Montfort College Secondary Section M5 Physics Assignment on Thermal properties of heat.

I. Choose the best answer from the given options.

1. The temperature shown by a mercury-in-glass thermometer increase. Which of the following is

constant?
A. The density of the mercury B. the internal energy of the mercury
C. the mass of the mercury D. the volume of the mercury
2. Why is mercury used in thermometers?
A. It has a boiling point of 1000C. B. It has a melting point of 00C.
C. It is cheap and readily available D. It is liquid over a convenient range.
3. Which instrument is most suitable for measuring a rapidly changing temperature?
A. alcohol- in –glass thermometer B. clinical thermometer
C. mercury- in- glass thermometer D. thermocouple
4. A clinical thermometer is designed to respond quickly to a change in temperature and to have a
high sensitivity.

bore
Glass bulb

Which design features should the clinical thermometer have?

bulb bore
A Thick glass Narrow
B Thick glass Wide
C Thin glass Narrow
D Thin glass wide

5. One junction of a thermocouple thermometer is immersed in a beaker of liquid at a temperature T1.

The other junction is in a different beaker of liquid at temperature T2. The thermocouple is
connected to a voltmeter. When does the voltmeter read zero?

Liquid at Liquid at
temperature temperature
T1 T2

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A. When T1=0 and T2=1000C B. When T1 =T2, whatever the values of T1 and T2.
C. When T1=0, whatever the value of T2 D. When T1 + T2 = 0, whatever the values of T1 and T2.
II. Workout the following problems and show the steps clearly and neatly.

6. The lengths of mercury thread in the stem of a mercury thermometer are given in three situations.
Length in melting ice = 20mm
Length in steam above boiling water = 170mm
Length in liquid X = 50mm
𝑋
𝑚𝑚 −𝐿𝐹𝑃 𝑌 0 𝐶 −00 𝐶
What is the temperature of liquid X in Celsius scale? (Hint use: 𝑈𝐹𝑃−𝐿𝐹𝑃 = )
1000 𝐶− 00 𝐶

7. The diagram shows mercury- in –glass thermometer. The distance between the 100C and the 1000C
markings is 25cm. At which temperature is the end of the mercury thread 15cm from the -100C mark?
15cm

-100C 1100C
25cm

8. Convert 300C to

a) Fahrenheit scale

b) Kelvin scale

9. A metal wire is 4m long at 250C. What is the length of the wire at 5250C if the coefficient of linear
expansion of the metal is 10-5/C0?

10. A beaker that contains 20.0 g of solid water (i.e.,ice) at -30 °C. Then 200.0 g of iron at 70.0 °C
are added to the calorimeter. Ignore heat transfer to the beaker. Specific heat capacity of water, ice
and iron are 4.187 J/gK, 2.108 J/gK and 0.450 J/g K respectively. Latent heat of fusion of ice is
334 J/g.

i. Find the final temperature of the calorimeter after equilibrium is reached.

ii. If the final temperature is 0 °C what fraction of the ice is melted?

11. Two matters have specific heat capacities c and 2c. If we give Q and 4Q heat to these matters,
changes in the temperatures of them become equal. If the matter A has mass m, find the mass of
matter B in terms of m.

12. At 250C, an aluminium ring has an inner diameter of 4.9998 cm and a brass rod has a diameter of
5 cm.  aluminium = 23.1 x 10-6 0C-1,  brass = 19 x 10-6 0C-1

i. To what temperature must the ring be heated so that it will just slip over the rod?
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 ii. To what common temperature must the two be heated so that the ring just slips over the rod?

13. Two taps fill the water tank with different flow rates. Tap A fills the tank in 1 hour and tap B fills
the tank in 3 hour If we open two taps together, find the final temperature of the water in the tank.

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