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Temperature And Heat

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1. Internal human body temperature is often stated to be normal at 98.6F. What is
this temperature on the Celsius and Kelvin scales?

2. Gallium boils at 2205C. What is the corresponding temperature in the

Fahrenheit and Kelvin scales?

3. Two metal rods, one aluminum and one brass, are each clamped at one end. At
0.0C, the rods are each 50.0cm long and are separated by 0.024cm at their
unfastened ends. At what temperature will the rods just come into contact?
(Given that brass = 19 x 10-6 C-1 and Al = 22.5 x 10-6 C-1)

0.024 cm
cm
50.0 cm

50.0 cm

Brass

Aluminum

T = 0.0 C

4. A glass flask whose volume is 1000.00cm3 at 0.0C is completely filled with

mercury at this temperature. When flask and mercury are warmed to 55.0C,
8.95cm3 of mercury overflow. If the coefficient of volume expansion of mercury is
18.0x10-5 K-1, find the coefficient of volume expansion of the glass.

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5. A copper pot with a mass of 0.500kg contains 0.170kg of water, and both are at a
temperature of 20.0C. A 0.250kg block of iron at 85.0C is dropped into the pot.
Find the final temperature of the system, assuming no heat loss to the
surroundings.
(Copper, cc = 390J/kg.K, iron, ci = 470J/kg.K and water, cw = 4.19x103J/kg.K)
6. In a container of negligible mass, 0.2kg of ice at an initial temperature of -40.0C
is mixed with a mass m of water that has an initial temperature of 80.0C. No
heat is lost to the surroundings. If the final temperature of the system is 20.0C,
what is the mass m of the water that was initially at 80.0C?
(For cice = 2100J/kg.K, Lf = 3.34x105J/kg, cwater = 4190J/kg.K)
7. A steel bar 10.0cm long is welded end to end to a copper bar 20.0cm long. Each
bar has a square cross section, 2.00cm on a side. The free end of the steel bar
is kept at 100C by placing it in contact with steam, and the free end of the
copper bar is kept at 0C by placing it in contact with ice. Both bars are perfectly
insulated on their sides. Find the steady-state temperature at the junction of the
two bars and the total rate of heat flow through the bars. Given that thermal
conductivities of steel and copper are 50.2W/m.K and 385W/m.K respectively.
(Hint: In steady-state heat flow, the same heat must pass through both materials,
so the heat current H must be the same in both materials.)

8. Suppose the two bars of question 7 are separated and arranged in parallel. One
end of each bar is kept at 100C and the other end of each bar is kept at 0C.
What is the total heat current in the two bars?

9. A long rod, insulated to prevent heat loss along its sides, is in perfect thermal
contact with boiling water at one end and with an ice-water mixture at the other.
The rod consists of a 1.00m section of copper (one end in boiling water) joined
end to end to a length L2 of steel (one end in the ice-water mixture). Both

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sections of the rod have cross-sectional areas of 4.00cm2. The temperature of

the copper-steel junction is 65.0C after a steady state has been set up.
(a) How much heat per second flows from the boiling water to the ice-water
mixture?
(b) What is the length L2 of the steel section?
(kcopper = 385W/m.K and ksteel = 50.2W/m.K)

65.0 C
Insulation
Boiling
water

Copper

Steel

1.00 m

L2

Ice and
water

10. (a) What is the total rate of radiation of energy from a human body with surface
area 1.2m2 and surface temperature 30C?
(b) If the surroundings are at a temperature of 20C, what is the net rate of
radiation heat energy loss from the body?
The emissivity of the human body is assumed closed to unity.
(Given that = 5.67x10-8W/m2K4)

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