specific heat of water =
1 cal . g−1 °C −1 . The final temperature is 37 °C. What is the specific heat of metal?
Solution:

Question 6.
A metal rod heated from 30 ° C to 80 ° C. The final length of the rod is 115 cm. The
coefficient of linear expansion is 3.10−3 ° C −1. What is the initial length of the metal rod?
Solution:
Question 7.
A 200-gram aluminum at 20 ° C placed in 100-gram water at 80 ° C in a container. The
cal cal
specific heat of aluminum is 0.22 ° C and the specific heat of water is 1 ° C . What is
g g
the final temperature of aluminum?
Solution:
Question 8.
Two rods of the same size but different type, as shown in the figure below. The thermal
conductivity of rod P is 2 times the thermal conductivity of rod Q. What is the temperature
between both rods?

Solution:
Question 9.
How much heat is absorbed by a 20 g granite boulder as energy from the sun causes its
temperature to change from 10°C to 29°C? (Specific heat capacity of granite is 0.1 cal/g.°C) 

Solution:

Question 10.
The temperature of a sample of water increases from 20°C to 46.6°C as it absorbs 5650 calories of
heat. What is the mass of the sample? (Specific heat of water is 1.0 cal/g.°C)

Solution:

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