TUTORIAL CHAPTER 4

PHY 210

1) 15° below zero on the Celsius scale is what Fahrenheit temperature? ( b) 15°
below zero on the Fahrenheit scale is what Celsius temperature? 50F, -260C
2) How much heat (in joules) is required to raise the temperature of 30.0 kg of
water from 15°C to 95°C? 1.0 x 107 J
3) An automobile cooling system holds 16 L of water. How much heat does it
absorb if its temperature rises from 20°C to 90°C? 4.7 x 106 J
4) What is the specific heat of a metal substance if 135 kJ of heat is needed
to raise 5.1 kg of the metal from 18.0°C to 31.5°C? 1.96x 103 J/kg0C

5) A 35-g glass thermometer reads 21.6°C before it is placed in 135 mL of

water. When the water and thermometer come to equilibrium, the
thermometer reads 39.2°C. What was the original temperature of the
water? 40.1 0C

6) What will be the equilibrium temperature when a 245-g block of copper at

285°C is placed in a 145-g aluminum calorimeter cup containing 825 g of
water at 12.0°C? 19.1 0C

7) A hot iron horseshoe (mass = 0.40kg) just forged, is dropped into 1.35 L of
water in a 0.30-kg iron pot initially at 20.0°C. If the final equilibrium
temperature is 25.0°C, estimate the initial temperature of the hot
horseshoe. 186 0C

8) When a 290-g piece of iron at 180°C is placed in a 95-g aluminum calorimeter

cup containing 250 g of glycerin at 10°C, the final temperature is observed
to be 38°C. Estimate the specific heat of glycerin. 2.3 x 103 J/kg0C

9) How much heat is needed to melt 16.50 kg of silver that is initially at 20°C?
5.0 x 106 J

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 10) A 0.50 kg chunk of ice at -100C is placed in 3.0 kg of water at 200C. At what
temperature will the final mixture be? Ignore any heat flow to the
surrounding, including the calorimeter. 5.060C

11) A cube of ice is taken from the freezer at -8.50C and placed in a 95-g
aluminum calorimeter filled with 310 g of water at room temperature of
20.0°C. The final situation is observed to be all water at 17.0°C. What was
the mass of the ice cube? 9.9 x 10-3 kg

12) An iron boiler of mass 230 kg contains 830 kg of water at 18°C. A heater
supplies energy at the rate of 52000 kJ/h. How long does it take for the
water (a) to reach the boiling point, and (b) to all have changed to steam?
5.6 h, 36.07 h

13) The specific heat of mercury is 138 J/kg.0C. Determine the latent heat of
fusion of mercury using the following calorimeter data: 1.00 kg of solid Hg at
its melting point of -39.0C is placed in a 0.620-kg aluminum calorimeter with
0.400 kg of water at 12.80°C; the resulting equilibrium temperature is
5.06°C. 1.12 x 104 J/kg

14) One end of a 33-cm-long aluminum rod with a diameter of 2.0 cm is kept at
460°C, and the other is immersed in water at 22°C. Calculate the heat
conduction rate along the rod. 83 W

15) How much power is radiated by a tungsten sphere (emissivity e = 0.35) of

radius 22 cm at a temperature of 25°C? (b) If the sphere is enclosed in a
room whose walls are kept at -50C, what is the net flow rate of energy out of
the sphere? 95 W

16) A thermo flask contains 0.150 kg of boiling water at 100 0C. Assume no heat
is absorbed by thermo flask. How many kilograms of ice at -12 0C must be
added into the water so that the final temperature of the water would be
75 0C? 0.0234 kg

17) A 200 g of water in a 100 g copper cup is at a temperature of 0 0C. A piece

of lead at 98 0C is dropped into the cup, and the final equilibrium
temperature is 12 0C. What is the mass of the lead? 0.94 kg

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 18) 100 g of ice cubes are dropped into 200 g of water in a thermally insulated
container. If the water is initially at 25 0C, and the ice comes directly from
a freezer at -15 0C, what is the final temperature at thermal equilibrium? -
12.26 0C

19)

Given: specific heat of water = 4186 J/kg.0C, specific heat of ice = 2100
j/kg.0C, and latent heat of fusion of ice = 333 kJ/kg, Latent heat of
vaporization of water = 2.26 x 103 kJkg-1. Specific heat of copper, Ccopper =
390 J/kg.0C, Clead = 130 J/kg. 0C. Specific heat of iron is 450 J/kg.0C.

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