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Calorimetry Short Note

This document contains 15 physics problems related to calorimetry. The problems involve calculating heat capacities, specific heat capacities, amounts of heat required or released to change temperatures of various substances including water, ice, metals and more. The final problem asks to calculate the final temperature when ice at 0°C is mixed with water at 40°C.

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Calorimetry Short Note

This document contains 15 physics problems related to calorimetry. The problems involve calculating heat capacities, specific heat capacities, amounts of heat required or released to change temperatures of various substances including water, ice, metals and more. The final problem asks to calculate the final temperature when ice at 0°C is mixed with water at 40°C.

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LODHA WORLD SCHOOL

Std: X
Sub: Physics
Chapter: Calorimetry

1) 80 g of water at 50 ° C is poured into vessel containing 100 g of the water at


10 ° C. the final temperature recorded is 20 C. Calculate the thermal capacity
of the vessel? (Cw = 4.2 J/g K) [588 J/° C]
2) Calculate the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of 100
g of copper from 20°C to 70°C (sp. heat capacity of copper = 390 J kg-1 K-1)
[Q=1950 J]
3) 1300 J of heat energy is supplied to raise the temperature of 0.5 kg of lead
from 20°C to 40°C. Calculate the specific heat capacity of lead. [C=130 J kg-1
°C-1]
4) 200 g mass of a certain metal at 83°C is immersed in 300 g water at 30°C.
The final temperature is 33°C. Calculate the specific heat capacity of the
metal. (Assume that specific heat capacity of water is 4.2 Jg–1K–1). [ 0.378
Jg–1K–1]
5) Calculate the mass of ice needed to cool 150 g of water contained in a
calorimetry of mass 50 g at 50 °C such that the final temperature is 5 °C. (ccal
= 0.4 J/g °C, cw = 4.2 J/g °C, Lice = 330 J/g] [mass
of ice = 50 g]
6) The temperature of a metal of mass 250 g rises from 10 °C to 90 °C when
2000 J of heat is applied to it. Calculate heat capacity and specific heat
capacity of the metal. [ C = 25 J/°C, c = 0.1 J/g K]
7) 40 g of ice at 0 C is used to bring down the temperature of a certain mass of
water at 60 C to 10 C. Find mass of water used. (cw= 4200 J/kg °C, Lice = 336 x
103 J/kg) [m = 7.2 g]
8) When 1 g of ice at 0 °C melts to form 1 g of water at 0 °C then is the latent
heat absorbed by the ice or given out by it?
9) Specific heat capacity of substance A is 4.2 J/g K whereas the specific heat
capacity of substance B is 0.4 J/g K.
i) Which of the two is a good conductor of heat?
ii) How is one led to the conclusion?
iii) If substance A and B are liquids then which one would be more useful
in car radiators?
iv) Which one will you use for fomentation purpose?
10)How much heat energy is released when 5 g of water at 20 °C changes to ice
at 0 °C? (Cw = 4.2 J/g C, Lice = 336 J/g) [ 2100 J]
11)A liquid X has specific heat capacity higher than liquid Y. Which liquid is
useful as i) coolant in car radiation ii) heat reservoir to keep juice bottles
without freezing.
12)Calculate the amount of heat given out while 400 g of water at 30 °C cooled
and converted into ice at -2 °C. (cw= 4200 J/kg K, ci = 2100 J/kg K, Lice =
336000 J/kg) [ 186480 J]
13)What is the mass of water at 100 °C required to just melt completely 5 g of ice
at 0 °C? [ 4 g]
14)An electric heater immersion heater is switched on for 5 minutes. The heat
supplied by it raises the temperature of 500 g of water from 20 °C to 70 °C.
Calculate heat supplied by the heater and power of heater. (cw= 4.2 J/g °C) [
105000 J, 350 W]
15)A metal piece(specific heat = 0.09 J/g °C) of mass 200 g is heated from 20 °C
to 220 °C. Calculate amount of heat given to the metal. [3600 J]
16)20 g of ice at 0 °C is mixed with 40 g of water at 40 °C. What is the
temperature of mixture? (cw = 4200 J/kg K, Lice = 336 x 103 J/kg)

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